skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don't understand why the user flow can't be:

1. Download Apollo

2. Go to Reddit.com

3. Open your user settings

4. Generate a client_id and client_secret

5. Paste that into these two places in Apollo

6. There you go

Sure it's not strictly to OAuth2, but it's going to work just fine, right?
Sad for those YouTube channels who have been going long on pretty boys, hope the study controlled for contraceptive intake
Is there a way to accomplish this on Android?
> Property values are still at an all time high.

In a national demographic sure, in the areas where these things were being tested locally, look at Oakland or Richmond and compare those property gains over the last housing cycle. They are at an all time high, but what was the percentage of gain compared to other areas that didn't suffer from those rental boards where if you do a remodel you have to first offer it back to the previous tenant at the same rent (with no allowance for CPI increases or improvements)?

Tax Caps guarantee the collector must charge the maximum increase allowed every year regardless.

People are being priced out of their homes because they are being taxed on the property value, not their equity.

Your math is way off. I know people who live there who pay almost 20,000 in property taxes on their properties, and these certainly are not million dollar homes.
Right - I get it that in the experiment there was no real data being delivered, but trying to consider how one would implement it in an actually useful device for me puts the speed into context. It really is incredible.
It doesn’t work like this. You are primarily beholden to the laws of the country you live in.

Unless you are enough of an issue that the US uses its federal might to clobber you internationally. In that case, you are pretty universally fucked.
Certainly fair. I'm in the same boat. Looking from the outside. I was at another large company that was a lot heavier on the messaging, and it definitely feels like a reneg.
You mean the industry nobody can leave because there's no way to live modern life without a bank account and they know it?
> It presents a qr code you can scan with the other device.

What about devices that have no camera?
Maybe with text snippets, but I don't see how somebody can listen to the conversation and come away with the idea that the dev was blackmailing anyone.

https://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-...
Apple's Journal app needs to read the room
Fuck reddit
The hyperlink is the building block of the web - without links there is no web. Please just leave links alone. I don't particularly enjoy tracking any more than the next person, but don't automatically alter links people may be intentionally trying to access. I hope this is a feature that's disabled by default in the future even if it's offered for people to turn on and off any time.
I would not ask for refund. This app is a jewel on iOS, extremely well polished and gave me hours and hours and hours of enjoyment.
As I said previously, even without family support there are tons of summer activities your kids can take part in. At least in my part of the world.
I’m hesitant to even call this moving the goal posts. Intelligence has never been solidly defined even within humans (see: IQ debate; book smart vs street smart; idiot savants).

It’s unsurprising that creating machines that seem to do some stuff very intelligently and some other things not very intelligently at all is causing some discontent with regard to our language.

I see a whole lot more gnashing of teeth about goalposts moving than I do about people proposing actual solid goalposts.

So what’s your definition?
The change isn't about Apollo exclusively, Reddit is going to start charging for their API. Basically all remotely adequate (which Reddit's 1st party tools aren't) moderation tools make extensive use of said API, so Reddit has basically decided "Hey, people who do most of the work necessary to keep our platform afloat for free, mind if you start paying us for the privilege?"

Cue people being understandably upset.
then you layer that on top of resource-contention issues, security issues, and the list goes on.

applications running on bare metal don't have resource contention issues? or security issues?
It is really astounding to see the CEO of Reddit being caught in a blatant lie denigrating a third party developer whose work has done a lot for the platform and who has the ear of a reasonably sized and loud portion of the community.

I really hadn’t expected that. Corporate doublespeak is one thing, and management decisions aren’t necessarily always in the interest of their users - but such an egregious act is really beyond the pale.

From the IPO mindset, what questions does this raise about the risk to the business from the leadership’s lack of integrity? And not just the propensity to lie, but to get caught so blatantly. Why would even a ruthless money-over-everything Wall Street investor want to gamble on that?

And kudos to Christian for doing what he did. Bullies need to learn that the truth will come out eventually, and if the revelation they can’t gaslight with impunity is a shock to them - good.

Edit: not to mention Christian's full-time job has just been ended by this policy change. How especially and thoughtlessly cruel to now also make him out to be an extortionist liar, and for nothing really.
Nothing has ever come close to delivering the experience of reading new Dr. Dobbs Journal and Game Developer Magazine issues endlessly on the toilet.
The official Reddit app, at least on Android, is a buggy mess from a UX experience.

- Half the time, clicking on a push notification takes me to the front page instead of the post that was interesting enough to click on. And then the notification is gone, and I can't get to said post easily at that point

- Sometimes, there's two articles that show up on the main screen that I want to read. I have to pick which one I want to read more, because there's a 50/50 shot that when I hit back, I will get a fully refreshed home page instead of being taken back to where it was.

- Overall it feels less natural to navigate through than the Reddit web interface, let alone the 'classic' (old.reddit.com) user interface.

