skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is really astounding to see the CEO of Reddit being caught in a blatant lie denigrating a third party developer whose work has done a lot for the platform and who has the ear of a reasonably sized and loud portion of the community.

I listened to the audio. It was very clear from the get-go the minute he said pay me $10m they were taking it very seriously, they said repeatedly "I just want to be very clear about what you're saying" and then said "that's sounds like a threat". The wording doesn't really make sense for a native English speaker when talking about a buyout. And they end that part with "I'm just going to hope that's not what you meant." which is generally how someone acts when they think you've threatened them but are going to be civil about it. So I don't think it's fair to say it's a blatant lie. And wouldn't you know it, what they thought was being threatened is what is happened?
Not if you have access to a dictionary, no.

There are a few differences between eminence and extremism. One is measured by its fruits, and the other is detached from its fruits.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere (Yukon), so in the 1980's these magazines taught me how to program 8-bit computers. And taught me about the entire world of computing and technology in the early 1990's.

I would not be where I am today if it weren't for all that.

It's wild to think how quick we went from "exposure to tidbits of curated information at a gradual pace" to "all of human knowledge at your fingertips anywhere any time".
Geopolitical risk is a thing too. Making less on profit now offsets the potential disruption on all exports if China were to fight a proxy war with the US.
> lacking a clear framework to legitimise their data collection practices

Why should that be a goal of the legislation at all? The design of the GDPR makes their business model illegal, in the same way that the design of the EPA makes chemical dumping illegal. Providing a path to legitimize their data collection would be contrary to the goal of stopping their data collection.
I've gotten sucked into videos of making low-power low-noise rack mount servers for home offices lately and that's come up a couple times. Yeah you have a PSU that's 90% efficient under load, and stays above 80% over a reasonable range of power levels, but some of them are pretty bad when you get down to 40 watts.
‘We shouldn’t laugh at people who fall in love with a machine ’
I use digital ocean for simple projects. It’s not bad
> What? The journal provides (or at least should) a latex template, you write stuff in that, then you ship it. Last one I wrote in a browser through overleaf, spent zero time on formatting.

Then you don't have much experience writing papers.

Formatting is very time consuming. Some want 8 pages, some are unlimited, others want you to use whatever makes sense.

Every journal has a different page length. They expect to see results in different places. Some want a detailed appendix. Others are ok with a website.

The latex template doesn't help at all with any of these.

Reformatting is extremely painful and wasteful.
I doubt the sugar alone is to blame and not the high caffeine content.
Reddit of 2023 is not the same place as reddit of 2013. It has been transforming slowly from the internet's biggest forum to just another social media site. You can still find some of the spirit of old-reddit in smaller subs but the large ones have entirely changed.

This is good or bad depending on who you are. If you're a user who went to reddit to have conversations with people online, it's bad. If you're that user, this API change and loss of 3rd party apps is yet another nail in the coffin.

If you're a newer user (~5 years) who came to reddit for its social media experience and just want a feed to scroll with memes and pictures of cats, this is API/3rd party app drama is entirely irrelevant to you. This is now the majority of reddit by far, which means reddit the company is just fine.

There's nowhere to go for us classic forum people. There is no equivalent to 2013 reddit. I'm would love for this to be a kick in the ass and to be enough to jump start alternatives, but right now I'm not optimistic. Too much focus on decentralization etc. which I think introduces too much friction for not enough gain.
I definitely don't know how to write latex, can muddle through anyway. Total loss to trial and error / searching bits of syntax is probably below an hour so far this lifetime.
Studying C or Python is studying C or Python. Rather, study AI. Pick up python along the way, skip C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGwO_UgTS7I&ab_channel=Stanf...

There's tons of book, but I recommend this since it's hands on
"Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow"
https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Machine-Learning-Scikit-Learn-T...

https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course

download some local LLMs and play with them along the way. Good luck.
which is mainly designed for microcontrollers and doesn't support most accessibility or power-user features on desktop. For example their input fields are incredibly basic and seem to be entirely written in their high-level DSL which is foolishly ambitious.
> In the US, trucks are exempt from most of the pedestrian safety requirements (and many of the occupant safety tests too).

