skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the moderators are very much paid.

Some work for the companies that a subreddit may be centred around, others get kickbacks from those looking to promote products and my favourite are the state actors who help to ensure certain viewpoints dominate.

But of course Reddit has been happy to turn the other cheek to all of this over the decades. Anything goes so long as it doesn’t end up in the media.
> In anticipation to Reddit's IPO, it was revealed that Huffman’s compensation package for 2023 was worth $193.2 million, which included salary of $341,346, stock awards worth $98.3 million and stock options valued at $93.8 million.
I'm sure the most active mods would be happy to have shares worth only a mere few hundred thousand dollars?

Regardless of the amount it's a particularly egregious example of profiting from other people's hard work.
> cutting the CEO's (and rest of C suite) salary to normal employee levels would fix that loss down to 0

Now do it with cash flow.
> which a single side has now altered.

No they haven't. "The community" submitted under a BSD licence, they literally gave anyone permission to take their code and relicence it under an alternative.

It's not like the BSD version of their code has disappeared. You can still use older versions of Redis that have their changes under BSD.

It sounds like submitters should have gone with GPL or AGPL if they wanted it to remain open source, available with the original licence for commercial use, etc.
It’s not necessarily a bad idea if the individualized return is positive. Feeling like a big shot for making a cogent point in a public forum has an unquantifiable non zero worth to the commenter.
It could be corporate war and for public good at the same time.
The same applies to all public company CEOs. They all get paid mostly in stock.

Ultimately it's the other shareholders paying these compensation packages. They may sometimes be well deserved, but discussing and criticizing them is fair too.

Sometimes courts do strike down excesses. Elon Musk's $55 billion package was voided by a Delaware court because the Tesla board didn't follow proper procedure. (I.e. not because he didn't create shareholder value — he absolutely did! — but because the process was flawed.)
Check out vips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIPS_(software)
I agree. I wish we had to say `int x = std::uninitialized;`
Show HN: Mapping almost every law, regulation and case in Australia
Hey HN,

What if you could take every law, regulation and case in Australia and project them onto a two-dimensional map such that their distance from one another was proportional to their similarity in meaning? What would that look like?

Well, it might look something like what you’ll find in my latest article. I took every law, regulation and case in the Open Australian Legal Corpus, the largest open database of Australian law (which, full disclosure, I authored), and used text embedding and dimensionality reduction models to plot them on a two-dimensional map (excluding noisy documents that I was unable to cluster).

My map represents the first semantic map of Australian law.

Some of the most interesting insights I was able to gain from this endeavour are that:

• Australian case law is more of a continuum than a rigidly defined structure;

• Migration, family and substantive criminal law are the most isolated branches of case law on the map;

• Migration, family and substantive criminal law are the most distant branches of case law from legislation on the map;

• Development law is the closest branch of case law to legislation on the map; and

• The map does not reveal any noticeable distinctions between Australian state and federal law, whether it be in style, principles of interpretation or general jurisprudence.

If you’re interested in learning more about what the map can teach us about Australian law or if you’d like to find out how you can create semantic maps of your own, you can read the full article on my blog, which provides a detailed analysis of my map and also covers the finer details of how I built it, with code examples offered along the way.
A love the fact that there are competitions where photos should be made in traditional techniques
We can take it as an axiom. I believe that enslaving animals and causing harm to the biosphere is just as bad as human enslavement and genocide. I believe such an axiom is the only moral one.

It's not just our supermarket. Our entire society is based on the genocide of animal species and destruction and violence. It is the most sick society and disgusting thing I have ever seen, on the level of the atrocities of all of human history.
Container debugging made easy: zsh, tools, packages on any image
You only need to do that if you operate it as a service that you sell or give away to others (rather than just running your own internal redis instance)

So yes, this basically prohibits anyone but redis from operating it as a service, unless you write your own operating system for it to run on. (Although presumably they will sell you licences or similar to operate it as a service)
Clearly there's a group of people of people who are selfish and think so highly of themselves that this sort of logic will never make sense to them. Any company or executive that says they care about the workers, customers, or cause and is making 8+ figures is lying whether they realize it or not. I realize some people will make the argument that the comp needs to be so high to attract top talent. But there's a pool of talented people who would do it for less. Plenty of non-profits or mission-driven companies have lower paided executives.
> The best thing you can do is to fork the project at the commit prior to the license change, and maintain it from that point onwards

And use an appropriate license. Don't use BSD if you don't want people taking your stuff and closing it up.
Yeah, but don't expect the same execution speed or memory consumption.

In fairness I would rather pick Go, C# with Native AOT, or Java with GraalVM, if Rust build times are such a pain point.

