skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seek for more small communities, similar to niche subreddits. So, I'm building a community software called Booklet: https://www.booklet.community

It's forum software, but with the polish of Notion/Slack. Everything is threaded and real-time. I put a lot of effort into the automated email newsletter - so you can stay up-to-date with what's happening, without ever logging in. It's mostly whitelabeled and supports custom domains.

It's in early testing with some users - ranging from an MBA class to a members community that switched off of google groups. If you're trying it out, email me!
> They respond, for example, to light. The cells can detect light, and this induces chemical signaling that directs the plant on internodal length and direction. We could make a robot or something that does this. Could we say such a thing "wants" light? Probably not, except as a convenience of explanation out of personification.

Let me counter: I do not believe you have sufficiently proven that we ourselves are anything more than chemical signaling mechanisms.

We happen to not understand the signals that the plants are making (we really are only just barely scratching that surface - but we KNOW plants use VOCs to communicate both among themselves as well as much more distinct species like insects: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405699/)

We just don't have nearly as much empathy available because that experience is so foreign to our understanding.

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To follow - I find it particularly interesting that people still cling so dearly to your argument as we watch machine learning tackle and overcome many behaviors we considered uniquely human. Those machines can talk just like us, their signals mirror the complexity of our own (and are much more complex than those we currently understand from plants). Does that signaling complexity now mean that it's alive?

I certainly don't think so - I would still call a plant more alive than that machine (at least right now, things are shifting fast here). Yet that machine is using a fairly simple system to process, internalize, and then create complexity that mirrors your own.

I guess I'm saying that I, personally, don't find your moral argument nearly so clear as you seem to be implying that it is. There is no easy out. We are dealing with shades of grey.
So Douglas Adams was right all along:

“Teasers are usually rich kids with nothing to do. They cruise around looking for planets that haven’t made interstellar contact yet and buzz them.” “Buzz them?” Arthur began to feel that Ford was enjoying making life difficult for him. “Yeah,” said Ford, “they buzz them. They find some isolated spot with very few people around, then land right by some poor unsuspecting soul whom no one’s ever going to believe and then strut up and down in front of him wearing silly antennas on their head and making beep beep noises.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Intel OpenVINO is also quite punchy for CPU inference.
"Closeness to space" doesn't affect the gravitational force due to a particular piece of matter. Now, if water was as dense as rock, then undersea mountains wouldn't make such a difference to the gravitational field.

I'm trying to understand why you think "closeness to space" would be a factor. Maybe you are thinking that the seabed is going to be further from a detector than the terrain would be?

It is true that the further from the Earth the detector is, the smaller the anomaly will be.

Note that even hills are large enough to deflect the gravitational vector at the surface:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_deflection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_anomaly
Is there a way to develop and run the APIs/workflows locally?
Posted recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36203610

The p2p backend makes it fairly slow to load, but it's an interesting approach. They seem to have put in a lot of effort to make the UI an almost-clone. Which is sort of interesting since the reddit UI gets a lot of negative feedback. Probably lots anyone could learn from the source code though.
iPhones have had lidar for years.
Even with my racing sim rig, I find myself using my curved monitor more than the Quest 2. It's just such a pain to re-calibrate and update the software and tweak my graphics settings every time I want to hop in that I usually just don't bother.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot.

Every year for the last 12+ years there has been some alternative to Reddit. The code to the old version of Reddit is even open source.

The problem is most solutions want to go back to decentralized, which is problematic. I do think that the technical problem could be solved. Point and click solutions for installing open source software has been around forever (like cPanel and PHPBB) so I’m sure some value added cloud provider could do something similar (I think Digital Ocean already has this with their App Marketplace.)

For one, there’s no check on mods. So if someone spins up a Reddit specifically for [TOPIC] they’re the God of that server basically. Like old school IRC.

Second, there’s no built in user base. Third, any app would be subject to inconsistently applied restrictions on things like porn that Reddit gets a pass on because of its size.

I think a compelling alternative to Reddit would be a non venture capital backed company that is small headcount wise (think 50 people) and very straightforward about how it earns a profit, is sustainable, and focused on direct pay. No blockchain, no fediverse, etc…

That means no worrying about advertisers (or headcount associated with wooing them, managing them, etc…), creating a “subreddit” would cost a flat monthly fee and then being a user of the site might also incur a fee. Like $2 a month.

It’d preserve what I feel is the real value of Reddit which is smaller communities. And I would be willing to pay $2 a month knowing it’s helping sustain a platform I get value from.
> Does anyone believe that 7% YoY number?

