skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes people are missing the point here. I'm in Australia and I know when I check reddit groups moderated in other countries they are full of hate - like 4chan when the mods are asleep. I've seen an unmoderated reddit even just for a few hours, the site will be destroyed if people give up their unpaid voluntary work. They need the tools because it's not their fulltime job.
It's not wasted - formatting things properly is incredibly useful as it allows for effective communication without researchers having to think of every possible ambiguity. The whole point of different journals existing is to allow people to publish to the ones that make sense for them, including the appropriate formatting. If you allow free-form submissions either you're going to need someone who is not familiar with the work to reformat it (and if it's more complicated than what a latex template can handle, it's probably not something you want a random editor doing either), or you publish things as they come in and wind up with a hodgepodge of poorly thought out formatting. Communicating is one of the most important parts of research, and researchers should be spending an appropriate amount of time on it.
What a wild generalisation. I think math is a special case, but history and literature at a scholastic grade should be fine
> Apple could always use this to their advantage, or double-back on it. Who cares? They've moved the needle in a positive direction, that's all that should matter.

Because all of business history has told us that the market dominant company strong-arming its opposition has never worked out for the consumer.
Folks bring factories back to the US once they scale to the point that automation can be afforded. It has a high buyin, so volume has a threshold where the marginal cost is justfied.

In all those cases, there's little or no job growth. Just a couple administrators and engineers. Nobody on the line, because there is no line, just robots and conveyors.
They do seem pretty determined to antagonize users so yeah I can see how people move away
How does that compare to Khan Academy?
It's not insanely rare, but it probably depends on the country. I've moved multiple times and worked in different countries; a 30 minute walk to the office has been quite common for me (or up to 20 minute bike).

A 25-minute commute is common, at least in the EU: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/d... (I expect many of them commute by public transport, which can be a bit less enjoyable)
This sounded weak to me.

Apple is making an integrated headset: their own lenses, processor, ..., down to the operating system.

The Quest uses an Android based operating system and a lot of off the shelf components.

We've seen this story before and it hasn't ended well for the folks in Mark's position.

A personal device like these headsets needs to be delightful. It has to be responsive. It has to have the little touches. It's much more difficult to do that when you're constrained by off the shelf components.

Apple had the best touchpads for a decade because of those integrated properties, for example.
I non-obviously do believe in the capitalist reality underpinning the universe (it's value-add all the way down) but you’re smoking if you think the market doesn't recognize ad-free users are relatively cost-less compared to their positive network externalities.

that doesn't mean that some free-to-choose sites won't experiment with paywalls, etc. in an attempt to enhance cost-covering revenue.
"Why would even a ruthless money-over-everything Wall Street investor want to gamble on that?"

I think you are missing an even larger point here. What is Reddit without its communities and users? At the end of the day, if people are no longer love using Reddit, there's nothing left to their business. How anybody thinks that the API decision was a good one in light of that (alienating your own power users) is beyond twitteresque.
Thank you for inquiring (or I hadn't realised I wanted to know too!)
You’d think so, but your mother was coming to the site because it was moderated, and had regular interesting content. She probably wasn’t moderating or a top poster. Those people are the ones who are going to be pissed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
> Again, all we know is that he has lied about what users have said in comments

You mean changing fuck spez to fuck $mod?

> We just don't know to what degree

Well I'm not sure what auditing they have, and I know there's public databases of all Reddit comments. It's been a while and I'm not aware of other claims.

My point was more that you two were arguing at crossroads. You seemed more concerned about what could have happened, and they were talking about what has evidence.
I wouldn't say it validates the market. At least not the market Facebook is going for. The ultra high-end market might be ripe for disruption after so many big companies failed at producing a super expensive MR device, but rumors say Apple plans to ship as little as 200k units in the first year. The entire Quest line has already sold north of 20M units, with most of that coming from the entry level models Quest 1 and 2.
Publication is the results. The effort is meaningless if no one knows about it.

https://gwern.net/maze

Yes but what about all this unnecessary gatekeeping? gatekeeping is necessary to maintain a certain level of quality. On this specific issue of formatting gatekeeping. There was no conspiracy. I imagine that the policy solidified over time. The paper wants to maintain a specific look. Authors are upset when changes get introduced while formatting. The paper then says "you can format it yourself if it meets our specification". Now you have to format it yourself.

