skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What might be causing this Gmail error?
My spouse seemed to have just run into a version of the error described at https://support.google.com/mail/thread/8328266/phone-shows-a-different-sent-email-than-my-computer?hl=en

Unlike the OP, she did all of the drafting (i.e. draft 1 and draft 2) and sending from her laptop Chrome. The sent email on laptop Chrome looks like draft 2. The sent email that she sees on her mobile gmail app looks like draft 1.

I had her forward me the sent email from laptop Chrome and from the mobile gmail app. The forwarded emails I received from each device were, in fact, different.

Is this a caching issue? Why is that forwarding from each device will persist the difference? Is it possible to tell from the headers which one is the "original" / "correct" / ???.
Some. Not enough.
He addressed it in the post, he's not really interested in that kind of work.
they don't just claim, it's there

https://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-...
Why bamboo or wood spoons/utensils instead of stainless steel? I would imagine the wood will crack or break after a while, and is harder to clean properly.
This touches on a dichotomy that has fascinated me for decades, from the very beginning of my interest in AI.

One side of the dichotomy asserts that "if it walks like a duck..." that is, if a computer appears to be intelligent to us, then it must be intelligent. This is basically the Turing Test crowd (even though Turing himself didn't approve of the Turing Test as an actual test of AI).

On the other side, you have people who assert that the human mind is really just a super-complicated version of "X", where "X" is whatever the cool new tech of the day is.

I have no conclusions to draw from this sort of thing, aside from highlighting that we don't know what intelligence or consciousness actually are. I'm just fascinated by it.
At this point, I'm just glad Apollo's author will be able to get some indemnification (and cover his refunds) with the likely lawsuit that will come from this lie.
Absolutely right!

Everyone launching a beta version of their product says its free. You invest time learning and migrating things over and by the time they catch up on features, pricing page shows up.

I have been using https://www.erdlab.io for 6 months now and so far it looks like they are true to their word. The developers on ERDLab have fulltime jobs and treat it as a side project but still push out updates and handle maintenance in a timely manner. I want them to succeed but not so much where they start to think about making money lol
> I see it listed at EUR 402/month

Ah, true, I calculated with the (cheaper) yearly price. It is indeed more expensive if you don't pay the whole 4,339 Euros / year at once.
It’s legal - I’ve stayed at hotels even in London where you can get a nurse administered IV of some bullshit in your room. I passed on that, and went with the time honoured method of a greasy fry and a pint.

The illegal part is if the nurse is stealing the IV and “works” from their workplace (a hospital).
If employees are getting paid salary, getting health insurance, getting retirement contributions, they’re by-and-large not going to quit
https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_...
My memory on this is murky, although do I recall correctly that his reply to criticism of the production db comment edit amounted to something like “it was just a prank bro”?
I think Tildes is a good secondary alternative to Reddit, It was developed by a Reddit intern and RiD developer.
What is metal poisoning? Should we be concerned about it if we use stainless steel containers?
Sounds like Apollo has a nice frontend with a proven API behind it.
Reimplementing the API on a different backend couldn’t be _that_ hard, at least for a POC. Supabase anyone?
Think of it by analogy as the keynote for the conference is like the back cover summary of a book.

Despite technically being part of a developer conference, the intro keynote has always functioned more like a consumer-focused annual hardware and software update for Apple device users.

Hence things like the ever-present use of things like impressive-sounding "marketing benchmarks" that wouldn't pass as up to snuff on slides in a room of developers.

And also the very high level of abstraction so that non-technical users can understand the major updates — that's not exactly a trait one would use to describe a developer conference.
For most corporations -- particularly the large ones -- I agree with you; however, there is also the B corporation route. Now, I have no idea if Reddit ever considered this path back in their earlier fund-seeking days, but it would have been an intriguing path had they done so.
Where is this breathless hype everyone speaks of? All I see is an endless stream of populist hot takes on the exact opposite!
If "No True Scotsman" were to ever have meaning, this would be it.
It's not just 50 years old, it's widely conformed to for these 50 years.

Why won't you use "&" for "less" and "%" for "greater", instead of sticking to the tired "<" and ">"?
Its the same guy who has let the entire platform be exploited for years at the expense of the people just wanting to connect about subjects online.
The rest of the article puts it in context. They have had bad experiences with the photos app prompting them with inappropriate ‘memories’, and this is reminding them of that.
you must be aware that old.reddit.com is on the chopping block in the next few months/years, right?
They can’t do the opposite because they’re all almost blocked, and what isn’t lives in servers in China under Chinese control.
It is, at best, designed to resemble something human-like
I don't speak German but the tax you linked appears a tax that is /collected/ on a certain item (sparkling wine). The GP was talking about a tax whose /revenues are spent/ on a specific thing (transit).
Imagine how many fresh vegetables they could have with a miniaturized nuclear reactor on-site!