I’ve never dug into the methodology but it makes no intuitive sense and seems far too low. Almost everything I buy is 40-50% more expensive than pre pandemic.
It's a legit question. I moved to game development last year after spending 25 years in business software . I work for a mid-size team that's part of a large company.

I think the simplest explanation is that games are not so rigidly focused on some of things that make business software take longer. There's more risk taking, more short-term solutions, less testing, and more bugs. And that's ok, because games only have to be fun. They don't need to manage your bank balance or solve the world's problems. This gives game developers the freedom to be creative and just "get it done" in a way that's sometimes not possible with the constraints of business software.

Another factor is that game developers play games -- their game and others. This is not true in other industries! Mainframe database developers (I did that at IBM) don't use a database at home for fun. Nor do they test out every other database in their spare time. People who work on email are probably not passionate about email in the way that game folks are into games. So I suspect this gives a little more oomph to push through and solve problems.
That sounds great. Keep us posted on how it goes. If you run into any issues, we have a slack community where the whole team is answering questions. We are also building out our educational content in our documentation and will post some GPT showcases there soon.
if you want the free market to work, consumers can’t use price to evaluate quality
That's not an instinct, it's a cultural norm strictly enforced by societal pressure. You also seem to have forgotten that the Japanese made one of the biggest plays for military dominance in the modern era. They followed that up with a really good attempt at economic dominance.
Moderation is really not the problem if you just remove comments. I’ve thought for a while that crowd sourced link ranking with a good search mechanism would be more useful than google. For tech related topics I often find HN search to be more useful than google.
There's a solid game design framework underlying that choice, beyond just being smoke and mirrors.

Most single player games are not "true games". They are puzzles. This is also how players perceive them.

As defined by Chris Crawford a game requires competition. Multiple agents who play, which creates the possibility of win and loss.

In most single player games, the game agents are not equal competitors who can win. They are only obstacles and challenges for the player. Even if the game is built with difficulty in mind.

So the mistake of thinking of actually intelligent game agents is like thinking why doesn't the Rubik cube ever win. It's not why someone plays it.

Notable exceptions are where software is used to substitute a player in a multiplayer game, where they do usually maintain the game structure and compete.
UK government proposes legislation to regulate umbrella companies
https://directai.io
A database is typically an alive, running program that requires maintenance. There is a strong coupling for most “databases” between disk format and executable code. It’s not easy to read from a random Postgres database sitting on disk. You could not do in Python, “import postgres” and then “postgres.open(‘mydb’)”.

I’m no data scientist, and have only worked with data lakes a couple times, but I can see why data science tends to be done with very predictable (if inefficient) data formats such as CSV, JSON, and JSONL.

Edit: SQLite is the best of both worlds. It’s a database, but it’s also “just a file.” It’s easy to work with, and many languages & frameworks are getting good support for it. SQLite’s reliability-first approach means many of the kinks that arise from involving databases (so much complexity!!) are ironed out and don’t arise as issues. (Things like auto-indexing, auto-vacuuming, avoiding & dealing with corruption, backwards & forwards compatibility, …)
‘Absolute scandal’: UAE state oil firm able to read Cop28 climate summit emails
Supabase UI
Didn't read the post thoroughly, will do, but why no libgrapheme in there?
On Firefox/Mac, the animation of the word "backend" / "workflow" is broken somehow, the words disappear for a long time leaving only black.
Does it matter what “we” want?

If you want to use your phone less, use your phone less. Complaining about how other people use their phones “too much” is just kids-these-days.
Interesting. That would invalidate everything written by https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/ . But see https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1666115592133156864 . The source of WPs information seems to be shaky.
That is a classic argument that was already addressed "The Relativity of Wrong" by Asimov much more eloquently that what I could attempt. Google finds this copy: https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html
This isn't really about young people not drinking for health benefits.

It's about economics.
The official NSA advice for several years has been "do not enforce restrictions on characters in passwords".

It's simple to calculate the actual entropy and check against a list of common weak passwords (large lists are easily obtained and kept up to date)
One cannot demand a service-level agreement from a volunteer maintainer. Few maintainers, [Ted T’so] said, do that work as a full-time job.

