skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When they go to IPO, there should be a public announcement of all the reprehensible content they allowed for decades, such as spacedicks, violentacruz, picsofdeadkids, cannabilism, etc

(and dont forget that cannabilism was the sub ran by CEO /u/spez where he was openly talking about how much he wanted to eat a baby.)

I am not slandering him -- I am QUOTING him.
I've been shilling https://typst.app/ to anyone who will listen (and some who won't), it's great.

There are still missing features compared to latex, but what exists seems so much more intuitive.
Not a bad point at all. But many parents aren't skilled in parenting to know how to build that relationship and their kids get a lot of peer pressure.
I'd respect them more if they just came out and admitted it.
It’s about time. We probably need to go even faster, like face melting faster to remain competitive/relevant. Frankly though, this is just one of the dimensions. There is also the “people will need to work harder” dimension. That will be a harder adjustment for people. Nevertheless this is a good news
You can try drinking coffee through a straw.
I strongly disagree. First of all, in normal situations, you can't "threaten" a billion dollar company as an individual. The power balance there is so asymmetrical that any logical person's first thought shouldn't be "the individual has threatened the billion dollar company". Sure there might be exceptions, whistle blowing, etc. but overwhelmingly, this rule holds.

It is clear that Christian was asking Reddit to buy out Apollo. It was a business proposition. Pay me 6 months, and I'll shut off my app, which is what Reddit wants. They want more users on their official app so they can make revenue. The language he used was clumsy, but it is clear, and it was clarified afterwards. The natural easy response is to say no, we are unwilling to pay, end of conversation.

The problem here is that Reddit seems to be litigating free-flowing language from part of a conversation as part of its defense for its changes. That is not only ridiculous, but wildly inappropriate.

To be honest, reddit has all the justification it needs to do what they're doing. Do I think they're making the right decision? No. But they're free to raise prices however they want. It's their API. But a billion dollar company accusing an individual of threatening them and then continuing to litigate the words used even after clarifications have been made is indicative of a catastrophic leadership failure on Reddit's side.
Switch to Debian. Seems more stable and sane than Ubuntu.
Well, Zynga was an example.

https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/zynga-to-employees-give...
How was your food up there?
Indeed. Though modern fire suppression is a huge factor. AFAIK fire suppression became industrialized following world war II (bomber type planes able to deploy large amounts of water, better radios and respirators). Even today, the mandate for fire suppression (in at least WA state) is all fires are to be put out within 24 hours. There are a few "let it burn" examples I'm aware of in CA
In the context of the post you're replying to, that's like believing there will be a miracle pill so you can eat whatever you want, however much you want, drink as much alcohol as you want, and the magic pill will prevent obesity, cancer, heart disease, and liver failure.

And even if such a miracle drug did exist, if seems like the better solution is to simply lead a healthier lifestyle to begin with.
The original sub was nothing special rule wise in my opinion. Did you ever visit their spinoff own site? It was psychotic in comparison. Kicking them off Reddit was a mistake for society at large.
Debian is really solid as a server OS. I wouldn't use it for desktop unless you're using ancient hardware. My days of using CentOS as a development workstation are thankfully behind me. I will never use a long-release cycle distro for primary development, the headaches that come with it are not worth it.
AI is now the top theme at YC and almost half the batch is working on it
Nah. "Can't get fooled again."

I see what Ubuntu is doing. I understand what they're doing as a business, and I don't like it and have every right to criticize it for what it is. Ubuntu built their brand on the promise of free and open source and then more and more cozied up to Microsoft and an "us only" way of doing things.

They are free to do that and I understand why as a business. But I'm also just as free to call it out and say I don't like it and steer people away from that sad story.

(MX Linux is what I'm rolling with for now.)
They tried to a while ago - and the old.redditors (like me, 17 year account) complained - and they keep it around. I exclusively use old.

-- Replying to below:

???

