skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's certainly a strange call. Hey, you want to charge me $20 million per year, so why don't we make it easy and you just pay me $10 million to go quiet?

It's really confusing. He wants Reddit to pay $10 million so he isn't "loud" with API usage? He wants them to buy and takeover the app? He's wants a payment to shutdown? Is he even serious about any of this? I get the impression he lacks the confidence to ask for a $10 million acquisition, so instead he approaches the subject casually as a joke, and the entire conversation spirals into confusion due to the lack of clarity.

Either way, that's not a great deal for Reddit. They might as well charge the $20 million, and if he can't find a way to pay it then Apollo shuts down and the majority of users return to the official Reddit site/app for free. There's no benefit to paying $10 million.

The call was a failure between the two parties and likely destroyed any future negotiations. I think the best suggestion was from another user here. Only allow Reddit official subscribers to use third party apps. Reddit can charge users whatever they want, and app developers can monetize their apps however they choose.
in both the text snippet and the audio it sounds to me like 2 people politely pretending that the offer wasn't made. Notice how the CEO basically immediately cuts off the call after the "clarification"
Verily, 'twas in the year of our Lord, a knight of great renown, Sir Godfrey, became custodian of a vast fortune, yet a fiendish curse did accompany it. A snail of diminutive stature, but of fatal touch, pursued him ceaselessly. The snail, unyielding as stone and with senses keener than a hound's, knew ever the knight's whereabouts.

Sir Godfrey, with a mind as sharp as his blade, took to cunning stratagems. He did construct a fortress in the highest peaks, moated with a sea of salt, for it is known that the humble snail shuns the stuff. Amidst the bracing mountain air, Sir Godfrey did espy a snail within his keep. Quaking with dread, yet with resolve, he did raise his foot to crush the intruder, but lo! His boot did meet naught but clay and paint. 'Twas a decoy snail.
And he was willing to pay for access. His argument is that the price far exceeds their cost and, with 30 days notice, that's unreasonable.

I take him at his word that he was willing to pay a reasonable amount.

Again, Reddit has the right to run their business however they wish. Not arguing that it should be free.
where can i read more about this?
Presumably if someone were to offer to buy it it's because they intend to stand up a different back-end and try and start a new platform?
We are due for a new sci-fi movie/book for sure
I’ve taught math at the college level for 25 years. The video looked impressive. Do you know up to what level of math it does?
Fukuoka is probably a bad example for your point. It almost makes Tokyo look antiquated by comparison.
There won't be any ingenious, miracle carbon removal solution and various proposals may even be flirting with ecological disasters of planetary proportions. Anything that expands our footprint in order to mitigate our footprint is a dubious direction. Reminds of an apprentice wizard that panics and invokes a sequence of spells, each one worse than the other.

Discussions and thinking around sustainability underestimate the complexity of the problem we are facing. Climate change is but one symptom of the anthropocene (defined as the extremely intensive utilization of planetary resources).

In the fullness of time it might prove that climate change isn't even the most dangerous of the anthropocene side-effects. We already have several other channels and signals besides GHG emissions and induced climate change: ozone layer depletion, microplastics, invasive species, biodiversity loss etc. and there is a "smell" about them that's worse than rotting seaweed on a beach.

Don't get me wrong, various (bio)technological adaptations may play a role to expand our options, but fundamentally they need to fit together in a package that is conservative and will not lead to more harm and further degradation.

The principal component of our collective survival strategy is hard to substitute: Where possible, we need to do more with less. Where that is not possible, we simply need to do less.
> I don't remember if PCMCIA slots had enough bandwidth to make external video cards practical (plus... it would require a separate monitor, I guess), though.

PCMCIA surely not, but express card most likely.

I remember some mods installing an external GPU onto the mythical ThinkPad X220 by means of a bridge card that would fit in the express card slot and would allow a full pci-express to be connected. See: https://artemis.sh/2021/08/04/eGPU-on-thinkpad-x220.html
Generative Adversarial Networks nis my first thought
That’s a fair response, though I hope you’d agree that in the context of discussing pass through Vs see through “black” the majority of use cases are indeed fully occluding/lit LCDs near eye and not ML style lenses.
What part of the report is vague? If he revealed intelligence sources do you expect them to not redact the source's name?
If we bring global CO2 back down to 280 ppm (like it was in the year 1700[1]), then a lot of today's farming methods will have substantially lower yields. Our modern crops need those higher CO2 levels to grow fast[2]. Without other ways to grow more food, people will starve.

[1]: https://www.co2levels.org/img/graph_grid.png

[2]: https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/images/greenhouse-...
Also, taking nicotine doesn't seem to be bad. Putting smoke in your lungs on the other hand...
The rate at which fuel can be pumped from the center tank to the wing tanks does exceed the rate at which the engines consume fuel, so fuel transfer can occur continuously throughout the flight.

