skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can definitely be nerfed. Go private and no one gets invited. They can also block any new content except if on a post approved list, which could be as few as the mods. Each in effect would kill a sub.
How, exactly, would you expect someone to change their pricing model when they don’t know what the prices would be?

The prices themselves were announced May 30th. I guess if you’re feeling generous, that would be 32 days notice.

He had notice there would be a change and was explicitly told:

> The information they did provide however was: we will be moving to a paid API as it's not tenable for Reddit to pay for third-party apps indefinitely (understandable, agreed), so they're looking to do equitable pricing based in reality. They mentioned that they were not looking to be like Twitter, which has API pricing so high it was publicly ridiculed.

There is absolutely no actionable information there, and everything they said indicated that it wouldn’t be an unreasonable change.
Why not? Everybody thinks it is God, anyways...
> the authors of the analysis, which was published in BBC Medicine on 10 May, propose that journals should allow free-format submissions so researchers can spend their time and money on research instead.

Yeah right.

This is YC though.

Up-for-grabs: Untapped $260m market for reformatting scientific papers.
This is utterly useful! Thank you!
the (passive) consumers may use the native interfaces, but the power users - especially the mods - use 3rd party apps. the bigger subs are pretty much unmoddable without them.

they might not lose many users, but they'll lose their most important users.
Maybe ten years ago I jumped from Ubuntu to Fedora, can't remember why - just wanted to shake things up maybe? This year I installed Mint on my main machine. Contemplating a switch to Debian 12 when it's out - but might not bother, Mint has been really nice.

What drove me from Fedora was mostly the need to upgrade every 6 months, and the short support windows.
Apollo still have some value. If there is another online mass migration, like with Digg, he can connect Apollo to whatever comes next. Maybe he even can affect the decision with his user base. Lemmy could over night have a much larger user base if Apollo switched to them.
External Thunderbolt GPU enclosures exist and can behave as a dock. A friend has one at his place, I can just plop my own cheap laptop in and it gets a massively upgraded GPU, access to a few monitors, USB PD, a USB hub with all the peripherals plugged in, and wired networking.

Its not all built into the monitor, but IMO having the several hundred dollar GPU outside of the monitor gives really good flexibility. The dock isn't much larger than the GPU and a few hundred watt power supply which you'd need anyways.

The only thing really missing from that equation is the extra CPU power and it being integrated into the monitor. But having a powerful CPU that scales down to be power friendly when on the go seems easier than finding a powerful GPU that doesn't suck the battery dry just rendering a desktop and a browser window.
But that was the goal. If they didn’t make it to the doctor/lawyer/engineer/financier level, then middle management or consultant or whatever other desk job would have to do.

Either way, a Mon to Fri 8 to 5 salaried gig with benefits requiring little travel and no health risks was a comparably better goal to aim for due to the lack of sufficient price premium for the non desk job labor.
3. Covid disruptions to the supply chains coming out of China revealed how expensive and risky it was to manufacture there.
There's a difference between "we should expect more from others" and "we should force them all into the military because I personally don't like how a few of them spend their time."

Maybe consider minding your own business? We're doing fine.
Anecdotal but I've had a lot less cuda/nvidia driver breaking moments with Arch than Ubuntu.
Make things - welding, woodworking, fiberglassing, etc. Maybe even make a website documenting things I'm making to assist others (and show off a little).
i don't have wired subscription so i can't read it. are they worried it will disrupt the triangular trade
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I switched over to Pop OS and Regolith 2 about a month ago and I'm very happy with it, it's the same experience as using it with Ubuntu.

I have had some trouble with the Pop Shop leaking memory, freezing, and crashing, but you can disable it and use Gnome Software if you want a gui.
The economicse of optical RAM might be nearer to the commercial tipping point. The power requirements per bit are already lower than those for semiconductor RAM.

