skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I find it a little disturbing the rising jingoism we are seeing in the states. Military recruitment ads are everywhere all of the sudden. It went away for a solid decade after the catastrophe of Iraq and Afghanistan, but it seems like the war drums are beating once again. The fear mongering over China has reached an absolute fever pitch

You're not wrong, but not right enough. Iraq was an obvious lie, but China is an actual threat. They're quickly teching up to meet the western world and have 3x as many bodies to throw into a conflict if everything else fails.

Besides the recruiting efforts, there's less cutesy factors at play too, like the attack on abortion rights seemingly out of nowhere. Birth rates are down, which does not lend itself well to maintenance and replacement of a functional army should a conflict arise in the next three decades. Undermining abortion establishes a direct-to-military pipeline for young adults to escape desperate situations (yes, it's as ugly as it sounds-- such is war).

Nobody's going to do anything about ongoing job displacement so we'll have a lot of desperate men of fighting age with nothing else to do. We're ramping up production capability again, but those jobs will go to robots and women after we hand the men rifles and ship them out to some atoll in the middle of the Pacific. The rest of us will eventually be conscripted out of necessity since this won't be some pointless skirmish in the Falklands, which will solve the retirement and housing crises.

Gen Z will dodge the draft, embrace the Communist invaders they romanticize and experience life as subjugated citizens under occupation. Ironically, they don't really have anything to fight for. They've been conditioned to resent their ancestors, each other, and the idea of meritocracy. Let your parents die in war/childbirth and you'll net an early inheritance.

Start learning Mandarin. It'll either help you get a job on a red team/intelligence unit or help you assimilate once it's all over.
Christian was extremely awkward during that call - no way this guy was making some underhanded threat. He spoke in a poor way for sure.
Also switched to Silverblue and love it.

Ubuntu wasn't especially bad, it was more that Silverblue made so much sense. It fixed the issues I was having with other distros where messiness would creep into my setup over time.

I also tried NixOS, but it felt too rigid. Silverblue offered the same benefits of immutability without a loss of flexibility.
Chrome is not "the web."
If you're coming from "Ubuntu was what I needed but sucks with recent decisions" have you thought about using popOs with a different desktop environment? (like xfce, or KDE)

My experience is you get what Ubuntu used to have that way, i.e. no thrills reliability, so would definitely recommend it
They’re also fully owned by the CCP and have bespoke algorithms for identifying and alerting the authorities to specific racial traits (Uyghurs) for future arrest, enslavement and genocide!

Fun guys, Hikvision

> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037
each Red Bull has 1000mg of taurine (source: https://www.redbullsingapore.com/products)
You are misinterpreting the whole situation. The price/selling is not even the “misunderstandable” part — there is no evil in telling a company that they could earn back half of their “lost” opportunity cost by buying out Christian’s app. It was quite clearly a joke (that didn’t land), but what exactly is evil about that, besides possibly Apollo’s community’s hurt feelings?

The misinterpretation came from the ‘quieting down’ expression, which referred to the API usage (I think quite obviously).
We live somewhere humid and have very young kids, their playroom is covered with a very big one of those loom hooked ones, it’s awesome for that because it’s so soft. Spills tends to come out of it pretty easily, the wool seems to be at least mildly hydrophobic.
So can I configure Safari to do this all the time, not only in private browsing?

And especially when I copy links out of it to share with people.
A company's monetary value is not necessarily tied to how well the app works for its users.

Twitter is better for users now. Because it's not censored to high hell.
If all the smart people leave, are the remainder really going to be more effective at toppling shitty governments?
It's a bit weak to say this, but I hope that good case studies with good (above board!) SEO should surface in organic search results when people are looking for info. I aim for that in any case, but that may be a reason that I'm not a billionaire! B^>
Where to next though? is there anywhere else like it?
> My daily driver is a middle-aged Dell laptop, it’s about five years old but because I invested in the highest spec I could at the time, with an i7 of the day and 16 gigabytes of memory it’s still a contender.