The actual rate of fuel transfer and the frequency of transfers will vary depending on the specific flight conditions, such as the weight of the airplane, the distance of the flight, and the amount of fuel remaining in the tanks. The fuel management system on the 747 is designed to optimize fuel usage and ensure that the airplane remains balanced throughout the flight.
Gov also isn't just federal, there's state and local! In general, the federal government is really bad at procuring pure software products (with some exceptions like Scale AI).

Edit to add: If you're building in the space, YC cofounder matching also does events targeted to gov once in a while, and I personally am doing some ideating if you want to chat
EGPU with a ThinkPad x220 from 2011 (2021)
In the most charitable possible interpretation for Christian, he spoke in a way that was misinterpreted, conclusively clarified it at the end of the call, both parties shared an apology for the misunderstanding, and then Steve made public comments of the original misinterpretation only (with an editorialized paraphrase).

In the least charitable possible interpretation for Christian, he made an implicit threat that he would continue to raise community clamor if not bought out, then backtracked it as soon as he was asked about it, both parties shared an apology for a misunderstanding neither believed was really a misunderstanding, and then Steve made public statements of the original interpreted threat only, with that editorialized paraphrase. In responding to that statement, Christian announced his app would close in 22 days, so it sounds like he can't be doing much with Reddit's community by then regardless.

I don't see the point in either of these situations for Steve to have said what he did, and he must have been aware of how this call could be interpreted in transcript and did it anyway. If I was hearing about this as a disagreement between business partners retold in a bar conversation, I might give reddit's team the same benefit of the doubt as you. In this case, it doesn't seem to matter much. The question remains WTF was spez thinking even making those comments.
They're probably unique, but the search space is so large you can't be sure that the specific section you have is the section you're checking for from the target.

There's only the 4 base pairs in your DNA, so for any given length of base pairs 4^n combinations that are possible to exist. A complete human genome is 3.2 billion base pairs long. So yeah, it's definitely a length vs information density problem.

Though those numbers may seem very very large, they get cut down to size very very quickly. Across all human's, there's very little variation in nearly all of our genome, something like 99.6% of those 3.2b genes are identical between all humans, which leaves 0.4% (around 12m) base pairs of DNA that make you you out of all other humans. We have identified (or at least think we have) some specific regions of those 12m pairs that control certain things, that's what the field of genetics has been up to with things like the Human Genome Project, so, plausibly, if they caught an environmental dna sample that was long enough to identify _which_ gene site they had, and they knew (or could at least guess) what value your genes would have at that site, yeah, they could probably tell whether it was you that was nearby, or at least someone related to you!
"Was a colony of Russia for a certain period", you meant to say.

"Formed by Russians" is just nonsense.
Based on a survey of felines, mice are pretty healthy for you too.

Consider: a rich source of taurine and with a delectable crunch.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. Sent you a DM
If you sort the reviews by Most Recent, you'll see many one-star reviews. Perhaps not enough to skew the main score, it is cached or some other reason.
Catching the men who sell subway groping videos
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Not so long ago you could find images with specific sizes. It was good to find screenshots.

Also, regarding image sizes in advanced search, I wish the dropdown had the bigger resolutions in pixels instead of MP.
https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/870010013900611584

Before: I have no evidence that spez tampers with anyone's reddit comments in production

After: I have evidence that spez tampered with ONE reddit comment in production.

The new status quo does not increase the likelyhood of "I have evidence that spez may be inexplicably tampering with old reddit comments habitually" being more true.

And thinking that it does shows a poor understanding of human behaviour and nature, especially under stressful emotional circumstances.
Topology Episode 3: Connectivity and Directed Graphs
UK professional services industry — lay-offs over the last year were light compared to what I think is coming in the next 6 months. Agencies were first to rapidly downsize just after COVID, and I suspect the larger professional service firms are a few months away from the same treatment.

I've always worked in the services industry, and starting to see the same patterns before the agency lay-offs begin in the most established firms.

I think any organisation whose either dependant on public sector — or conversely, trying to scale with an operating loss, is in for a shock by year's end.
Mistaken assumptions, sure. What "mostly" people do maybe, it depends on those conversations. What Passkeys might do in the future is irrelevant to whether it makes sense for people to be dismissing them now, though, and confusing/frustrating to read about in these kinds of threads (maybe not other threads).

Today, you can seamlessly sync your passwords, export them, and utilize auto-fill integration across the aforementioned devices. Not "it could be possible based on the design if the manufacturers and apps wanted to do it", it is possible.

Today, it is not possible to do the same on those devices using Passkeys. That's not the same as claiming "it's guaranteed to forever be impossible because of the inherent design of Passkeys" and reading every conversation as such could well be the source of why the misconceptions seem so common. There is little to no guarantee from any of these manufacturers it will ever be possible either, so predicating the conclusion on that possibility of change definitely occuring isn't sensible. Again, not because the Passkey spec can't, the devices/implementations may just not want to. Remember, the spec doesn't require devices and implementations allow it to happen, it just accommodates for the possibility.