Thankfully in our web enabled era there a ways to publish without going through a traditional publisher. However you will note that the quality of these publishers is a mixed bag, real science right next to quackery. No one has done the gatekeeping needed to separate the wheat from the chaff.
At the risk of pointing out the obvious, this is mostly referring to Internet enabled goods and services.

As other commenters have pointed out, it doesn't apply as much to actual physical products.

So this leads to reason, should any of this be accepted as the norm?
> Reddit will be worse for lurkers if Apollo users disappear

Within the realm of folks who are willing to pay for a Reddit skin, imagine that very few of them will just give up the site once their skin is gone.

More likely is that someone comes in and makes a similar app and charges more for it. Power users and professional users will pay, and most of them will gladly pay a premium.

Not gonna lie… I think op said he charged $10 a year. I raised my eyebrows… that should probably be the bottom option of a three-tier monthly price matrix.

I think someone should buy this app and just price it properly based on value add. Im not sure what the various user profiles of Apollo are, but my guess is that there are a few profiles that can be profitably monetized even with the new Reddit API charges. Imho, Reddit is being shortsighted, but they do have a unique and large community.
It hasn't stopped them from becoming personally wealthy and "powerful" in whatever world they live in. If you keep being told not to touch the hot stove, but not touching the hot stove doesn't burn you, not only will you NOT learn to not touch the stove, but you will learn to not listen to people who tell you not to do other things.

We owe it to the world to make sure touching the stove DOES burn you, otherwise it's just DARE all over again.
I don't disagree that others outside of the US have taken up the cause of the holiness of suffering. I'm arguing that only the US has taken it and injected it into every aspect of our culture, because we have taken the Prosperity Gospel and injected it into every aspect of our culture.

Scratchy robes for monks in certain orders has long been a thing all over the world. But successfully banning comfortable clothing for all, regardless of religiosity, is really more of an American thing.
Our lab (phage therapy, plasmid therapy, AMR) spends a lot of time doing this kind of thing. So we're working on throwing the full weight of LLMs to help us fit things like length limits, format our citations properly, etc.

Still a work in progress, since tiny context limit makes this so hard (I keep trying to get Claude access, including joining a Claude hackathon, but for some reason I never get access), but I'll be more than happy to share this thing for free so we can all go back to working on the science.

As my PI says: "Science is not an exercise in creative writing"
> Unlike many of your comrades.

What do you mean by that?
What he said is definitely defamation, all other damages notwithstanding.
Seriously? It's worse than ever. If I make the mistake of loading up that site, my only notifications are crypto spam and the homepage has really messed up ads every second post, like stuff I never want to see again (like some kind of effed up mosquito killer appliance which shows them dumping thousands of dead mosquitos onto the ground to demonstrate it works -- WTAF?) ... Combined with suppressing non-"checkmark" users, which basically means "pay to have your voice heard", nonexistent moderation, among countless other issues...
Anyone else willing to share a few?
The TI (Lisp) Explorer Project
What kind of sandbox does Windows have? All I could find was about a pro/enterprise feature but even that has to be explicitly started and I doubt minecraft users used that.

Not having admin rights is almost uselessly crude as a “sandbox”.
But the tax cuts haven't been reversed. The top marginal rate when Reagan took office was 70%, it has been between 35% and 40% for the last 30 years. So where is the reversal of Reaganism that explains an increase in manufacturing jobs?

