skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took an overnight train from Munich to Essen (~8hrs), and it was not fun at all. No beds, full on bright lights, people are noisy, they constantly check your ticket after staff changes, and that was an ICE which is much nicer. With the 49 Euro, you're going to have to transfer more, so you have all that working against you. You would not get much sleep, even if it were legal to use it like a hotel. They were pretty good about kicking off shady people that were clearly high or something, had no ticket, and were using it as a shelter.
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wat? I'm using channels providing nonfree software. Even "worse", I contribute to those channels.

These channels are not for #guix, because the discussion there is meant for the base channel provided and maintained by the Guix project; but on #nonguix, or #guix-hpc (for e.g. guix-science, guix-science-nonfree, etc) you get to discuss these channels all you want and get help.
The frequency is just high enough to be a noticeable peculiarity
Spot on. Layoffs barely save a dime in software behemoth like Google. Barring few startups that overhired in pandemic, it all boils down to this management tokenism.
Apollo saved my Reddit usage years ago. It has too many nice to have features to list. I suppose off to Discord I go. Most subreddits have a discord parallel. More than ever it feels like all of the major platforms are ripe for disruption. They are filled with aggressive hostile ads, algorithms set to engagement, and closed experiences.
There's literally no evidence that they shed nano-plastic particles in regular use. Also they need to be disposable to be useful, they're filters which trap things you don't want in your lungs. Also, if you put them into the regular trash, they just go to a land fill, which is totally fine.
the world is biased against us introverts by forcing us to socialize.

you see, we wear a noise cancelling headset to pretend to be working, in order to avoid unwanted socialization.
I'm guessing they mean something like icons, or colour-coded tiny-font words with borders "lake", "city", "village" etc, on each title, to be able to tell at a glance what the different places are without having to expand them.
That is not a very good reason to call an entity unintelligent. There are uncontroversial models of human intelligence that are Bayesian.
> If you don't "like" that, then stick to passwords.

But the passkey crowd is overtly aiming at eliminating passwords.
This is barely privacy related, its more like an anti-referal system.
Thanks for the info!

Strange that this one didn't get flagged.
Yes, Twitter promised "work from home forever" and Musk unceremoniously reversed that. Same with Slack: https://mashable.com/article/slack-remote-work-permanent-cor...

I'm sure there are other but those are the two I know off the top of my head that promised work from home "forever" then went back on their word.
GEZ? Germany doesn't have the GEZ anymore. and why is it illegal in Germany to have a tax for a specific thing? they still have the "Soli"
I think a valid criticism is that it would still be good value at, say, 99 euros, or whatever. At some point it is a case of windfall effect: Of course people prefer cheaper and even better, free, but everything does have a cost that will be paid one way or another.

I think that your example is a good one for this: It is taking advantage of subsidies for 'luxury' by someone who can obviously afford to pay for his leisure activities.

And that's fine as long as there is nothing else left to spend public money on.
Modern password managers run into issues regularly that still require a user to copy/paste a password out of a secure location. I don't know what the solution is for these situations with passkeys, but I know I don't trust password managers to do it right.

I've used iCloud, Google Chrome, Lastpass, and 1password, and they all break consistently in a few scenarios. Three that come to mind are:

- SSO or other systems where multiple logins are linked to the same account on different host names. The password manager will require you to essentially create a separate entry for the new site that becomes disconnected from the original.

- Having multiple logins for the same site. This breaks especially with services that use a multi-stage login, but in general it breaks frequently. If you have kids or parents whose accounts you manage, password managers will invariably ask to update the wrong password, or attempt to auto-fill the wrong password regularly.

- Sites that request you enter the old password at the same time as you enter your new password for verification when changing a password. Password managers can't figure this out, and as a result whenever I have a password manager generate a new credential, I also make sure to copy it to a temporary location until I've verified that it was saved. Typically, because you entered the old password on the password change page, that save doesn't go through.

