skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, the "fiat dollar" system includes parts like "the justice system" that will attempt to resolve conflicts between independent parties in a fair way, and oversight system that attempts to push the value, use, and attributes of the fiat system in certain directions, which can be influenced by the democratic system, which isn't perfect but definitely exists, and includes the police system which ostensibly is there to protect your rights over any dollars you own, and a government system to offer you perks for taking part in the fiat dollar system (such as roads and other shit taxes pay for) and an economic system that assures you the availability of pretty much anything you want to trade for that fiat.

Cryptocoin enthusiasts seem to look at all that, look at how it all isn't perfect, see how that imperfection allowed a big bad event (2008) to happen, and completely throw the baby out with the bathwater. They ignore how the imperfections in the system were intentional, based on misguided and purposefully inaccurate economic theory, that was broadly popular and pushed by the broad political system because of that popularity (literally democracy), and that it can be fixed.

Instead, they want to replace it with a supposedly deflationary system (because gold bugs are still apparently taken seriously in their philosophies), where there is no such thing as property RIGHTS, because you only "have" what you physically control. This is considered a desirable property in fact. Then, this system is also DESIGNED, intentionally so, to profit a select few who already had significant resources. The system, by design, accrues more benefits to those who already have power or resources.

Then they try to tell you that this system somehow benefits you, the normal person.

It's insanity.
A simp who joins the army because of a psyop e-girl is probably better off, in the long run, having joined the army...
The problem is the permission system. Like apps, extensions have an all-or-nothing attitude to permissions. Browsers should allow the user to be more specific about permissions, and let extensions think the user gave more permissions than they actually did. E.g. if extension insists that they need "access to entire filesystem", the browser should make the extension believe they have access to the entire filesystem, but of course the entire thing is sandboxed and the user can restrict the access behind the scenes.

Without this feature, extensions will keep insisting they need access, and the user will eventually fall for it.
When I got to slide 5 I LMAO when they wrote "LLVM doesn’t remove the dead loop" in bright red it reminded me so much of the geohot drama on his batshit twitch archive on youtube where some AMD GPU driver author says something about 'remove the dead loop' in their patch to fix the driver which was causing hotz's linux to actually kernel panic.

Please read slide 5 here and then watch https://youtu.be/Mr0rWJhv9jU?t=320 it's hilarious especially if you never heard 'remove dead loop' before these two times.

To be honest, I still don't know what 'remove dead loop' actually means.
Right, but I was addressing the post I was responding to, not this stuff. All I needed to do for that was to demonstrate that building software products remotely with pretty damn good efficiency and effectiveness isn't actually all that hard, and I think the examples (what do you want, a law of physics?) are abundant enough to prove that pretty decisively.

In an office probably works fine too, sure, but I don't think remote needs to prove anything, in the software world. It's proven. It's very proven. Managers that can't do better than some developers self-organizing online, with the same or better tools and a budget, must be pretty bad at what they do. I'm not making the point that some of them evidently find that incredibly difficult and even impossible, they are, which seems to me like telling on themselves. Guess they're bad at their job, should let a developer do it. It's pretty clearly not rocket science or something that requires some kind of expert, since it keeps being done over and over by people who aren't professional managers. Seems to just require someone halfway competent.
One of my old classmates is plugging away making apps for a city gov. Not making as much as possible but he’s not getting laid off and he’ll have a pension coming his way.
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Headline "Is Betteridge's Law of Headlines Correct?"
> Apollo has 50,000 yearly subscribers, so is probably more on the negligible side overall.

Note this figure does not include free users, nor the users of the plethora of other clients... But regardless

Clearly, Reddit has deemed 3rd party clients pose a huge cost to their platform, otherwise they wouldn't charge through the roof. IMO, all these numbers are meaningless given this fact.
What a beautiful work of art!
W in WTO stands for the World. It does not say anything about the US.
Humans eat seaweed all the time.
Post a link and ask for comments then.
I am one of the people that posted a Framework announcement in the past. I do have a Framework laptop, but no relation to the company other than being a customer.

I posted the announcement because I follow Framework pretty closely, and figured other people might be interested in a company that works in a direction opposed to the mainstream manufacturers. It's Hacker News after all.
Bus drivers are not paid very well in Germany. Especially those who work for relatively small private companies.
SEO, who needs it!
If you don't care about harvesting it you might want to bioengineer something that will grow on the coast of Namibia and seed it there. This coast pretty much can't be used for anything.
Shit, I really hope it doesn't. Do you really want every silly thing you say be recorded, to come bite you in the ass decades down the line?
Leading theories in neuroscience actually do point towards similarities of human brains to LLMs at least in terms of the algorithmic process of minimizing prediction errors.