Where is the economic statistic that you can point to as being X during the Reagan years that was recently changed to Y, and that you think explains the increase in building factories over the last two years?
It’s only happening this way if we let it.

We can build a Reddit replacement… we just have to want to
AFAIK Linus has accepted plenty of patches from "Solar Designer" over the years.
I've heard a lot of praise for Debian and Ubuntu but the former was regularly kernel-panicking after updates (granted that was 10+ years ago so I am definitely not being up-to-date -- or even fair -- here) and the latter just keeps piling more and more stuff inside itself, defeating the purpose of a Linux box (for me at least; I want something much more minimal than macOS).

Not to mention Ubuntu moves more and more stuff to Snap and you get to the ridiculous situation of a basic calculator needing seconds to start. Yeah, frak that.

Furthermore, I use various CLI tools regularly in my work and I can't wait for Debian to update them 6 months in the future.

I need something that has the minimum amount of background processes but also without suffering any user or developer usability problems; so not like the absolutely minimal set of services but the minimally viable set of services that give you very usable machine without any bloat.

Maybe Arch is the best for my criteria but I installed Manjaro and never looked back since (2.5 years now). The only one problem I ever had was I think December 2022 when they shipped an OpenSSH version that hard-deprecated (read: removed / stopped support for) certain crypto algorithms, and my key was of course using one of them. I grumbled but connected a display and keyboard to the machine (it's one of my servers at home), migrated my keys to the new algorithms, put them on a USB pen drive, put them on my workstation and all was right again.

Not even once had I any of the "rolling distribution" problems that people mention regularly on Reddit. Of course I might have been lucky.

Lately I am meticulously extracting a fully OS-neutral dotfiles configuration (and I am like 95% done) and then will create a OS-neutral bootstrapping set of scripts and will install Manjaro on 2 or 3 of my spare laptops and I expect no problems at all. It's a very "out of your way" distro and I love it for that.

(I am aware that there are people who have a beef with Manjaro because apparently they outright "stole" code -- which sounds meaningless to me when we're talking open-source, can somebody explain? -- and just rebranded stuff for themselves but as their user I can egotistically claim this has absolutely zero effect on me, I don't care and I use the distro because it hits the right spots for me.)

I love my iMac Pro but the tinkering possibilities are vastly reduced compared to any Linux box (example: I want to experiment with ZFS and BCacheFS but of course both are not supported on a Mac, and virtualization / containerization is much more inefficient -- and slow -- on a Mac compared to a Linux machine). I will very likely be buying an M2 (or M3 when they come out) laptop just for the excellent display and will do my work "on it" by actually remoting to a Linux workstation.

Plus, call me an old fart but I'd like my `ps aux` output to be maximum 70 lines long. I want control over my machine.

Maybe I'll come crying back to Macs in a few years, who knows. But I'll make a very serious effort to take back control of my computing in the meantime.
Energy drinks aren't a good source-- there's lots of Taurine, sure, but the net effect of the drink acts as a diuretic. Chronic dehydration will subtract from life expectancy.
Stack Overflow has links with user id, I think this will continue to work https://stackoverflow.com/a/70506056/12544391
"Frustrating" is putting it mildly.
> You generally weren't looking at much first-party support at all in the 90s.

I wasn't making a historical claim, but a philosophical one. Hardware manufacturers in the 90s had that incentive, if they wanted to pursue it. To Apple, a trillion dollar corporation, selling a negligible amount of laptops to a niche crowd of tech enthusiasts who will never become part of their software ecosystem is just not worth the effort to even pursue.

> This... is really not the case. The M1/2 Macs are _close_ to being one platform with something on the order of a hundred million units out there.

Right. And how many of those buyers are also Linux hackers willing to dedicate their time to work on projects like Asahi? How many of those would even be willing to run Linux instead of macOS? We're talking about an extremely small community of users compared even to the small Linux community in the 90s.

> Yeah, again, that _very_ much happened in the 90s.