"Optical RAM and integrated optical memories: a survey" Light: Science & Applications 9, Article number: 91 (2020)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-020-0325-9
Can it cause issues with urls like /?p=:uuid? What logic are they using for stripping? Or invite links with tokens?
Isn't that an offer, not a threat?

Apollo is fully allowed to make things difficult by complaining on social media that he thinks the pricing is unfair. What is illegal or even unethical about that?
Might as well use Arch... One less level that could fail
Perhaps this is true in the field discussed in the essay, but in my field (a natural science) formatting is taken care of with latex stylesheets, so the effort of switching to another journal format usually amounts to changing a few lines. Of course there can be small details such as whether a given journal wants keywords, but dealing with such things doesn't take much time.

The problem of switching to another journal is also overplayed in the essay, at least in my field. I don't know of many people who "shop" for journals to accept their work. Usually you know the right journal, and if the paper is rejected you just give up on it. Perhaps this is discipline-specific, though. (The essay is restricted to biomedical fields.)

As a reviewer, I've never spent any time on journal rules. If the paper gets accepted, it's up to the technical editor to impose rules.

Most authors employ the proper latex stylesheets from the first rough draft. They also use section headings that fit the journal's conventions, and so forth.

I suppose it is possible that people in biomedical fields (are there any here on HN?) tend to submit to multiple journals before their work is accepted. But I sort of doubt that reviewers reject papers based on things like italics or citation formatting, so if folks are submitting to a lot of journals, maybe their work just isn't highly regarded by their peers.

Basically there is no issue here, at least in my field. It's an unconvincing essay, and not one that encouraged me to waste time looking up the original work.
Is it possible that GPT-4 already had this new optimization somewhere in its training set? The optimizing patch DeepMind published on has been floating around for several months at this point…

Edit:
I found the merges for sorting (Jan 2022) [1] and hashing (Jan 2023) [2]. Both of these are very plausibly in the training set for GPT-4, which was frozen sometime in March 2023.

[1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D118029

[2] https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp/commit/74eee2aff683cc7d...
>This is Pride month. The anti-LGBTQ legislation going up around the US has a precedent in post-Weimar Germany. The people promoting these blackouts over “Reddit is ending abuse of their API” sure aren’t protesting hatred and legalized harassment. This should be a month where people are politically organizing on Reddit to defeat hatred. This convenient dead-cat-issue now has stolen all the protest oxygen.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the conversation at hand, and to be frank, I get enough LGBTQ propaganda firehosed at me every other which way, thank you very much.
That isn't what he claims later in the call. He claims that he'd shut down the app for $10m. How is that unreasonable?
I've spent so much time for pointless reformatting. With Springer LNCS it's often that you have to work really hard to cram everything into the page limit. Then Springer does some editing in the bibliography, and the article then often overflows by one or two bibliography entries and is published like that, making the effort of meeting the page limit a complete waste time
I think it's important to consider that being called a criminal can have real-world negative impact on a person's life.

OpenAI's service appears to incorrectly call people criminals. I think it's legitimate to have a problem with that.
Interesting that the CEO is doing an AMA this Friday to discuss the API. It seems a bit strange to advertise this using a system-wide notification. I imagine most users don’t care.
Whole world is getting unnervingly militarized. 2022 put the brick on the gas pedal with cheering applause from the media.
> paints multiple entities in a very broad, over-generalized brush in an effort to establish a moral hierarchy which is unhelpful for actually solving a problem

Let's solve some problems. How about the Global North wipe off all debts to colonized countries? That would solve problems that are directly in control of the powerful entities of the west.

Do you think this is one possible good solution? If not, what are you and others doing that is helpful for actually solving problems?