Keep the performance of compiled languages, with faster build times, no need to switch to a bare bones interpreter.
Ah, makes sense, thanks! And they do own the trademark, it seems.
> Yeah because you ardent motorists

You need to be able to speak without classifying people into groups. I'm not an ardent motorist. I don't think it's good to allow myself to be indoctrinated into any of the (frankly bizarre) transportation-obsessed groups that exist.
I never had a great deal of love for reddit but "the entire place is a barren content wasteland" is a pretty sweeping generalisation that you cannot possibly be in a position to make. I only hang out on a couple of subs and they're lively, full of nice characters, and well-moderated. I'd be very surprised if I have somehow discovered the only oases of normality in a barren content desert.

I have noticed that any time I encounter a post from an r/{placename} sub, it appears to be full of the most irritating, racist shit-stirrers but I just steer clear of those subs altogether.
Mixture-of-Experts (Moe): The Birth and Rise of Conditional Computation
I wish you folks would consider the societal implications of AI before being so lackadaisical about it. What about the concentration of wealth in the hands of tech companies, isolating and destroying communities, and other effects? It's astounding how callous to everything but profit you are.
With models I think it usually goes that way
> Having a few specific releases that broke over time doesn't mean anyone is trying to stop you from using an older version of Firefox.

Snakeoil certificates in Enterprise licensing might disagree with this statement, which in my opinion is pretty identical to Mozilla's approach to have control over "who is allowed to use when" of their software.

It's also not a few specific releases over time, it's all releases after Browser Extension signatures were introduced as being mandatory, which made the rest of the Browser rely heavily on their certificate management servers.

I'm not saying it's malicious intent, what I am saying is that this could've been implemented in a much better manner, which wouldn't rely on a centralized certificate signing service.
The bricklayer knows what the end result will be, how it's going to be used, and sets the rates accordingly. After a photo shoot you can end up in the bin, or shown probably close to a million times a day to people around the world for decades.
Stability's fast-growing list of models
I did not know that the GNOME 3 thing was such a big controversy. I dropped GNOME during that time for the same reasons, but i was unaware of how big this was.
As an alternate perspective.

Maybe people are ok with companies making money from their free work as long as the company does not antagonize the people offering free services just to milk every drop of money from other peoples handwork.

It used to be that forum owners had to beg their users for money to keep the servers going. Which is also not a great situation. But now it seems like it swung completely in the other direction, with users having to beg the forum owners to keep/add things they use.
Which threats and treaties, specifically? I don't have a great memory - so please share actual sources.

Also, are you aware of this?: https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2019-09/news/us-completes-in...
I didn’t read it as a strong defense of the CEO. I also agree that labor needs to have appropriate self-worth and eschew being exploited. This causes many problems in many industries, such as downwards pressure on wages and labor negotiating power. For example, Reddit mods have recently had their negotiating power checked in the blackout protests.

Exploitation, when it’s so voluntary, is definitely a dance that takes two. Both parties are responsible for the situation that arose. The abused party, of course, we can sympathize more with. But they could always have chosen and even today they can choose to not engage anymore.
Nvidia announces "moonshot" to create embodied human-level AI in robot form
Nintendo's relatively modern Mario Maker 2 even deliberately chooses not to have real randomness. "Random" MM2 courses such as "Carlsino" actually rely on subtle differences in player inputs, if you could ensure you don't deviate from a certain series of button presses and timings then the "random" elements would always turn out the same.
The growing array of alternatives to lithium batteries
> As a plus, the native app IS great.

You may be the only person in the world who thinks that, who doesn't also work for Reddit.
That’s a good point. In video game related subreddits mods are often employees of the publishing company.
What functionality would be needed to have 'CDC out of the box'?
The whole point of CDC would be to stream changes to other systems what, by definition, requires 'other systems'.
And with a JIT.

With the world watching in dismay Python being the last dynamic language standing to finally adopt a JIT into their reference implementation, is kind of strange to take it out of the picture.
"Materially better" how apt and rather poetic. All we seem to care about these days is the material.
That is meaningless if you haven't in nearly two decades found effective way to monetize that traffic.
Mass Tech Layoffs? Just Another Day in the Corporate Blender
It can only be viewed as a sacrifice if you believe he legitimately deserves that much money. That money could be used to increase employee comp instead of shareholder value. That's a lot of money for running an unprofitable business. I wish I was so delusional that I thought I deserved 100s of millions for running an unprofitable company.
> wonder if there's some sort of pathology behind it

That of taking a company public.

I get where you’re coming from. But Reddit, given its heritage of leadership, is a weird hill to take a stand on.
But when the victims are willing and enthusiastic participants, who would complain bitterly if they were barred from contributing their free labor, what are you supposed to do?

