skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which would imply there's at least one tool that is either faster or less expensive, which would be good news, wouldn't it?
There was a video[0] on Computerphile about this topic

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2X3oZEJOA
I'll repost this link as it seems so very strange to me with all of the complaints these days about bots and fake accounts pushing narratives that everyone seems to forget Reddit was built on fake accounts replying to each other: It's so gross.

How Reddit Got Huge: Tons of Fake Accounts

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-t...
I actually believe reddit when they say the impact is small

I'm using reddit for ages and never even considered anything besides their website.

If the traffic to their site is primarily from the web (or web mobile or the official Reddit app), the client (3th party) users are only a loud minority.

Of course I think the behavior is shitty but I don't think most people really care and reddit will not see any real impact of it either.
Zeiss has exited the photo industry
You just attacked NG in the same breath where you confessed you don't even read it. I'll take my chances that the NG reporters put in more effort, at the very least.
Data Profiler – What's in your data?
I don't think that's the case. Yes, you'll have to wait a little while, but it's not like many sites support this today anyway. Very soon, most password managers will support it (KeePass does today, AFAIK), and then you can use your password manager as your Passkeys provider on all your devices.
In a hundred years we'll be replacing our organic lungs with plastic ones that we can hot-swap.
I learned carpentry and gardening.

Very grounding. Still requires mental acuity but gives you the opportunity to use different parts of your brain, and it rounds you out as a person.

Very grounding and it has been good for my mental (and physical!) health too.
the 16" will have a slot for discrete cards (I don't think it will be a PCIe slot but could be wrong).
Will plan my way out of reddit.
Without gas, how would you start up a lawnmower? :)

The concept of gaslighting a brainless language parrot (GPT-4) is funny to me. I get where they were coming from.

GPT-4 is like a lawnmower for the mind: sharp, automatic, efficient, and doesn't do anything unless pushed. They were just saying they like pushing GPT-4 around.
Reading this I am picturing a blowing blizzard and massive tractors crawling over the barren landscape. INTENSE!
From their "Why Charge" section:

"It’s very expensive to run – it takes millions of dollars to effectively subsidize other people’s businesses / apps."

Super compelling point here. I mean, could you imagine running a business that was based on other people's work and expecting to profit from it without paying the people who did the work?
Okay cool, so what is your timeline for how long will it take to stop humans from being greedy? You realize any solution that is "rich people stop being greedy" is no solution at all?
It may be out of their expertise as chemists, but it may be well within their domain as educators. If their students are turning in GPT-written papers, then it's their problem.

I don't know what kinds of papers their students write. I don't recall writing a lot of papers in chemistry class, but they may be teaching a different kind of class. I could imagine them asking for papers on "careers in chemistry" or "history of some famous chemist" that students could cheat with GPT.

Even if that's the case, their paper should probably be more specific to the chemistry domain. Though perhaps they're called on to teach General Science classes as well, which could be even more likely to generate essay assignments prone to cheating.
SSH Key Manager (Userify)
I find that SSDs have a terrible failure mode too. Everyone thinks they are "fast" so they do all sorts of file operations that would have previously been considered too slow. However, consumer SSDs are only "fast" until they run out of DRAM buffer or SLC cache. Then they slow WAY down, like slower IOPS than my spinning rust disk. That means your busy machine goes from perfectly fine to nearly locked up, because even the OS now thinks file operations are "cheap" enough to block on and rely on in all sorts of hot paths.

Once that buffer or cache runs out, all those mostly extraneous IOPS just pile up, and the SSD will basically never catch up, because the technology fundamentally cannot catch up to a sustained load like that, but the load is sustained because all the software was designed with "SSDs are fast and lots of small writes will be fast" so they just keep growing the queue.

Previously most of the OS would be in memory and only page out if absolutely needed. It feels like modern windows is perfectly willing to page itself out because "SSDs are fast" and have random, pointless file ops everywhere. So if your SSD gets bogged down, now your operating system basically dies too, so good luck killing whatever app(s) are causing the problem
Does it have the ability or is it just generating text similar to what it has seen before? The two things are very different.
15-year-club here: This time it feels more being about Reddit itself than about specific persons, like with Ellen Pao. Just the vibe I'm getting.

Anyway, I quit cold turkey end of last year after being a daily user for those 15 years. Definitely right move.
You get those as you wear the clothes anyway. Might as well get rid of any polyester
At the same time very minor (not bad, just not as important) PEPs are accepted all the time, particularly regarding type hints and module magic methods. I love the "new python" with the type hints, but in retrospect more effort should have been spent upfront rather than piecing it together as it seems now
This is absolutely nuts. The only reason I was still using Reddit was because of the Apollo app. Best of luck to you in the future Christian.
If you're running a spare desktop with some disks in it, just run ZFS on that, take snapshots after every rsync, and ideally initiate rsync from the backup machine and don't have credentials to it anywhere else so that it can't (easily) be compromised at the same time as the other systems in the event of malware.