Good maintainers are a public good. Why doesn’t the Linux Foundation raise funding to hire maintainers as its employees?
The VSHRN trick is nice (I used it only two hours ago!), but it really does feel like a crutch; I don't understand why they couldn't simply implement a PMOVMSKB-like instruction to begin with (it cannot possibly be very expensive in silicon, at least not if it moved into a vector register). One-bit-per-byte is really the sweet spot for almost any kind of text manipulation, and often requires less setup/post-fixup on either side of the POVMSKB/VSHRN.
I disagree. When I was a kid I always bought Dell for my desktop computers because you could get the same specs for $300-$400 less than other providers (HP, Compaq, etc). My Mom would give me a $600 budget and I would do hours of research finding the most power I could get for my money. Dell pretty much always came out on top.
That’s the fantasy vision, but I don’t see how it would be achievable within the next 15-20 years given the current technological outlook and considering the energy requirements and the necessary optical workings. It will require major technical breakthroughs that aren’t remotely on the horizon.
The "Marseyverse" exists. It really only has individual subreddit-websites. Each website is a fork of Ruqqus code (which itself was a failed-reddit clone that forked reddit's code) Examples would be

rdrama.net
watchpeopledie.tv
themotte.org
ovarit.com

All full-reddit clones that I know of have failed miserably. And many reddit communities have tried establishing off-sites and failed. The factors for success seem to be:

1. The communities were banned or hampered on reddit
2. The communities have a unique culture
3. Some people in the community take on the responsibility for developing/maintaining the offsite
4. The users of the community donate money to keep everything running (a la SomethingAwful)
I'm noticing an uptick in the number of people who are agreeing with the idea, in the abstract, though.
Do you have any proof ?
One side of data lakes is it's more of a start of where the data is. Your normalised and more processed data may end up in a nice clean database but the start is not like that.

The other main points are usually

* Data size

* Data access patterns

* Data formats

The more you're looking at "I want to pull 400G of data out of my 30TB set of images from a bunch of machines running a custom python script, then shut it down in twenty minutes and not start anything else until tomorrow" then the more a data lake makes sense vs a database.

> because isn't updating it a huge chore?

Not with the right tools, which can also give you things like a git-like commit experience with branching.

> You have to make sure that if you're updating you're not also generating new analytics, which it seems like you're always doing because it's very slow.

Why would you be generating new analytics? I feel I've missed something there.
Body validation is too simple, for example I want the be able to configure the min max from the DB or interdependent validation i.e. if you pass in and Id and a search string I want to return an error.

The DB Query editor is too simple requiring the user to manually create sql queries rather than visually build them.

The DB editor doesn't allow foreign keys and complex DB relationships to be defined visually as well.

The response editor is also not powerful enough. For example I want to send back links (HATEOAS Style) to the objects just created. I also want to send the object just created back in the response.

There is no Authorization only Authentication.

To be honest this isn't really that useful other than very simple Apis that have no real logic in them.

Pricing on Actions is an insane pricing strategy. The pricing looks too high to be reasonable. Even a simple Api would cost me a lot with the pricing strategy.

I see the UI component is coming soon. Without a way to build a nice UI to connect to my Api this isn't really a low code solution.

No details on hosting on this either. Is my api hosted in the US/Europe/Asia. This will make a big difference to most as I don't want long roundtrip times on my UI.

If I'm going to build my next big thing on a Platform I need confidence that the company won't shut down next week and my app is toast. Is there some way that I could be convinced that you won't run out of money and shutdown tomorrow and leave my project dead with you ?
Interesting to read that the iOS 7 depth/parallax effect was tried all over the UI. It makes sense to indicate interactivity in a better way, but probably the right call to ditch that.
> monetising any type of software is actually hard

It's not that much different than other fields—there is an endless supply of businesses/orgs for which for which it is almost an insurmountable obstacle to get them to acknowledge something that they could be doing to better serve their own self-interests and then get their approval to take appropriate action.

(In limited circumstances, it can be easier with software, because devs can coast on the desire of SMBs to feel like they're on the forefront of progress because they're buying in to an app for something that didn't have an app before—or if there was an app, then a newer, shinier sort of app—no matter how shitty and regressive the new app actually turns out to be...)
They have to either pass or offer me what their competitors would offer me. That depends more on the value of my skillset than the tasks they might have in mind right now. That is, two candidates for the same job should get different offers if other employers would make different offers.
My question is why would you want to do that? You're just going to come against the same issues and problems that Reddit has, especially if you want to achieve anything close to Reddit's scale.

You'll need staff, money, legal and tech folks (not cheap). And to get the funds, you'll prob have to make the same decisions about ads and API fees.