If implementations available for people to actually use change in the future, so will the dismissals. In the meantime, the dismissals of what's not possible are not misconceptions just because it's possible it may change down the line. It still remains impossible right now, even though I'm hopeful it will become possible in the future.

And again, sure - other threads probably have a lot of flat mistakes or different claims. But, if I wanted to discuss what other threads are saying, I wouldn't be reading and replying in this one.
Stop trying to make a false equivalence.

Jack Ma forking disappeared for three months [0]. Then lost a huge amount of money and influence over his empire, and he has been extremely quiet since then. It is not hard to see that had not complied, he would still be disappeared.

In contrast, look at the US. Disney publicly tells a state gov and POTUS candidate that his proposed law is bad. Gov, with his entire political party apparatus retaliates. Disney repeatedly counters every move and comes out on top, massively embarrassing the state governor.

China is a nation ruled by a dictatorship/authoritarian state. The US is, for the time being, ruled by law (there are those trying to change that).

In a democratic govt, all branches of govt (legislative, judicial, executive), and all areas of society (industry, press, academia, non-profits/NGOs, clubs, sports, etc.) are independent. In an authoritarian system, all of the branches of government and parts of society are bent to the will of the dictator/party.

The distinction is critical.

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How come you were at the North Pole?
Putting chlorine in sugars that get metabolized seems to be a very bad idea because it leads to some very radical compounds getting loose in the cell.
Exactly. The factories follow the Cheap Labor. From US to China, then it was China to Thailand/SKorea, then from Thailand to India.

Probably don't have chain correct, and it is different for different industries.

But there was definitely a progression of 'local salary goes up', 'time to move to next cheapest country'.
Actually I do. I have two solar panels, 60W usbc power brick for my laptop and phone. And a small light...it was a joke. OK? Why on the defense? :)
Wait, this isn't a deep dive at all, this is just an ad.

(Is this a deep dive for the laptop itself or a deep dive for the adapter? I can't tell.)
Still not secure enough, sadly. They can be captured, leaked, stolen, phished, etc, and that's if you use them correctly.
Last I checked, Taiwan is not a territory or state of the United States. Why should some kid from Kansas pick up a rifle for Taiwan?
> I actually believe reddit when they say the impact is small

I think this neglects the power struggle that would occur if its many unpaid moderators who do use apps far more than any other group, either shutdown subreddits or straight up quit.
Yea I know. Everyone should bargain in their people's own self interest.
Sure, but aren't all cloud services notoriously expensive as you scale? At some point I assume you'd do what companies like Dropbox and Basecamp did, and re-host some or all of it.
I'm not sure it's primarily about cheaper than fixed. Because it fixes travel costs, your opportunity to go do something else increases. Some people will travel more and some less.
> For instance, the US is an "ally" of France, but does a lot of damage to the French economy, on purpose.

Please provide examples for more self-directed research?
>Who did you think we were discussing?

People who spend >$40 per month on food who live 40 miles away from the nearest library.
A friend works with software for the city. Took him a year of part-time work to get a basic web app made and deployed on Azure. He’d always complain that all his colleagues were incompetent save a few. I asked him why he doesn’t get a more ambitious job, but he likes how little results he can get away with delivering.

I wish government jobs paid better.
My guess is that the increase in tariffs had little, if anything, to do with it; the article doesn't mention it but does cite CHIPS and the IRA. If anything the tariffs were one of the causes of our recent spike of inflation.

My own opinion is that 40 years of globalization have lifted a billion people out of poverty and now the global pay scales aren't so vastly different. It is becoming more economically viable to produce things in the US. (Which will also put pressure on higher inflation.)
Try it.

A 240fps high speed is more than enough to observe a variety of LED flickering behaviors. Some flicker none (Bedtime Bulb is remarkable in the lack of flicker), some flicker at high enough frequency you can't really make out details, and others are just... gross.
Not particularly humble, is it?
In 1920s there were at least a couple of prototypes what quite litrrally caught people in the net. A bit lazy to look for it by myself but Pathe definitely had a video on those gizmos.
>All the bad press

You're forgetting the adage, "there is no such thing as bad press". If you're not a user of the 3rd party apps, then none of these decisions affect you, and most people are just not going to get upset about things that don't affect them directly.
> What might be seen as exponential progress could actually be the accumulation of a few tremendous leaps

