skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was definitely a revolutionary concept. Subsequent lawsuits, e.g. with Quattro and 1-2-3, determined it wasn't IP-protectable for the most part. But VisiCalc absolutely laid out a fundamentally incredibly important application model for which the creators never made a lot of money. (And fundamentally different variants of VisiCalc never went much of anywhere.)

The same could be said of the web but this is even truer.
If you RTFA you will note it specifically calls out the multiple models tested. It also points out that these are evolutionarily conserved pathways, so of course the translatability chances are higher than baseline. To top it off, some of those pathways have already been associated with increased healthspan and lifespan in many other studies.

I am interested in informed skepticism, because this is kinda compelling.

Disclaimer: I don't really know shit.
QBD is a great tool and has been an inspiration (even though we compete)
It has 50k users paying yearly. There's supposedly more users paying monthly, and yet more that got the "lifetime" deal. I'm part of the later category.
> Their persecution and abuse of users makes Reddit the cesspool that it is.

That's not what made Reddit seem like a cesspool to me. It was the commenters.
>(are there any here on HN?)

While I'm not slinging manuscriots left & rught, my coauthor and I got the below linked one into Frontiers last year. The reviewers' feedback was all based on the substance. The formst we had submitted was Google Docs printed to PDF. There might have been a standard Frontiers template or font choice I started from from the outset, I can't remember but I definitely wasn't using their standard reference format in-line in the manuscript, as doing so would have made some sections and tables nigh-on unreadable for the reviewers without a lot of formatting effort.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2022.9099...
Manufacturing employment is roughly at the same place now that it was in 2020, and still substantially lower than where it would have been had the pre-pandemic trend continued, and even that was nowhere near returning the US to pre-2008 levels.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP

Construction spending is a terrible proxy for manufacturing - both because the size of a building you need isn't pegged to the value of your output (e.g. a $100 million dollar shop making aerospace components might have a tiny fraction of the footprint of a $1 million sweatshop making t-shirts), and because the cost of factory construction is determined by the cost of construction in general (i.e. if there was a real estate boom building residential buildings then you're competing with that for construction materials, equipment, labor, etc).
I highly recommend reading this. VisiCalc is the original spreadsheet and Bricklin details the whole story of its invention. So many gems about how he got around constraints, and added others to make the user experience simple. And spreadsheets still basically behave the same today!
Many companies start with something like "don't be evil", and it (almost always) ends predictably.

Money ruin everything, sooner or later.

> Let's choose differently.

Let's. Patiently waiting for it to happen somewhere.

> I stay because I trust my leadership.

You know what? You better don't listen to me. I'm too cynical for this.
I have no love for the CCS connector, but I've been exclusively driving a BEV with a CCS connector for more than a year and many of your complaints are completely foreign to me.

> most CCS chargers just fail to start charging

There's one charger in my neighborhood that is sometimes fiddly, but the vast majority of my charging experiences have been problem free.

> Usually the car is expecting current when it is plugged in, and by the time you open up the app and figure out how to pay, the car has given up on the charger and won't charge when the charger is ready.

I've never had anything like this experience. What charging network are you using? Electrify America chargers have credit card readers and don't require an app. EVGo chargers allow you to either use an app or tap an EVGo card. A bit annoying, I concede, but I have never had the timeout issue you describe. I'm also not sure what this complaint has to do with CCS. [Edit: Reading other comments, maybe EVGo chargers have CC readers too? Maybe I've just never noticed it because I have the EVGo payment card.]

> The CCS connector is hideous

No denying this one!

>The CCS connector...sags under its own weight

Not mine!
I like the markup language and the app looks nice but I just can't comfortably dump database schemas into random web apps.
Are people downvoting this comment because they disagree with the political affiliation?
All the guides I’ve ever found are for American companies. Does anybody know of a good resource for Canadian startups?
> but I really want to get rid of it because of snaps

If you want something on the desktop that is close enough to Ubuntu but without the snaps, you might want to have a look at Linux Mint: https://linuxmint.com/

Or some might also just use Debian with a desktop environment installed, there's not too many reasons to not do that.
It seems too ambiguous to judge, honestly.

It seems like he was trying to invoke a sort of ironic use of quiet down to ease the situation, but ironic extortion is still extortion.
Yes...

https://tecl.ink/2023/06/apples-vision-pro-wearable-headset-...
This can vary by BPE tokenizer. The original GPT-2/GPT-3 was weirder about it.
Regardless of the menu problem.

Why could he just heard for Notepad in the start menu and open it there? Rather than going through the process of gutting out a publisher file.
The Netherlands unveils nationwide contactless transport payment system
> a paid model that it would be at a reasonable cost

What does this even mean? "Reasonable" is subjective - and from Reddit's perspective, I'd bet they believe the fees are reasonable.

It's on the business operator to mitigate risk. Apollo didn't do that - and is now throwing in the towel instead of charging their customer's more.

> set punitively high prices and gave barely a month's notice.

Apollo has had since April to figure out a new billing model - but sat on their hands hoping whatever Reddit came up with could be afforded with their existing $10 per year per user model. Say it out loud - it's absurd.
Gravitational waves from supermassive black holes may be right around the corner
Unions don't make business decisions.
500k a year is not "making bank". To Reddit this is the cost of a couple of devs.