I like how they need to defend themselves for using a 5 year old laptop.
Right, I think some people are like this.

For example, I had a boss once that would interpret everything I said as a threat (I had a friendship with the owners of the company).

It's just, stupid, and insulting.
it depends on the context
Thanks! I'm very glad that the topic of PDFs came up here because we had thought about them and thought that most people would probably be happier with eBook formats. But given the conversation here, we will definitely be putting out PDFs as well!

And thanks for the great suggestions. You're right, the issue is completely that for someone new to all of this, it's not obvious what the well-trodden path is. We don't go up to the point of IPO, but at least for formation, we have the process covered in our first handbook (the one we posted today is our second one) here: https://handbooks.clerky.com/legal-concepts/formation#proces.... I agree a flow chart would be helpful!

Also, I completely agree about other jurisdictions. The issue, I think, is really scale. Something like this handbook, and Clerky in general, is only possible because there is this critical mass around Delaware and startups. As it is today, that critical mass is somewhat unique from what I can tell. My hope is that technology will help reduce the level of critical mass that is necessary, so that things like Clerky and this handbook can exist for more situations.
Canada wildfires: Will they change US climate attitudes?
Funny how a history of categorically silencing certain viewpoints on a major discussion platform ultimately leads to more toxicity. Hmm...
RedditSync and RIF has also made the same announcements.
There are similar concepts: I use flatpak on other distros. It is just that flatpaks are not remotely as invasive and inconsistent as snaps (and probably most importantly, not forced on you).
It's more about proposed EU laws than US laws.
So the whole raise-api-cost was in fact intended to just shut these apps down, and isn't to recoup costs, like Reddit is saying?

That means Reddit entered in bad faith - at that point you can't fault Apollo for reacting to that bad faith in any way really, as long as it was legal. You can't be expected to act in good faith if the other party isn't.

So, I still see no blame for Apollo folk (I don't use the app or know who they are before today)

It's bad all around, my friend.
Here again you express great enthusiasm about plans of blowing something up and just as before you should probably discuss it with your russian friends. Not with me.
…that’s going to be the next thing they get rid of
Reddit could just return the ads via the api & mandate how they are displayed in apps.
I really envy anyone working in Industrial Robotics. It's such a fascinating field. Automating physical things is so much more rewarding than automating digital things.
Also shutting down.
> Keep in mind costs aren't just what you have to pay people but also things like regional security, the risk of the government nationalizing your company and assets, ability to get skilled/capable/honest people.

Also a lot of those same stability/security concerns, but applied to the trip from here to there, likely across the ocean, which is something that people have largely taken for granted for years now other than some stories of Somalian pirates.
Let's hope so. Quite often, people will have their "wake up call" when "the knife reaches the bone".
Capitalism isn't the only economic system with corporations.
What are you constantly fighting with snaps about? What snaps are you using that are so broken that you have to fight with it? I mean that seriously. I've never had this experience and I've used Ubuntu for ~15 years.
I was there the day they introduced commenting.
My 11 year account was just banned as well. I don't remember posting anything terrible recently. So not sure what's going on, but I won't be appealing or making a new account or going to the site anymore.
Good point: the kids are famously carriers
Your steering wheel and pedals are digital too. Airliner controls have been digital for decades. Factories have life or death safety systems that count on silicon and a software stack to respond quickly and without error.

Apple can make it possible if they wanted too.
But HN doesn't have communities. We need something that gives you lightweight bulletin boards (because that's what reddit replaced). I love HN, but it's really just a subreddit with its own website.
...the reason they want to show the ads is so they can get paid for that.
Got it. So I need to eat more cat food.
I thought it was a review of the programming language :D
The only reason I said I like it is because I want Reddit to face repercussions for the decisions they're making. Sorry if it sounded any other way. This is absolutely awful for me as a user, especially since I used Apollo everyday. But something NEEDED to happen.
It doesn’t matter if the “nerds” are outnumbered. Lurkers outnumber actual content creators by insane multiples, yet everyone knows that the content creators are the ones that keep people coming back.