I use OLD+RES for MY consumption and data density - if you dont know how to configure these together to create a much faster, and more aesthetically pleasing (to me) UX - then that sucks.

https://i.imgur.com/gdDawWz.png

https://i.imgur.com/jlTJGaT.png

So much more pleasant and quicker - especially with hover - I dont even need to click links

https://i.imgur.com/jDvjQwM.jpg

Which of the following do you find pleasing, its personal opinion, so choose what you like - I prefer old.

These are the same page, the only diff is old. vs www.

https://i.imgur.com/mnl5pCb.png <-- www

https://i.imgur.com/JfFZMQX.png <-- old

---

https://i.imgur.com/WxsmDkc.png <-- www

https://i.imgur.com/cKs3uVA.png <-- old
Reddit lawyers would show other social networks such as Twitter and Imgur offical pricing charging more. That would make it a reasonable amount. And there is a reason, they're unprofitable. It really annoys me that people say the price is unreasonable when it's so low that a $5 a month subscription covers it and makes profit.
There is nothing to deal with, outdated software still works, it's stable and you get on with your life.

Anything of importance has deb package/official deb repo (Chrome, Brave, VS Code, Slack, Signal, Dropbox, etc), so you receive latest versions. There is flatpak as well. Newer kernel and some libraries could be found in backports repo.

I use Debian with 0 flatpaks/snaps/Appimages, only Debian repos and few official third-party ones.
> So the bad guys are not the ones making an alternative client that makes money off of Reddit while not displaying their ads? Oh, okay.

Correct.
I'm aware, but that doesn't cut off Apollo users from Reddit. They will just have to use a different app or the official app.
Enabling proprietary nvidia drivers on NixOS:

services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "nvidia" ];

Here's how you'd create a development environment that explicitly uses CUDA:

{
outputs = { self, nixpkgs }:
let pkgs = import nixpkgs
{
inherit x86_64-linux;
config.allowUnfree = true;
config.cudaSupport = true;
};
in
{
# Environment
};
};
}

I've never had NixOS break doing just about anything, including nvidia stuff.
Aren't you trusting their published stats?
You are right, but as others have noted, I should have put a caveat on my assertion that the incentive mismatch is really there for companies with "outside owners", either in the form of a publicly traded company or large VC/PE investors.

If you keep a company private, and you don't take sizable outside funding, you can pretty much do whatever you want with your company.
The randomness of interviews is whwt startled me when I started paying attention. Inused tobthink interviewing were meritocratic. But interviews are affected by randomness more than I imagined: interviewer/interviewee's mood, or being asked a hard question that's incidentally similar to something you've tackled can result in different impressions.
You appear to be making workers out to be helpless and dependent and should be thankful for the "benevolent generosity" of corporate greed and mismanagement. Advocating Amazon is generous for giving workers the privilege of urinating in bottles doesn't have a good ring to it.

Perhaps workers should change the structures of where they work with fractional ownership and a cut of the value they helped to create?
> Large, stable, boring companies lay people off as well.

Yep! But if you're looking for a company that has a better chance at surviving (or thriving) through a downturn, picking a company that actually makes money is generally a better take. See Hashicorp's recent layoffs and recent earnings statements as an example.
Precisely. Some mechanical training or live assistance is entirely plausible. I experienced a similar thing with HoloLens and other than the limited FOV it was really convincing as a tool.

Apple unironically going for the dystopia angle is a weird flex.
Are algorithms discovered or invented?
The most significant upgrade since JDK 8 !
Worth mentioning the many other consequences of BPE tokenization: gwern.net/gpt-3#bpes https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/t9svvNPNmFf5Qa3TA/mysteries-...
The issue is those extensions can withhold valuable functionality needlessly.

If I download $usefulWikipediaCompanionExtension whose functionality only depends on access to *.wikipedia.org but whose manifest demands permission on all sites, I'd like to be able to tell my browser "if I'm not really on Wikipedia, only show the extension a blank page."
> Google, FB, & Microsoft where they both control and sell your data to the highest bidder.