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

I would suggest not making sweeping statements about how neuroscience researchers would react when lacking of a relevant knowledge background.
Getting into AI This Summer
I'm a high school student (rising junior) who's heard and read a lot about LLM's recently. Any advice on getting into the field? I'm thinking of studying C and Python. I've previously done a bit of Java (AP CS A) and have taken high school math classes (Taking AP Calc BC next year).
Markdown source: https://github.com/creationix/howtonode.org/blob/master/arti...
How hard is that to do? I know Frameworks are repairable, but you can really do a swap like that completely on the fly?

Honestly, this comment is a somewhat decent sales hook for me; I've been thinking about getting a Framework for my next laptop whenever the current one I use really starts to fail (depending on how their AMD stuff works out), and this comment makes me more curious to look into them.
> Apollo and Reddit do not appear to be business partners. Nor does Apollo seem to have any contractual agreement with Reddit, outside of the API usage agreement.

Sorry, I am confused what you are arguing here. If you think a usage agreement is binding they are certainly business partners. They may still be business partners or generally covered by tortious interference even if they do not have an explicit contract either.

This is quite a wide legal net by design - it is a "swing your fist and hit someone and their lawyers may have something to say about it" area of law, of course it's a wide net. You really don't even have to have an explicit contract.
What they didn't appear to have considered – was the Dev side of DevOps. Kubernetes runs on developer machines and single-node CI agents. In my company, all CI agents are single-node k3s clusters, all our engineers kubectl apply their services there for integration and e2e testing, same environment from dev to prod. We provide the same single-node VMs for development on the cloud, and Podman desktop for local kubernetes. It has hooks to inject stuff (injecting centralized secrets, configuration, sidecars, etc) in a single way, no need to implement centralized features separately for CI and separately for Prod. It has hooks to validate & reject stuff that doesn't comply with org policies (e.g. limit only core workloads, upper bounds on cpu/memory, volumes, validate everyone sticks to core workload specs and do not use any alpha/beta APIs, etc) so that SRE can allow decentralization while still being in control of what runs and how.

ECS is a deployment tool. Kubernetes is a dev-to-ci-to-prod tool, providing same environment for standard workload specs across the full development cycle, and a single way to inject common features into the standard workloads.
Is affiliate just url parameters?

Is there no other way to measure?
I've been to Germany many times; ICE is always faster than a regional train with tons of transfers. I know Germans complain about it all the time, but it's usually very good. I've only had 1 major delay. I've had more S-Bahn delays than ICE.
They don't understand or at least the current implementation states as much.

You have to first pick a server to join, then join that server. Once in, you're typically presented with local server content only. To see federated content, you have to select "All". Same story with looking at communities. Local first, All by selection only.

You then have problems with the style of Federation. If I create a community one Lemmy instance called tech then you create the tech community on another, we now have two tech communities separate from each other. Given your default community view is local, this presents a problem. You've already got a lemmy.ml technology community along with a beehaw.org technology community. It can quickly spiral into a mess of unintentional duplication.
Yes, and as a model organism they're fantastic. But I feel any and all studies on mice need to have "on mice" always in any published study or news report about that study.

But it's one thing to pump a 100g/100g of micro plastics to bodyweight directly into the brain of a mouse and another to study mice in a mostly natural environment filled with plastic dust in similar proportions to what we find in our human lives..
>I’m sure when this use case fails there will be another new use case that can be used as the Single Thing that crypto was made and defined for,

Nah, they just pretend it didn't fail, and blatantly ignore reality.
silk silk silk silk silk silk silk silk

What do cows drink?
My first "real" laptop was a beast of a Dell workstation-class laptop in 2005. One of its key features for me was being able to swap out the CD drive for an extra battery.

Of course, by modern standards the thing weighed a ton. These days, my 15" MBP feels like a brick in my bike bag, and it's likely 30-50% lighter!

(Oh and fun fact: recently I wanted to test out Moore's Law, and see how the RasPi 4 compared to that Core Duo laptop (that I still have!) Well, the 18y-old laptop still handily beat out the RasPi4 in single-CPU performance! Moore's law can't quite make up for opposite market segments)
LCDs do not emit light. They have a light emitter (or reflector, for passive monochrome displays ala an LCD watch face) behind them and the liquid crystal part selectively allows that light to be blocked or pass through.

The are three layers of polarizing material. The two outer layers are at right-angle polarizations to each other and normally would be completely opaque on their own. When power is applied to the liquid crystal, it twists the crystal's polarization to be at a 45° angle to the other two layers, which then permits some of the incident light to pass through.

An optically transparent waveguide display can use an LCD layer to block light coming through the front and then not render graphics on that area of the display. It will be opaque black at that point (though rather fuzzy around the edges, as the LCD won't be in focus).

