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by fho 3y ago
Every time I read something like this I think that there has to be a tipping point were a well-written (i.e. compiled, not interpreted) solution running on a beefy server has to more cost efficient than running the same thing spread over se
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by fho 3y ago
Or (as I just had the pleasure to find out) CTRL-SHIFT-F on my new work machine : - \
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by fho 3y ago
> Growing family obligations (marriage, kids, trying to write a thesis at 3am with a crying baby next room) Oh ... I felt that one :-/
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by fho 3y ago
I guess you can try to develop two very distinct writing styles. Or, as I do, consider everything posted to HN to be linked to me. My handle is actually an abbreviation of my full name. I consider HN to be "professional" correspon
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by fho 3y ago
Writing style is also a lot more individual than people recognize. Iirc word histograms almost uniquely identify authors. Of course this is on larger amounts of text, but I guess you could identify users over seperate platforms this way. E.
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by fho 3y ago
> but I value my privacy I guess the way you abstracted will probably reduce your privacy (a tiny bit). At least I have not seen anybody write "<X>" instead of just X in this usecase. So either this is very specific to yo
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by fho 3y ago
The formatting in title is hilarious... It could be read as: "Orca rams into yacht near Scotland, [he is] suggesting the behavior may be spreading" I somehow imagine an orca in top hat, kindly suggesting that he will continue to r
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by fho 3y ago
If I am not mistaken sometimes this is due to yield rates in chip manufacturing. Iirc there were 3 core pentiums at some point that were basically faulty 4 core chips where one core did not pass QC.
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by fho 3y ago
I don't think any used car buyer will install additional feature in a car. Maybe a new car radio, but even that has become difficult. In our 2nd gen Berlingo the radio is connected to the multimedia "lever" and the digital da
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by fho 3y ago
That story sounds very familiar to me ... I was working in Java but used Haskell for toy projects ... the amount of "if only Java had" thoughts were insane and I tried to do things with Generics that just weren't possible. In
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by fho 3y ago
Have you tried kagi? Because I have and it is pretty good. I was sold when they summarized several "listicles" (ie your typical Top10 blog spam) into one concise listing. "Yes these results would pop up for your search ... bu
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by fho 3y ago
I second SyncThing in combination with Obsidian. Works like a charm.
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by fho 3y ago
> It is undeniable that human reasoning is a stochastic process It can still be a deterministic process. If anything came out of the whole LLM story for me it is that I am even more convinced that it is. My (somewhat educated, but still
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by fho 3y ago
I would also disagree with that, but maybe not as much as the other guy. I had the pleasure of being able to use Haskell "in anger" for about a year. Still my favorite language to toy around with, but would not want to use it for
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by fho 3y ago
If I were reddit I would probably think "LLMs will moderate just fine".
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by fho 3y ago
I was thinking pure "comments per second" numbers, ie how much users interact with reddit. No idea what's the right word for that.
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by fho 3y ago
> (I do actually think this is the most likely, because there's zero benefit for Reddit here.) The obvious benefit would be to artificially keep interaction rates high by "grave robbing" old comments and accounts. "No
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by fho 3y ago
> are these projects you pitched to acedemia? ones you would post in white papers? One you may consider selling on some sort of asset store for profit? No, for privat projects I am mostly reinventing wheels. But, in some sense, I actuall
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by fho 3y ago
For me it's the other way around ... A lot if the high volume subreddits are gone leaving only the small communities that I have actually subscribed to ... And honestly, I very much enjoy the current state of reddit :-/
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by fho 3y ago
> Because ofc the highest quality users aren't posting their ideas on public forums at all I don't think that's true. I published some of my privat projects only on reddit because I want to put them out there, but do not e
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by fho 3y ago
I think that split sounds ripe for abuse. If a mod earns for every upvote, the incentive to just allow memes is just to high.
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by fho 3y ago
Honestly, I am completely clueless, but what would a beefy server with 240 physical cores cost? (8 CPUs with 30 cores each) edit: physical server that is
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by fho 3y ago
One thing that stands out to me right now is that Reddit might actually be better without the big subreddits. With all of the big subreddits going "dark" my feed is dominated by all those small community subreddits that I actively
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by fho 3y ago
Honestly ... If it would not be for the campaign and media coverage ... I would not have noticed that anything has changed.
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by fho 3y ago
Another dumb question ... for "several thousand an hour" I could buy a pretty decent server myself ... last time I checked (on https://yourdatafitsinram.net/ ) the largest physical server there was like 10 grand. C
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by fho 3y ago
> But if you like the idea of ignoring best practice ... do you know me? ;-)
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by fho 3y ago
Honest question ... How far can you push "one server"? Given that HN runs on one server (plus one mirror) and this apparently serves a not that small community well ... Given "1 million connections" are possible on one s
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Ask HN: Where Are the Reddit Clones?
13 points by fho 3y ago|7 comments
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by fho 3y ago
I guess the next generation of open world games will have a much larger scale ... you will be able to stand on a hill and watch miles of procedurally generated landscape populated by ChatGPT powered farmers and bandits. While that sounds gr
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by fho 3y ago
I mean, they tried ... Ads, premium memberships, microtransactions ... If you have an idea how to monetize a reddit clone ... go for it.

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