Their free labor is compensated by something else, probably status or power, obviously, so it's not clear that anyone is being taken advantage of.
Ask HN: Do you pay for 1-1 coaching? Is it worth it?
I wanted to post a link to this group that I found but it looked like an ad too much. So instead formatting as a Ask HN post. I'm not sure its the best one for me though.

Do you have suggestions of other similarly priced communities/services?

https://www.jbrains.ca/experience/
Cool. I only knew about the lava lamps.

How random are the pendulums and how are they powered? Pendulums are usually quite predictable. Or are these double pendulums?

They add randomness by adding daylight. Could you use this for an attack (say, shining light from the outside during the night)?
I'm a big user of reddit, but the platform has definitively suffered a bunch of things that could be tied up to their use of free moderation:

- Some subreddits are so politically biased, that you really need to know the political leaning prior to using them. Getting locked out of huge subreddits like r/worldnews is easy as pie, if you just write the wrong things on certain topics.

- A bunch of subreddits automatically get closed/locked due to lack of moderators.

- There are so many different rules to follow. Just posting something in a random sub comes with a 50/50 chance of your post getting removed or shadow-banned.

And let's not even start on the straight up enshittification of the platform features. I fully expect reddit to become a completely close-off / walled garden app that follows the worst TikTok practices. As long as I can use old.reddit, I'm happy, but I think we all know that it will disappear one day.

As for the compensation...yeah, outrageous comp when the site is feeding off free work.

And the usual corporate response from the CEO "The board decides my compensation, and if the website does well then so do I"
Have you got the automatic Discover Weekly playlist? The Daily Mix ones are good and customized to you too, but tend to be things you already know.
I only use it for either enthusiast related things (audio/fashion/sports discussion/tv shows) or for general research, like travel planning.

I've never noticed this type of activity, so it's definitely not the "entire place". I assume this is largely relegated to the top level subreddits?

I have mixed feelings about all the crap going on behind the scenes with this company. For the most part, it's been the only place I can get relatively unbiased takes and info outside of more specialized enthusiast forums.
> Why not just use a hardware-backed random number generator?

They do, don't they? I think the Lavalamps, etc, are just _extra_ entropy. The more entropy you add (even if it's _not_ a certified or perfect random source) only improves the random number generator.
Tortoise: Shell-Shockingly-Good Kubernetes Autoscaling
At Mercari, the responsibilities of the Platform team and the service development teams are clearly distinguished. Not all service owners possess expert knowledge of Kubernetes.

Also, Mercari has embraced a microservices architecture, currently managing over 1000 Deployments, each with its dedicated development team.

To effectively drive FinOps across such a sprawling landscape, it's clear that the platform team cannot individually optimize all services. As a result, they provide a plethora of tools and guidelines to simplify the process of the Kubernetes optimization for service owners.

But, even with them, manually optimizing various parameters across different resources, such as resource requests/limits, HPA parameters, and Golang runtime environment variables, presents a substantial challenge.

Furthermore, this optimization demands engineering efforts from each team constantly - adjustments are necessary whenever there’s a change impacting a resource usage, which can occur frequently: Changes in implementation can alter resource consumption patterns, fluctuations in traffic volume are common, etc.

Therefore, to keep our Kubernetes clusters optimized, it would necessitate mandating all teams to perpetually engage in complex manual optimization processes indefinitely, or until Mercari goes out of business.

To address these challenges, the platform team has embarked on developing Tortoise, an automated solution designed to meet all Kubernetes resource optimization needs.

This approach shifts the optimization responsibility from service owners to the platform team (Tortoises), allowing for comprehensive tuning by the platform team to ensure all Tortoises in the cluster adapts to each workload. On the other hand, service owners are required to configure only a minimal number of parameters to initiate autoscaling with Tortoise, significantly simplifying their involvement.
Market investment is ultimately determined by plausible narrative, and by the national narratives at the broadest level.

That is, if your industry is tuned in to the investment climate, the things being pursued match the things that people are saying "will make the country great", and are backed up by legislation and financing deals.

In the previous era, the US was focused on a deindustrializing narrative: the things that made America great were "clean, high-tech" industry, high graduation rates and four-year degrees, and an outsourced empire that brought sprawling supply chains together "just in time".

The new model has brought back the industry, so it needs an emphasis on concrete job skills, versus academic credentialing. It's in-sourced so the supply chain has started in on a radical shift. It emphasizes new energy sources with few foreign dependencies, moving the geopolitical stance towards isolation. The approach to the national balance sheet also has to change, but precisely how lacks for consensus.

Like with the previous shifts there were some reasons to take the narrative in a certain direction: late 60's America had many environmental concerns, and fell into an energy crunch in the next decade. "Smart bombing" the Middle East to secure oil supplies brought together the national industries towards a common goal, and the money supply got a reset early on with the end of Bretton-Woods, that helped propel the Boomer generation towards homes-and-families participation within the system.

