skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well done to Christian for remaining calm, professional, and engaging with this process in an honest way, standing up for his users, but not attacking Reddit or its staff with emotion, just stating facts and holding them to account in a considered way. He comes across as a mature individual and one that I'm sure many would want to deal with in business or hire as an engineer or leader.

In a way, Reddit couldn't have asked for a worse outcome, they have come out looking terrible and he has come out looking great and defining the community discussion.
Definitely not a secret, totally agree that food security and making sure that our farmers stay in the black are the actual reasons for the corn ethanol thing.

Plus Iowa has a senator and early primaries, I don't think you should discount the straight up "federal government gives my state a bunch of money for this, let's not touch it."
For the record, Nix doesn't let you install unfree packages by default either. You have to flip a flag to allow it and you can also supply a predicate to conditionally approve unfree packages (https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-allow-unfree).
Maybe it’s plastic roads.
> That case appears to be specific to Gemini Earn, a "staking" product where users would loan Gemini money and in exchange would get returns on that money through Gemini/Genesis's investment of those funds.

Yes. You put money with them, they invest it, you get some return, maybe. That's unquestionably a security.

Note that there's real staking, as with Etherium validators, where you lock up some Etherium in exchange for a cut of the gas fees. You're still exposed to Etherium going down, but the risk to the principal is low. Then there's fake staking, where you lend someone assets which they then control and invest. That's not "staking", it's an investment deal. A bad deal, because it has a capped upside and an unlimited downside. Someone else thinks that they can get a higher return than you can, but you take the risk if they fail. See Terra/Luna, BlockFi, etc.
Yes, but he also should listen to Ru Paul and not duck it up. Or maybe not digg it.
> Christian says in the post the refunds will cost him personally about $250,000. Does he have a claim against Reddit for that money I wonder?

Why would they?

In fact, lots of people were already frustrated with the handling of "lifetime access" while having ads being pushed.

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.

I feel terrible for Christian on an individual level. He must be going through hell. However, there is a business being run by Apollo and it needs to be held to it's commitments.
The end of Apollo is the end of Reddit for me. As with Twitter, I'll be taking my toys with me when I leave the sandbox.

What are good tools for erasing one's Reddit history? I just learned about redact.dev (but haven't tried it yet) for example.

UPDATE: react.dev seems to work well. It's deleted 1.5K+ posts as I type this at 0.65–0.85 per second.
Yes, that is also strange and shitty. (But actually no, I talk in person a lot more than I text. I have to make an effort to see people that way, but I think it's worth the effort.)
I was aware of the mechanical reason, thanks.

What I am interested in is: Errors will be made by any professional, and so, lawyers. Why would this one justify a call for disbarment? I was hoping for a little more than the hobbyist lawyer tv show vibes I was getting.
mine quickly chipped as well... also stack without lids FWIW.
> If you don't like the current solutions, write your own

Do you see all the large vendors cooperating on letting third party Passkey implementations seamlessly replace their own? I don't. Do you think it is realistically (and not theoretically) possible to implement a new solution that would provide the security properties as good as sum of all individual fragmented options? I'm not sure. And even if someone spends enormous resources and makes it all real, there's still that issue of a Yubikey in a safe.

Sorry, but if N implementations require that inconvenient process I've explicitly outlined, having N+1 option still won't fix it.

And it's the standard's fault, not "the implementations aren't there yet". The standard had not addressed this, even though it's pretty much obvious this is going to be an issue on the very first day someone who isn't an ideal customer (100% lifetime loyal to one single vendor) uses Passkeys.

When I'm setting up SSH keys on a host I can either give it a list of all my keys, or CA certificate to trust, but I don't have to grab all the individual devices. Here, I must.

Attestation is another potential issue, but it's not a problem today.
Missing a deadline, failing to realize that a case existed that was applicable, misreading forms, etc... Mistakes/errors are one thing.

But submitting cases that don't exist, and then doubling down and saying that they do? There's layers of incompetence and apathy that had to happen here to get to this point, from using a tool without researching it at all (any research into ChatGPT as a legal aid would bring up warnings), to ignoring the warnings that OpenAI itself provides, to not checking the work that tool spit out (seriously, it's not hard to validate that these rulings don't exist), to being told that the cases don't exist and then repeating the entire process...

It's not just they made a mistake, the way they made the mistake reveals how little care they are putting into the research they're doing. The only way this could happen is if ChatGPT was the only source this lawyer was using. Because any other source: fact checker, Internet search, etc... should have noticed either that the cases didn't exist or should have at least prompted "why is it that these cases only show up in ChatGPT and not in any of the other sources I'm looking at?"