Can we please keep this nonsense to lower quality sites like reddit? I like to pretend hacker news hasn't degraded this far yet.
Meta’s first generative AI feature will be AI stickers in Messenger
I did the same. But chose ArchlLinux.
If you're pushing a personal education tool that uses AI, you'd better explain exactly how AI is used before I'm going to put it in front of a child.
i don't plan on buying reddit stock anymore, this is unstable leadership
Play a lot of golf
The evidence is now incontrovertible that people are "literally getting ill and dying" for diseases currently spread through the air.

So the situation is analogous: back then, it was controversial to introduce the steps required to clean the water (since many falsely thought it was already clean). Now, it is controversial to introduce the steps required to clean the air (since many falsely think that it is already clean).
Had to read the source code. Go to /register

I assume someone already snapped it; since no permutations of the above work
> 3) No requirement, but it's largely accepted as courtesy to notify developers of any changes to the API policy, especially when it comes to pricing. Giving the developer only 30 days to rework their business model, change app architecture/design/code, pass App Store Reviews with Apple/Google, migrate subscribers to a higher-priced tier to afford the increase in pricing, and more is tantamount to spitting in their face. Especially when it's a drastic change from 8+ years of more or less the same.

Doubly so if you've been repeatably telling developers you're not changing it & that developer has reach out specifically to say I know you have an IPO soon. Anything we can do on our end.
nah, their apps aren't just shitty in the normal commercial way. they're shitty in the non-functional way, non-money-making way. like not being able to figure out how to play videos.
Then here is a quick rebuttal to that:

1) Hydrogen storage is a solved problem. We have no issue storing it in pressurized tanks, or cryo tanks if necessary. We already have cars that work on both ideas, especially cars that you can buy and drive like normal cars. There are no serious issues found. No one is aware of any unsolved problems.

2) No. They are rapidly falling in price and are quickly become a cost effective solution. Fuel cells are not expensive anymore.

3) Same story as above. Also, we are seeing nearly 100% efficient electrolyzers now. This is also a solved problem for the most part.

That consensus is not real; it contains many people who have a vested interest in not seeing hydrogen succeed. This is analogue to the rise of wind and solar power, where many "analysts" systemically demonized the technology. This continue even after they reached large-scale production and low cost.

You can come up with a list of rebuttals to most of that. The reader needs to be able to parse the data and recognize how it debunks most of the gish-gallop style attacks, although not every single thing can be refuted:

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/news/ac-transits-fuel-cell-program-br...

https://www.greencarcongress.com/2022/03/20220321-hysata.htm...

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/42448/bmw-is-stress-testing-it...

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/26050/exclusive-toyota-hydroge...

The fundamental advantage with fuel cell cars is that they do not have the huge raw material needs of BEVs. As a result, they should be much cheaper. In fact, they should cost no more than ICE cars. In reality, hydrogen is the much cheaper and more practical solution. And since it refuels so fast, it is inevitable that millions of people will have to buy a hydrogen car and not a BEV.

That last part should be self-evident. But we live in a world of BEV propaganda, and people regularly show up with their brains filled with gish-gallop style nonsense arguments. It is simpler to just point out that they were lied to and have a total misunderstanding of the situation, rather than debunk multiple and sometimes dozens of ridiculous unfounded assertions. People do not have infinite time to do this.
Seems off topic, but the equity I’ve been compensated with has been sufficiently worthwhile and I don’t feel hard done by. YMMV.
Or, this will be Reddit's Digg moment, and the masses will move on from an increasingly user-hostile platform, onto the next new shiny thing, for another cycle.
No wonder that post is locked
Nah. The mods would just be replaced if they tried anything like that.
Wait, math and physics are niche?
Would it be better if they ONLY had the paid version of the app instead of offering both paid and ad-supported versions? To me, it seems ideal to give users that choice. To me the $3 or whatever was worth it to support a good app (even if the dev sometimes goes AWOL)
Well put. I should amend my statement: I don't think this will materially affect Reddit's bottom line in the near term, say 12 months. I was trying to capture my skepticism about the direct result of a supposed boycott or limited blackout, and particularly of the kind of ephemeral internet outrage and indignation cycle that seems to ramp up quickly, then dissipate quickly without changing much. I agree that they'll decline eventually, more or less following the pattern you mentioned.
Yeah, people seem to want to nitpick that it's possible for a large, boring, stable company to have layoffs too, which is technically true, but it doesn't take a ton of logic or reasoning skills to conclude that companies that turn a profit will suffer less than companies that don't.
The moderation tools offered by Reddit don’t have support for accessibility. If you are in r/blind for example… How are you gonna moderate that? And for those who don’t need those tools, third party apps save them a lot of time since the official app is so bad for such things.
Godwin's law does not require the references to Nazi Germany be direct. "post-Weimar Germany" == (even though it doesn't ===) Nazi Germany.
Sexual reproduction, which increases fitness? So theoretically the offspring are more fit clone producers so competing with them is bad, M’kay?
I get that people want this.