What about mods? Looks like many of them use 3rd party apps to help moderate their subs. They are outnumbered too, but are they worth less than millions of lurkers? I think not.

Reddit is betting that the loud minority are not the ones bringing value to their site. If they are wrong, it may be too late.
old.reddit is starting to come apart at the seams, tho. (maybe it's because r/subs don't keep the style sheets up to date or something? i dunno) in many cases you can't up or downvote, there's no search button, there's no sidebar with the flair and the rules/mods, etc.
I honestly don't think it will matter though. I've no data, but I bet Reddit doesn't need this traffic, most people's mums will just use the Reddit app and not care.
Most of the emissions are people-related: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-greenhouse-gas-emiss...

People who want food, transportation, electricity, heat, concrete, etc.
> may be a minority, their voice is amplified by social media.

The same organization that is dealing with that, also accepted that when they entered a market to where their potential profibility reaches a vast higher amount of people.

The companies asked for that level of audience. They got it, they're operating on a smaller staff than traditionally you would need for that level. Now they're upset they're paying the pipper.
> NAFTA + China-WTO accession really did not help American manufacturing.

American manufacturing was declining way before NAFTA or China. The anti-japanese/asian period of 70s and 80s existed for a reason. The way we are attacking china today is how we attacked japan in the 80s. The only difference is that china isn't going to back down like japan did. Far easier to bully a nation that you militarily occupy.

The trend isn't going to change. Manufacturing will go to ASEAN and India next. All the propaganda about "factories in the US" exist to distract from that reality.
ConfBuddies
I started experimenting with this, I don't think it's that bad to do. I don't think scale will be overwhelming either. Mostly my problem is motivation. Trying to efficiently store and retrieve comments is an interesting problem.
> If a user opts to kneecap advertising, that is soundly within their rights.

If it is a switch somewhere with the user actually getting a choice, then it is the user choosing it and Apple is just providing a mean to do it. Exactly like when the user chooses to install an extension, except that this is much easier, and therefore much more likely to be used because users hate tracking. This is well documented.
It’s practically a certainty. I’m going to make some popcorn and watch.

There’s absolutely nothing good that can come out of this for Reddit, unless they’re going to put up some concessions which are enough to get 3rd party devs back to the table.
>I wish you had done this impartially for both parties

instead of your thought experiment, I'd request you just pose your impartial take on the most charitable view for Steve and explain why in that view it was a reasonable act of good leadership for him to make these comments. Otherwise I don't think we're really talking about the same thing.

You've quoted the transcript elsewhere for people to "decide for themselves" and I'm not sure how you could be convinced we all did in fact read it and already did, and just don't agree with you.
This is a very different problem than the current Reddit API pricing outrage though. The demographic of us who want a "big Internet forum" is small, probably too small to cater to as a social media company. We also tend to be highly opinionated which means it takes more effort from devs (aka $$$) to satisfy us ("I hate Electron I won't use that bloated POS", "Javascript is evil", "my browser should be my user agent", "my distro doesn't package the libraries that are needed to build this app".) I just don't think there's a site at scale willing to hold people like us.

As you say, Reddit has slowly been transforming into yet another social media site. Maybe federated protocols (ActivityPub like Lemmy/Mastodon, ATProto, etc) can win out. More and more of my topically focused conversations these days happen on Matrix and Discord. It's much more like IRC than forums, but it's generally much easier to stay on topic and the smaller crowd sizes make moderation a much simpler process. I'm also just fine with folks like us scattering into niche spaces. Our interests are niche, our habits are niche, a niche space suits us more than the "social media mall." (I also do use social media for more social media like experiences, but I consider that to be separate from chatting topically about my interests.)
You should read the article. Christian recorded calls during which said that no increase was under consideration and that any change was "at least a year away".
Theranos was doing shady shit and ripping off investors. That's illegal. Bad press didn't shut them down. Criminal investigations shut them down and the CEO is now actually in jail.