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I wasn't aware Global North is academic jargon. What is your background in understanding the nuances of politics, geopolitics, imperialism, colonialism, history, and various intersectionality since the New World was discovered? I'm new to taking all of this seriously. I've been studying for 20+ hours for 2+ years now. I'm surprised I was able to make such a mistake. Thanks for your help in understanding I should use the correct colloquial terms. What are they?
Ok - why, specifically? Or is just ... this feeling you have?
Exactly what people say they should have done with FaceTime, right? So, which one is it? Should they do it or should they not?
I have no insights beyond what I read in the OP, but my point was that those freezers are actually warmer than outside. So "anywhere near enough" might in fact be enough if you can store deep-frozen things outside on the loading deck.

You only need enough freezer capacity to "warm up" the outside stuff to normal freezer temperatures (the article mentions this). This only depends on the warm up time, and number of people / consumption rate. Mission duration only impacts how much outdoor space is used.
When it comes to light manufacturing, sure, but they’ve struggled to just get to a point where they can do sophisticated heavy manufacturing at any kind of quality and this has been the result of US policy helping them out here. It wasn’t until Trump that this process ended and it became policy to not allow China to build a competitive heavy manufacturing industry. We will see if they pull through and become a rival in that regard as well; but I’m betting that now we’ve cut off their military from our tech and are pushing our companies out of China that they stagnate.

This comment gives a better perspective https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=36247499&goto=threads%...

Their “miracle” was a US creation, a policy to build them up to create a counterbalance to Russia. It’s gonna take ten years to tell, but China is already feeling these effects and feeling them hard.
Reddit is so unimaginative it's baffling.

10 million for Apollo is also a fucking steal. I mean fire your mobile team and buy Apollo for 10 million? WTF why is that not the obvious play here...
In fairness as well, Apple's laptop battery life is top notch. So paradoxically it could be said that proves people do need more battery
Ah yes, the web which is dominated by checks notes not-Chrome.
also an exclusively old.reddit user - and my account is 17 years old...

But I deleted my primary account some months ago *after an admin hijacked my mod status* in a sub that has 2MM users...

EDIT:

>>I'm not a head mod for any subreddit. But I do mod a few. It seems to me that reddit could simply replace the mods on subreddits that close down and force them open again.

Was posted in that thread - and this is precisely what they did to me after being top mod for TEN YEARS

https://i.imgur.com/6Y5u7O7.png

as far as I am concerned, /u/spez can go eat a dead baby as he so much stated in the early days of /r/cannabilism. Maybe reddit WILL be the dead baby he gets to eat.

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I have never used a 3rd party app - but everyone always spoke highly of apollo - but this post just shows that apollo's founder has more class than the entirety of reddit's staff (or at least c-suite) combined.

I imagine they got some sort of 'consultant' or some stupid MBA firm like McKinsey or something telling them their KPIs were failing...

They needed to increase the revenues from their API to pay the consulting fees for their 'experts'

And frankly - reading the comments from spez and other reddit respondents in that thread, read like the idiots in Succession when they went to LA
This is the equivalent of Firefox closing down in 2005 and everyone being forced to use Internet Explorer. Reddit has been adding nothing but annoying clutter to their official app.
But you were talking about the Magic Leap, replying to someone talking about waveguides...
Model of responsible disclosure according to whom?

Do you realistically think the Washington Post or The Guardian would make Snowden look bad by aligning IC asset fatalities with his leaks? I doubt it.

Consider this: IP addresses and devices of Western assets were leaked in the documents. Counter-intelligence can use those to correlate known or suspected IC assets. This has real-world consequences.

The way Intelligence works is much more shrouded in secrecy. Everyone in the know knows he had privileged access via his job and leaked the entirety of the documents without redactions because he was mad at being passed up for the TAO job. His bosses were interviewed which confirms my statements - 1

Swift on Security is an example of a Twitter account with connections to IC. Her statements on the subject echo how the industry feels about Snowden. - 2

1/ https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/09/what-snowden-get...

2/ https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/64971712356500684...
FWIW I run Debian bullseye on the desktop and don't have any issues with any of the software I use, like web browsers and IM clients.