This is what exponential progress is as long as the leaps continue happening
Since when does the US have a problem with harsh punishment? And no it is not a mistake. It is deliberate act of using false information potentially ruining someone's life.
That's actually what I thought the title was until reading your comment, and I agreed vehemently.
I dunno, my wife works in commodity management and the number of companies she's helped get out of China lately is staggering and they've straight up begged her not to move at times. Begged. I can't imagine how this looks higher on the food chain.
>We model a nationwide transition [in the US] from grain- to grass-finishing systems using demographics of present-day beef cattle. In order to produce the same quantity of beef as the present-day system, we find that a nationwide shift to exclusively grass-fed beef would require increasing the national cattle herd from 77 to 100 million cattle, an increase of 30%. We also find that the current pastureland grass resource can support only 27% of the current beef supply (27 million cattle), an amount 30% smaller than prior estimates

[…]

>If beef consumption is not reduced and is instead satisfied by greater imports of grass-fed beef, a switch to purely grass-fed systems would likely result in higher environmental costs, including higher overall
methane emissions. Thus, only reductions in beef consumption can guarantee reductions in the environmental impact of US food systems.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aad401
I clicked on it thinking it was about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelfand%E2%80%93Naimark%E2%80%...

Oh well, still interesting.
The FAANG type companies are probably barraged by unskilled wannabes and fakes who want good paying jobs, so they have an explicit rate limiting policy (so they can have automated application systems enforce it?) Don't know about mid-size and small companies.
Yeah that brings me to another problem. We have too much cattle already. Also, they emit methane.
Wow, not a single ounce of pity in what you wrote.

These people are being manipulated because of their loneliness and you’re OK with reducing the situation to: “stupid sex starved simp got what they deserve”.
Yeah, so many people don't read history and realize all this WTO and Globalization the US population hates, was created by the US, on purpose.
Here we go, learn to read and understand before you make some useless reply buddy. Now I see why you think psychology isn't a complete mess of a field.
Hopefully they use some crazy hard screws so the heads don't strip with repeated use. (I don't know much about Framework... yet)
Sample size is just one factor. For example, if you are interested in heights and you measure six people and they are all over 10 feet tall, you can go ahead and conclude they are from a group with different height distribution than the rest of humans.

Pretending that these papers of “wow, we found a substance that when given to ten people in a cancer group with a 99% six month lethality and three survived more than two years” contribute nothing is a weird belief. Penicillin was what n = 1.
I think I have an original edition of that book somewhere. Good Old Fashioned AI.
Have you decided yet what you'll be moving to?
We also don't debug computer programs by looking at logic gates. We have abstractions built on top of that.
I think the current improvements we are seeing are less about copper competing against fiber and more about avoiding digging up the ground again to install fiber optic vs just using existing copper and upgrading the backbone instead.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but reddit is trying to do an IPO soon and this guy is projecting a lot of uncertainty about their business. He's offering to stop that if he gets paid off.

(for the record, I almost feel like he's in the right to do so. Still weird how this is being presented)
You don't even need that. Requiring reciprocal open markets would have gone a long way.

Don't allow Google or US media imports? Sorry, you can't export cheap manufactured goods.
I love him. He is showing how labor needs to fight.

There's a reason labor is losing power to owners and it's because they aren't having fights like Christian.

Christian is showing how to give our children a future.
It came out in the Epic trial that 80% of App Store revenue comes from games. They would never be in the browser anyway.

Then most other apps that could just be websites don’t monetize through the App Store.
Discord is a protocol. The people you interact with is entirely up to you.
Many crop fertilisers have that issue, but fertiliser is not only one thing.

One hypothesis is that algae are limited by some single resource which could be gradually dropped out the back of cargo ships as they cross oceans, seeding carbon-absorbing algal blooms as they go.

(I heard about this nearly 20 years ago, so I assume that has either been tested or banned since then…)
I am somewhat maintaining a list of text to diagram tools at https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/ (will add this one too)

These are two other dedicated tools I have on the list

https://app.quickdatabasediagrams.com/#/

https://dbdiagram.io/d
Really? For a 100kg human (me) that is 100g a day of taurine which is more than 3 ounces or this whole bottle

https://www.amazon.com/NOW-Supplements-Taurine-Strength-Caps...

and costs about $9. Seems like a lot. Contrast that to the claim that people should eat about 800mg/kg a day of protein overall

https://www.sclhealth.org/blog/2019/07/how-much-protein-is-s...
but if you wanted to learn lisp/scheme Guile is a very good choice whereas if you wanted to learn FP Nix is a pretty crappy choice
PCMCIA

I remember those slightly larger than a credit card (and thicker).

I had 2, and IBM one which had a eithernet and modem on it (and a really fun sparkly label). and a scsi one for a zip drive (they had parallel port zip drives... but)
How's that working? Is it a surprise, like you go to work as you use to and then bang laid off? Or is it more like there are early signs so you think "maybe I should update my résumé but well it won't happen to me" and then it happens?
Indeed... "philosophy" is often a poor justification for technical choices.