Confusing illegal activity with activity you disagree with is not doing the conversation (or society in general) a bit of good
The Apollo app makes API calls to their own server, which in turn makes calls to Reddit’s API. From 30 June this proxy server will not function.
Very impressive, though you are using a lot of prior knowledge to guide it towards the solution you already know. The RL version presumably wasn't given the hint that it could remove an instruction.

Still very impressive, but I'd like to see it work on some other assembly for which the "answer" isn't already known.
To Save C, We Must Save ABI (2022)
> Shunting Yard in TXR Lisp [2015]

I think you skipped the 3rd prompt, which I suspect was (pretty-truth-table '(not a)).
> The introduction of Apple’s headset marks a major competitive threat."

An idiot like me thinks the opposite: it validates the market and thus justifies further spending to Facebook investors.
It’s a huge issue in most fields. No one uses latex anymore outside of niches like math and physics.
There's a pinned thread in /r/tildes where you can ask for an invite, and they'll give you one after a cursory look at your reddit profile.
I moved to Arch last week because I did not have a USB drive large enough for the new Ubuntu install iso and they did not provide a net installer either (it is a new PC). The silliest reason, but now I find Arch lovely and everything works for me (including typically fragile things). Weird how such a silly thing led to switching away after 15 years as an Ubuntu user.
> The median life span of taurine-treated mice increased by 10 to 12%, and life expectancy at 28 months increased by about 18 to 25%. A meaningful antiaging therapy should not only improve life span but also health span, the period of healthy living. We, therefore, investigated the health of taurine-fed middle-aged mice and found an improved functioning of bone, muscle, pancreas, brain, fat, gut, and immune system, indicating an overall increase in health span. We observed similar effects in monkeys.

I don't think any studies have shown red wine to have a clear casual impact like that, even just in mice.
> could an employee bring a shareholder lawsuit for negatively impacting financial outlook

Tech employees are somewhat notorious for not enforcing their shareholder rights. Most companies, for example, ignore their books & records requirements under Delaware law, or force private sales to occur at terms favourable to management and the Board’s friends.
Could anyone who's an expert comment why there seems to be such a focus on discussing tokenizers? It seems every other day there's a new article or implementation of a tokenizer on HN. But downstream from that, rarely anything. As a non-expert I would have thought to tokenizing is just one step.
There's a lot of "energy shortage" stuff in there, which was geopolitical right, it has nothing to do with the environment.

Anyway, so the EPA, if you belive the implication here, was started with good intentions, and cleaned up a lot of stuff, and stopped practices that were causing harmful pollution. All of that is good.

I don't see how that's relevant to the EPA today. The article says "now they want to shut it down" as if the fact that it did good work on the seventies is evidence to keep it going. Maybe it is still doing good work. Or maybe like almost all bureaucracies it's strayed into some bloated self sustaining thing that exists mostly to run itself. I really don't know. I just don't see any logic in the article's argument.
I mean, Tortious interference can apply when a service which could reasonably have been expected to charge reasonable amounts suddenly increases their prices for no reason, if it prevents a third party from being able to fulfill a contract. I have no idea if one of this is one of those cases though, I wouldn't expect so but IANAL.
I will never understand how a sizable portion of the COVID money that was printed didn’t proportionally go towards solving the top 10 preventable killers of people, especially obesity.

Ok I do understand why. But I will never understand why we accept corporate lobbying that distracts the government away from public interest and towards private and exclusive profits.
>What’s the competition?

