skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Employees in high salary groups can opt to get a "NetzCard" which allows unlimited travel in all DB operated trains. High management gets a real BahnCard 100 for them and a second person.

The free day tickets for private use that every employee gets are limited to 16 a year (but only one a month is tax free) and don't allow to take someone with you.

By the way, not every employee can use first class for business related travel (many can).
Will he edit users' posts to ask the questions he likes answering?

https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_...
What do you mean by now?

Nixon was using push polls in the 40s. And Lee Atwater mastered it in the 80s and 90s.

The main difference between this and a push poll is that this particular tactic is not trying to conceal the conspiracy under the veneer of conducting a poll. And push polls had the goal of making a voter think twice about voting for your opponent (rather than trying to get them to not vote at all).

There were racial dynamics with push polling too. Like the
push poll Atwater conducted in South Carolina for the GW Bush campaign during the 2000 Republican primary which insinuated that John McCain had fathered an illegitimate black child (he and his wife had actually adopted an orphan from Bangladesh)
What browser do you use for mobile? I just tried old.reddit on Brave and Firefox mobile and it was.....not pleasant, relative to my current 3rd party app.

For desktop, it's the best, and I'll seriously consider ditching Reddit for good when it's killed, but it seems to be extremely poorly optimized for mobile (unsurprisingly)
Very cool! I like the idea of tracking time per active reviewer -- in addition to bringing visibility to the work of reviewing code, it doubles as a signal of how easy a particular PR was to understand. That's potentially valuable feedback to both the author of the code (e.g., if smaller PRs would be helpful), as well as to the team if there are parts of the codebase that systematically take longer to grok.
That is all of human history, from the moment we wrapped animal hide around us and picked up a sharp rock. Humanity didn't get to be the dominant life-form on the planet by asking nature nicely to please not bother us.
Unfortunately, fertilizer presently has a large carbon footprint
Given Apollo made WWDC in a few places including in Vision Pro, perhaps someone at Apple might consider just acquiring Apollo and pay the yearly API fees to Reddit.

Over time Apple could then perhaps make the Reddit clone.
Charity to one part of the private sector, paid for by all the other parts of the private sector.

Or more realistically, charity to one part of the private sector paid for by all of our great grandchildren.
Charity is when you get nothing in return. This is called industrial policy and this country was a lot better off when it had one.
Or, and hold your horses here, because so many people support Framework here we see so many posts about it.
> Like apps, extensions have an all-or-nothing attitude to permissions

Browser extensions needs to declare their permissions. With Manifest V3 we’re seeing even more need to declare permissions.

Any extension cannot do anything not explicitly granted to it by the user upon installation.
I'm sure that will go over just swimmingly...
Reddit was caught using AI to produce artificial content; so I guess that's what will happen.
Once the majority of Americans have electric cars, will US policy towards the Middle East change dramatically or stay largely the same?
The OP here, thanks for the comment!

It was definitely not about being contrarian but about offering first and foremost a more cost effective but still relatively simple, scalable and robust alternative to their current setup.

They have a single small team of less than a dozen people, all working on a single application, with a single frontend component.

Imagine instead this team managing a K8s setup with DNS, ALB and SSL controllers that each set up a single resource. I personally find that overkill.
Best exploration of this motif that I have read:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NqnCjljUcMacGpX4dFmz9iV9bu4...
That's one side of the story and unless an enforceable contract exists, it's completely meaningless what reddit supposedly said.
You know: solving the engineering problem you just described...
Implying every site you post code to will have correct syntax highlighter.
Why was this downvoted? I don’t think that means he did the right thing, but that’s probably what he thought rather than being actively malicious. That makes him incompetent, sure, but there’s no point in making up motivations that probably don’t exist because you’re annoyed with him
Yea! Nutritional science be damned! Smoke crack too! Can't make decisions on what everyone else says after all.
> We don't stop for even a second to wonder how we'd feel about Chinese warships cruising off the coast of Miami, regardless of the "legality" of it.

Spy balloons in your airspace is in a similar category. They weren’t armed, but could clearly spy.
If you like, feel free to post it here.
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> Yet another thing is that two-day boycotts … don’t … work. It’s “we’re going out of town for a weekend”, except at scale. It just shows Reddit that some moderation teams will participate in a power-flex protest that is a result of some folks angry that Reddit is no longer their golden goose, no longer laying golden eggs for them.

My only disagreement is to say that some subs will be going dark permanently, which does work. Otherwise, carry on, and thank you for your service to the community.
I wonder how many people need anything in the BMI suite of assembly language, or BMI2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_Bit_manipulation_instruc...

