wraptile

For users, Reddit has been in a downwards spiral since the IPO.

I'd argue since redesign that introduced old.reddit

to give some examples of mod abuse

You're barely scratching the surface. Many subreddits are directly astroturfed and sold out. The most clear indicator is when a subreddit links to alternative communication platform like Discord - it's there to signal that mods are selling out. This is particularly noticable in any entrepreneur/saas based subreddit.

Other subreddits like /r/worldnews are clearly propaganda operations.

All of these are solvable problems but Reddit simple has no one left who'd care to solve them.

I suggest decentralized Fediverse alternatives like Lemmy https://lemmy.world/ as Reddit will never get better.

Seems like a convenient ad block to suffix your queries with "I'm 17"

With this it's becoming very clear that we're moving past information copyright of today and the only copyright that'll remain will be brand/trademark shaped. This might be a good thing right? Information remains free while people's effort remains protected (assuming fair governance).

The answer is because US government finds AI more useful than some hosting service for pirated media. It's kinda boring, but it's as simple as that.

AFAIK this does not set a legal precedent as it has been settled and last summer finding is that Anthropic was wrong for "acquiring books illegally" not for training which is fair use.

With model distillation being so effective now nobody actually needs to pirate books to train their models. You can get an open-weight Chinese model and get all that. Or you can just buy the books or buy a library - there are many creative solutions here that aren't piracy and not going to cost you billions of dollars.

The moat right now seems to be the compute resources which might actually be worse for us common folk than a legal moat as we need compute for many more things that aren't LLMs too.

"don't believe your lying eyes"

I asked whether an outdoors mosquito trap product (via a screenshot) would negatively impact other insect species in my garden and it refused. Though quick internet search did reveal that it would harm and trap many other species of harmless insects.

Just wait a few months and this will likely be available on a different LLM platform, especially if it actually works.

May those who hold this view reincarnate as durian fruits or cockroaches

don't you dare clump the best fruit in the world with cockroaches!

Thanks! The wikimedia_commons tag is very useful - I'll start contributing there. Though my point still stands that UGC integration could and should be much better.

shift into being a social media and their biggest effort would be content moderation.

I really don't buy this argument. You already have to moderate submissions - what's an extra field? Sure, UGC is more opinionated but just don't add star ratings and anything that promotes gaming of system. Just let users expand the dataset with more information, it's almost never a bad idea - isn't that entire point of crowdsourcing datasets?

What FOSS maps need is user generated content. For example, having "swimming spot" on my map is not really that useful - it needs photos, some description, additional information of what it actually is and how to reach it as bare minimum to be actually competitive.

OSM argues that it's a "map database" but it stores labels like "opening hours" and "social media links" - why stop there? The UGC vs non-UGC debate has been the biggest crutch of all open map projects and no one managed to solve it yet.

*intranet

What’s the hate for China I don’t understand

country that does not allow internet is being hated on the internet

there are re-shipping services that will re-ship the item to you for an extra fee. The fee can be quite high though.

The inner screen built-in protector was peeling in the middle. It was out of warranty, but Samsung charged me 15$ which is very reasonable. The inner screen looks brand-new now, and I guess that's the benefit of these soft foldable screens - you can refresh the entire thing very easily.

It won't happen with AI models either.

AI is definitely different. Cloud compute is incredibly convenient to the point where even if AWS is more expensive it's just so _nice_. LLM models are much more abstract and while I can't easily swap AWS for Hetzner to save 80% of my costs I can absolutely get close to that for many of LLM tasks, even today.

I suspect Anthropic and gang all know that that's why they are buying up dev tools and shifting towards long-running agents because that's where they can get AWS's "nicesness" that they can charge for.

Not only obtaining but if you ever need warranty you're done. Just last week I went to a Samsung center and had my fold 6 fixed in 30 minutes, and these centers are everywhere around the world. Same thing with Apple, yet a 4.5 trillion dollar company can't ship and maintain a phone globally. It's so unserious.

I once lived in a giant country side house in Estonia and nothing matched wood splitting when it comes a morning exercise. You start a bit drowsy and cold but after a few splits you warm up, your mind starts to wake up and body becomes engaged to take on the day. It's a very good exercise that I miss dearly so this simulator is a lovely reminder!

It feels like Fable is slightly smarter but overall worse tool exactly due to this.

It's constantly turning what should be 50 LOC patch of a single prompt into 30 minute exploration that is totally not worth it. Often wrong even.

I trialed it on some rather simple stuff - backfill redis dedupe cache when the hash function changed: instead of running new hash func on every db value to expand the cache it implemented some overly-complex cache update that tried to guess hashing func version of each cached value and recalculate only the old hashes. I can imagine in some context this would make sense maybe? but not 30 minutes of token burn that got replaced by 10 lines for loop by me.

I fear that this is generally bad news for programming. LLM tech is clearly running into a diminishing returns wall on intelligence but a response to that is to just make them more relentless which is a pretty poor solution for everyone involved, except I guess people who sell the tokens and people who can afford these tokens to scan for 0-days.

I regret not taking advantage of this sweet spot. In that time I took a strong stance against Facebook etc. due to privacy violation and consolidation of the web - who knew that it would get a million times worse and my boycott meant absolutely nothing.

At least I got to experience irc, forum boards and other early group chat apps - that was some of the best internet experience. Early Reddit was incredible as well.

It's sad that today's youth will likely never get anything remotely similar to this.

I agree, maybe "ads are useful" could have been true long time ago before the world was not as connected.

You could maybe argue that ad revenue could subsidize the costs of information delivery but information delivery costs are basically non existent today - it's all about attention delivery and thats an entirely different thing.

It depends whether it's me personally who's running out of coupons or the entire supply of coupons is being reduced. If my ability to get the product for the same price is diminished then the price is being effectively raised.

In this case I'd agree that pricing is effectively raised as 10$ > 10$ - 50%, there's no need to complicate it. However this is not even the right metric for this problem, a better one would be total spent / work produced. If all customers spend more money for the same amount of work (adjusted to progress) then clearly the price is increasing. This would be true in this example as well.

If you run out of 50% coupons to your local pizza joint, did they double their prices?

Yes. Did they double their msrp? no. They did double their effective price relative to me which is all that matters unless you're doing economic math or something.

Python is incredibly readable too. I can scan through LLM Python changes in minutes instead of hours of other languages.

It's not only IP but entire browser stack is being fingerprinted: Javascript, http, tls - everything. I've been living in the SEA region on Linux firefox for the last 10 years and the web has been miserable due to cloudflare and recaptcha

This can be extended even further - hunter-gatherers never retired either. However in both cases people did actually _retire_ from direct activity. Elders would often become advisors and community nurturers rather than actively milking cows, hunting deer and whatnot.

I think here what becomes apparent is that it's not loss of specific activity (work) that causes the decline but activity in general which is very much duuuh - obviously.

What continues to perplex me is that these people claim that they will be able to contain AGI yet can't roll out a regex match? If AGI is possible then we're most certainly not containing anything.

And people wonder why Spain is doing so poorly when tribal corporate entertainment takes such a priority over everything else.

I think OP's point is that gambling creates so many additional incentives that it overloads the system and we can restore it by just banning gambling.

Personally I think the system shouldn't be so easily overloaded.