skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I don't do the whole "boo hoo unpaid worker" nonsense.

I moderate several subs, some of them rather sizable. I do it because I want a quality community, not because I want a payday, I probably average 8-10 hours a week moderating which often overlaps with my active participation in the communities. No one is forcing me to do it, I do it because I value the communities.

I similarly give many hours a week to my church, I don't roll up "yo, pay me!" because that's not the point. I show up and teach a class, my wife shows up and leads young women's, we both go and clean the building, when someone needs help and we're free we're there, it's something we care about not a means of earning income. Same goes for moderating Reddit - anyone that thinks it should be a paid gig has no business moderating.
NO, so we wont, hence the mad rush to Moloch. We can't stop ourselves from killing ourselves.
I don't think the LLM boom caused Twitter's first API lockdown in 2012, nor do I really think it's anything to do with the more recent final nail which seems much more in tune with Elon's twitter trying to increase ARPU/engagement while also dealing with a 90% reduction in headcount.
Yes, and it works fine.
I found out recently (not sure where) you can still append ".i" instead of ".compact", and it works. Annoyingly all links then go to ".compact", so you need some browser magic to actually make it usable.
Or skip the ads problem on third-party apps altogether by requiring the use of Reddit Premium to use third-party apps.

That way reddit gets paid, you avoid having to deal with ads and the developers don't have to absorb an astronomical and unreasonable invoice for API access.
Scrapped emails from "Who is Hiring?" posts, sent an email to all and got a lot of responses and found a nice company in San Francisco
I responded to a post [1] by Skydio's head of autonomy and ended up going through their interview process and joining - have been at Skydio for almost 2 years now. Thanks HN!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25990959
Coding a reddit-like website must not be too difficult, even if you need mobile apps, but if you're expected to host images and videos while combating GPT bots the infrastructure needs and cost are at a high level right from the start.
Location: EU/Slovakia

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: Linux, Nginx, MariaDB, Ansible, Python, Bash

Résumé/CV: https://plantroon.com/plantroon-cv.pdf

Email: plantroon@plantroon.com

Quick summary: I worked at a webhosting company as Linux admin, am a big self-hoster, have some hardware experience in electronics repair. I am looking to relocate out of my country.
Swift defaults to grapheme clusters, and allows you to request other lengths on-demand.
"An indirect indication of the presence of Triangulation on the device is the disabling of the ability to update iOS"

My guess would be that they didn't find out thanks to their monitoring solution, but because some senior manager shouted pretty loudly at someone to get their iPhone to update, asap! :)
A foldable might help in that departement, but you definitely sacrifice pocketability.
Interesting, I’ve used both for years and have found R to be way more intuitive for data exploration and visualization. R looks different than most programming languages, but once it clicks it’s actually really nice.
You underestimate the sense of entitlement by these owners.

https://archive.ph/ag4Lv

“My dad used to hunt some private property in Montana,” said Mr. Hettick, a forester with the U.S. Forest Service. “And one year they told us, ‘Sorry, you can’t anymore — we leased it to an outfitter.’ I was crushed. And I was like, you know what? This is never going to happen to me again.”
A strange thing has happened, the Quest has become uncool among kids (my kids circles at least).
The secret sauce for R is that their statistical models/packages are cutting-edge, they have the best plotting library (ggplot2), and they have the best data wrangling packages (dplyr for tabular data).
The kind of user that has browsed the web primarily through a smartphone has completely different standards from anyone who has grown with the web.

Tiktok and Instagram is the kind of design they are used to.
Still worth the clickbait. "Simulated Killing", is still "what it would do in real life", since the simulation is to test the real world.
Why use C and keep reinventing things that C++ provides?
There is a module in gamelib [0] which will automatically clone, build, and link raylib to your program. There are several other third party libs there as well, including SDL2 and Curl.

[0] https://macoy.me/code/macoy/gamelib
>You'd think ad buyers would have a problem with this...

Alas, no, I wouldn't think that. :(
Reminds me of https://hoodmaps.com/lisbon-neighborhood-map

Which I discovered a few days ago whilst trying to find a Barcelona crime map of reasonably high resolution due to feeling bruised and tender for tackling a pickpocket to the ground the night before in El Born.

The bruises will fade, those maps have been bookmarked.
Arab first asteroid hopper will visit seven space rocks
AI is statistics based. It's not going to give you only 100% matches.
> A student dunce went swimming and almost drowned. So now he swears he’ll never get into water until he’s really learned to swim.

This one is funny and deep at the same time.
Makes sense, but i wonder if there's some way to retrofit that functionality onto it
That's true. I was mainly trying to indicate there is no boxing or anything like some languages seem to have with their types.
No feed of humble brags is a feature.
I wrote a few years ago of my understanding of why Usenet died to some positive reception. There are four principle failings:

<https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3c3xyu/why_use...>

1. It got spammed to death.

2. It lost control over its culture, and that culture was crucial to its functioning.

3. It was too problematic for ISPs (or others) to provide ready access to it: spam, harassment, child pornography, and copyright violations all posed massive concerns.

