skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> face a Jury of your peers

Like the Arab nationalists being waterboarded in Guantanamo Bay?

Although some of them the US realized it picked up the wrong guy and released them.

Incidentally, Guaantanamo Bay is occupied by the US military against the wishes of Cuba.
Have you considered that they may have done this in "self defense" to the abuse this aggregator was causing them?

Besides, by your argument, connecting to websites at all is privilege. HN wants the privilege of reading their content (otherwise why not just block their site) without taking any responsibility for it.
Just like that language self-study tool that was on the front page recently, an ML based math tutor is one of the things that are much easier to imagine and to hype than to actually make work well.

I just don't trust companies that try to give the impression that they've worked it out already - and this one seems even worse at that than the language thing.
Ask HN: Can we get an option to show root comments only on HN?
When there are more than about 300 comments on a post it is difficult to read the root (1st level) comments that pertain directly to the post/article. These are the comments I want to read the most. I end up just scrolling past everything the whole time. It would be great if there was a link at the top that linked to the comments with something like a &root-only=1 in the URL.
Masks are plastic fibers, too, more pollution will not solve this issue.
I don't think that most people trust what the CEO of their company says generally. I know I don't.
I appreciate the encouragement, but in my particular case I'm pretty clear on where I goofed:

- For two of the positions, I wanted to get more into LLVM (internals) development, but didn't have enough prior experience to get the position.

- For one position, I had to give a presentation on some aspects of an LLVM back end. I think my presentation was just too clunky. I used too much of my prep time getting up to speed, leaving not enough time for putting together a reasonable presentation. Or I just didn't know enough about LLVM back ends (at the time) for the position; hard to know.

- For one position (Waymo), I did badly on a live programming exercise. I hate them, but it seems clear that I need to spend some Saturdays practicing LeetCode-type problems. At least if I want to work for an Alphabet company.
Reddit is terrible at everything but getting a massive user base in the early 2010s, which it has coasted on since. They could have had a phenomenal IPO in 2021, but with the current market conditions they don’t really have a hook (no AI involvement).

Their best case scenario is really Twitter’s case, where they go public, have middling performance, and then get bought out by a billionaire after annoying them with bad moderation decisions lmao
I think you may be overestimating how much money there is in this space. People don't want to pay for things if they can avoid it. The biggest app for the biggest forum in the world apparently had 50k paying users. The author was complaining about the cost of icons, which to me suggests that he is not terribly wealthy.

But there's a lot about this story that I don't understand:

* How can the Apollo guy be perceived as "threatening" Reddit? He has no leverage.

* Why does he suggest that they buy his app for $10m, when they can just terminate his API access at a cost of $0 - "I have altered the deal; pray that I do not alter it any further"
Only half, over 50 years? That would imply less than 1.5% productivity growth rate on average, pretty sure it's been higher than that!
It's clear this is damage control mode since they couldn't even be bothered to give a time frame other than TOMORROW:

> Reddit CEO, u/spez, will be here tomorrow to host an AMA about the latest API updates, including accessibility, mod bots, and third-party mod tools.

I'm willing to put money on them making unsubstantiated claims about abuse of the API and their interactions with app developers which may or may not have happened.
Totally agree that Reddit are being glorious ass-munching hentais here. I fucking hate all that Reddit has become as a company and as a product.

But also, dude just raise your prices. I read the whole announcement and truly don't understand why Apollo can't be $20/year. I don't know anybody who attributes a meaningful difference to $10/year and $20/year. I'm not a user but if I was faced with that type of price change and some language around needing to adjust pricing because Reddit is now charging for API access, I'd not give it a second thought.

It really really seems weird to want to die on this hill when you don't need to. Maybe it is the harbinger of the end for Reddit and we're just overdue. But I see no reason the founder of a popular Reddit reader couldn't secure some temporary funding to weather the transition, or simply negotiate a longer lead time rather than spending all the time in talks and ugly back and forth.
After scaling, it comes out to 6.5 grams per day. (See my comment above.)

DO NOT take 80g taurine in a day. You probably won't die, but it's a terrible idea.
Desmos is a true gem. It took me a while to understand how great the graphing calculator really is. There is also GeoGebra, which has similar functionality and I always thought it is just a rebranded Desmos, but they seem to exists independently.
Maybe it's time for federated link aggregators.
Well, I personally would be interested to see the talk/learn more about those in tech who have gone to the pole.
Thirty days is not entirely representative of the timeframe for the change. Two and a half months is closer to the proper range.

Reddit will begin charging for access to its API (nytimes.com)
303 points by alexrustic 51 days ago | 339 comments --- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35617763

https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe... was posted April 19th.

https://www.redditinc.com/blog/2023apiupdates

> ANNOUNCEMENTS Staff • April 18, 2023

> ...