Magic Leap 2 actually employs this technique. It's... a lot like the rest of the device: a good idea on paper.
3. Global pandemic making it nearly impossible for the #1 Consumer Economy to fulfill demand.

And recall Globalization was championed by Bill Clinton.

Donald Trump pumped up Tariff’s against China.

Joe Biden pushed for chip and green subsidies.
Pacific Crest Trail.
Even unblock is, only takes the repository owners login to be taken an update pushed.
Their willingness to exempt screen reader / accessibility capable or accessibility focused third party apps from API pricing is good faith IMO.

So the NSFW changes seem to be prompted by regulatory threats & Reddit getting the approaches covered, & this also seems to confirm that the API shutdown for many third party apps is because the API was a golden goose for those developers, laying golden eggs - both in user content & in giving those app developers the opportunity to run their own adverts alongside reddit content.
Reddit literally only makes money of other people’s content. They contribute absolutely nothing themselves.

Hypocritical much?
Fair enough. It just isn't the slam dunk that the post makes it out to be. He made some extremely vague proposition that can easily be misinterpreted and it was ultimately unproductive.
Ask HN: Where to start in playing with open source generative AI models?
I've been reading a lot of the latest posts on hacker news, but a little lost on where to actually start.

I'd like to run something on my local macbook pro to play around and does anyone have recommendation of like a top 5 links of who to follow and what to play with? So far I've seen things like

https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom
http://ggml.ai/

But feel a bit overwhelmed on the first starting point I actually should play in
Looks like not a lot of significant changes. Seems like Debian has reached a sort of stable equilibrium, except for the occasional controversial sea-change (like systemd, but that was seven or eight years ago!).

Are Linux distributions slowing down? Or have I just been doing this too long :)
Too bad tiktok generates URLs not only from which content is being linked to, but also the user generating the link.

And once the industry realized that users don't revolt at this privacy invasion, it has been spreading.
I didn't even know Reddit Premium existed until this debacle started. I had assumed all their revenue came from ads and people buying awards.
www.leetresumes.com - we write your resume for free. you can also email me directly (marc at) and I’ll take a look.

if you’re not getting interviews in two years, i’m happy to help advise on best practices.
It seems to me that some people have no regard for the law, the ethics, the morals, etc.. If it benefits them to break it, they will do it, as long as they know they will face no or minimal consequences if caught.

They would even feel good about it because they have managed to obtain an unfair advantage and get away with it.
Each of those words may be carrying more load than you intended.

Food on the table — Rice, lentils, peas: not greedy; Beef burgers, caviar, civet coffee: kinda is.

Roof over your head — traditional hut, not greedy; penthouse suite in Dubai, greedy.

A few nice things? So many options. Once was, aluminium and purple(!) both cost more than gold. Is it "a nice thing" or "greedy" for me to fly to some paradise island for a week vacation? Or to own a fursuit? Or a normal suit? Or to get an electric bike instead of a manual one?

(I'm in favour of raising everyone to the level of current royalty; I think this can be done without wrecking everything, but we have to solve some problems first).
> What? As the grandparent implied, when RSUs vest, they turn into shares of stock, which makes the employee a shareholder.

Most RSUs for private companies (especially those issued by companies as old as Reddit) are double trigger, not single trigger. They don't turn into stock at vesting because that would be a taxable event. They turn into stock after the second trigger, which is a liquidity event (IPO or acquisition).
Since Twitter fired so much developers, started to price its APIs and monetize its blue marks there are two different reactions:

- The Venture Capitalists see these moves as the best thing that ever happened. A way top put employees (mostly the software developers) and users (that get things for free) in their place.

- The consumers and employees see that the value that Twitter provided is disappearing fast as much as employer as a platform.

Many VC backed companies, and other that do not, seem to be following Twitter trends. Let's see if they are right and they can lower salaries to employees and increase prices for consumers, or if they overestimated their capability to do so.

Reddit is just another example of this trend.
No. There are many good, secure browser extensions.
so apply that same standard to "crypto". where you blame the executives at a poorly run companies instead of the sector or asset class they happen to cater to. and the customers for putting up with it.

mismanaged companies that make the headlines coexist with organizations that function well and make zero headlines "even" in the crypto space. the quotes because it shouldn't be surprising but its odd that this persistently low signal level of discourse is what's prevalent on this otherwise analytical community.
wow, didn't like my comment eh? no explanation just downvote, what a d*khe*d!
If you join a military because of an e-girl you’re still a simp. Perhaps the ultimate simp, risking your life in an organization that doesn’t care about you on the off chance you might see a TikTok military influencer once at some organized event. Just a simp with a gun.
Why would oil companies dispose of their toxic byproducts when they can sell them to companies who will poison the public with them? Since it makes them money and there's zero risk of legal repercussions for it, the only thing that would stop them is having morals and the oil industry certainly isn't burdened with those.
IDK, I remember seeing a tweet from Paul Graham saying that any new startup should use Typescript (I guess instead of js) so there might be some rules of thumb that some investors follow.
They think their data is worth $X to AI and think that AI will pay that much.