4. There was no viable business model for providing the service.

All of those are significant, but I would (and did) argue that points 3 & 4 were the final nails in the coffin. Anti-spam measures and tightly-curated / moderated newsgroups could survive despite the spam, but with firms willing to brave the very real legal and financial risks, and without any other viable financial support, Usenet fell to a mix of mailing lists and early online blogging / forum software (phpBB, Slashdot, and others).

There've been several attempts to revise or update Usnet (most noteably Usenet II),. Those ... have also failed to take hold. (Though in fairness: social media is extremely fickle, many apparently well-structured, and occasionally well-capitalised, attempts have similarly foundered, and the limelite often moves on with time.) Gaining traction and viability is a mix of luck, timing, and execution (mostly getting out of your own way).

Reddit can be seen as a response to points 1, 3, and 4. Reddit offers reasonably good spam defences, it has evolved protections against legally-problematic content (with some large bumps along the way), and it's attempting to develop advertising as a business angle. And has had some success at all of these.

Reddit's has still fallen flat on the second point, and fails further in many people's view (my own included) in that it simply isn't a very good discussion forum. There are small and limited spaces that work, sometimes. But even moderately large subreddits are a hot mess, and the very largest could have the late Newt Minow's classic phrase applied.

As for Usenet, it's a cautionary tale that open protocols and federated control are no guarantee of either effectiveness or continuity.

/me side-eyes Mastodon and the Fediverse.
I definitely have no need for this, but do you have anything published about the project?
> My main concern is that OpenAI might be running this at a loss, making a price increase likely.

Their goal is explicitly to only reduce the prices of all of their models over time. If the increase the prices of any of their models, something would've gone very wrong or they would've made a major strategy change. I've read pretty much everything OpenAI's published and talked about, and they've been consistent in mentioning they want to continually reduce the price of models.
Thankfully the ongoing cybersecurity laws will change that mindset.
> I honestly do not care about the Math, statistics or theory behind them. I just want to know enough to be able to train a model, use a model and productionize it.

I have to say this comes across a little insulting to machine learning engineers. You’re asking for a quick snappy course that will teach what MLEs take years to learn and master. Sigh.

Nevertheless, The Andrew Ng course ML course on Coursera is a favourite among minds curious about ML.

Productionising a model is a whole different ball game and there is likely a wide range of content on the matter - it depends what you are trying to achieve, why does your live environment look like? How many users do you have? What SLOs and such if any do you have to meet?
How to Create a Code Editor in React and ChakraUI
"You didn't pay for the Tesla you paid for a way to get from point A to point B, enjoy your new go-kart."
Here are the factors proposed by Code Complete (2nd edition):

- baseline: a program, designed by and destined to the same entity (programmer = customer)
- a product (3x): designed by an entity destined to another entity (customer).
- a system (x3): 2 programs communicating with each other
- a system product (x3x3=x9): a system of 2 products
"With great power comes great responsibility."

In Spider-Man's origin story one of the first things that happens after he gains his powers is that he tries to make some money as a masked wrestler. A guy robs the box office at the wrestling venue and Spider-Man lets the guy escape because it's none of his business. The same robber later shoots and kills Spider-Man's uncle, from which Spider-Man takes the lesson expressed in the above quotation. The same lesson then colors a large fraction of the character's storylines forever after.
Functional Declarative Design Methodology
Open-Source Apollo Federation V2
What's the connection between Apollo and getting data from scrapping. Wouldn't issuing a license to the Apollo dev that forbids persisting the data solve this concern? They could also require that users login if they want to use a third party client and then rate limit the number of posts the user can fetch.
How many problems do you need to grind to get hired
Why North Korea’s Latest Nuclear Claims Are Raising Alarms
You're welcome to demonstrate why python ecosystem would be better for this analysis, otherwise you're making unsubstantiated claims.
Most computers are inefficient per watt due to waiting on IO from the human.
> Which means more efficient agriculture, which we have an abundance of.

Which means more harm for the land. I am a farmer and salting of the land is a problem for me.

> With all the talk about climate change, I've seen very few people do any type of personal sacrifice to change it.

If some person earns 100k annually and another 100M - it means they have to do different sacrifices for holding the climate change. My opinion is that progressive taxation might solve the issue (but I afraid that rich people has both some anticipation of progressive taxation idea and some abilities to obstruct the idea).
I keep having that discussion since the C vs C++ Usenet flamewars....
Earth Is Running Out of Sand
This is a very important point that gets almost no discussion. Two classic "liberal" policy objectives, immigration and affordable housing, are at war with each other.