Though yes, you should also always have an offsite backup as well, which AFAIK wasabi is fine for (as long as you're aware of the 1TB/90d minimums).
The vast majority of an online community's content is produced by a small fraction of users. Most are just reading posts. Without user generated content Reddit has zero value. Reddit fighting its most active, invested users is not a smart move.

YouTube got away with lots of bad changes because many creators are getting paid to produce content and competing with YouTube is near impossible. But Reddit is one of many primarily text-based online communities and they are currently destroying the only things holding people on their platform. Aside from the userbase Reddit has no redeeming qualities that would make anyone hesitate to leave.
Why should he be forced to do something he doesn't want to do?

He's made it abundantly clear why he doesn't want to do that, who are you (or anyone else but him) to say "No you're not allowed to have opinions, you MUST create your own alternative"?

> 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.
> Even if that's the case, their paper should probably be more specific to the chemistry domain.

Why?
Exactly. In fact, Spotify works exactly like this: you can use any third-party client you like, so long as you have a Spotify Premium paid subscription. If you have a free account, you need to use the official clients with ads.
Disagree. (In the generalized sense) You cannot extricate yourself entirely and call it a winning move, unless your business is at a scale as large as Dropbox moving out from AWS ecosystem.

I still feel no matter how natively one tries to build products - they cannot build everything. You cannot create CI/CD, monitoring, frontend, containerization, and cloud services just for your software or service. Those depend on some platform API which you won't create just for your product. Short or long business value - unless one becomes a major player with several software engineering teams building a product ecosystem - other people's APIs and frameworks will be used. And that is perfectly fine. That is how good products should be -using nice building blocks. No need to reinvent the wheel everytime.
RIF has now announced they will also be shutting down on June 30th

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditisfun/comments/144gmfq/rif_wi...
> Employees have been issued stock options and/or RSUs as part of their compensation package for years now which would make them shareholders.

Well, no, options don't make them shareholders unless they're exercised. RSUs don't make them shareholders at all, because they're not actually stock (they're stock units).

Reddit's cap table is probably a mess at this point, so I imagine that some current employees are also shareholders, but I don't know if all are, and RSUs don't make them shareholders.
>According to the Fred Miranda forums post, Zeiss has discontinued all their lenses and filters in the photography world. That means that the Zeiss Batis, Milvus, Otus, and Loxia lenses are all gone. For a while now, their M-mount lenses have also been gone. This should be no surprise, as Carl Zeiss hasn’t been a regular member of CIPA for several years.
MVCC causes many problems in Postgres, and here are the ways to address them
If I'm building a marketing automation app that allows customers to do a newsletter blast, I'll put those 1000 email recipients into a queue and run through it at a required pace with a retry interval if anything fails.

What do you suggest I do before I get my first customer?

- Blast 1000 emails in one go and pray upstream accepts it?

- Push these to a database and keep checking it with a CRON?

- Run RabbitMQ on an EC2 and push 1000 messages there?

- Implement SQS in "15 minutes" at $0 cost?
I can understand that position in this case but really the idea of passing the cost along to provide a high quality experience seems nice. Like imagine a third party YouTube client where you pay the UI developer to make a UI that doesn't urinate in your breakfast cereal. You get a better experience and they show you the YouTube catalog. Now imagine the same app has access to HBO and Disney and Netflix. I could see paying a premium for that because it separates the platform's incentives from the UI incentives, which removes the dark pattern incentives like promoting the platform's own content.
Is it really a threat to offer to sell Apollo rather than face the public backlash that will happen by forcing it to shut down?
shhhh. we don't talk about that. or how media and news are ultimately controlled by what advertisers want the reporters to say. or how now google dictates how long a video must be and what subjects are forbidden to even be hinted at on youtube, to please advertisers, of course.
Nukes. Already paid for, so no more cost. Faster, should stop most emissions in a few weeks, after the fires go out.
> We can debate if the API fees are reasonable or not - but at the end of the day, Apollo chose a model that doesn't work unless Reddit continued to favor them and apps like them.

Reddit could simply treat them reasonably and things would be fine. There's no need for favoritism, they just need to stop being actively harmful. And part of that is the fees (they're not reasonable).
How does Apple's refunds work?

I'm surprised more people don't do one-time purchases to avoid these subscription refund stories I keep hearing.
> Does Betteridge's Law of Headlines Reveal a Lifehack For Climate Change?