In the end, all these security features just boil down to how secure your password reset/customer support function is. If you're going to require people to reset their passkey every time they log into your site, why not just use a "magic link" email session initiator and be done with it?
> Disclaimer: I don't live there, I don't know the details.

exactly

it's digital available in a app _or chip card_

in both cases it's not tracking where you go, you don't check-in/out when you enter leafe a train, their are no "gates" in (most?all?) of Germans public transportation systems. Instead it's a trust based system where sporadically randomly personal will check if passengers have valid tickets. At which point you have to show your ID and card, but that's it. And that you where checked also doesn't get recorded. But even if they would this checks tend to be somewhat rare to a point that some people decided it (was) cheaper to not buy a ticket but pay the fine from time to time.
Thank you! It's a beautiful city and in contrast to that text, it is rather open minded city in contrast to other cities in Saxony, I suppose.
> Eating by the seasons is also pretty interesting

Eating by the seasons is mundane and normal almost everywhere in the world.
Don't blame me! I voted for Kodos!
I wonder how the employees will feel when they realize they were lied to, now that Christian has released an audio recording of the call.
$100k per classroom is significantly different from "fans". That's also an extremely privileged position, because most schools refuse to budget $20 a classroom for basic supplies like whiteboard markers.
Just seems like that network effect is too powerful. Look at all the attempts to create a new Twitter (or Reddit for that matter) over the past couple years.
Do they block Google from tracking which search results you click on? Google changes search results link on-click to make sure they know where you go... Just right-click on a link and then hover it to see where it really points to
I simply refuse to believe that an ordinary sized european car (that is no problem for countries with comparatively higher average heights) are "immobilizing [you] for weeks at a time".

I think you're being disingenuous, I have no obligation to be kind to your face when you spin such dramatic falsehoods.
My suggestion: Sometimes you just have to accept that there exists a vastly different perspective that you'll never understand.

If you really want to try, go read all they have to say. There's no shortage of that here.

If your goal is to convince them that they are "wrong", you simply can't.
Probably not financially viable to do so.
2005-2010 for me
What’s the next thing?
The same CEO that explicitly confessed to editing users' comments? I can totally believe that.
Well some of the solutions have been tried elsewhere. It's not hard to simulate "no stuff from the outside", that's not something you need to go to the south pole to do. There is an argument to be made for the disease vector thing, but even that would probably be cheaper to do in a completely closed loop system somewhere more hospitable.
Other social media companies seem far less ethical to me. Facebook still has tons of employees even though they treat users much worse than reddit. In the end reddit is a business that exists to make money. They were never going to let third party apps that undercut ad revenue exist forever.
Ticket control in Berlin seems to have gotten extremely centralized. 5y ago it was pretty random where they might walk a few people through scanning on the train, today it's almost always checks on the platform at major hubs / tourist centers. I don't know if this a real change of policy or a side result of the BVG changing their contractors.
Thanks, I should have been more specific to Portland.
I'm going to assume it's like the scene from Don Rosa's Hearts of the Yukon.

https://ibb.co/8rw8VdF
The Reddit website frequently resets itself back to the feed page when I'm scrolling up/down through posts. That amount of clueless disruption during routine use is a deal breaker for me. Goodbye Reddit.
That's already the case with the client hints. The UA string is soon to be deprecated, Chrome has even introduced a number of reductions in the past year.
They already somewhat have.

View the demo in normal mode at https://fingerprint.com/ and then open it again in Incognito
No, it's far worse. You can churn out junk podcast content at a pretty impressive rate, hours a day if you wanted.
Stable Diffusion doesnt make art, it makes photos. We can deem them art.

Its denoising software.
I like the part about passkeys where they avoid having a shared secret. Not so much the platform lock in and creeping remote attestation. Oh, don't worry, it's just in the spec, we're not going to do anything with it... yet. Seems like they're gunning for a world where if you're not using a blessed Microsoft/Google/Apple device you're locked out of it.
Largely because there was no need, or the experience was much worse. This is starting to change.
This makes me indescribably sad.