> To ensure developers have the tools and information they need to continue to use Reddit safely, protect our users’ privacy and security, and adhere to local regulations, we’re making updates to the ways some can access the Reddit Data API:

> We are introducing a new premium access point for third parties who require additional capabilities, higher usage limits, and broader usage rights.
While I agree with services pricing their APIs in any way they like, it's worth pointing out that Reddit's current CEO Steve Huffman is the very same person responsible for editing Reddit user comments as recently as 2016, like he was just an admin on some no-name forum. [1] On the eve of an IPO, someone that irresponsible and childish should not be leading this company.

I was initally on Reddit's side in this particular matter (and I still think Selig's API pricing justifications are worthless), but I was shocked to learn Huffman is still the CEO, so his offhand comments about this situation and Reddit's general bad faith interactions with Selig in the past week are now very obvious to me.

Anyway, all the best to Selig.

1: https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...
This feels like the job prospect equivalent of saying "there's a 50/50 chance the sun rises tomorrow, either it does or it doesn't".

If by "big tech" you mean FAANG cos (and assuming "startup" means bay area YC tier), then a more accurate analysis is something like:

Stability: Lower likelihood of being laid off than the median startup in any given economic conditions. Way lower likelihood (I'd estimate <1/20th the risk) than early stage (series A/B)

Base pay: Higher than early stage startups, around the same for later stage (series C/D)

Stock: Much lower variance than startups, slightly higher EV

Fulfilling work: YMMV hugely depending on what you find more fulfilling. Making O(100M) users' lives 0.1% better? Big tech. Absolutely making the day of O(10) people? Startups
When google glass came out, there was the question of if you want to talk to someone who has a camera running at all times, (recording?). Its weird how perspective shifts.

Of course in some places if its recording all the time it might be in some weird wire taping situation.
Because moderation is manual and not scalable?
Why do you think they call it shit posting?
You get them free with Reddit Premium which does have other (dubious) benefits.
Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him (2016)
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The freezers are in the heated main station, however since the "waste heat" from the generators is put to use it's not as inefficient a system as one might assume.

The comical part of the food storage situation is that the station was basically built without anywhere near enough of it. The main "dry store" is in a room on a different level from the kitchen, labelled "Science Storage", and most of the near-to-hand frozen stuff is on an outside loading deck near the galley.
There you go again, making things up. I never claimed that the USA had ratified the UNCLOS. Nor have I attempted to offer any sort of "defense" since no defense is needed. I merely corrected your errors and misconceptions.

The USA has ratified the earlier Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone. You should actually read it.

https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mt...

I'm not sure which "Bay" you're referring to, but the US actually does tolerate Chinese and Russian warships patrolling near our territorial waters. The US Navy or Coast Guard will typically shadow the foreign warships from a safe distance just in case they do anything hostile, and to gather intelligence. This is routine and not a problem.
> Add "Dark Reader"?

> It can: Read and change all data on all your websites

It already has the broadest permissions available. Dark Reader injects arbitary code into every page you visit. It's one silent update away from stealing all your sessions. This is a security nightmare.

All browser extensions are a security nightmare.
I think it's interesting that Homo sapiens evolved during the last ice age where the climate was significantly different than today's climate. We already "won" a major climate change once despite having a level of technology barely better than sharp sticks and pelt cloaks.

Instead of defining success based on climate stability itself, I think it makes more sense to define success in terms of what we care about: a thriving environment for humans and diverse other forms of life.

I think we'll be "winning" climate change, regardless of average temperature or CO2 level, as long as we're able to avoid catastrophic loss of human population and the rate of extinction is within some acceptable limit.
My Xiaomi phone records every call, it should be a standard feature, but Google doesn't seem to like it.

https://karnatakastateopenuniversity.in/call-recording-on-xi...

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-ends-call-recording-app...
Make Terraform run only off git repos, and control commit rights to that repo. That's been a successful approach for me in the past when dealing with auditors.
Part of my experimentation was to try many different doses, just thc, thc + cbd in various ratios, ones claiming to have "live rosin" or whatnot.

I did finally try a real joint -- of course it hits much faster, but the lung irritation and health concerns weren't worth it.