This is not an "own the libs" comment. Both policy objectives can be morally right, and still work badly with each other.

Immigration makes it much harder to fix affordable housing. That's just reality. It seems to be completely ignored by politicians, though - including those on the right, who seem to have ignored this as a club for beating up politicians on the left.
Ok? That's the point though. It collects a bunch of external sources in one spot that are all related to the same issue -- and provides the context. A really great way to get a handle on the wider implications.

And the initial HN submission you linked to, "Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing" -- does that in any way allude to its content?
Not from a specific thread, but an HN user mailed some of the leaders list in 2014 asking if they wouldn’t mind spending a little time to review their new jobs board. Of course, they’d pre-filled it with scraped jobs, one of which was for GOV.UK. Applying for that specific role was the best career decision I ever made.
If you want to encourage grass roots learning interest millions of gamers with 8gb cards is a better starting point. Even if only a small percentage go for it that's still million of people.

Meanwhile the number of people that has the luxury of shelling out for a 4090 straight away for AI specifically is pretty small.

It's a bit like raspberry pis helped the tinkering world even though they're realistically slow AF. (and now unobtainable sigh)
elisp :D
Congratulations! You've just gone through a crash course of Bidding On Enterprise Projects, For Dummies.
Easy to use Python library for retrieval in LLMs apps
Hi guys, I've been developing LLM apps for a while now, and creating a retrieval engine always gives me headaches.

Managed solutions are way too expensive, while libraries like faiss are definitely too unwieldy.

Additionally, semantic or keyword searches often perform poorly, but there are not many hybrid alternatives out there.
I've open-sourced a library that makes it super easy (3 lines of code) to create a retrieval engine using hybrid search, taking the best of semantic and keyword search.

I hope it helps!
Giovanni
There are multiple versions in the repo. The first one is essentially just two copies, the second was an improved design from someone else and the last was an ASCII-art version (of the radiation symbol) that was based off the second.
Fantastic post!

But keeping this "limited iPads/electronics" policy for the kids: is the idea to print out these maps and put them into a journal for them to annotate on?
Change “the West” into “mostly America”.

There is still a decent chunk of Apple users in Europe, but it is a far cry from the extreme obsession America seems to have with Apple devices.
Except Reddit doesn't have a product if they don't have people reading it. The TERRIBLE UI and user experience means that a percentage of users will only use reddit via 3rd-party apps. Apollo is BY FAR the best client. This isn't capitalism, it's self-harm by stupidity. Reddit's only value is the user eyes and data. Remove the users and Reddit dies a quick death. Maybe they will still pull in users but having less value but charging more to drive away your Users sure seems like a dumb plan capitalism or not.
The examples I cited were not hypothetical. The "tomorrow" you dismiss as some unrealistic joke is already here. Search HN for the news if you don't believe it. Want another? Not too long ago some car maker's data leaked and we discovered they were recording people while they were driving. Got any other bright ideas you feel justified implementing in the name of "safety"?

They're "making your car save lives". How? By taking away your control. You're not in command of your vehicle anymore. Don't forget it.
+1

Imagine if we were debating right now on if Airplanes should have automatic braking systems due to all the runway incursions ...
This post seriously changed my life. I had no idea old was working. Thanks.
Memory bandwidth bound.
I was a little wary since I saw the research using mechanical turk, but thankfully it also indicated how some of the more obvious issues specific to it were addressed.

On the whole, I found one thing rather interesting. The study suggested that being too receptive is closely related to gullibility.
Honestly, at this point it's only quasi-political. It was a joke, and a pretty funny one.
I do, using a 3rd party app which has an excellent user-friendly UI.

Due in part to the excellent UI and user-friendly reading experience, both on that mobile app and in a browser on my laptop, HN is the site I visit most often every day for a pleasant break to learn new things.

Reddit on the other hand is something I look at maybe once a month, where I'm reminded each time it's disorienting and hard work to use, so it's not somewhere I go to enjoy a calm read. So for me Reddit is just for finding specific information from a search result then leaving.

The Reddit UI has a lot to do with that. It ties to the "randomness" of the content. HN content also has randomness but because of its UI you can skim a lot in seconds so it's easier to pick out things of interest with low stress and just enjoy them.

Typically I glance through the top 100 to 150 headlines of HN to pick a few of interest, several times a day. It takes about 10-20 seconds to read those headlines, and to know I'm done - which is very different from scrolling-oriented sites which deprive the reader of perspective. I can see how this might be different for people who cannot skim text quickly or who find that difficult, or who are trained to infiniscroll through things showing only a tiny number of large cards on the screen at a time. The latter is how you destroy perspective.
I've been a reddit user since 2010. I have over 40k karma points (whatever that means) and I've never once bothered to try any 3rd party app. I was only briefly cognizant of the "old.reddit.com" thing because some subs sidebars hadn't been updated.