Popcnt, LZCNT and TZCNT are pretty nifty and all, but probably more obscure than absolute value.

I do think pdep and pext are brilliant and that more people should play with those two BMI2 instructions.
CAFO: Concentrated animal feeding operation.
What does success look like in the climate change fight? Is there a point where victory can ever be declared? Is that a "correct" temperature (what is it) or a CO2 PPM number (what's ideal)? When industry and scientists stop lobbying for money to fight it?
It really feels as though all of the API pricing issues across the industry are signaling a clear ending to the rosey eyed 2nd tech boom that began with the invention of smart phones and social media.

I remember when my software career started in earnest back in 2011. There was a lot of positive energy in the air. A whole generation of people was discovering the joys of engineering and sharing their efforts and creativity through various forms of open access.

Now, it feels like that's all gone. The spirit of generosity and altruism in the tech industry is much diminished. It seems we have an odd combination of C-suite mental illness and activist investors to thank for that.
I have extremely strong anecdotal evidence that sucralose is toxic to my gut fauna. Two years of suffering are enough to convince me, but I'm hopeful to see the research that confirms it sooner than later.
Well, I'll just uninstall RiF.

I'll replace it with nothing.
What makes you feel this example is a very situation-specific question rather than a common issue a bootstrapped founder might face?
> though surely everyone has seen that comic zillions of times, by now

I see what you did there. Nice!
I want to make sure americans have the first shot at the job but I also want to make sure that the USA does brain drain the rest of the world so that there is absolutely no way to compete with us.

I am all for immigration reform as long as it prioritizes americans heavily. This means no H1B abuse but with congress getting massive subsidies from H1B mills, I don't think this will happen.
admit the competition may have done something interesting?

point out there are things to learn from this?

suggest that it would take the company’s best efforts, but that it could do better?

you don’t have to shit on the other team to say your team can be the best.

this was an attempt to suggest apple is somehow less personable than zuck.
>I bet some subreddits will go permanently private or delete themselves over this.

Subreddits are run by volunteer moderators and are entirely at the whim of reddit. If any substantial subreddit tried to shut down or go dark permanently reddit would just remove the moderators responsible.
Mandatory military might be good for gen z imho.

Worst case scenario they can live out some gundam fantasy while having a sense of real purpose and duty.
Of all of them isn't Google the only one that is actually incentivized to keep the data they get on you to themselves, because of their business model? It sounds bad for Google when they sell their data to others, so they'd feed a competitor for personalized ads. I might be wrong tho.

It's obvious, but I want to make clear, that this doesn't make Google less scary or more trustworty. Avoiding Google is still advised imo.

edit: replace "private" with "to themselves"
We don't really know why Apple chose Glass + Aluminum for their headset, but we do know for a fact that:

- 1 Their customers have historically chosen metal and aluminum for their products, and Apple is in the business of building what their consumers prefer.

- 2 Glass and Aluminum conduct heat better than plastic. The 2hr battery suggests thermals are a great consideration where the materials chosen were not just for aesthetics. Perhaps plastic could've worked, but see point #1.
Just having a higher resolution alone has made Apple Vision worth talking about. By all accounts I’ve read it’s very impressive. The interface is much better on the Vision than with the Quest. I had a Quest but I stopped using it because my eyes no longer can stand to see non retina screens. Pixelization was fine 15 years ago but anymore. Wearing glasses in the Quest was a pain. My glasses fogged up too often.

Implementation of features and capabilities is what matters. The capabilities are useless if it’s too hard to use them or the device is defective in some way that prevents users from wanting to use them.
So many different cheap, easy options to at least partly remedy the problem and possibly reverse it, but the only possibility seriously discussed is a civilization-destroying and politically unrealistic austerity.
Pretty much everyone I have spoken to about the thing has been like “that’s fucking creepy”.

A few have hoped you can display something else on it - like cat eyes or something to make it less fucking weird.
I thought the same at first but then I remember all those teenagers out there just stepping into adulthood with noone to guide them in life. They can easily get tricked into this, wasting their potential.
A salad in McDonalds is infinitely healthier than a large burger with fat sauce, lots of fries and a big sugary drink; in the same way that hydrogen, depending on how it's produced, could be infinitely better more eco-friendly than natural gas.
Thanks! You're right, this would be a good topic for us to cover in a subsequent handbook — in the meantime, if it's helpful, I think the way I've seen it done is pretty casual, where founders will cover expenses and then later have the company reimburse them when it has more funds. But that's more for the scenario where the bootstrapping phase is a relatively short and temporary (or at least the part of bootstrapping where you have to fund from other sources is).