I don't know that they should obviously be disbarred, but I would have thought that it should at least be on the table. Massive levels of incompetence can be grounds for disbarment I believe. Whether this lawyer acted incompetently enough? :shrug: But we are talking about incompetence here, not just a mistake/error. If the takeaway for this lawyer from the penalties is just "now I know not to rely on ChatGPT", then that's not really addressing the problems that led to this situation in the first place.
Could seaweed be the 'fastest and least expensive' tool to fight climate change?
> maybe we might finally ditch passwords.

I sure hope not.

I am 100% in favor of alternative solutions for those who struggle with passwords, but I also want the option to continue to use passwords.
Reading this on the toilet and that image got me.
I would have put the number at 75% rather than a fraction of a percent. What do all these people do, these "developers" that never have to use bitstrings in python, deal with encodings, endianness, interface with hardware, etc.? Are they all UI people?
I wasn't correcting you. I was agreeing with you. I was correcting the dictionaries that have (IMO) got it wrong. Now, in this paragraph, I am correcting you. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> It's not a hyperbole lmao.

I disagree, obviously, but perhaps an explanation is in order so that we can be sure we're talking about the same thing (and give you something more specific to argue against if you still disagree).

The difference between "X is Y" and "X is literally Y", when both expressions are figurative, is that the latter is meant to be strengthened by overstating the degree to which X is in fact Y. I contend that this is a hyperbolic use of "literally".
man ain’t gonna get extradited to the us over recording consent.

this makes no sense, these are STATE laws. if he is subject to jurisdiction of canada, then legally he is fine. that’s like florida saying they will go to CA and arrest people who have trans kids. they have no legal standing
Sure, if past behavior is no kind of prior.
It's especially bad when you have to run both IntelliJ with multiple projects and grails.
Reddit should try honestly.

"We are losing lots of money, we need to start making money, reddit gold isn't bringing in enough revenue to pay the bills. 3rd party apps don't show ads, which costs us a lot of money every month. Keeping the 3rd party APIs up and running also costs us money. Because Reddit needs to stop losing money, we are closing down 3rd party apps."

I don't know what why it is so hard to say that...
I don’t think cloning products is illegal, and can’t find any patents held by Reddit.
Avalon is also part of Los Angeles County, which adds to your moat analogy.
"I force myself to dwell on the question, "What is the cheapest way I can validate that the problem I'm solving is real?""

- Thats a good idea to sit on that question for a bit. Thank you for that
Patagonia didn't take VC money, and reddit wouldn't have even survived this long if they hadn't
As we can now tell k8s was absolutely genius play bc one option is aws embraces it reducing their competitive edge in service offerings (at the time) which didn’t happen or doesn't do it at all/half-asses it (which is what happened) while the platform gains popularity which also reduces their edge
Vello is progressing well, it's most of what I spend my time on these days. I can't promise a date for a stable version, but I would say that for the most part we're on our roadmap.

I'm also interested in quantitative comparisons with the Rive renderer. My personal feeling is that the compute shader approach is more scalable than pixel local storage, but the latter does seem to perform nicely especially on Apple Silicon GPUs.
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A game to turn $1000 into $1 million. Designed to get people familiar with the basics of stock trading.
Isn’t Patagonia privately owned though?
I'd assume it hinders it actually. It doesn't accomplish anything and you can tell what additional information about the customers device based on some parameters being stripped.
So, trans fats which are a known contributor to heart disease are healthy now?
Creating Gmail
It is completely mind blowing to me that the first version of Gmail was built in a day. YC mindset before YC.
No, but (1) you are trusting the extension to not do that, and (2) even if you vet the extension now, it could change in the future. Or am I mistaken? My understanding is that by default, extensions update automatically. If you accept these permissions initially, then you implicitly accept them for any future update. The alternative is keeping track of and updating every extension manually, re-vetting each one every time.
He’d open sourced his Achoo app in the past. All it led to was copycats pretending they are not copycats. No attribution and the whole nine yards. If you google it, there still might be remnants of the incident. So I wouldn’t hold out hope on Apollo, rightfully so.
Solar Wind Flows from the Sun Like Water from a Shower Head
I think deduping distinct but equal memory pages and marking them as copy on write is a relatively new feature in kernels. Easily 20 years later than shared libraries becoming common.
It's a convenience feature. Manually cutting parameters out of a huge URL is a pain, and this feature might help to remove that pain. Nothing stops users from continuing to do it manually when they cut and paste URLs.
Or adapted for another platform. Open source UI means you need basically the database adapter to set up a clone. Betcha a lot of current Apollo users would swing onto that new platform.
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I think the generalization skill that allows to go from one to another is essential. If someone has only some basic understanding of boolean expressions, but cannot apply this knowledge to binary numbers, this is a good characterization of their programming skills in general.
That doesn’t make sense. It’s not that Reddit the company wants to be paid in content, obviously. It’s that Reddit needs people to want to visit their website. Reddit gets paid for ads, but people don’t want to see ads, so Reddit needs to deliver content that people want so badly that they’re willing to see ads. Driving away content producers to lower costs just doesn’t make any sense at all, unless they actually have a plan to get cheaper content (GPT ain’t gonna be it, sorry).
Only because of the politics (if Texas can't get out of its own way, what chance international coordination?), and in that regard the comparison is "why not nuclear when it works?"