I'm a bit jealous of people who have a great time. A guy in the band I'm in is 45 and has been a daily smoker for 30 years. He is highly functioning -- has a good job, has kids -- and can work while high. I guess he knows exactly his response and does enough to feel good but not enough to cause problems. He also has a really high tolerance.
Most other countries don’t go around the world invading other countries though. If the US gave up that practice, I would have less qualms about it.
They're implying an impending Eternal September style event hitting HN as people flee Reddit and find new communities (including HN) to join.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
> It's a level of middle school

Which should be a hint to you that it's not anywhere near that simple.
Yeah, it could make sense for them to structure their extension framework so that developers could work with website data in a sandbox, if their use case allows for it. That would enable developers who don't need to send data to a server for processing to prove that the data never leaves the user's machine.
Using the right filtration, increasing airflow, and adjusting humidity will reduce the amount of pathogens that we inhale indoors. Is that always a good thing in the long-term? If we expose ourselves to fewer viruses could we impair our immune systems and cause people to have more severe reactions when they are exposed to something new? We are also filtering bacteria, not all of which is bad.

Some exposure to 'unclean' environments can be beneficial. This is a topic discussed in books like "Dirt is Good" and is part of the Hygeine Hypothesis that states that over sanitization has negative consequences for our immune systems.

We could be trading a reduction in some illnesses, likely respiratory viruses, with increases in asthma, allergies, and other conditions especially if this were widely applied.
So why didn't this support the 240 watt mode (ie. 48v 5 amps)?

I can't really envision any standard component choices which would support 36 volts and yet not support 48 volts...
This is the first generation in history having their brains significantly modified by being hyperconnected, though.
I can't believe their source said "superuser", but the journalist literally put that in quotes and replaced it with "god credential", as if "god credential" has ever been a term.
old.reddit no longer has a mobile version. The mobile interface was redirected to the new-style quite a while ago.
Well, the connector does not really matter, the key is the hardware at the extension. CPU+GPU+screen+network+camera+HDD with some software that you need only in workstation mode etc. The software could be sandboxed by the OS on your device, security of extra CPU and GPU is interesting, but probably solvable problem.
Relay App is also shutting down https://www.reddit.com/r/RelayForReddit/comments/13wsn92/gue...
You can get it any time in the DB Navigator App
> But Twitter is better, leaner, and more popular than ever now, and deservedly so, now that that sinking ship was righted.

Hopefully this is sarcasm, because in reality the opposite is true (except for the leaner part).

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/twitter-ad-sal...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-is-now-worth-a-third-of...
:D

I wouldn't.

I just evaluated how much it could cost to gain a few years.

But thanks!
Wouldn't a larger greenhouse require more power and therefore more fuel for the generators? I would figure that's a major reason why.

I was wonder why they don't have chickens somewhere so that they can have fresh eggs/meat/etc. It could potentially be a good way to re-use food scraps, although I'm sure they're already doing something useful with those.
Its interesting because its a very specific, recent, and almost uniquely American religious concept, that's written into virtually every aspect of our culture.

That is, it seems like nowhere else has the idea of purification through suffering really taken hold at such a widespread level for so long. I'd argue its because its just the flipside of the Prosperity Gospel. If you assume that one's physical conditions are a reflection of one's spiritual choices, then your first move when someone says "I'm in pain, please help me with my pain" is to ask "What have you done to deserve this pain? I won't remove God-given pain; if you deserve it, it would be a sin to do so", instead of "Here's something to make the pain manageable while we figure out how to remove the source of the pain".
"Five hundred dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world," Ballmer reportedly said of the first iPhone.

"And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine."
Thermal Surveillance Using Low-Cost Polymer with Long-Wave Infrared Transparency
The problem lies with carbon's essential role as part of the energy cycle that powers the majority of this planet.

H2O + (Solar) Energy + CO2 => Useful hydrocarbons (everything form sugar to gasoline)

O2 + Hydrocarbons => Useful Energy + CO2

When you burn a log you're really using a solar battery that took potentially decades to charge and roughly 25x the energy you feel from the fire (photosynthesis is only 4% efficient).

The same process that feeds us powers the global economy, but at the cost of emitting CO2 in direct proportion to the energy we're using and benefiting from.

This is why "miracle" solutions are so unlikely. Because they require a major disruption of this process in a way that it's not clear is fundamentally possible. Anyway to massively remove CO2 from the atmosphere is fundamentally going to require energy. And because of the nature of inefficiency, will always be a poor use of any energy you used to create the problem.

This is obviously where things like nuclear fusion do provide the possibility of breaking this process because they create a lot of energy outside of solar powered carbon cycle.
"For every complex problem, there's a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." H.L. Mencken
I highly doubt it, maybe in a few years when cost of the components needed to build a Vision headset decrease. There is a lot of expensive tech in the Vision Pro. You have two processors, 4K eye pieces, expensive sensors, expensive cameras, expensive LIDAR. How are you suppose to build a similar product for half the price? You would have to gut a lot of features and you would end up with a completely different product.

This is why you can't really compare Quest and Vision because they are meant for completely different markets. Meta could build something similar but they don't want to sell a 3500$ headset. Meta rather build a cheaper product where more people can use it. Hence why they don't package their headset will expensive components.