If you think you might be funding from other sources for quite a while (sounds like that might be your situation), then yea, the tax considerations become more relevant and important. Another common approach is to put the money in on a safe or convertible note, though that doesn't help with pass-through taxation.
Look, it's fine if you want to be hobbyist making some personal website that doesn't store PII or take user submissions. But we're talking about career software developers here. If you want to make a career out of it, this attitude is not only harmful to your career, but dangerous to your company. Besides: do you really not want to actually be good at what you do?
Discord is awful. An echoey room full of screaming monkeys all trying to out-witty each other.
This is the first time I've seen a non-politically motivated accusation that cutting off money had anything at all to do with their failure.

The tech reason was that they had a way to make thin film panels which was super promising for driving down costs due to a silicon shortage. But then Diamond based silicon tech emerged, eliminating the silicon shortage and reducing input materials, which outcompeted thin film on price.

Such is the way of innovation. Looking only at subsidies gives you a false picture.
> If you think a usage agreement is binding they are certainly business partners.

Precisely. If the API agreement wasn't binding, why would it bother saying Reddit reserve the right to vary the fees?
> What would you have done instead?

Charge $5 monthly and refund the annual fee for those who want it (which is already being done it seems, regardless of Apollo's future).

Apollo has options. They're just choosing to shutdown. That's the founder's prerogative, of course, but it is totally unnecessary.

Look at the support in this thread alone - Apollo has tons of people willing to throw money at them.
This is a high end Macbook Pro with a matching price tag and additional features. For a device that is aimed at developers and early adopters, it makes sense. In a year I expect to see the Apple Vision Air for less than half the price while the OS evolves.
Yeah, this used to be pretty common.

Through the 90s laptops came with expansion cards and often swappable bays. Even late-90s Mac laptops had two bays that you could swap batteries, DVD/CD/floppy drives into and out of, plus a PC Card slot that could take things like TV video capture cards or Wifi adapters.

I don't remember if PCMCIA slots had enough bandwidth to make external video cards practical (plus... it would require a separate monitor, I guess), though.

They all went away in the quest for lightweight size and capacity... especially as more things got built in.
You'd get examples sometimes, and (infamously) contrived word problems, but not enough and most of it wasn't at all relatable. Some whole topics were totally lacking in anything but horribly-contrived motivations, including covering bases other than 10. You might get "computers use binary!" which... OK, cool, so what?

But yes, we'd see some applications of usually limited and relatively simple math from e.g. calculus or algebra in other classes, which typically amounted to plugging values into a handful of formulas (which, to be fair to those classes, is what the vast majority of "using math" is in the adult world, aside from basic arithmetic). Not in math class, though, and not at all for many topics.
They are not always on time, but in my experience and from what I'm hearing, the long-distance trains (IC and ICE) have more and worse delays than the regional ones.
I got laid off for the first time ever a few months back. Still looking for a job.

Silver lining: it's been really informative to see the ways in which I'm failing interviews. It's painful, but I have enough info for taking corrective measures.
I worked for city government once. I hated it. I had zero autonomy and thus zero impact.

The team I worked for struggled to accomplish the most basic software tasks. They didn't even use source control. Everybody just zipped project files and emailed them to each other.
What are some of the use-cases you have for this?
Strange effect however I kinda felt it too. But alas `#include <setjmp.h>` here be dragons.
> and how our cities almost look antiquated or frozen in time compared to Asian cities shows that we missed a generation or two and probably need to catch back up now.

It takes 75+ years for a rebar building to reach end of life. The US just built up during earlier decades than many of those Asian cities. In another 30 - 50 years those antiquated buildings should start getting replaced.
Reddit is a huge tree that casts lots of shade across the forest floor. It may or may not topple completely, but its pretty clear that in the next month at least many large branches are going to fall, opening up the canopy for new seedlings to grow.

Maybe we'll finally get some reddit competitors that aren't dominated by alt right blowhards.
Fair point, and I appreciate this, but no, I'm intending it (mostly!) as an honest question.. How do we actually advertise to fellow HN'ers without irritating them.

Most of our customers aren't journalists. They usually work in companies and don't write things like that, except for this sort of advertorial, https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/how-to-centralize-ssh-key-m... .

Partner write-ups are in a safer space to me compared to the pro analysts (like Gartner and Forrester). Those will be talking mainly to the less technical users (personally I take paid write-ups with a grain of salt anyway.)