The tech is already known, the boring standard models of HVDC cable are good enough, the time it would take to build that capacity of cables is large but not ridiculously so.
I suspect that these efforts keep failing in part because people never needed Twitter and Reddit in the first place. Leaving one social network doesn't imply that a person will join another. I didn't open accounts on similar platforms after leaving Reddit, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter over the years.
Which is exactly what is happening. This is public science, so pretty safe for them, but from the company survey 40% of employees are planning to leave in the next two years (one of the Directors said they had probably just misunderstood the question), many have left already, they actively withdraw jobs where the candidates say they want to work remotely, but still manage to find highly paid remote-only positions for their friends.

We’re asking for half a billion from the government, I wonder how closely they will look.
Recently it is mostly fat-left.
The business-political leadership in the United States shares the same goals as the Chinese leadership - maintaining tight control over their own power and wealth - but each uses quite different tactics to achieve that goal. Both are equally alarmed by political movements that seek to weaken their status, in particular. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China

The U.S. government is pretty steadily pushing towards adopting many elements of the Chinese model, such as censorship of social media (although more often by the tactic of amplifying some themes and suppressing others, shadow-banning and so on). Does anyone really doubt that the current political leadership would jump at the chance to assign everyone a 'social credit score', for example, that would influence their ability to travel, get a job, etc., based on criteria that they themselves determined (e.g. support for US foreign policy decisions, domestic economic programs, positive attitudes about a two-party political system largely controlled by a small number of wealthy donors, etc.)?

The U.S. is more in danger of becoming like China, than the other way around.
The angle was "buy Apollo from me":

> "If third-party apps are costing Reddit so much money, why don't they just buy them out like they did Alien Blue?" That was the point I brought up. If running Apollo as it stands now would cost you $20 million yearly as you quote, I suggested you cut a check to me to end Apollo. I said I'd even do it for half that or six months worth: $10 million, what a deal!

And it would have been a deal: 6 months of opportunity cost upfront to then turn into real profit. Instead they are permanently lose the [possibly] majority of that opportunity when those users lose access to Reddit.
Tbf, anything involving bulky gear like a kayak, etc, rapidly becomes impractical without an automobile.

I’ve tried load a kayak onto a cargo bike, it went terribly with anything larger than a very small play boat.
I was just thinking this could all just be a ruse to buy Apollo for cheap.
Losing one of the best Apps on the app store is really heartbreaking. Although I'm hoping for Apollo to be open-sourced, it's probably unrealistic.
> Companies aren't willing to lose customers for no reason.

If only companies would've known this... Can you please start by explaining this to the infamously ass-backwards banking industry? ;)
Sometimes the optimal solution to a POMDP (partially observable Markov decision process) often takes random actions. That is, if we only know part of the state, often the optimal course of action requires acting randomly.

For example, if you instruct a child how to play rock-paper-scissors, you will instruct them to act randomly and unpredictably.

It is the same with a language model, the optimal solution involves some randomness. A temperature less than 1 will "widen the gap", so if the word choice probabilities are [0.4, 0.6], they might widen to [0.2, 0.8] with a temperature less than zero. When temperature equals zero, then [0.0, 1.0], the model will always choose the most likely word and thus become deterministic, always giving the same output.
No need for a front end, he’s got the app, that’s the whole point
One the best apps on iOS. Will be sad to lose it.
Thanks for bookmarking :) It sounds like the last section in particular, the one about the types of information that go into a certificate of incorporation, may be particularly of interest in that case.

And yes, you're exactly right about dissolution — it is easy to get wrong! Incorporation lends itself much more to standardization because everyone is starting off from the same place, which is nothing. By contrast, dissolution depends heavily on the current state of the corporation, which of course differs widely. Hopefully we'll be able to add some content to cover the simplest scenarios at some point though.
> ChatGPT's code generation seems most useful for boilerplate code

that makes sense, it's going to be best at the kind of code you find out there on blogs and other sources. Boilerplate or code to demonstrate a specific concept or answer a question.
If that is the case, then the job is not one that our hypothetical job hopper wants, so it all works out.
I assume the previous poster meant that you can't tie specific taxes to specific spending buckets in Germany.
I personally like forums better anyways rather than the multithreaded up/down vote systems. I feel like the gamification of Reddit style discussion exaggerates echo chambers.
Thank you that is better source than what I found. The first thing I was struck by was the mammoth head with red marks could also be a map rather than interpretive art. It seems like early literacy may have used bone as part of the medium.

https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/picturedisplay.asp?lin...
Janet is planned and built as an embeddable language; CL is not.
Previous controversies include the subreddit dedicated to jailbait and on multiple occasions protecting abusers and pedophiles.