The issue is that these things go off the rails sometimes. Without any supervision and as an “educational” resource it will be unquestioned and in front of people who don’t know enough to question it.
Let me go ahead and give some love to MX Linux; especially if you're trying to stick with a similar package manager. Right now MX feels like the perfect balance of "light" and "everything just works, pretty nicely."

(Their attitude toward Systemd is one thing that got me on board. They had healthy criticism and waited a bit, but weren't all like NEVER EVER! and eventually made room for it.)
First, the rise in spending is 2x. That's a huge effect, and there's nothing in 2019 that would explain it reasonably. And it only leads the bills' enactment by a few months. Isn't the more obvious hypothesis that people started investing speculatively a few months ahead of the bills? I mean, these bills largely amounted to campaign promises. It was abundantly clear after November of 2020 ensured a trifecta government that something along these lines was going to pass.

Second: you're basically making stuff up with that 2019 argument. That's not the way incentive spending works at all. If you have free money on the table as a corporate executive you record that revenue immediately, you don't put it in the bank to "plan". In fact, most bills like this make it largely impossible to "save" the funding anyway, and for exactly this reason: politicians want their results now, now in the next administration.
>No one uses latex anymore

Not true. IEEE, one of the largest professional orgs, accepts Latex. So does ACM, a huge comp sci org. I'm not familiar with others, but wouldn't be surprised if many others still accept Latex.
Why should I be willing to die for the price of a laptop?
Startup volatility is higher, yes, but I’m thinking in terms of upside. what’s the upside of giving a FAANG your all vs resting and vesting?
Because, as I said, the CO2 emissions are not the only negative externality cars impose on other people.
And do you mind telling what did those apps use? CoreData, SQLite, json files. Also do "serious" apps use Firebase anymore?
Google un-bans Downloader app, but developer still mad about “broken” DMCA
You can game Amazon's rakings a bit by submitting your product to an obscure category and becoming a "#1 Best Seller" overnight. This book seems to have cornered the Chemical Cosmetics category, beating out a dozen or so soap making books.
HN manually circumvents block from Asahi Linux devs
Your addon for this works because it's not widespread enough for the marketers to implement a workaround. Apple just changed that, so now the marketers will find a new way and your addon won't be effective.
A Debian base with something like Homebrew on top, so all the user-facing applications are always up-to-date, would be basically perfect. Which, I know there's a Homebrew port for Linux, but it and its packages seemed rather more bug-ridden than than the Mac version, plus there were way fewer packages, last time I checked, probably because it has to support a whole bunch of underlying distros, Linux's culture around software packaging & libraries is... challenging, and there are simply a lot fewer eyeballs on it than on regular Homebrew. I think the distro itself would have to provide the separate non-system-software manager, specifically for that distro and close derivatives, for that to take off in Linux land. And it'd be a lot of work, to untangle that from underlying system software so the system packages could sit at a stable versions for months or years while the user-software updated on top of it.