If you’re lucky, local municipal fiber.
I just want to say i love your pet pelican names Pelly, Beaky, SkyDancer, Scoop, and Captain Gulliver.
Right as I understand it at least. Google's business model has never been to sell your data, despite how persistent that idea seems to be. Your data is Google's most valuable resource and they should be extremely motivated to protect it.
The problem is, a very very very large portion of the mods are using third party apps. If the mods go away (because their tools don't work anymore), reddit will have a very big problem on their hands.
The example from the slide is a range-for:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/range-for

My interpretation is that the compiler isn't able to recognize that iterating over a "std::map" doesn't have side-effects, so it can't recognize that the loop is "dead code" that does nothing.

For instance, optimizing compilers will remove this loop entirely:

int fun_with_dead_loop() {
for(int i=0; i < 10; i++) {

}
return 0;
}

In the case of the patch, I believe the author of the text accidentally combined two similar English idioms "deadlock" and "infinite loop".
> I always assumed that this was a deliberate source of friction, slightly raising the bar of entry so as to discourage a certain sort of submission.

There’s no doubt in my mind that it’s intentional gatekeeping. There’s a reason why many papers are being “published” on Arxiv and foregoing all this boxticking.

The whole publishing process is fundamentally broken. Aaron Swartz (RIP) had the right idea all along. Get rid of the middlemen sucking up millions of dollars by paywalling government funded research.

It’s been proven time and time again that a shocking number of studies can’t be reproduced and that the traditional peer review process just isn’t working. It’s a good old boys’ club putting a stamp of approval on their friends’ work and keeping the outsiders away.

When it comes to Math though, I do have some sympathies. There are so many cranks that think they solved Collatz or a millennium problem and don’t even know what they don’t know. It must be exhausting to sift through all that noise in a volunteer, unpaid position. These shibboleths might be a necessary evil.
I think the impact of LLMs for education is REALLY underappreciated. You don't need AGI, just local repetition, with some interactivity. Your average science teacher knows a lot about a lot, but not a ton about anything. That's perfect for one-on-one LLM tutoring
He jokingly offered that the whole situation can easily be solved — he shuts down/sells his app for half of the “lost” money reddit would make were Apollo’s users using the official app. Win-win for both sides. The other side of the phone call misinterpreted a “quiet down” expression, which was used for the API calls from Apollo servers (serving which costs Reddit money).
What I do is that the very few apps that I want/need the most recent upstream version of (Firefox, Thunderbird, Digicam, KeepassXC), I use the AppImage version of those. (The Mozilla has some other system than AppImage, but it works really well with auto updating, etc. nonetheless)

On the off chance that I need some library, I may use a backports mirror. But I am not needing any at the moment and don't recall the last time I had to use backports. Must have been at least a couple of years since...
Natural Language Processing with ThoughtTreasure
They have nothing else going on but still want to do some form of work?
I just moved my Raspberry Pi 4 (8MB) from Ubuntu to Debian 11. I run Ubuntu in several other environments so having one common Linux has been good. But Debian 11 is significantly faster. Same hardware, just noticeably faster.

There are a few anomalies, I suspect mostly from the fact that Gnome is a post install add on. The Gnome network applet doesn't work but the network works fine. The only thing that is problematic on the PI is Firefox - it lags.

I intend to slowly migrate my other systems -Desktop, Digital Ocean to Debian after a bit longer.
You're all assuming it's about making papers pretty or fit a template, but the major time sink is length limits.

The abstract has to have a specific number of chars or words (which varies by journal), and it's a critical part of the paper, so you never want to waste a single word. There's also limit for the total number of pages or words, which again needs text rewrites. Sometimes format of references is weird, and needs conversion macros or manual edits.

Reviewers always want more information, more references, more tables, so publishing is an endless puzzle to fit all of that within limit that is always too short to fit everything you have to say.

Having concise paper is of course great, but submitting to multiple places requires editing multiple variations, and that is busywork.
I just think they're interesting.

From a practical point of view they only really matter in that we have to think carefully about how to use our token budget.