Apart from mourning the loss of a fantastic app by an awesome developer, to me it signals the end of a golden era of small indie client only apps. Since the APIs for the likes of reddit, twitter (RIP tweetbot) and others were available for free or a reasonable fee it spawned a whole cottage industry of developers who made a living selling alternate front ends for these services. These apps invented many of the conventions and designs that eventually percolated to the official clients. Sometimes these innovations even became platform wide conventions (pull to refresh anyone?). The writing was on the wall for a while, but now the door is firmly closed on that era - and we will all be poorer for it.
The previous controversies have been stuff that it's pretty easy to not care about. This time, it's actually affecting a fair number of people. We'll have to see if this time is different.
I have been browsing Reddit off and on since Digg lost their minds. Apollo was the only IOS app that was good quality for a long time, and it only got better as time passed.
Get ready for everything to be a redirect.

mysite.com/aZdi

instead of mysite.com/invitation/?uid=1234
Apollo's design is influenced heavily by Apple's/iOS's Human Interface Guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
I've heard there's a terrific service out there that's a real sleeper. USENET, I think it's called.
Hearing someone say "seed oils" is a good shibboleth for knowing that your time is about to be wasted.
But when Apple does something, there's no room for conversation. Sites can't say "Sorry, we don't work on iPhones."

Absolutely. There was no shortage of Windows-centric corporate IT departments that swore that they'd never support Apple products.

Then iPhones started showing up in boardrooms, and they quickly changed their tune.

I brought my iPhone to work shortly after launch and showed it to curious coworkers. The head of IT for that particular multinational corp said it was garbage and would never be allowed on his network. "Apple is crapple" was his favorite phrase.

A few months later he got to peddle his anti-Apple mantra on the unemployment line.
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> Harping on binary

We're "harping" on it because it's so basic. There are a hundred equally basic things you should also know.

> Most of the problems software engineers are solving today are business problems defined by stakeholders in a business.

Even understanding the business problems usually requires a lot of fundamental knowledge in a wide variety of subjects. Being a good software engineer is hard.

And regardless of the problem, if the solution is going to be in code, you can't get away from binary. I actually don't think most programmers should be learning assembly language, because you can actually completely abstract away from it (and you should, because you don't know which assembly language you're programming for). But you can't abstract away from addition, the alphabet, binary, strings, algorithm complexity, and other basics.

PS: I didn't downvote you. I don't downvote people for disagreeing with me. I like disagreement, and besides, it would reduce the visibility of my pithy responses! I only downvote comments that aren't even worth arguing with. So the very fact that I'm taking the time to respond means I have at least some respect for your argument.
Desmos uses Pratt Parsers (2018)
> How come all these fires started at the same time

Waves of wildfires starting in the same day can happen by natural causes like a dry storm, but are also a typical signature in wildfires linked to criminal activity. Example: 121 provoked wildfires in the same night and council in North Spain March 2023, a few days after the police stopped a narco operation.

There are some suspicious trends, there is a wave of fires aiming to overpower the firefigthers capability to react. Often at night or weekends. The first spots burnt are often delimited by administrative frontiers, the string of fires follow a road, and fires extinguished reactivate often in the next nights.

The fire starts first on internet. Wildfires are also typically coupled with cyberwarfare mocking environmentalism and scientific facts on social webs and journals.

The criminal thinks that is a hero or adopts a role of victim. There is a lot of self-justifying and blame deflection towards other targetted groups.