- Probably not related to the design of the mobile app, but the hostile behavior of web reddit on mobile, constantly trying to force me into their subpar mobile app, is also irritating and painful.
It's quite simple, make API access conditional on having reddit premium. Reddit get $50 a year and the apps can continue - although the userbase would be significantly lower.
OP is using the notation C(A) to mean "the column space of matrix A", whereas here that notation is being interpreted as "multiplication of matrix C by matrix A, which happens to be inside of parentheses". These are totally different questions. It's a reasonable misunderstanding as OP's notation is nonstandard.

But also the following math/logic is nonsense.
I don't think lifetime access is getting refunded since that was just a one time unlock. He says the $250,000 cost is to refund all "subscriptions".
It just (in its current form at least) uses a net positive amount of carbon to plant, fertilize, spray, harvest, dry, ship, process, and finally burn in our cars. In addition, the impacts on land use (and correspondingly on our water quality and topsoil) of things like the RFS are clear now.

It's not a rosy picture at all.
Yes, but the real human-like comments were possible only with ChatGPT and I doubt the startups that got GPT-4 early access in 2022 used it to generate Reddit comments. These days a self-hosted Vicuna-LLaMa-13B is good enough to write MBA essays so anything published in 2023 is a suspect.
Good point. There are a few restrictions though.

- You need a paid account: "Business, Education, or Enterprise license with cloud recording enabled"

- It only works in English at the moment.

The way I'm describing in the post also works on free accounts. I probably should have made that more clear in the post.
Except in every thread about iOS or Safari are a ton of people crying for real Chrome on iOS because Safari is the new IE 6 holding the web back by not implementing the new WebDogCam4 “standard” Google pushed out 2 days ago.
Sure, but the tokenization should cause problems for the encoding and cipher tasks as well? In addition to that: The odd/even starting letter task should be solvable by only considering tokens since the first letter should fall on the beginning of the token.
Most communities rely on third party moderation services and tools which will also be impacted by the API changes. Many have said that moderating larger communities will be untenable without them.
Not being able to understand indirect value as a business is seriously why so many businesses fail.
You don’t need all of Reddit.

You need enough power users to sustain interest, post content, and launch it.

The goal shouldn’t be to replace Reddit as it exists today, because if you go down that route you are doomed to repeat their mistakes of constant growth at the cost of everything else.
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Tildes.net is similar but not a replacement
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Reddit had an easy way out for the issue of 3rd party apps not showing ads, they already have a paid subscription which removes the ads on the official clients, so they could have made the API exclusive to users with a subscription. People would have been upset, but not this upset.
This sounds a lot like the whole Twitter issue where they messed with MFA, and ruined my ability to login anywhere other than a single laptop (that had an existing token).

So that fixed my Twitter addition - I just stopped using it.

The same will likely happen here - Reddit is going to find out that I'm happy querying for other users's content (from Google/Duck queries) but without Apollo, I'm probably not going to contribute.
He was put on notices that the citations (and thus the cases) were fake when the opposing counsel informed him they couldn't substantiate any of the citations.
Much more of this https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC4Kz0sEXSqNkfi7W1PBKyMg
Ask HN: How far are we from building CASE and TARS?
The first time I saw Interstellar, I fell in love with the design and personalities of the machines CASE and TARS. I rewatched it recently and got wondering how hard would it be to actually build them?

I know that when the movie was released in 2014 they seemed quite far fetched, at least on the intelligence side, but with the extreme advances in quasi-intelligent language models like GPT-4, it seems like it may not be that far out.

I’m not as familiar with current robotics however, so does anybody have thoughts or ideas about how difficult a fully integrated AI robotics system like TARS would be?
Fashion companies like Patagonia and online social platforms like Reddit are radically different with how they interact with network effects.

Fashion benefits from exclusivity and brand identity. It behooves Patagonia to brand itself as "not evil" or "not capitalist" or whatever, it's ultimately a fashion statement.

Social networks suffer from exclusivity, and brand identity is an afterthought. I'd wager that most Reddit users have a neutral/negative view of the Reddit brand, but they use Reddit anyways because of network effects (everyone is there) and the brand doesn't really impact their favorite subreddits. There have been many attempts at "exclusive" social networks with carefully crafted brand identity, and they always fail.

There's a theory that social media also has fashion phases, but I don't think we have enough data to back that up. MySpace lasted about 6 years. Facebook is 19 and Twitter is 17 and both are going strong.
> Just spitballing here but could an employee bring a shareholder lawsuit for negatively impacting financial outlook or destroying brand value?

Not against a private company, no. Reddit is still owned by Conde-Nast, I believe. What to do with it is up to them.