The limit right now is how much diesel they want to waste. Imagine the alternatives!
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I would if it wasnt only available on iPhone

That makes sense to me. I was also wondering how come I had never heard of this app.

It also changes the calculus significantly: how many users does Apollo have, and how many users does Reddit have?

Reddit just might not even notice the content produced by Apollo users.
Do you have a source for that? I am sure Reddit knows the truth and took that into account in their negotiations.
Obtaining Reddit API keys is an application process, it is not automated
Deutsche Bahn has some of the worse graphics for a consumer facing website I have ever seen
In the thread he said he rather let it die because he is already tired.
I don't know if it's a better analogy, but I agree that it's a good one. There are tons of things that won't outright kill you on first exposure, but are good candidates for minimizing if you want to improve your health.
then just buy with one of the providers which don't have the issue... not all need schufa checks
I mean, even in the text snippets you can see that they seem to understand after a bit as to what Christian was talking about.
Agreed. More simply couldn't any ad tracker just have a dynamic parameter name so it's impossible to distinguish between a parameter required to run the site and a parameter used for tracking?

Or is this feature more advanced than just stripping known tracking parameter keys?
You also know they plow more than once, right? Like, they're doing no till a bunch now (by using more herbicide), but still plow when rotating crops.
I often remove tracking parameters from URLs and I notice that some services/websites return an error if you visit it without a tracking parameter. If a service does this, apple can't remove the tracking parameter from the URL any more.
Before Rust everybody[1] seemed to believe we cannot have a safe and natively compiled language.
Rust proved the opposite.

I don't see why we can't have clean, low noise, high signal syntax in a language like Rust. My criticism is not the syntax that makes the language more expressive - that's essential complexity.

I would want the accidental complexity removed, like the somewhat redundant distinction between dot and double colon.
And I wish the cognitive load reduced by making the syntax as familiar as possible to as many people as possible. That's the reason I mentioned Javascript and Python - not only is their syntax more concise but also familiar to more people.

When it comes to the snake case study, I'm not surprised at all.
They did not control for the size each identifier took on the screen. That a bigger signal enables a faster response is common sense. Longer identifiers are easier to recognize but the downside is that they take away space we could use for other important things. That's why most languages keep the most frequent ones (like variable names) short and free from unnecessary noise like underscores. Also the sample size in the study was extremely small.

[1] Except the Haskell/ML folks, naturally.
I agree.

And in the end they are manipulating links. While no advocate for ads, this has implications on the freedom of the internet.
Reddit is Fun will shut down on June 30th in response to Reddit API changes
You need look into the mirror here. Why are you like this? Do you understand what exponent growth even is? At 50% YOY growth, it will catch up to everything else in a handful of years. And this is your source, not mine. You are basically rejecting the conclusion of the source you found.

PV is doing the same. It is also growing exponentially. There was a time when investment in PVs was also in the single-digit billions. Now it is a lot more. If something grows rapidly enough, it will quickly catch up to the competition.

Finally, you’ve picked a source that is fairly conservative on all this. I mean, Japan alone is exceeding that: https://japantoday.com/category/tech/japan-earmarks-107-bill...

Other countries will follow, so you can expect global investment to be much higher.
Because you can't IPO for a zillion dollars and leave suckers holding the bag that way
Rubrik Hires Banks for IPO
I live on the other side of the border and from the outside it seems like an economically-left-behind-after-communism kind of problem.

We have the same issue and these people gravitate towards nationalist circles because it gives them a sense of belonging in a world that largely doesn't care about them.

Doesn't make them activists of any kind though - just hooligans looking for meaning.
Energy is dangerous (mechanical, chemical, etc.) and produces waste.
And great power requires great responsibility.

"Safety" can be seen thru different lenses. If we measure by number of deaths, then nuclear is safer than dams or coal/gas power plant.

Nuclear requires some expertise to run safely, but now the plant designs are better. I am wondering if the fear of nuclear is greater than the actual risk.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

https://xkcd.com/radiation/
One relevant bit from the article:

> After two months of daily ingestion of nanoplastics at the estimated human consumption dose, nanoplastic-exposed mice exhibited reduced cognition and short-term memory as assessed by standard neurological assessments such as the open-field test, novel object recognition assay, and the Morris water maze.

I'm a bit confused about whether it makes sense to feed the "estimated human consumption dose" of something to a mouse when a human weighs something like 2000 times as much.
Browsers are/were User Agents. The focus should be on maximizing that experience across the board.
Because Reddit wants you to enter an agreement with them for the API, so you need to submit a request to get an API key for those client_ids.
Apollo wont be the only one. This is all for Reddit's greed and trying to increase margins before attempting to IPO.
Looks like I'll finally be free of my reddit addiction on July 1st.
In fairness to the people who fired him, fanboy-ism has no place in the dispassionate decision making process of a professional. You have to have people around who are making decisions based on realities and not mantras or you're going to lose money.