Never said it didn't. Except that Apple is known for locking down their products, so the good faith they're showing now with leaving Macs relatively open can disappear at any moment.
2% is semi-skimmed. I can’t imagine confusing what with whole milk. Even 3.5% and 5% are quite different from each other.
There are studies for and against artificial sweeteners. There are studies funded by industry. There is such a thing as corruption in science and corruption in regulatory agencies. The global artificial sweetener market size is $7 Billion.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/this-common-sugar-sub...
I bet if you looked on a MacOS tweaker forum you'd find just as much attention paid to nonsense tuning. And if anything I'd say MacOS is more likely to pull the rug out from under you than Ubuntu, they're pretty aggressive about droping backward compatibility for things.
How many IEEE papers are submitted using the latex template? I wonder, because word-style formatting can be spotted in several of their papers.

Latex is a giant pain to use - and i say this as someone who still uses it to write scientific articles. Services like overleaf exist but that is sometimes not an option with proprietary work.
DeepMind's blog post on AlphaDev says:

> AlphaDev uncovered faster algorithms by starting from scratch rather than refining existing algorithms

Finding that specific optimization, especially when given the comments, seems almost trivial by comparison.

Edit: I tried to understand the optimization in question. This is not the full sort3 algorithm, but only under the assumption that B < C. In that case the GPT-4 answer is actually wrong because it wasn't given that assumption.
If Reddit thinks Apollo can pay them 20 million a year, 10 million is certainly a nice deal for the app? I guess that is what he meant.
I just want to be able to read PDFs on my phone without fighting the two-column journal layout.
As other's have pointed out, they probably think AI will pay them more than even ads. Or, since they want to IPO and cash out, they are betting, with the current hype around "AI", that public markets will value AI high enough to value "possible" data sources of AI highly.
I think we have to just really drill into our minds that, as convincing as these tools are, sometimes they are flat out lying/mistaken/misinformed. If we treat them like our know-it-all friend who is sometimes just a big bullshitter, and take everything with a pinch of salt, then these can be extremely useful tools for learning the big picture if not the specifics.

Now, is it reasonable to expect children to be skeptical about everything the AI tutor is telling them? Probably not? Maybe?

We've all had human teachers make mistakes or bullshit, maybe we can accept some fallibility in these LLMs too.
the formatting requirements between journals are wholly arbitrary and sometimes counter to each other. This is beyond merely communicating
Most current implementations can't count syllables at all, so it would get you at least that far.
You could also say least bad is not necessarily bad. It's a platitude.
It'll be a minor miracle if that isn't an absolute PR trainwreck.

Even with heavy filtering and planted questions it'll just be a firehose of verbal abuse
It always was - the initial point of Ubuntu from a technical standpoint (there was some mumbo-jumbo about togetherness & whatnot as well as the technical decisions) was taking Debian but compromising a little on some of Debian's hard rules in favour of newer versions and some other tweaks for friendliness. That is why the initial versions were based on Debian:Testing with bits of Debian:Sid where there were security or stability concerns in that branch (back then Testing could lag a noticeable amount on security updates, compared to both the stable and unstable branches), rather than starting with Debian:Stable.
He is probably talking about the "520" Marriage Day. May 20 is a popular national marriage day (due to tradition) and many couples choose to get marry on that day in China.

This year's 520 marriage rate is ~40% of last year's.

https://xueqiu.com/5539280156/251074532
Slavery was widely confirmed for even longer. Tradition, right?

How about instead of using tradition to decide if something is beneficial or not, you just assess it on its value?
I am not a native speaker but I first read the transcript and then listened to the audio. It sounds like a Good Fellas dialogue. To my non-businesses ears you don't propose a $10m deal for things to go quietly, even in terms of API usage. It makes no sense. I don't see where's the leverage in that unless quiet refer to "no fuss from me" because Reddit could legally just close the API without paying the dev. If Reddit were to give even a dollar to the dev for Apolo to slowly go away and with the promise the dev wouldn't make a fuss about it that would be extortion right ?