Also in general *employees* don't bring shareholder lawsuits. Even if you own significant stock, getting fired for suing your boss is usually a losing proposition.
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The nasty thing that some sites will prompt you via a notification within the page. They want people who decline to do it there because it means they can try to bother you about it later (the request to the browser to show notifications was never made in this case).

The strategy with those is to accept the prompt in the page and then deny it at the browser level, but that's not something many people would know.
I use ERDLab

Check it out at https://app.erdlab.io/designer/new

Has a lot more cool features for better visual representation like color tagging and search.

I also like the ability to create tables/notes using the canvas even though it has DDL support.
Subreddits can't be destroyed, only made private, and then requested by someone else.
AI's a very soft term, and there's long been a technical vs "casual" split in what it means. Five or ten years ago you'd say your photo was retouched with AI dust removal, say, and we'd all know what that means. And that there was a big gulf between that and the sci-fi "AI" of Blade Runner or Her or Star Wars, etc.

The user interface to Chat GPT and similar tools, though, has made a lot of people think that gap is gone, and that instead of thinking they are using an AI tool in the technical sense, they now think they're talking to a full-fledged other being in the sci-fi sense; that that idea has now come true.

So a lot of people are careful to distinguish the one from the other in their writing.
Confirmation bias is never a prior.
This stuff is is everywhere in most homes and offices. Pillows, carpet, furniture. Pretty much every time you take a step, sit, or lay down, you are adding some more microplastics to the air you are about to inhale.
Another way to look at this is the human body stores energy in glucose and fat

Fat is 77% carbon by weight, and glucose is 40% carbon by weight (C18H34O2, C₆H₁₂O₆) . All off that carbon is broken down to CO2 and removed by the blood and lungs.

2000 calories of fat is 0.57 lbs, and 0.44lbs of carbon. 2000 calories of glucose is 1.14 lbs, and 0.46lbs of carbon.

The carbon masses are similar because the energy we use comes from breaking the carbon-carbon bonds these molecules.

This means you exhale about a 0.45 lbs of carbon per day for baseline metabolism. Each pound of fat you lose is another 0.77 lbs of carbon on top of this (over however long you lost it).

Compairing to your numbers, the approach above means you exhale 200g of carbon a day, and 8.3g/hr. If you sleep for 7 hours, that is 58 grams of carbon exhaled (pretty close).
Those users generate content. They’re literally the ones creating value, reddit doesn’t have a product without them.
This. NixOS was very usable for me back when Nixpkgs was the same size as Guix's package collection is now.

Additionally, Guix's package collection growth currently looks exponential, year over year. The package collection size gap, assuming it sticks around at all, is only going to shrink (relative to the total size of either collection) and matter less and less over time.
Martin Gardner wrote a monthly column in Scientific American called Mathematical Games. He introduced me and other readers to: Conway's Game of Life, fractals, Penrose Tiles, flexagons, M. C. Escher, Godel, Escher, Bach, polyoninoes and many other logic problems. There was a learning AI algorithm that used small labeled matchboxes and colored buttons.

The column was continued by Douglas Hofstadter.
What else is he supposed to say in his defence? "I knew it could be bullshit but couldn't be bothered to check"?

He can at least try to portray himself as misinformed not incompetent or malicious
He should just make a new service and point the app at that.
Can't really give out any non-public info unfortunately.

I'm not saying that everything was fixed in stone by 8/2021, but any big hardware features like the front-facing display would take longer than that to develop start-to-finish, so I'm just refuting the possibility that Apple could have started development of a front-facing display on the headset and had it ready on the final product in <2 years.

It's not necessarily that a display itself (or any other individual component really) takes >2 years to develop, but that a tightly integrated cutting-edge system can't have significant hardware features added on <2 years before the final product is demoed to the public.
He put his email address at the end. As I told him in what I’m sure will be jillions of emails about the subject:

> Have just read your amazing, sad, comprehensive Reddit post about the end of Apollo.

> I was one of those long-ago paid-once users :-) and happily used Apollo for years. When I found out a few days ago what was happening to you, I actually deleted Apollo from my devices so I wouldn’t inadvertently cost you money through background stuff once Reddit’s API fees went into effect. Then, as I got really mad over what they’d done to you and the other third-party app devs, I spent hours deleting every comment and every submission I’d ever made to Reddit — because, of course, they don’t have a UI where you can do that easily — and then killed my account after seven years, just because all of this had made me no longer want any association with that platform.
Yeah this is exactly it. It’s interesting seeing a precision-oriented discipline (engineering) running into the inherently very, very muddy world of semantics.

“What do you mean it’s not intelligent?! It passed Test X!”

“Yes and now that tells us Test X was not a good test for whatever it is we refer to as ‘intelligence’”
Just like all PWAs I get the appeal as a developer, but I have no clue as a user why I would ever want this.
I generally agree with this type of analysis regarding for-profit ventures, but as a lifetime purchaser, I’m not going to try to get a refund here. I got my money’s worth out of Apollo, and Christian is handling this like a steely-eyed capitalist. He’s not asking the community to bail him out from his business decisions or Reddit taking things in a different direction, and I respect that a lot.