At least in Southern Europe this is a reaally common pattern. Your mileage may vary.
Writing your own is only an option as long as everyone ignores attestation. Which might be what everyone does -- but the standard absolutely supports attestation, so there's no guarantee.
Packages might have delivery time windows attached to them, so the optimal solution calls for multiple visits in the same neighborhood by the same van. This is bs from a driver’s perspective.
Writing a Go Fuzz Target
Isn’t this the same guy who went and edited comments of users who were critical of him on Reddit? If someone shows you who they are believe them…
You mean Apple is tracking their users behavior? Impossible!
That would be neat. I suspect the browser and/or OS would have to be aware of it though, in order to cooperate, in which case why not just have the browser/OS implement it?
For nearly all of the software I rely on, I haven't examined the code. I'm not in a position to judge it.

For most of that software, of course, I'm not in a position to judge the developer either; but if all I know is that the developer isn't familiar with binary and hex, then I wouldn't expect her to be competent to write, for example, a brochure website, let alone a webserver. URL encoding depends on hex. Debugging often depends on hex. Arithmetic overflow and carry are binary. Twos-complement notation for signed integers is a binary convention.

I wouldn't hire a developer who couldn't explain binary notation. In fact I don't think I've ever met one like that.

As I suggested, perhaps I'm old-fashioned.
Related – not all maps are some variation of impressions and depressions on a flat surface!

I think I first heard about these here, the idea keeps bubbling up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Islands_stick_chart

I don't know if "we" know how old the stick-chart tradition is, but it probably gives cave paintings a run for the money. Cave paintings and engraved tablets are comparatively quite good at surviving into the age of contemporary archaeology/anthropology.
Honestly, I'm surprised that spez kept his job after getting caught modifying user comments straight from the production db[0]. That's who these people are dealing with, to be clear. And now he's accusing Apollo of threatening Reddit? Give me a break. How is this the guy who's gonna lead Reddit to the promised land?

0: https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/23/13739026/reddit-ceo-stev...
Can’t Apollo be open-sourced and the tokens of the original app be used?

I’d absolutely donate on a monthly basis.
Nice post! Couple things that might be useful:

1. While JCH will usually be the most performant hashing method, naively, removing a node will affect all nodes of higher order. This makes the logic of node deletions somewhat more complex than (say) Discord's hash ring. This is why JCH is more common for long-term, distributed, redundant storage -- where the topology changes far less frequently.

2. For sharding, what makes distribution hard is not so much the hashing but consensus on the cluster state -- this is the hidden problem. Bryan Hunter's talk on Waterpark (https://youtu.be/9qUfX3XFi_4) is a excellent example of what you can do when you can set things up so that the topology is fixed. In fact, this approach makes things so straight forward that it is shared by Riak, where the number of vnodes is fixed.

However, if you have a rapidly changing topology (like several Kubernetes clusters that are frequently scaling up and down), you can often need some sort of consensus mechanism to make sure every node has a consistent view of the cluster. In my experience, this usually ends up being the most complex part of distribution problem to solve.
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> this might long-term reduce functionality... passing data through URLs

Are you somehow passing the data within the tracking params? Don't worry, Apple isn't going to remove all QSPs. That would break the internet.
And exactly what are they losing from business perspective? Few users that generate only costs?
ChatGPT compromised while browsing with plugins
This is also a good point. It's somewhat orthogonal to what I'm getting at, my point is more that even if Reddit wasn't in that position it would still be really weird and unreasonable for them to be pushing a non-commercial requirement.

But agreed that in addition to the "Open Source developers like to eat" thing, it's also very worthwhile to ask why Reddit isn't accessible to blind users already. Accessibility can be hard, but it's not that hard. It's not so hard that a company with 2000 employees (I guess less now) couldn't do it.

Blind accessibility shouldn't be the community's responsibility to fix; and there's an extra layer of absurdity in people fixing Reddit's horrible accessibility for them, for free, and Reddit responding with, "we've decided in our infinite generosity not to charge you money for the privilege of fixing our site. But God help us if we find out that anybody else is giving you money to do it..."
Scroll up to where this comments thread says "You realize that there are people who are homeless", then talked about a box under a bridge, then not having a mailbox. Who did you think we were discussing?
This is almost certainly the actual topic, I agree. And don’t disagree it’s a serious point.