Today we're still putting together the pieces of that narrative, but it's central to the political climate: the old two-party system is focused on exhausted narratives that don't actually excite ordinary people to vote. Therefore the candidates are rushing to put together platforms that rewrite the script and mobilize new demographics.
For a long time investments have been promoted as the best way to save money. I bet there are shareholders right here, reading my reply. You can tell them directly how their investments indirectly enshittifies the world.
Well, that was my primary point. BTRFS is not ready for these kind of big installations handled by ZFS or Lustre at this point.

On the other hand, BTRFS’ single disk performance, esp, for small files is visibly lower than EXT4 and XFS, so why bother?

There are many solutions for EXT4 which allows versioning, and if I can reimage a node (or 200) in 5 minute flat, why should I bother with the overhead of BTRFS?

It’s not that I haven’t tried BTRFS. Its features are nice, but from my perspective, it’s not ready for prime time, yet. What bothers me is the mental gymnastics pretending that it’s mature at this point.

It’ll be good file system. An excellent one in fact, but it still needs to cook.
It’s because vulcanized rubber tires weren’t available until the 1840s. There is no sub for inflatable tubes and rubber tires. Without it the ride would be very very bumpy for a light frame with two wheels.
You could equally say that tax money is all private money, so really it's all private. It's silly to talk about the provenance of money in these topics.
1 GB of storage for the small plan is reasonable, but the maximum file size restriction is unfortunate :-(
You just provided content -- and encouraged others to provide content -- for a privately run for-profit company who use this site to promote their businesses.

Ideally, forums like this would be some sort of cooperative structure owned and run by those who wish.

I'd love to see r/AskHistorians break off as a co-op who earn their own money and use it to resource history-based activity. They put so much value in that others leech off.
I do disk encryption of root and home. Not of boot and swap (the attack needed to steal my data in that scenario is too involved: according to my assessment my data is not that valuable)
The Mystery of Spinors [video]
There's a (expired) patent on this:

> A method for generating a pseudo-random numbers Initially, the state of a chaotic system is digitized to form a binary string. This binary string is then hashed to produce a second binary string. It is this second binary string which is used to seed a pseudo-random number generator. The output from the pseudo-random number generator may be used in forming a password or cryptographic key for use in a security system.

* https://patents.google.com/patent/US5732138A/en

Originally filed by SGI in 1996.

See also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand

* https://www.cloudflare.com/en-ca/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encr...
An African Perspective to the Design, Deployment and Governance of AI
This paper proposes a model for African AI governance centered on developing four key components: Data Sets and Data Systems, Digital Infrastructure, Talent, and AI Markets. This framework is presented as an alternative to premature regulation, which we feel wouldn't be effective given the nascent stage of Africa’s AI ecosystem.
I thought the biggest problem was off-target editing (I'm not a biologist)
Like in German cities? For the lucky 30 or something that managed to arrive earlier to the spot, and only on the main station.
> In the EU, Apple has been forced to open up the iPhone to support alternative app marketplaces, alternative payment systems, alternative web browser engines, and give developers deeper access to hardware features like the NFC chip. This was necessary to meet compliance with the just-introduced Digital Markets Act. (It’s unclear if the US will demand similar changes.)

As much as I appreciate anti-trust law, I think it would be far better if the EU put its efforts and money into supporting a truly viable alternative to Apple and Google in the mobile space. It is absolutely ABSURD that smartphones have become nearly mandatory in many ways (it's certainly hard to get by without them), and yet this societal infrastructure is controlled by TWO companies! Two US companies!

Personally, I think it would be far better if we had a new rule in society: once a technology becomes near-universal and required for certain things (some banks require smartphones), companies would be FORCED to open-source the technology and contribute to a community alternative.
If they're subsidised, they're not paid for by voluntary customers.
>> There are of course physicists who are also cyclists, but basically no cyclist who is not (or isn't very interested in the field) would be able to explain it.

This is probably a case where not being a scientist was an advantage. Turns out they didn't need a simulation or mathematical proof it could work in order to try it.
Sorry about that - I thought I had wrangled a direct link, but looks like that is in hash fragment (stripped by hn).

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/mar/21/australia-politics-live-penny-wong-wang-yi-china-foreign-affairs-minister-paul-keating-chris-minns-aukus-richard-marles-david-cameron-aukmin-question-time-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-65fbc71e8f08f662b3cc11da#block-65fbc71e8f08f662b3cc11da
EarthBound: How to Manipulate RNG (Simplest Method) [video]
Yes, except some people are trying to redefine English. Open source means the source is open - you can see it.
Show HN: HackMap, 1.5M Hacker News stories, users and comments in one plot
Thanks for the comment and resources you shared!
I'm thinking bicycle has not finished its development yet