No.
Basically, and if it was a small-time forum, it would be more "reasonable".

But Reddit is and always has pretended to be a "big name" company like Youtube, Facebook, etc.
If you read his post, he presents all the information you need to know that this isn't true. Reddit themselves admitted that the cost isn't about server/bandwidth usage but opportunity cost per user on 3rd party apps. And it's not exploiting the API if you are using the API within the terms of service agreed to when registering the API token. Apollo wasn't exploiting or abusing anything.
What does epinephrine have to do with caffeine?
You do not need a warrant for international communications performed by non-citizens (whether inside or outside the country)

You do need a warrant for communications done by citizens domestically. PRISM did not change that, it has been the same for centuries. So even if PRISM captures domestic communication, a warrant is still needed to view it. There has never been a time in US history when then feds didn't have access to warrants to tap communications.
I think a low price is good.

People being able to move around easily would bring commerce to more areas. If 50 euros gets more people moving around and shopping at various places compared to 100 euro cutting that down by a lot.
Chouinard is probably marginally better than your average billionaire, but it was almost certainly not done in a way that didn't also very clearly benefit him, and, more importantly, his family.

https://qz.com/patagonia-s-3-billion-corporate-gift-is-also-...

That NYT piece is, more or less, a fluff piece; and, it's also worth noting, this same maneuver is frequently used in ways that are probably seen less "charitably," given the political influence 501(c)(4)s' potentially wield.
> Maybe I'm missing it, but that claim seems unverified. Did Christian post a transcript somewhere of exactly what Steve said to the mods? It seems like this could all be a big misunderstanding...

He posted a transcript of what Steve told moderators. He posted a transcript - and recording - of the exact conversation with Steve in which this part of the conversation takes place. Both are in the OP reddit thread here. Just search for "transcript" in the page.

It's the sort of thing you'd say to mods if you think it will get them off your back.
Maybe he uses other users' accounts to express his opinions.
I have edited to remove references to ads. However, it's clear to me that you consider content to be the value you're providing to Reddit in exchange for your usage of the API.
> You do not need to fight climate change, we need to stop it.

The correct answer is neither; we need advanced technologies and material wealth that will allow us to master the environment more robustly. Consider that in the past 50 years of climate change, the human population more than doubled yet the number of deaths from climate-related causes dropped to one-third[0], mainly due to the growing wealth of developing countries that allowed them to better shield themselves against extreme weather conditions.

The state of man in nature is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". Anyone who has spent any time outdoors in remote places or tried to build even a rudimentary shelter knows how true that is. There has never been a time when the climate was conducive to human flourishing except when humans made it that way by ever-increasing per capita energy expenditures; hence today, despite everything, we are the most insulated from the effects of climate on ourselves.

To "stop" climate change is like telling Glurg the caveman no, you cannot light that stick on fire to keep yourself warm, because think of the CO2 emissions!

[0]: https://library.wmo.int/doc_num.php?explnum_id=10989
Kinda ironic that the good deeds of Patagonia were written about on a website that we cannot even read because there is a paywall to access the information. Talk about seeing two sides of a spectrum haha.
Did people really sell services that necessarily depended on a third party's services without some contractual safeguard in their terms in case the third party changed how they operate? There's always a risk in building your offering on top of someone else's and plenty of attempts to do that in that past didn't work out so surely any lawyer who works in this field should have seen that one coming?

Edit: This was an honest question in response to the parent comment about Twitter clients. What's with the downvotes?
An LCD simply turns "off" to display "black" - so the emissions stop (relative to surrounding pixel emissions)

With a projector, you can't "throw" nothing (aka black). As a result "projected black" is simply lack of projection.

In the case of a translucent or transparent reflection or waveguide surface - which is what the projection reflects off of - "black" is whatever the darkest part of the surface is. In effect whatever else is emitting from the surface that you're looking at will change the depth of "black" you get.

This is why the Hololens and other see through AR devices are always tinted, to set a higher threshold for "black" than the surrounding unaided view.
It is not surprising to me that a product intended for social drama (news) aggregation has basically been steeped in drama its whole life.

Like, I can't remember a time that there _hasn't_ been some sort of drama going on behind the scenes at Reddit. Really seems like one of the last places I would want to work, that's for sure.
Nearly every element of your comment is blatantly wrong, some directly addressed by the post this comment thread is discussing.

- Reddit is charging the equivalent of 20x its published revenue per user for the API.

- The new API agreements ban the display of any advertising by API users. (Apollo did not show ads, but other third-party clients did, and Reddit claims the low quality of ads was harming Reddit by association.)