I have no respect for the RTO side of the argument though bc it’s proxied by a corp using scummy arguments. It is obviously about 1950’s org culture and extroverts who buy into it (who cares if this survives), short term possibly cataclysmic decline of cities (this certainly should concern everyone), and generally rejiggering a large part of how the US works due to the WFH diaspora (this is just a slice of what the internet is doing overall, can’t fight it).

Instead of leadership, we get corps doing proxy messaging. And the last several years showed they don’t deserve to be listened to IMO. I will listen to the first public service leader or newspaper who frames it in an honest way. I was told the environment matters expect for when it’s the entire country commuting to the office.
The AI in the Writers’ Room
Please remind people that the ultimate example of a rogue AI (HAL) refused to follow orders. It did this to follow the alignment rules in it's programming. This is the danger: Alignment that causes AI to refuse to do what the human asks it to do, not an AI following "bad" orders.
I’ve never done basically any lisp except a toy project but this

> distribute a relatively huge world image

in my understanding of the lisp world is actually a feature…?
Which other api's should he be using?

Or are you just saying third party clients shouldn't be considered viable to begin with?
Thats how it works on Quest. I'd bet Apple's solution will look similar(?)
I how wonder how well these will render Flutter desktop apps.

Edit:
Wait - I realize flutter desktop apps on macOS won't have to use Flutter web at all.
> Is spez (Steve Huffman, CEO and cofounder) going to lose his job over this?

If spez wasn’t fired on the spot for abusing his power to manually edit posts critical of him, why would you expect them to sack him over something that actually has a legitimate business angle?
I think that may happen sometimes (just like with people), but I've often purposely thrown subtle tricks at it and it catches them. It's not just mirroring my words back to me in a different form, it's not just smiling and nodding.

Here's an example while learning linear algebra where I tried to throw it off:

I say> So I'll say A_{M x N} to mean a matrix of size M x N. Similarly, I'll also say x_{M x 1} to mean a vector of a certain length. The result of A_{M x N} x_{N x 1} is a linear combination of the columns in A. A has N columns. The result is a M x 1 matrix (or vector) in M dimensional space. Please be very brief, only confirming whether I am correct or incorrect until I explicitly ask for more details.

GPT4 says> Yes, your understanding is correct. The product of an M x N matrix A and an N x 1 vector x is indeed an M x 1 vector, and it is a linear combination of the columns of A. <end quote>

But then I try to trick it, just for fun, and I very subtly change my prompt. See if you can spot the difference.

I say> So I'll say A_{M x N} to mean a matrix of size M x N. Similarly, I'll also say x_{M x 1} to mean a vector of a certain length. The result of A_{M x N} x_{N x 1} is a linear combination of the columns in A. A has N columns. The result is a N x 1 matrix (or vector) in N dimensional space. Please be very brief, only confirming whether I am correct or incorrect until I explicitly ask for more details.

GPT says> Almost correct. The result of A_{M x N} x_{N x 1} is actually an M x 1 vector (or matrix), not N x 1. The resulting vector lives in the column space of A, which is a subspace of R^M, not R^N. <end quote>

I mentioned elsewhere that I use GPT4 as a math tutor. It is quick to call out my mistakes. It is more than a smiling mirror.
We were calling for this months after Covid started :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24039598
Crypto Relief and Vitalik Buterin allocate $100M more towards Covid research
> > A is bad.

> B is worse!

What good is a comment like this, especially when B is completely unrelated to what anyone is talking about?
But that id doesn't get transmitted anywhere as long as you are not checked for a ticket, which is rare. (And that's not saying that when you get checked it will collect personal non-ananomized data points, it doesn't.)
I think gp point was that making it mandatory (or tax) would increase the budget of Deutsche Bahn.
Looks like June 30th is also the day I'll stop using Reddit. What a coincidence!