While you might be right, super fucked up if their users care more about third party apps being killed than their long past acceptance of child exploitation.
Can you expand a little? Here's some technical background on what we're doing:

We have our own database of every version of every rubygems package alongside its runtime dependencies (like you see at https://rubygems.org/gems/pundit).

Then we parse your Gemfile and Gemfile.lock. We use the Gemfile to figure out gem group and pinned requirements (we run turn your Gemfile into a ruby AST since Gemfiles can be arbitrary ruby code; we use bundler's APIs to parse your Gemfile.lock). This gives us all of the dependencies your rely on.

Then we let you choose one or more package that you want to upgrade and the version you want to target (let's say Rails 7.0.4.3).

Now we have [your dependencies and their current versions], [target rails version], [all of the runtime dependency constraints of these gems]. We run this through a dependency resolution algorithm (pubgrub). If it resolves then you're good to upgrade to that version of Rails without changing anything.

If this fails to resolve, it's because one or more of your current dependencies has a runtime restriction on rails (or another indirect gem being pulled in by the new rails version). This is where the optimization part comes in. The problem becomes "what is the optimal set of versions of all your dependencies that would resolve with the next version of Rails". Currently we solve for this set trying to optimize for the fewest upgrades. As our dataset of breaking changes gets better we'll change that to optimizing for the "lowest effort".

Happy to elaborate.
The point of the post is that Apollo has no more leverage after exhausting all other moves.
I am for clean water while being against homeopathy. So... I'm able to agree there is some nuance here.
Reverse-Engineering the Twitter Algorithm with LangChain
Really it would make more sense to be added to Launchpad but they seem to have all but forgotten about that feature
If Apollo keeps operating, it charges its users more and pays reddit $20 million for one year, and presumably continues paying that into the future.

If Reddit purchases Apollo for $10 million, then those customers now belong to Reddit. For the first year, Reddit would "only" earn $20 - $10 = $10 million, but after that those customers would continue directly earning revenue.

It's all about reasoning with the value of the app in terms of the api rates. Either the rates are unreasonable, or that would be a reasonable sale to Reddit.
That's not how it works. If the state you are physically in allows 1-party recording, you can record.
If companies try to hash the direct and referral link into a single link (or use a redirect link). Apple could visit the site internally, return the actual, tracking-free webpage, and forward that to the user. This would mean the referral link is actually just tracking how many times Apple decodes it and would devalue the use of a referral link since it would just be reporting "how many times this link was forwarded" and not "how many times this link was clicked"
I wonder when we’ll start seeing computer viruses that communicate with a remote LLM in order to get help circumventing barriers.

Alternatively, maybe anti-virus software can phone home to get on-the-fly advice.
> Do you see all the large vendors cooperating on letting third party Passkey implementations seamlessly replace their own?

Yes, given that I use my open source Solo 2 to log in to any Passkeys-supporting site already. It's not about whether they will support it. It's an open standard, you can use whatever you want.
Can we venture back to Web0 and BBSes? I was too born too late in to this world to encounter such glory.
Since this thread is likely to attract good answers to this...

Are there any Terraform-like declarative tools for your schemas that will do a diff and generate a change script?

I've seen liquibase and it's just a series of migrations which I think is pretty gross.

I really like MS's SSDT tools, but the DACPAC workflow is pretty heavy to operationalize, though doable.
Pyrex is the one that chips.
Andy here (Product at Infield). I've also been impressed with what I've seen from Renovate - particularly on the configuration side. How has it worked for you on major / breaking upgrades?
Do you know why an LCD panel can't be used to block light?
To what end? The only thing it accomplishes is making them look petty.
I’m an Apollo user and can’t stand Reddit in any other form anymore. Apollo stops working and I’m out.
Most of those points by Eco are just "politics". Rally around the flag, point to the external enemy, it's all pre-industrial, fascists didn't invent it.

What was unique about fascism was the ethnic superiority and the unifying totalitarianism where all public/private resources are aimed at national goals. Russia is too multiethnic for the former and too disorganized for the latter.
Yes, this. Canada is not a big country at all when it comes to inhabitable land. The climate makes it so.
Yeah, we didn't end up in the maximizer world I envisioned with Friendship is Optimal. I get a ton of comments about how I predicted the future, but they seem confused, because we didn't end up with a utility function maximizer at all.

Also, hi.
Google lays out its vision for securing AI