[EDIT] And, yeah, I know you can probably get a similar effect with Nix, but, ah, no. I tried it in a VM a couple years back, and it's a hard no. And I was a Gentoo user for years, so I'm not necessarily averse to some pain... but no.
>It seems apparent Spez is burdened by a serious lack of ethics [...]

10 years too late.
in the moderator subreddit, the admins have stated several times that non-commercial access will remain free, and have skirted replying to direct questions, from what I can tell.
u/spez (reddit ceo) is doing a ama tomorrow.

>Hi Mods,

We’re providing a follow-up on the last API update we made to make sure our mods, developers, and users have clarity on changes we are (and aren’t) making.

API Free Access

This exists and continues to be available.

If usage is legal, non-commercial, and helps our mods, we won’t stand in your way. Moderators will continue to have access to their communities via the API - including sexually explicit content across Reddit. Moderators will be able to see sexually-explicit content even on subreddits they don't directly moderate.

We will ensure existing utilities, especially moderation tools, have free access to our API. We will support legal and non-commercial tools like Toolbox, Context Mod, Remind Me, and anti-spam detection bots. And if they break, we will work with you to fix them.

Developers can continue non-commercial usage of the API, free of charge within stated rates. Reddit is also covering hosting for apps via the Developer Platform, which uses the Data API.
While you may be right about most, I'll simply speak for myself and say that as a reddit user since 2009 with an embarrassingly large amount of reddit karma, I've deleted my reddit apps, bookmarks, and browser extension this week. My plan is to be more active on this site instead, and perhaps other smaller communities. It's been disgusting to me for the past few years how rare civil discourse has become on reddit, and this was basically the final straw for me.
You can search the space of evolutionarily adjacent entities faster by semicloning once and letting the fittest of those semiclone further, compounding the mutations. Such a strategy will likely out-compete a slower searching one into extinction.
well, since someone else named him (and btw, I just thought it was rude, that's all):

I think this is the talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBaQtsft2bM
It also doesn't hurt that advanced robotics (an area the west has traditionally done well in, sometimes being more advanced) has continued to have breakthroughs.

"lights out" manufacturing[0] can happen with more and more things. The humans in the process can become minimal (thus shifting more costs to fixed capital costs rather than variable costs)

[0]: https://www.roboticstomorrow.com/article/2016/10/is-a-robot-...
That’s a sector breakdown of emission. That doesn’t address my point at all. Everything human is people related at some point or we wouldn’t be doing it.

As you can see the most emitting sector is energy production. That’s mostly driven by countries using coal as energy source and countries with significant oil and gas reserves. It is a lever at the strategical and political level. Same with industry where gains are mostly achieved through regulation.

Construction is direly in need of innovation regarding its emission but unless you want people to sleep in the street remains somewhat unavoidable.

That leaves agricultures where people have a huge role to play by consuming less meat and somewhat transportation (even if that’s actually extremely linked to the offer of effective public transport).

For the rest and as much as I would like to believe in it, most actions I see people doing are actually fairly inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. I’m a bit annoyed by it because it somehow lulls people into thinking they are doing something for the problem while the actual issues stay unaddressed.
If you're looking for stuff at high school or college level, check out mathacademy.com

(No affiliation - just a happy customer.)
> If someone is unhappy with snap why use it?

That is largely the point. Though they are not using it by moving to a distro where it isn't “native” so they don't have to do things more manually for some packages that they need/want.
I started using it in my native language. The second sentence I spoke, it detected the first part correctly, but the second part it wrote in Chinese. The app told me sorry, I don't speak Chinese.
It's going to turn out that this who alien craft scenario is just another tool to hype up joining the military.
> If snaps are so cool why are there no similar concepts in other famous major desktops (even non Linux)?

APKs are pretty much the Android equivalent. In both cases the key features are sandboxing and bundling of dependencies. The stores also work roughly equivalently - like with snaps you can install an APK without a store, and that mechanism is what alternative stores use, but for full integration there's really just one: the Google Play Store.

iOS works pretty much the same way too, as far as I understand.