The official site is fine. I have one or two small gripes about the UI. The official iOS app is also fine. I have a few small gripes about the UI there, too. I guess I wish it didn't have ads but hey, shit's not free.
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The WEIRDest Bullshit in the World
Have my absolute favourite job from a cold response to a cryptic HN "who's hiring" post.

They used HN because they wanted hackers, and they did a lot of hiring from FOSS projects, creative endeavours, anything demonstrably self-driven. Working for peers whose skills, intelligence, and ethic I respect means I take a fully moralized approach to my daily work. The mission is pretty standard other than being super high performance, but the people make it an absolute privilege to be here.

If I ever had to explain this handle it would be that the creative urge is an engine that needs an exhaust stroke to keep going, and so I write, but nobody asks. We just all know we read posts here. Hey co-workers, I'd never say it in chat because being meta wrecks flow and vibes, but you're all pretty cool.
Why Hollywood Fears Generative AI
I really wish they had tried to ask for funding via donations like Wikipedia do before they shut down.

They mention all the rising costs but did they even try to make money or look for alternative funding methods.

Sad day
282 - Copacabana: Girls

284 - The Barbizon: young Ladies

A witty juxtaposition of two quite different establishments:

http://brieaustin.com/copacabana-the-great-american-superclu...

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a3...
Is this an AD for their SIEM product?
That is a good point, but I think their point was to bring attention to the flawed philosophy, so that mistakes could be avoided. And surprisingly soon after their 2018 paper, the flawed philosophy lead to such mistakes in a surprisingly relevant, important and timely matter.

Linking their general points from 2018 to specific examples from the recent pandemic, is of course post hoc. But it demonstrates that their notion was not merely theoretical, but important in practice.
Which app? The iPhone one is pretty good in my experience, but I’m open to hearing about what makes it bad
How We Use Terraform at Slack
Artists (specifically conceptual artists) are generally poor philosophers. You can expect a sort of a hodge-podge of presently fashionable ideas combined with some colloquial observations, banality, and inscrutable turns of phrase.

Take the distinction between the natural and the artificial. A colloquial distinction is not especially sensible. It's some kind of conflation between "man-made", not occurring in "nature" and "fake" which confuses a few notions that are not mutually dependent on one another.

In the first case, that something is man-made merely means that human beings made it. Water can be synthesized, but there is no difference between the water we find around us and the water we can synthesize. Human production involves the use of reason to modify or transform existing things to produce something else. But transformation of things is very much universal. Our cells transform things. Non-human animals and plants transform things. Stars transform things. The universe is in a constant flux of transformation. While only human beings are known to produce plastic (as far as I know), there is no reason in principle why other life forms or physical processes might not effect plastic.

In the second case, the notion of "nature" is a vague, largely romantic idea that doesn't seem to mean anything more than everything that isn't Man or man-made. Distinguishing Man from the rest of the universe is not unreasonable for certain metaphysical reasons (for example, the capacity for reason and thus moral responsibility; artifact as a product of deliberately and directly rational activity). But whence the sense of alienation? Perhaps this has to do with human moral failure. Traditionally, in the Jewish and Christian traditions, men were understood to be stewards of creation (pagan cultures tended toward pantheism which incidentally stifled their scientific development; modernism tends to denigrate the world by adopting a desiccated and reductive metaphysics which, while perhaps practical in some cases, is false). Stewardship is a responsibility and thus a failure in this regard can create a sense of rift.

In the third case, "artificial" can mean "fake", something presented as something it is not. But the mere fact that something is man-made doesn't mean it is "fake", and artifactual identity is dependent in part on the cultural conventions it is embedded in.

"Nature", in a traditional metaphysical sense, is merely the nature of a thing. There is human nature, the nature of plastic, the nature of water or trees or whatever. These are all real things and their nature is what makes them what they are. Thus, the "unnatural" is that which is opposed to the nature of a thing doing it. We say that a desire to eat glass or Styrofoam is unnatural because the consumption of it has no nutritive value, and the desire to eat is per se ordered toward nutrition. Thus we say that the desire to eat glass or Styrofoam is disordered, even intrinsically disordered. Wishing to cut your arm off is unnatural because human nature is ordered toward self-preservation. "Nature" is very teleological, in other words, but it is the basis for normativity.
NASA’s Year-Long Mars Simulation Is a Test of Mental Mettle
Any known issues when radiation deleted (instead of altering) any characters? Deleting something is introducing significantly more entropy than altering because it alters the length of the array of text, but altering the array requires recalculating of the rest of the array which is impossible outcome of radiation.
> Code point length is the most useful for people who are actually writing string algorithms based upon Unicode.

What algorithms would you be writing against code points?
You could download wikipedia to even the cheapest of today’s devices. Forget the LLM and just add search.