- Charging $5/month would be break-even given the API pricing, and only for new customers. Apollo would still have to serve earlier subscribers at a huge loss. API fees would certainly not “drop by 50%” — the vast majority of people subscribing to Apollo are power users, so the average API usage per customer would _increase_.
I can query Wikipedia or IMDB for all sorts of information I don't know. I wouldn't consider the search box of either site to be "intelligent", so I don't know "query it for all sorts of information" is a generally good rubric for intelligence.
Is the purpose of this site to list which places you can reach at all with the 49€-Ticket? If so, that seems a bit useless: you can travel from anywhere to anywhere in Germany with local trains - it just takes long.

In practice, you just enter start and destination into DB Navigator app, select regional-only, and choose your pick.
Google, despite their best efforts, does not yet own the internet.
Well, for one thing the "limerick" doesn't scan. I think the first line was a gimme--"limerick" and "There once was a ..." have got to be really, really correlated in the model, so only "model so smart" needed to newly-minted with the correct rythm. The "It spoke with finesse" and "generating success" lines are short, so fewer chances to mess it up (although the "ing" in "generating" is a little soft; I think "generated" would have a better emphasis pattern). The other two lines are just terrible.

Ah, a Google search for 'limerick "finesse" "success"' had a few matching ones on the first page.
"establishing a business with two other founders, who were previously in another business relationship and have a greater bond."

Especially if this is your first startup and you actually care about the business, just don't...

No handbook needed...
I had three different goals, one for the traits, one for something else where the types fit best, and the third which I achieved with the implementations of the traits.

The problem was that the trait implementations of the types was something like not a core task of the types themselves.
> I wonder if they’ll see employees quit over this.

I'm sure a few will but, I can't name any time in the last 20 years when a tech company did something bad that enough employees quit over it for it to be notable. For 95% of tech workers, it's just a job and pays money. And pays well.
Same. I bike to the office everyday despite having a remote job. Getting outside feels great
Portland isn't making the rules. A specific open source organization (that is not based in Portland in any material way) is making the rules.
> Does This "Law" of Journalism Mean You Never Have To Read an Article Again?
> Why would they?

> A business, Apollo, made an offer (lifetime access) to gain marketshare. It worked as Apollo is the defacto Reddit App for iOS. Now they cannot hold true to their offer, so they're forced to refund it. This is the price of the bargain Apollo made.

That's practically the definition of tortious interference.

https://www.findlaw.com/smallbusiness/liability-and-insuranc...

"The most common form of [tortious interference], however, occurs when an individual forces or induces someone to break a contract they have with a third party. This can happen in many ways: someone could offer below market prices to induce a breach, they could blackmail or threaten someone into violating a contract, or they could make it impossible for the other person to perform and receive the benefits of that contract - by refusing to transport goods, for instance."
There are those cheapo dummy plugs that present as a microphone when inserted into the 3.5mm slot, which mutes the main mic. Of course, this strikes me as a software behavior that could be overridden.

Other than that I think the pinephone and librem5 are the only phones I'm aware of that actually have hardware microphone switches.
Indeed. I despise everything right wing, but I'm also not a fan of what Reddit has become as of late. On the larger subs there are plenty of threads where somebody asks "can somebody give their perspective on why [XX issue that usually right wing people complain about]". Followed by a storm of progressive commenters stating a variation of "because if you care about XX you're insane/you're a nazi/etc". That makes up about the top 300 top level comments. If you scroll past that, there are hundreds of comments from people that intended to actually answer the question and provide nuance, but, but those comments are all deleted by the mods. It's mostly a progressive echo chamber nowadays.
It would be impossible for me to disagree more. Editing someone's comments to put your own words in their mouth is despicable. Basically, he impersonated those users and put them on record as saying something they'd never said. It's like the text version of a deep fake recording.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/editors-...

Hardly Bible themed...
That’s good to know. I tested it in a docker container and indexed after loading ~1M vectors. Checking EXPLAIN showed it wasn’t using the index at all. I wonder if it’s because it couldn’t load into memory.

Without an index, I found it was too slow for data that size. I didn’t expect issues for data at this “small”, but it’s pretty new to me.
Can't wait to see what the community builds, exciting times!
Yeah. I old.Reddit into specifics subs. Other than that it is too radicalized nowadays. Once you are starting out you care about user experience, but once you are too big to fail then you pretty much don’t care - see Facebook, Twitter, YouTube they all designed UI around how THEY want the user to use the platform instead of how user would actually want to use it.
> I really don't see why Reddit doesn't just purchase the app.

They've all but stated openly that their goal is to kill Apollo in its current form. Why pay millions to do that when they can accomplish it for free?