I'm not running anything fancy locally so perhaps it's an unusual case, and I will admit that I can't print from my desktop for reasons I've never bothered to look into, so the experience isn't 100%; but I prefer it to running Windows, which is becoming more and more like an OS-as-a-service-with-ads by the day.
Didn't manjaro fell out of grace and right now the hot new go to is EndeavourOS?
> I also tested on small weight

You need to weight youself and then weight yourself again with something of known weight in your hands.

Floor scales usually aren't good at a small weights, though I wouldn't be surprised if they are not bad at it nowadays.
> 99% of users don't need a powerful discrete GPU or an extended battery, as evidenced by the Macbook Air (the base, sub-$1k model) being Apple's bestselling computer by far.

To be fair to Apple, the m1 air has an absurdly good battery life.
Yeah and that's not the crazy part. There's a 50% drop in marriage rate in 2023 compared to 2022.
This just in - the USSR doesn't exist anymore.

Russians might think they are still the Russian bear, but that's long gone now, the world sees them as an annoying mosquito at most.
I'll bite. Why?
I'm also using Alpine, but 100% of binary distributions of software I've tried have failed to run. Even AppImages don't run on Alpine, due to lack of glibc. It's honestly pretty frustrating--though I don't blame Alpine for this!

As a mitigation, I use Nix to run anything that isn't packaged for Alpine (e.g. Deno), and that actually works pretty well, but having a parallel set of libraries kind of defeats my whole purpose for running Alpine, namely a having trim system without any bloat (on a netbook with 1 GB of RAM).
Incremental publication seems like a great idea. The only problem is that the publication process is so formal. But if we made publications as "blogs" or something, I think incremental units of forward progress are a reasonable way to do science. I suspect most science is done this way. I imagine there are few Wiles style FLT proofs around.
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Wow no reinforcement learning needed! Amazing to think, all they would've had to do instead is spend a decade or two building towards a 1 trillion parameter transformer model and spend 100m or two training it. Then fine-tune the model using.. y'know nevermind : )
> And now we get to the issue. This was never a sustainable business model. It depended on Reddit API being free - even at the massive volume Apollo operates at. That is unreasonable.

Christian has already shared his correspondence on Reddit with this. He pretty clearly sought and received regular assurances that when and if Reddit moved their API to a paid model that it would be at a reasonable cost and with a flexible timeline to accommodate third party apps.

After telling him no such big moves were happening in 2023 they changed their mind, set punitively high prices and gave barely a month's notice.
I paid for Apollo and would pay them regularly. I'd feel better about it if the money went to people with similar principles rather than soulless profit maximizers, which is what would happen if Apollo split off and offered a paid model.
I had one I got at the Spy Museum in DC that was a little compartment! In high school I used to keep a $20 bill in there in case I wanted to do something with my friends that cost money
Are they doing an AMA tomorrow, and is it just for the mods?

I don’t see what they have to gain by doing an AMA, no matter what they say the comments are going to be scathing and people will be sharply looking for anything misspoken to jump on.
Worry not. We'll be very lucky if we ever get below 450.
Do you think Germany's intelligence operations are any more different or virtuous? Or it's neighbours to you?
The comment I was originally responding to implied that communism was a solution to the dangers of state surveillance and potential retaliation against a whistleblower like Snowden. Specifically, that this wouldn't even be a concern under communism. In my opinion it is unrealistic to assume that a nation will be able to self-govern without some governing organization that provides and enforces law in some form. I don't really understand what their point was when they said:

> In a commune, there isn't a state which can secretly surveil in the first place, making the issue a moot point.

But I assume they had some point beyond snarky posturing, and they envision some version of the world where this is true. To try and understand their point, and to better understand how their vision of the world differs from what we currently have, I was trying to get them to anchor their abstract point in concrete examples. I also wonder if there is an inherent contradiction or at least cognitive blind-spot in their thinking because every time communism has actually been tried in the real world, it has led to the most highly surveilled states, not the least. Again, just empirically speaking. We can have the "no true Scotsman", "communism has never really been tried" all day, but again we're leaving reality for untested hypothesis.