We do have some great case studies from customers that we're going to put up soon, but those would be mainly for our website. (Does anyone actually read case studies at CIO or places like that?)
What's concerning about this is we are evaluating AI on a basis that humans are not subject to. LLMs in their current form are built on the knowledge of the internet, while humans have both the internet and realtime feedback from their own lives in the physical world. If a human brain could be trained the same way as an LLM, might it also connect seemingly unconnected ideas in a way that would appear as non-thought? Maybe, maybe not. LLMs seem to be biased heavily towards making best effort guesses on things it doesn't know about, whilst humans are far more modest in doing so. I just don't know if we're really at a point where we can conclusively decide that something isn't thinking just because it doesn't appear to be thinking by the standards we place upon ourselves.
You cannot, because the two systems have entirely different sets of pros and cons, for entirely different sets of people.

You can also compare apples and oranges, but the comparison might not be useful.
also Senator Dianne Feinstein's deceased husband Richard Blum, who personally built a fortune in China-> mfg outsourcing..
In the study mice were given 1000 mg taurine per kg body weight per day. In comparison a typical taurine supplement for humans is 1000 mg total.

IOW they gave the mice a dose of taurine that, proportionally, i'd be unwilling to take.
Here is a calculation done by project Drawdown. Potentially 2.5 to 4.72 gigatons CO2e reduced/sequestered over a 30 year period: https://drawdown.org/solutions/seaweed-farming

It is one of many viable solutions and humanity is working on many or most of them. We need them all. Seaweed would be great as cattle feed is one of the pathways this highlights.
Reddit made $500M in revenue last year, yet is unprofitable. The reason isn't its AWS bill, but the "must 5x every year no matter what" mentality of their VCs who are looking for their exit. This pushes companies to overhire, add useless features and waste money on user acquisition just to chase that growth chart and have a successful IPO roadshow.
As one of the five, I didn't believe this so went trying to determine more realistic numbers.

Per the link below, mobile web is anywhere from 15 to 60% of mobile traffic. Reddit isn't listed, and it's 4 years old, so who knows, but I'd imagine it falls somewhere in the same range, probably closer to the lower end?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1019768/us-retailers-app...
True, it's probably also closer to a feed, and creates more engagement with less thoughts involved.

The problem i think is it massively lowers quality, searchability and generally just creates this fogged-out state of mind when looking for or researching something besides plain "relaxing in a groupchat".
Share became Export so slowly I never even realized it.
All of this shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how LLMs work.

And you are parroting the LLMs are stochastic parrots argument.

You are overly confident in your assessment LLMs are not world models, more sure than those in the relevant fields of neuroscience, cognition, and machine learning researchers themselves.

This is an area of active study. Reflect on that. We don't yet know if LLMs aren't modeling something more than the next token.

But you seem to know, because of some sensibilities that LLMs with such simple architecture can't be more than a token predictor. Okay.
Should be equally concerned about non-stick pans. PTFE (Teflon) and other coatings are notoriously bad...
Hey, if you've found it's bad for you, then by all means don't consume it! The nice thing about sweeteners, unlike a lot of other food stuff, is that there's a lot of options out there.
An appropriate place to read 4chan, I suppose.
One thing which is unclear to me and I would really appreciate some perspective: do you think they designed the new API pricing with intention to have developers actually using/paying it or was it just a PR way to say "we are closing the API for 3rd party devs"?
Large, stable, boring companies lay people off as well. Sadly, there's no escape anymore in the United States.

I think it is important to keep a reserve in cash because layoffs are just a part of reality at this point.
I know this question has been asked a million times, but will WebAssembly ever get native DOM access? Seems like that would be a good catalyst for switching away from JavaScript, at least on the client side.
Definitely.

It just makes no sense otherwise.
I did some more research, and it looks like tires are the 2nd largest part of the pie in terms of single origin. The largest is textiles which are 35%.
Yeah they should have slow boiled the frog if the goal was to migrate everyone to their own app.
It would be more complex than that given you can write arbitrary JavaScript that can read anything it likes and send it anywhere.
I am one of the five. I use the Reddit website on iOS Safari and have for years. I only read one subreddit, so my usage pattern may be different than a normal reddit user. The only thing that annoys me is the ever persistent ‘website or app’ modal dialogue but I’m used to it now.

I try to use mobile websites instead of apps because I feel like the tracking data a company can get from a web browser is less granular than app tracking data.
Not my case but I thought this might help. I wrote some tips on how to use LinkedIn effectively: https://dylancastillo.co/tips-for-standing-out-on-linkedin/

It’s based on published papers about its algorithm + personal experience.
I would not, because reddit doesn't deserve my money. A different organization running a similar but different site would get money from me, but that doesn't really exist.

The dichotomy isn't really "ads" vs "subscription" in most cases; it's "ads + data harvesting (with negative societal externalities)" vs "subscription vs data harvesting (with negative societal externalities)". I am willing to use such a service as a parasite, but not as a paying user.