If he wants a job where fanboy-ism can be helpful in climbing the ladder, he should try politics or something like that. Where all the money on the line belongs to other people. So no one really works to protect any of it.
How are they going to collaborate working from home? Will Sundar blame poor results on the smoke?
He addressed that in the post, saying he basically doesn't have the energy for it. Which is understandable.

I really don't see why Reddit doesn't just purchase the app.
Right? I started reading and, after plowing through 3-4 paragraphs of autobiographical navelgazing, gave up (and went to the HN discussion to see if there was any meat to the article -- but was disappointed, alas).
Can you make gantt charts with this? Many such libraries are missing this which is super annoying.
Nobody has a good way to draw dark while keeping it in focus.
The monthly payment option is discontinued, you can now only get it by paying a lump sum of 4339 € for a whole year.
Do you guys really expect a for profit company to offer free API access to 3rd parties, that offer a better experience with no ads, bypassing their revenue stream, and making their own site and apps look terrible in comparison?

I've always been shocked Reddit allowed this at all. No other major player that owns a platform- FB, instagram, Google, etc. offers this either.

I don't like it either but it makes perfect sense. You could even make the argument that not doing this would mean Reddit employees aren't doing their jobs, and aren't looking out for the company.
For me, both Twitter & Reddit require a not-inconsiderable effort to extract value while ignoring/digesting the annoyances.

Maybe fewer global social platforms and less time spent on them will do a lot of people more good.

I'm guessing Reddit gets less global and ubiquitous, in the same way Twitter is more of a slice of a niche crowd now too. Maybe that's okay.
That's the thing. A privately owned company can keep its morals if it has them, because the owners don't answer to anyone else. But as soon as a company accepts Venture Capital funding, or goes public, morals go out the window. The original owners no longer have control, and can't decide what the goal of the company is anymore. The goal is now to make money in whatever method is possible.

Remember this whenever you see founders say that they didn't betray their original agreements. They betrayed those agreements as soon as they accepted VC funding or public trading, because that's when they agreed to lose control of the direction of the company.
spez is a comically bad CEO. This should not have been this complicated, if they wanted to kill 3P apps they could have just said that. This is a very Reddit thread () way of handling this!
All the little things like this that keep getting added are why I switched back to iphone.
He addresses this partway down the post:

> Will you build a competitor? Move to one of the existing alternatives?

> I've received so many messages of kind people offering to work with me to build a competitor to Reddit, and while I'm very flattered, that's not something I'm interested in doing. I'm a product guy, I like building fun apps for people to use, and I'm just not personally interested in something more managerial.

> These last several months have also been incredibly exhausting and mentally draining, I don't have it in me to engage in something so enormous.

seems reasonable.
As the saying goes - never rely on someone else's platform for your livelihood. This was always bound to happen and it was just a matter of time. Reddit needs to eliminate all third party clients that block their ads and siphon potential ad revenue in order to be financially attractive to investors.

For the Redditors that laughed and criticized Twitter when they capped user counts in third party apps and raised their API usage fees, karma was waiting with patience to return the favor.

I view what Reddit did as an opportunity. Even though Mastodon was a spectacular failure, I could see a Reddit alternative that uses the federated model that Mastodon does.
This means you have one single Passkey system. I'm talking about multiple Passkey systems and that there is no way to make it work without a very inconvenient process.

Three arguments:

1. Redundancy and failover. Without backups, "if I'll lose access to that account" is not even a question, "when" is. Unless you have a second Solo 2 in your safe - some day, you will lose that account. You may be able to recover it, of course, but that's another story (a story of security properties of your account and ability to access it without having credentials).

2. Availability. If some device (e.g. an iPhone) won't support your Solo 2 (e.g. you don't happen to carry that Lightning-to-USB-type-A adapter) - you don't have access anymore, even if you have your key with you.

3. Convenience. You may log in only with your single Solo 2 key, but you'll probably want to be able to log in to your websites from your phone, without having to walk to your desk (even if for a few feet) to grab the physical key for every single new website.

I can think of a scenarios where you won't hit those limitations. The problem is, they're not some weird ass case for silly nerds - they're real situations that are gonna happen to your average Joe (but he, unlike nerds, won't really think about those until they happen).
Sphinx-Doc Conf.py Tips
Do you use Sphinx for authoring documentation? Over the years writing documentation in Sphinx, I found I do the same tweaks in every project. project’s conf.py again and again.
Update from Moist[0]: Twitch doubled down.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrfYQITDMxk
No. This tokenization is huffman encoding and word2vec is embedding in cartesian space. They are very different.
It's not irrelevant. "Moderator" who uses their privileges only for abuse is not actually fulfilling the role of a moderator. Quality goes down the drain as a result.
Google's Codey model now public preview via Vertex AI
Just got an email update from Google Cloud Trusted Tester Program, informing me that

> Generative AI support in Vertex AI is generally available

and

> Our Codey model is now in public preview, giving Vertex AI users access to powerful code completion, generation, and chat capabilities.