What? Why?? I knew they had much wider tolerances for pollution which is playing a part in manufacturers heavily pushing them, but why the gell would they be exempt from any pedestrian or passenger safety requirement? (And yes, it's obvious modern American trucks are deadly to passengers, the question is how they how was that allowed)
What happens to the price of a laptop if China invades Taiwan?
Further down the page, they have a "Curriculum roadmap", which goes up to things like "College Algebra" and "Matrix Theory".
>has a precedent in post-Weimar Germany

That's an effective end-run on Godwin's law. Well played, sir.
It's hard to imagine how someone can look at the track record and then think "impossible! we will never figure it out!" when human history is basically a detailed record of us constantly "figuring things out" that previously seemed impossible. When something has yet to be figured out you are supposed to be baffled because the part where it all make sense doesn't come until after we figure it out. It doesn't guarantee we will figure out this or that specific challenge, but the well-established pattern gives ample reason to be optimistic.
He made those decisions based on information he'd received from Reddit. His mistake was believing they were acting in good faith (rather than being lying scumbags).
Yes, you get all the data. Sometimes you can see even more than what the Wii shows you. For example, with the Wiimotes, it actually shows you the position and brightness of the top 3 or 4 infrared light sources in its field of view (from that it can derive the position of the "sensor" bar).
Pablo Cohn, I believe?
Are you arguing that Apple's headset will be a flop, or just being contradictory?
> Sure but these chickens would be isolated from the outside world, like a lab setting

Until one day that security setting breaks down.
> Again, why would they pay him half the current operating cost to go away (even if that is not 20 mill)?

Again, the insinuation was that if anything was actually costing them the absurd $20,000,000 per year for multiple years then they would have had equally absurd ways of dealing with it, like paying a ridiculous $10,000,000 for Apollo and still saving tens of millions of dollars, which would have made more sense to do than what they did (let it go for years). The most obvious interpretation of this is "So obviously it's not costing you that absurdly, and we all know it. Now stop jerking me around on this API price being 'reasonable'." not "And that's why I'm asking you to actually pay me $10,000,000 to go away".

This method of pointing out how absurd the API pricing is came from a user, prior to the call: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/comment/... (the "/s" means sarcasm, in case you were thinking they were being serious as well).

> Also weird to release audio publicly based on hear-say, the Steve guy didn't accuse him publicly of anything.

It's not just private hearsay, the two quotes attributed to Steve are from the moderation call transcript which has been shared and verified.

> I'd be very careful to be on the phone with this Christian guy, because, I might also "miss" (did he mention it at any point to the other guy?) that he is recording the conversation.

I'd be worried about talking to someone who feels the need to be careful when they know the call is recorded.
I still use (K)Ubuntu desktop, but for servers I feel Centos Stream 9 is best choice for a homelab at the moment. Debian is also good. What these two distros have over Ubuntu, is easy and clear documentation. Ubuntu Server adds so much noise, they are changing too many things over the years. Network configuration documentation is a mess. I'm tired of googling for an example thats updated. For Centos I easily find examples that includes how to configure network services correctly with SELinux. Extra security without time wasted is good!
Yes, every year since 2016 has been above average and the average temperature has increased with every decade since the 1850s.
I post a ton of comments on HN, and at times, on Reddit. I do it all from my phone because my desktop is for work and my mobile is for leisure.

I can type just as quickly on a phone as I can on desktop, and in many ways I prefer it.
> It seems like largely people just don't care about the environment on a "general global" scale.

The issue is not really people. The worst emitters are out of reach from us.

It’s good to make people more conscious of their environmental impact but what good does it really make when what is saved is a minute of energy production by the average Chinese coal power plant.
I see all of this complaining about snaps and the "direction" Canonical takes as a purity constest. Yes, Snaps can be annoying (it isn't in my case). Yes, Canonical is far from perfect.

The Snap hate is really overblown. I'm using some to work daily and, apart from the annoying notification that appears far less than before (like once by a blue moon now on my system), they work exactly like .deb files.

Every OS suck in their own specific way. Fix the problems or move on to your new and shiny evergreen OS.
Cool! Would love to beta test with my 10 year old.
There's a short demo you can try. It doesn't work on mobile though.
Having looked at the connections as they are, i think there are a handful of optimizations that could be made to the schedule and routes available that would reduce the ICE time advantage, like for example Berlin to Leipzig doesn't have a direct regional train.
I've been using Regolith (Ubuntu + well-integrated i3) happily for a while, but the Snap moves from Ubuntu are a massive turn-off.

Looks like Regolith can in theory be installed on top of Pop!_OS which seems to target the same audience while going in a more sensible direction. Anybody tried that combo, or have any feedback on PopOS in general?
Stanford initiative to strengthen democracy and foster responsible technology
That's one extension, there are thousands that may or may not work. It was buggy the way Firefox used to handle extensions. The current Firefox extensions are ones that are made specifically for Firefox on Android, they're not direct extensions for the Chromium browser. It's another silo'd set of extensions separate from Chrome.

So iOS allows extensions only for Safari from the App Store.
Android Chrome doesn't allow extensions at all.
Android Firefox allows some extensions that were made for Firefox on Android.
Metal? Lighter and less prone to breaking than glass. Also less inert maybe, but probably better than plastic.
> It is always amazing to me how easily people will accept however an issue is framed for them on social media.