They think $X is vastly larger than the $Y they would get from third party app developers. So, goodbye to third party app developers.
Meh, there's some truth there, but we all know it's more complicated than just "buy solar stock -> make lots of money". An industry can BOOM while perfectly rational investors lose a buttload of money because the particular companies/etfs they picked weren't the ones that benefited from the boom.
Their manipulation of votes and what was allowed to be on /all is pretty well documented. After a certain point, the_donald and several other right-of-center subs were disallowed entirely to appear on the meta lists.
control of one's emotions is a hallmark of maturity
Maybe I missed it, but why not just increase Apollo subscription rates to match the new pricing? It sounds like Apollo has a huge following that would be willing to support it. Take advantage of the hate train, tons of people would donate through a subscription model. It also sounds like these third party apps provide much better moderation interfaces, that could a selling point for the rates. Even if your subscriptions drop, it's still profit. I'm sure someone would be willing to do this, I don't understand the reason for not wanting to sell the app either. To me it sounds like the Apollo developer is undervaluing their position.
A phrase that eerily yet accurately sums up (or some would believe to sum up) lots of public discourse these days.
> Reddit doesn't want to work with third-party apps

This sentiment is obviously false. Reddit doesn't want to support third-party apps at Reddit's own expense. That is reasonable.

> He has 50,000 customers who paid $10/year for the app

And now we get to the issue. This was never a sustainable business model. It depended on Reddit API being free - even at the massive volume Apollo operates at. That is unreasonable.
> Vaughan Pratt (who directed the SUN workstation project at Stanford from 1980 to 1982) is the genius who designed the origin Sun Microsystems logo. It was originally square.

> John Gage (who was on Richard Nixon's enemy list) is the good troublemaker who thought of turning it 45 degrees like a diamond. He was Sun's Science Officer.

Just to have it said, without taking anything away from the admiration of the logo, a square that is rotated 45 degrees is still a square.
Being silly is different from being scared of him.
I'm shocked that people are interpreting this as not fishing for a payoff, honestly. "We can both skip off into the sunset" does not mean "rewrite the app to do fewer API calls", as he tries to claim later in the call. It means it's done, over, everyone is happy. And why would he say "mostly joking" if he actually meant doing fewer API requests? Nothing about this recording or transcript makes me think Selig is an honest person.
My understanding is that this ticket allows national travel.

In any case, the point is that it is not clear to me what actual need this fulfills.
The paper that you linked doesn't say that 75% of crypto activity is speculation, at least as far as I can tell. Are you referring to the line that says

>Starting from 2015, 75% of the real bitcoin volume has been linked to exchanges or exchange-like entities such as on-line wallets, OTC desks, and large institutional traders.

Because there is certainly plenty of speculation outside of those entities.

And for the traditional financial system, when you said "see below", are you referring to the ratio of forex volume to global GDP? Because those metrics are terrible proxies for "global financial activity" or "speculation"

I would recommend doing some reading on what GDP is, and how it's calculated. It's not the same thing as the total volume of transactions, or even in the same ballpark. The United States alone had more than $128T in just non-cash payments in 2021 (https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fr-payments-st...)

You should also understand that all forex activity is not speculation. I would think that global trade would fall under the bucket of "economically meaningful activity", no?
Trying to start a new social network (or whatever you'd call Reddit) from the ground-up is not only very likely to fail, but it's also a totally different skillset than building iOS apps. Of course he'd rather just find another job.
As a person who's been paying for Apollo for a while and intended to continue, once it goes down, I will simply just stop using reddit.
In the UK the largest cable provider, Virgin Media (owned by Liberty Global), is transitioning to fibre. I do not think there is much future for copper cables other than for short distances (which I class as within a building), or for non-broadband applications such as alarm pairs.
Can you blame him?

The rules of the game changed so severely that playing the game isn't just disagreeable, it's impossible.

What would you have done instead?
I don't know, fix the current active retention problems ranging from straight up moldy barracks to various issues with access to food and DFAC quality to toxic leadership at every level of the chain of command across the organization?
So about:

“
every demo that they showed was a person sitting on a couch by themself
“

I’m not sure I grasp the critique given commercials like:

https://youtu.be/CfTC-dPwdLM

And multiple parts of the Vision keynote highlighted being present with those remotely as well as those locally.

“
so much energy that now you need a battery
“
I think everyone remembers the part where Apple admitted they are behind and getting the device they intend for consumers requires first getting it into developers hands.
This. happy to help.