Very different tone from when the Twitter client developers were complaining that no one could possibly have foreseen a situation where they couldn’t deliver on services they’d happily taken money for upfront.
This particular country is probably way oversufficient in all these. Oil they need to import.
It's a way for the author to distinguish himself as one who is neither a purveyor of, nor fooled by, the magic, grift, and cringy sci-fi fantasizing that currently comprises the majority of AI discussion.

Currently, most mentions of AI, outside of a proper technical discussion, are coming from crypto-tier grifters and starry-eyed suckers. Even further, a lot of discussions from otherwise technical people are sci-fi-tier fearmongering about some ostensible Skynet, or something, it's not quite clear, but it's clearly quite cringe. The latter is one of the many calibers of ammunition being used by AI incumbents to dig regulatory moats for themselves.

Anyway, I understand why the author is distinguishing himself with his LLM...AI disclaimer, given the above.
We were thinking of shipping our kid off to grandmas when he gets older. The fact that grandma lives in small town China and my kid has mostly forgotten how to speak Chinese would make that an adventure at least.

I was surprised how quickly summer activities filled up this year. We got him in a Boys and Girl camp at least, but demand is super high for what's available in our region.
Goodreads is tolerable, but mainly as a data source. The product itself has been in maintenance mode for... a decade?... or basically since the Amazon acquisition.

They rolled out a completely new design semi-recently for... half of the pages... and left the other half on the 10+ year old styles.

It just feels like Amazon is happy to take advantage of its dominant position with Goodreads having a more complete catalog than any of the other more open offerings. And yet, they seem to invest no effort in modernizing or improving the site, making it more performant, etc. The moderation tools kinda suck too — doing super common things like merging (incorrect) duplicate listings is a PITA.

Also the app exhibits blatant conflicts of interest like prioritizing buying new books from Amazon over, e.g., digital library loans, with no option for users to configure that.

Nothing I'm saying here is new though - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads#Criticism.
> A business, Apollo, made an offer (lifetime access) to gain marketshare. It worked as Apollo is the defacto Reddit App for iOS. Now they cannot hold true to their offer, so they're forced to refund it. This is the price of the bargain Apollo made.

Did I miss something? I downloaded and used Apollo for free for a time, then later bought Pro for like $5 a couple years back. There is/was a subscription tier, Ultra, which for a time had a lifetime option, but it was never a particularly necessary expense and I have always enjoyed Apollo without it.
I‘m glad that Snowden revealed the injustices committed towards people around the world; even allies to the United States. Spying on the general public of democratic countries like my country Germany and their elected leaders is a no-no, and it doesn’t matter if a few American intelligence assets lost their life. They played with fire when they joined the criminal organizations and paid the price for it.
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That's what I'm alluding to.
How to Digg your own grave
> they know they lost a sale because of it.

Most of the sites I worry about aren't commercial in nature. They aren't getting "sales".

But I'm not going to complain to any company-run websites about anything anyway, because the odds are overwhelming that they simply don't give a shit. That's been my experience over years, anyway.

Small human-run websites are a different matter. They tend to care quite a bit. But they're also the least likely to stop accepting passwords.
Las Vegas family claims to see aliens after several report thing fell from sky
Are you sure you can open about:config on android firefox? When I try I just get a blank page. Are you stable or nightly?
Very cool, I love hearing founder journeys. Best of luck to you all.
This is highly reductive. Clothes are useful in ensuring I adhere to societal standards (and laws.) Keyboards help me earn my living (without which I wouldn't be able to eat.)
And yet, even after 5 years there's no sign of any real, meaningful drugs, even just Phase I trials. In 5 - 10 years (which will be 10 to 15 years after AlphaFold was released) I am willing to bet real money that there will be zero drugs discovered by AlphaFold that meet the following criteria:

1) The drug couldn't have been discovered without AlphaFold
2) It has been proven to reduce all cause mortality (the thing real patients actually care about) in a randomized controlled clinical trial BETTER than the prior standard of care (or significantly more cheaply, or with significantly reduced side effects)
Very nice visual style, just one (recurring) gripe: Line charts apparently do not allow for zooming in or panning data (which is critical for reviewing time series).

This is something I come across in pretty much every single dashboard/charting example, and that can turn a dashboard from "just a pretty thing" to "extremely useful".
I haven't been able to find the comment again, but I am 95% certain he admitted to editing the production DB long before this incident. I think it was an IAMA with kn0thing, where they admitted something along the lines of editing the DB to fix typos in titles. Not quite as bad, but no surprise he continued the behavior.