And it’s even more amazing when people think they are smarter “than the average” and go the exact opposite way just because, failing a proper evaluation.
I've been using Manjaro for three years without issue. What gives?
See the reply from dang above, it was apparently a simple word filter in action, meaning "circlej**" is not allowed to say.
Large Language Models Converge on Brain-Like Word Representations
You cited your own self as a source here
>The instances I notice do clearly lead to bad outcomes

I'm just agreeing that there are instances. But also agree, in the private corporate world, they aren't good for us as a whole, for society or the field. And can't be verified in a 'scientific peer reviewed' way. We can only do second hand observations.

But, they are impactful. Just negatively.
Apple has a couple models with 2 ports now but none of them are particularly beefy. One is only 35 watts, which means it's basically saving you from routing a whole bunch of current into your Air and out the other side to charge your giant cellphone.
I for one welcome all of these tech CEOs making utter fools of themselves for us all to watch. And welcome the paradigm shift as people start seeing the technocrats for what they are. Steve, you could have walked away from it all years ago. And now you get to go down in history as a villain (hint: because you are one).
Huh? Could you please explain what you're alluding to?
Unlike Russia, China actually makes stuff domestically. Like, a majority of the world's stuff, even. So their supply chain is rock solid. Also, China's corruption is a lot more.. functional.. than Russia. It oils the machine, blends with networking, rewards being a little greedy but punishes excess. And leadership is much more calculating and plans long-term. They've built on multi-decade plans successfully, frankly surpassing the West in that regard.

And finally, I think war is equally undesirable for us and China, considering we both have nukes, and direct war between nuclear powers is unacceptable. Nuclear wars have no winners.
I would not say we need tag or symbol. First of all it was not sarcasm at all, just a plain joke. And second, instead of a symbol, what we need is to read more books.
I'm certainly glad that I won't ever have to say, "Yeah, global acid rain seems like a good answer to the problem of global warming." But only because I'll be dead, and it will be other people having to say it.
Sounds like this is only about public information (username, posts/comments, media). I'd expect those to be scraped and archived somewhere regardless of what the first party server does. For example in the case of reddit pushshift collected that information and published it via torrents and sites like unddit showed it.
If you say so!
ChinaGPT
What we have here ... is a failure to communicate.

(I'll see myself out)
The implication is they buy the app and do what they like with it.

The alternative is that he has no choice but to shut down the app, given that they've announced what the price will be 30 days before it's introduction. Even if he'd said nothing there would have been a shitstorm; the timing would be obvious.

Reasonable notice of the price increase would have given 3rd party developers time to monetise and meet the new costs. A more reasonable price could have been borne by 3rd party apps with very little fuss. Making API access a premium Reddit feature would have put even more money in Reddit's pocket. Buying out the 3rd party apps would have been unpopular but would give Reddit the appearance of being less incompetent, underhanded, and duplicitous.

Instead, Reddit made literally the worst possible choice in this situation: alienating their users and the moderators that do most of the work on the platform.
I mostly just got rid of the functionality. I do logs with grep and monitoring with vanilla prometheus.

Kubernetes and the surrounding ecosystem can create many of the problems they set out to solve.
Contacting the Voyager 2 Space Probe
"You are so dumb. Have a gun and here's how to kill people."

I don't see how it could possibly backfire in the decades to come when those guys come out to start their actual lives. /s
Three in the real world, some number in undergrad. Writing papers takes a fair amount of time - think how to express things, producing graphs and so forth - but reordering sections or adding things to a bibliography is yet to cause much grief. Maybe we mean different things by formatting.
I would assume moderators are the big hurdle here. Unlike those other companies, reddit depends on a small army of dedicated volunteers for it's survival. If all the moderators decide to fuck off, or if they're being honest and the default reddit tools for moderating are unworkable, that could be a serious problem.
The paper shows several distinct improvements to a sorting algorithm, and presents evidence that the process is generally applicable. This tweet points GPT-4 at 20 instructions and asks if any can be removed, and it finds one optimisation.

That's good to see from GPT-4, but the comparison seems disingenuous, and I'd expect more from someone in academia.
I thought I knew the story. But I'd never seen this graph.
Thank you for breaking my heart all over again, jart.
If you can't see the camera, it doesn't mean the camera cant see you.

This is a pretty neat black polymer with Long-Wave Infrared Transparency.
I gave up on Ubuntu after some snap frustrations.

I tried Nix but couldn't figure out how to install some software I needed (dealt with plugins).

I tried Manjaro but the system was unbootable after a software update soon after install and I just don't want to fight problems like that anymore.

I've been using Mint but recently am giving PopOs a try but they've not fixed enough of the Gnome 3 usability problems.