You could pull off something smaller, maybe by being distributed or whatnot, but you'll probably never operate at the scale of Reddit. The killer feature of Reddit is that everyone goes to Reddit because Reddit is Reddit.

Maybe my pessimistic brain can't see the opportunity. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
Well, there is no situation where this isn't in some way labor-intensive.

But one of the reasons that I chose to use the feed scanner that I do is that I get 600 dots per inch on these scans of these massive tabloids.
Why are we so confident in our understanding of reality being so perfect nobody in the whole universe could have found a way to transcend the limitations it imposes? I would totally expect an advanced alien race to consider our physical science ridiculous.
Q: Do ALL your customers need to access EVERYONE ELSES data!?

For most businesses, one customer is only interested in their own data. So that's where you can scale out - put each customer on their own virtual instance.
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Not a competitor; but I was thinking yesterday about what the next big thing in forums like Reddit needs to be: Non-profit Democracies.

The big problem with social networks today is that there is little recourse when the parties that are in charge make decisions that aren't in the best interest of the users.

What if the CEO, product manager, and other key roles in Redit, Facebook, Twitter, ect, were elected by the users?

What if the there was something like a constitution that dictated that all source code be open source?

What if funding was mostly donation-based, like how people support their church or similar civic organizations? (For example, in order to vote you need to pay $15 / year?)
Wall Street giants vie to sell Telegraph and Spectator titles
Study shows how much toxic air office plants can remove in a single work day
Hi, I like this! I'm curious what drove the decision to use the vertical block builder style you chose. I'm partial to node-based editors and have been building things with React Flow recently. LangFlow [1] is a good example, but there's lots of UIs that use a similar interface (e.g. Blender [2] and Unity [3]).

[1] https://github.com/logspace-ai/langflow

[2] https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/3.5/interface/controls/no...

[3] https://unity.com/features/unity-visual-scripting
It's not the technical details that are a problem in replacing reddit.

Tbh I'd like to see a move back to standalone, independent forums.
Not sure what's the value prop in this case...

HE is known for having very low performance for basic operations (at least for existing OSS implementations).
Is there any breakthrough or it's just a commercialization of existing tech?
They would have dumped it eventually even if they did. We can tell from the OpenCL debacle and a lot of the things going on in WebKit standards that a perfectly usable technology can exist but developers internal at Apple are only rewarded for building tech invented there.
> You can't decentralize the decision to (e.g.) increase or decrease criminal sentence length by ten per cent.

Sure we could; different laws in different locations; let people see what works. That is how the world does things now - note that different countries have different legal codes and by experiment everyone comes to a sort-of consensus on what works, with lots of variance between jurisdictians when people don't agree.

That diversity of law can be re-done at any practical scale. I quite like the idea of different cities having different laws (oh, for the world to have a few more Hong Kongs in it! And note how well single-city legal entities usually do).
It isn't a competence test for demonstrating your understanding of social contracts though, it's a completely arbitrary rule.
Ah yes, PgBouncer or mysqlProxy. The idea makes sense. However, it never works. You can't push all your db traffic through a single vm (PgBouncer). Next! Someone on the team suggests 2 vms! This is not the path forward. What you need is a cloud supported load balancer to push all the traffic through and just health check the port 3306/5432.
that explains it, thanks!
I gave everything a nice long think and I don't need another consultant, thanks.
> Cows are sentient, does that mean the guy who artificially inseminates them is raping them?

Yes
> There is no reason to ever use btrfs, IMO.

> ...

> Due to the massive data loss issues with btrfs, for example, Redhat completely removed btrfs support in 8 entirely, after the preview feature in 7 bombed. They default to, and highly recommend, XFS (as do I, its a good file system).

Synology strongly recommends btrfs in its NAS systems and promotes that over ext4, which is also supported by Synology. [1] On the consumer side, I guess this would probably be larger than ZFS/XFS usage.

[1]: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/Btrfs
I hope it is awesome. I really do. I just have trouble seeing it become a mass market hit in the way I didn’t with any of the recent Apple device launches. I was on the optimist side for all of those. I project they sell 1-3 million per year, maybe more if they drop the price closer to $2,000. Ever breaking 5 million units sold per year will be tough.

My reaction to each previous Apple launch for context:

iPhone: "That is it. That is the future of all phones."
iPad: "I don't know if it is for me, but they are going to sell a ton of those and it is going to replace the need for a laptop for a lot of people."
Watch: "I want one, but I don't know I can justify it until it operates more independently from the phone."

Anecdote: My spouse said absolutely not when shown. Had a visceral negative reaction.