Trying it out requires signing up for Google Cloud. A 90-day $300 free credit trial is available, which happily does not auto-charge your credit card after the trial is over.

Curious if anyone out there has played around with Codey, and how it stacks up to GH Copilot etc.
If the web collectively swings back in the other direction, to the fediverse or some other evolution, there will be a revival of small indie clients, and a revival of a better web in general. Twitter is in freefall and Reddit is on the verge of it, so it might not be a long wait.
No it's not. Interesting evidence would be seen by tens of millions of people within a day.
It's my understanding, through talking with heath professionals, that people typically come into the psych ward after having an interaction with police, and then they're let go after 72 hours. I know others that have admitted themselves, and then left after 72 hours.

A lot has changed since One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest; hospital administrators have almost zero interest in keeping people any longer than they have to, since many people do not have health insurance, and sometimes present a risk to hospital staff.

We have no legal way of forcibly removing people from society, for their own safety and the safety of others, until they have an interaction with police, or commit an actual crime, and then they go to jail.
> they already have a paid subscription which removes the ads on the official clients

Apollo is shutting down because the founder thinks they'll incur about $2.50 per month of costs per user, and apparently doesn't believe enough people will be willing to pay $5 monthly to keep Apollo running.

So, this Reddit Premium (billed at $5.99 monthly) either has few-to-no paid users, or Apollo's founder isn't even trying to sustain his business.
Did you read the thread? It includes a section about increasing the cost and how it wouldn't really do much.

> Why not just increase the price of Apollo?

> One option many have suggested is to simply increase the price of Apollo to offset costs. The issue here is that Apollo has approximately 50,000 yearly subscribers at the moment. On average they paid $10/year many months ago, a price I chose based on operating costs I had at the time (server fees, icon design, having a part-time server engineer). Those users are owed service as they already prepaid for a year, but starting July 1st will (in the best case scenario) cost an additional $1/month each in Reddit fees. That's $50,000 in sudden monthly fee that will start incurring in 30 days.

> So you see, even if I increase the price for new subscribers, I still have those many users to contend with. If I wait until their subscription expires, slowly month after month there will be less of them. First month $50,000, second month maybe $45,000, then $40,000, etc. until everything has expired, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars. It would be cheaper to simply refund users.

> I hope you can recognize how that's an enormous amount of money to suddenly start incurring with 30 days notice. Even if I added 12,000 new subscribers at $5/month (an enormous feat given the short notice), after Apple's fees that would just be enough to break even.

> Going from a free API for 8 years to suddenly incurring massive costs is not something I can feasibly make work with only 30 days. That's a lot of users to migrate, plans to create, things to test, and to get through app review, and it's just not economically feasible. It's much cheaper for me to simply shut down.
Twitch Is Desperate
Well, actually this might break a significant portion of the internet/websites for iPhone users.
The US is building factories at a fast rate
So do they really use a phone app to produce this massive number of content?

Then again. I hate using my phone in general, so I always think that any content creators would use desktop and maybe old reddit.
I wonder if Reddit ever considered and calculated options like showing ads, selling reddit gold and merchandise through partner apps. Maybe it could be coined into win-win-win but ended as it is.
Just as the article gets interesting, it stopped! I guess I need to buy the book as it is pretty fascinating.
The developers aren't asking for a free API, just one that is justified based on reddit's costs.
You do realize that hydrogen storage is also already known? The boring method of storing hydrogen in underground salt domes and caverns is well understood. This is all way more practical than crisscrossing the oceans with HVDC lines. And it completely evades all of the political showstoppers that a global grid would run into.
https://archive.is/F0tHC
what prevents you from adopting the same position? "civic duty to remain informed?" thats fake
Technically possible, but not really feasible due to the way Reddit is set up and people who signed up for the app agreed to. It would be a gigantic mess, and I reckon he's not interested in creating a new social platform/link aggregate which is why he would rather refund the ~$250k.
I didn’t know this before and now I’m inclined to buy Patagonia items at every opportunity.

Seriously- I’ve had my eye on a Patagonia black hole duffle and now I’ll pull the trigger.
I really like the idea of this!

I’ve always wanted a tool that automatically extracts value from my bookmarks. Being able to just save something and come back to it via metadata and keywords automatically extracted from it seems like a huge win for me!
Having grown up during the 80s when Oingo Boingo was rocking 91x out of Tijuana, they definitely put in their dues. While a lot of the New Wave bands from the UK might have been heavily produced acts, others like the Specials and the Beat definitely spent a lot of time grinding things out.