Been a deb used for decades at this point but maybe I'll give Fedora a try next, either going with XFCE (like I did with Mint) or KDE.
I don't know. I mean, their newest device is better than the HoloLens 2. But like, that's just a relative statement. Waveguide displays are still objectively dogshit.
It's also good to know that most advanced Google filters also work on other Google products like the Play Store or YouTube.
I don't get this blackmail thing at all. What leverage would Christian have anyways. It's not that when he shuts Apollo down every of its users will quit Reddit and when it comes to bad publicity, the damage is already done.
Imo package managers/repos, update cycles, and installation process can still be a reasonable differentiator between distros. Admittedly these decisions are fairly minor -- most popular packages are available on the major repos and you probably aren't installing your distro every day. But even though most the time I'm just living in nvim and Firefox, if adding or changing something becomes a chore it can really expand quickly as I might avoid making a positive change to my system just because I can't overcome the initial inertia from having to bend my distro to my will. Then again, that's probably a sign that I should swallow my pride and switch from Arch to Manjaro at some point.
hypocrisy, perhaps, but a ready analogy might be the heroin addict who, lucid at the moment, pleads with you to send them to rehab.
Japan and Korea have plenty of domestic manufacturing. Europe also has some off shoring into the peripheral countries into its customs union.

The issues are generally that in the next largest potential cheap manufacturing sources (South Asia, SE Asia, Africa) they’re either not big enough or have extremely poor logistics and red tape. A big part of the East Asian miracles have been extensive infrastructure and bureaucratic emphasis on making exports as efficient as possible.
Good Video.
Is he a Psychologist? I think something not discussed on this thread, is that Psychologist can study other Psychologist studies, study the results and how the biases are formed, and start to work on theories for better studies.
John Mashey offers tidbits on Unix and C early history
It's still very unclear what exactly right it would be buying with that $10 million. Instead of Apollo shutting itself down right it would pay for the privilege of being the one to shut it down? The payment doesn't make any sense and doesn't help Reddit offset the losses in any way.

The Proposal was to have reddit by Apollo and monetize it, all the talk about going quiet doesn't make sense.
> Even London somehow feels less aged than NYC.

Because London was partially bombed and rebuilt within the last generation.

New York wasn’t. NYC was built a while ago, and a lot of that infrastructure and builds still work.
Regulation bad, hero entrepreneur’s unbridled free market emissions good.

Or, the tragedy of the commons is real, and you won’t escape it by flying to Mars with Musk.
I think the bigger problem can be that it is present in drinking water. Both bottled and tap water.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9103198/

Of course it cannot be positive to store food in plastic containers either. But difficult to avoid.
At the low end of the market (had a cat that lived 19y on this stuff), Meow Mix original is 3500 calories per kg. A 10kg bag costs $35 in Canadian dollars or about US$28.

So just a couple dollars a day for an adult.
. There is a huge market for no-frills, low-range, high duty cycle vehicles for around town deliveries, etc.

You mean like a Renault Kangoo (available in an electric version) or Ford Transit Connect (it seems it will be available in an electric version)? An early generation of the first one was even used for postal deliveries by the French post office.
Maintainer Month 2023: How the community gathered to spread some maintainer love
>Base Pay: maybe (probably higher on average)

I think you kind of underestimate the allure of this in a time where prices of goods and services are rising at a rate not seen in decades and the middle class is becoming locked out of decent, affordable housing.
Oh, I just meant that I buy used
I tried the demo.

As an educator who has taught math: this is frustrating junk. It moves at a crawl. It doesn't explain the reasoning for anything. It provides no motivation.

It's full of incorrect statements like "Computers struggle with too many digits."

Pretty much the worst practice if you want to teach someone anything.
I think your opinion is more and more popular. Personally I drive for a hobby, I don't have a commute or anything. Is my few thousand miles of year hobby driving really the issue?
If you miss focus follows mouse and like tiling windows, i3 and sway both have that option.

Others might too, those are the only two I have experience with though.
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Many greenhouses pump in C02. They call it CO2 enrichment.
A lot of the conversation here seems to be that you can't trust Apple, or that Apple is doing something user hostile.

I don't get it.

What's the alternative? Most people with a phone are going to be using iOS or Android. Those are the two options. Apple has the chance to improve data privacy, and they've done it. Android (essentially, Google) is certainly _not_ going to take such action.

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.
By Normal, I mean "Non-Synthetic" as it regards to lacquers.

For the lacquer you buy in the stores, you will have to examine the contents to see if you have actual lacquer or synthetic petroleum lacquers.

As far as wood products, if it was made after the early-mid 80's, assume that if it was lacquered it was done so with a synthetic, or if it is some form of manufactured wood.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1986-11-09-860324...