The Quest 3 will outsell Vision Pro by 10x because of this.
You assume they act rationally. As mentioned in the post, the API costs are orders of magnitude more than the expected value from an average user.
> I guess a deep dive would have had to get into more gritty details about USB-PD? Or maybe show how they crammed all the requisite capacitors and heat dissipators into the thing.

I personally went in with the expectation of seeing the PCB inside the adapter, but they don't even show that. :(
When your browser is shipped via a snap and is 2 versions out of date because the update mechanism sucks and has been failing silently for over a month, it makes a difference.

There's my personal anecdote.
A big part of that “downtown” everyone tries to hype up is a tent city these days, so…

I’m not sure how that makes you feel better spending all that money to live in a place that makes Cleveland look downright exciting in comparison. At least SF and Oakland have some more excitement to go with the unbelievable cost of living and quality of life issues.
Fedora Workstation and especially Silverblue made Linux work for me in a way no distribution I have used before has been able to. Being bleeding edge yet stable and reliable just made it so pleasant, coming from a mix of Slitaz, Elementary and Manjaro.
Are the investors of reddit not realizing the harm Spez is causing them?

Do they actually think they're going to have a successful IPO now? Investors should be working on having spez removed at this point. The dude has made such a bold lie that could put the entire company in legal jeopardy.
There's also ulisp (for Arduino projects etc.): http://www.ulisp.com/

This is larger, because there are functions for accessing peripherals, and the core is more standard lispy with 'caadr' et.al., and it has a compacting GC, so images can be saved as a compact blob.
I still use applications and my file system.
Planes like C17 can overfly and airdrop stuff.

https://weaknuclearforce.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/up-on-the-...
Honestly this is the tipping point for me to just move on. Reddit is an ad-filled cesspool, with a morally bankrupt C-suite. Growing up I actually looked up to this guy. . . how pathetic and sad. Such a fall from grace, and for what?
I have no clue where the $100k per classroom number came from in the parent comment(each school maybe?), A Denver based project had an installed cost of less than $800 and a yearly energy cost of $361 per classroom.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90671889/covid-19-spurred-invest...
2019 was the icing on a cake that began baking in 2011 when a combination of earthquakes and flooding crippled supply chains.
> The world lives out of the browser

Exactly: my productive environment is «out of the browser» and I want it to be as fitting as possible, for my efficiency and comfort.
I'm not sure on the current data but during the 9 euro ticket trial over last summer 10% of daily commuters shifted from cars to public transport, 17% overall shifted to public transport and 1.8 million tons of CO2 were saved. The company car subsidy on the other hand is definitely NOT climate friendly.

https://www.vdv.de/bilanz-9-euro-ticket.aspx
Obviously that would cost more. Anker sells that BTW.
Well, let's be honestly. Ebaumsworld is a mess these days. Complete garbage of a front page. Submissions with no comments. Seems like a graveyard that's still operating somehow but probably mostly on automation.

I'll probably still end up on Reddit for whatever it can provide for a while. Seems like the death spiral will be a slow decay more than anything and I'm not seeing any replacement for random facts and tidbits of knowledge, memes, or shitposting at the moment.
I feel like, in general, awards signal astroturfing. I wouldn't put it past Reddit to astroturf their own AMA.
If the power consumption is the same and the battery capacity is the same size then the battery life is the same. It's a simple division.
They say somewhere that the 20m is from opportunity cost, so 10m for an app that's "costing" them 20m a year would be a deal.
Can someone please explain to me why users of third-party apps like Apollo don't just use their own API keys and pay for their API calls themselves?

Why is the third-party app vendor (and not the users themselves) paying for these API calls?
The problem is their revenue per user is garbage compared to other sites. Facebook is sitting at $70 per user/year. More users who don't bring revenue doesn't actually help the company. I think they should focus more on getting their ad platform to make a reasonable CPM, but I assume they've been trying and for whatever reason just can't make it happen. Maybe forcing users onto the official app is how they plan to boost the ad numbers?
Framing it as "give me money and I'll stop making things difficult for you" is disingenuous. The proper framing was "buy the app out and the API usage, and thus the $20mm/year in costs, will stop, or whatever you want to do with the product at that point".
Hello from your old Burlingame neighbor :) (Tesorio)
Why is there NEVER any talk of adversarial interoperability? Explicitly maintained and versioned APIs were a nicety, but not a necessity! Especially in this day and age of continually pushed code updates. Why just throw away Apollo's popularity and go dark, rather than simultaneously diversifying by adding support for open platforms that appreciate users (eg Mastodon) while also mitigating the damage Reddit can do by continuing to access the site like every other HTTP user agent?