In that context, your reply that a theoretical communist country would not have a government is a bit irrelevant to my purpose, because that is again an entirely hypothetical proposition with no precedent in reality. So what is real and worth discussing?

I am aware of the difference between socialism and communism. I am aware of the many countries that have successfully organized themselves along broadly socialist lines (and I applaud them). But I think that still doesn't align with the original author's dismissive attitude as the presence, extent, and regulation of government surveillance is a topic that must still be addressed in those successful socialist countries. They still have a state that has the power to secretly surveil its citizens.
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But if the organism lived longer it would keep pumping semiclones. And if organisms are basically huge self-sustaining feedback loops, why won't they keep sustaining ... forever until some pressure forces them to decay
That's still significant, but good luck convincing the school board to do that instead of continuing to funnel money wherever they usually do instead of improving classrooms.
You're looking in the weeds at this specific problem when it's a symptom of the problem that the west colonized and screwed over the rest of the world. To this day it hasn't ended. All of this navel gazing at this specific case when the overall situation with the west, World Bank, IMF, et al, continuing their hegemony is the problem that would solve issues like this. This wouldn't be an issue with a stronger, richer country and government.
...do these academics not know how to use latex and waste their time in Microsoft Word?
The worst thing is references. They all have their own weird formats.
Why misquote? He said "have Apollo quiet down" not "go quiet" he only said "go quiet" after the Reddit rep said that, in response.

At least have your facts straight.
I use "rif is fun golden platinum" because it's simple and fast and I don't have to look at ads. I'll gladly pay Reddit _and_ rif to keep using that combination without ads. I'm certain whatever I pay Reddit to use their API through another app will be worth more to them than any ad revenue they could get from me, because that will be $0.
> Hopefully for the owners’ sake they manage to finish their IPO before that whole situation explodes.

That just kicks the can. After the IPO there are more owners on the hook if things go critically bad.
You deal with it by being happy that it doesn't constantly change UI/Interface/Features and break your workflow unexpectedly sometimes. Yes, you don't always have the latest and greatest and if that's a solid requirement, Debian isn't a good choice. But for a stable, not-going-to-change-out-from-under-you point of view, Debian is fantastic. Software you can rely on that's still patched for security issues.
I think it’s completely healthy to remain skeptical of a massive corporation. But that doesn’t mean we have to be tribal about it. I dunno. Sometimes I wonder if it’s just intellectually less exhausting to “black and whiteify” everything rather than explore the nuances of a corporation doing stuff that we sometimes benefit from.

We should remain skeptical and scrutinize and shape their actions through consumer feedback.
Ah, fair enough.

I don't really have issues with that stuff, if anything the car helps me keep fit. A recent example would be that I went to visit family and the gym where they live would have taken 3 hours round trip via public transport for me to get to, so the car allowed me to get a workout in.

I also cycle a ton to get places. I just also use the car for like, all of the things that can't reasonably be done via bike/train, which are a lot. Just because I live in London doesn't mean I want to spend all of my time here.

I pay maybe £2-3K a year on all car costs (excepting fuel) so it's not really a big deal. I don't get fancy new cars, to me it's a tool, it's gonna get dirty and scratched up.

But then I totally see that for most people, the path of least resistance is always there.
Is a bottle of water a bottle or water? Neither right? And I’d say a sub is the same.
The problem as other stated is that a) Reddit doesn't think Apollo moves the needle on users (I disagree but whatever) b) Apollo users wouldn't want the value extraction that management wants to implement.

Yes, $10M is a fantastically low price even if they throw it away in a year.
I cannot find a source for 8M babies. I see 9.56M births in 2022 for China:

https://www.scmp.com/economy/economic-indicators/article/320...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/250650/number-of-births-...