> If you want to rip that band-aid off once. And have Apollo quiet down, you know, six months. Beautiful deal. Again this is mostly a joke, I'm just saying if the opportunity cost is that high, and if that is something that could make it easier on you guys, that could happen too.

Again, I am not a native speaker and I havent' listened to the whole conversation just that segment, maybe there were other attempts like that at humor ?

edit: just read that comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36248834

> From reading the transcript it reads to me that Reddit says Apollo is costing them $20 mil a year from lost opportunity cost, which I take to mean advertising/tracking et? The Apollo dev seems skeptical of that cost and is jokingly suggesting that if they cut him a $10 mil check, they can make it up in 6 months purely from getting that "opportunity" back with the added benefit Apollo just disappears.

> I look at less of a threat and more of a calling the bluff...

Could be but there are no laugh or tone that suggests the dev is joking or half-joking, there no audio cues that suggests "hey, it's a joke" but maybe it's the end of a 3 hours long talk and fatigue adds up and the joke really fell flat (edit: listening again, I can hear audio cues in the dev speech pattern at the end that indicates the intent to joke).

Jeez, and they made those TV shows about courts and crimes and lawyers look so easy to spot liars, jokers, innoncents, culprits :D.
Thoughts on finding the latest “punk” workplace?

Gonna assume it’s a “who you know” and “right place, right time.” But I’ve been holding out in AngelsList for some time.
Well it's not hard to imagine a "quick compile" option that uses a traditional compiler and an optimised compilation option that you use when shipping a production build or something while AI catches up in terms of speed.
very few people use latex in biology
Sounds like FreeBSD would suit you best honestly.
Putting aside why Reddit's behaviour is objectionable. Reddit did this in a way that will cost them money and harm both their reputation and quality.

Had they set out a reasonable timeline for the new prices, they would have had a new revenue stream. Instead they killed it and at the same time created an incentive for some of their most active users to leave.
Oh, that would explain why some of my users suddenly can't access URLs that worked forever.

I send those URLs through facebook messenger, which add its 'fbclickid' nonsense to them.

I don't care for that tracking information, however it seems the URL becomes malformed after iOS "cleans" it, resulting in a redirect loop on my server.

When was iOS 17 released?

EDIT: Oh, nevermind, it's not released yet. Must be something else then... I blame facebook
I think they were also considering the crawlers that were using Reddit data to train AI models.
There is a natural length for content as there is for code. Too verbose and it is slowing you down. Too terse and the decoding stage gets painful.
It'll just be TikToks (or, sorry, the American government equivalent, after they purge the internet of the wokes and commies) remixing memes from Maxor's Metal Gear videos.
It often isn't so much the actual bibliography line item format, which are usually handled quite well be systems like bibtex or biblatex+biber, but overall citation formatting complexities. Sometimes journals want specific formats that become a challenge to implement. For example, on a recent submission, we needed our main text to have a numbered bibliography at the end, then needed our methods to have numbered bibliography at the end, but with numbers starting after the last number in the main text, and no repeats, but with references in the methods to items already in the main text bibliography referring to those numbers. This was surprisingly difficult to implement reliably in LaTeX and Biblatex.

An additional annoyance is that to save space, journals often want formats that are compact but inefficient to use, for example, formats that are heavily abbreviated and don't include titles. These, however, are annoying to use, and annoying reviewers is generally unwise. So in our case, we actually intentionally submit PDFs for review that use the 'wrong' bibliography item format, of a similar form to the journal's but less abbreviated and including titles and hyperlink backreferences to citations in the text. Then for final submission we have to replace this with the journal's preferred format.
How do you guys normally send code to clients?
I'm debating on the best approach of sending code to clients.

Currently thinking of creating a github organization and inviting them to it but they are not too tech savvy.

I'd also like to exercise privacy if possible