There is/was a Reddit ecosystem, it's not a zero sum game. It seems short-sighted.
I have been under the impression that the embedded vector is the one actually matters. Token is just another format.
In the consumer world, the only other high voltage high power DC thing you might encounter is solar panels.

They could theoretically have an NACS connector on them, but it would be quite a change to the solar industry. At the moment, solar panels are 'dumb', and all the smarts are in the inverter. If solar panels used the NACS connection, they could report temperatures, serial numbers, etc to the inverter.
Rather than shut down, it would be a great time for all these clients to get together and decide on an official alternative site to reddit, and start supporting that. If they did it en-masse and in a coordinated fashion, it might be enough social momentum to achieve escape velocity on the new site.
The reason it's not discussed much is that what goes on downstream of tokenization is extremely opaque. It's lots of layers of the transformer network so the overall structure is documented but what exactly those numbers mean is hard to figure out.

There's an article here where the structure of an image generation network is explored a bit:

https://openai.com/research/sparse-transformer

They have a visualization of what the different layers are paying attention to.

There are also some good explanations of transformers elsewhere online. This one is old but I found it helpful:

http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/
It’s not you — this handbook is purely about incorporation, and doesn’t go into what happens after incorporation. We go into that a bit in a handbook we wrote previously, here: handbooks.clerky.com/legal-concepts/formation#shareholder-agreements
Well good news then since Tesla is "The design and specification files are available for download, and we are actively working with relevant standards bodies to codify Tesla’s charging connector as a public standard. Enjoy."

https://www.tesla.com/blog/opening-north-american-charging-s...

I do agree that the connector needs to be a public standard and the licensing fee needs to be kept to a minimal.

(I am against free solely to cover the cost of standard validation similar to WiFi. As we see from USB-C, having 1000 companies of various quality developing charging cable is a disaster, but now it's 400V 500Amp connector.)
HoloLens stopped being a focus of Microsoft and it shows in the product

https://tecl.ink/2023/06/apples-vision-pro-wearable-headset-...
Meta can churn out high quality screens as well as Apple, for a price.

But they didn’t.

The more compelling angle is how they have nailed the interface with eye and hand tracking and if this works as well in real-world environments as it did in their demo setup.

This is what I was referring to when mentioned implementation. To paraphrase you I could retort: “Meta could have spent the time perfecting the interface but chose not to.”. I don’t see the relevance of such thinking though.
We haven't gotten to a VSCode extension yet, but it is on the roadmap!

Visibly has some auto transitions built in (ie. auto transitions threads to `addressed` when the diff becomes outdated and auto transitions threads to `in-progress` when the author reacts / comments back) and allows you to change a thread's status via `/v <command>` in comments. These have been a workaround for some of our existing teams, but it is something we'd like to address in the future.
I received my Bluesky invitation a few weeks ago, and from what I can tell Bluesky in its curent state is full of people sharing screenshots from Twitter and complaining about Twitter.

It doesn't feel vibrant to me at all. If anything, it began as an echo chamber on day one and doesn't seem to want to be anything else. As someone who has been on Twitter since early 2008, it certainly doesn't remind me of an early Twitter.
Ireland (and I suspect other European countries) seem to have found a good model.

Right now, we have the following:

- FTTH networks (3 - POTS successor, electric company, government rollout)
- cable TV networks in urban areas (docsis, fiber coming allegedly)
- fixed wireless
- 4g / 5g fixed installs
- 4g / 5g hotspots
- LEO / geostationary satellite

For most technologies (except cable), there is competition through retail companies that rely on wholesale providers for the network. Residents in urban areas typically have access to 1-2 high speed (FTTH / fast docsis) options but coverage is still variable countrywide.

In most urban areas, there are metro networks that businesses can tap into which reduces the cost of landing (diverse) fibers.
Louisiana Passes Bill Banning Kids from the Internet Without Parental Consent
If you read the section titled "Bizarre allegations by Reddit of Apollo "blackmailing" and "threatening" Reddit", he is directly addressing Steve. He starts with the transcript of the private mod call with Steve and then begins addressing Steve directly. The "you" in that section is the Steve Huffman he had calls with who heard the "threatening" bit
You cannot plug a Tesla into a normal outlet without a brick of an adaptor.
The results of smart decisions take more than 1 electoral cycle to become apparent, so it seems more of a problem of the fundamental structure and incentives.
he should make his GUI work with that.
Dad just thought it was stupid
> You're forgetting the adage, "there is no such thing as bad press"

Yeah, but that adage has never been true. It's just something said by people who get bad press to make themselves feel better.
The act that is alleged to be tortious interference has to be improper for it to actually potentially be tortious interference (see farther down on the page you quoted).

There's nothing obviously improper about a site replacing a free API with a paid API even if it causes problems for those who relied on the API being free.
Thank You. Yes, No need for me to be pre-emptively snarky.
kratom.
They were supposed to have all of the billing framework figured out for monthly subscription model. The exact pricing could have been a variable set when the changes pushed into production.

30 days is ample notice to Apollo's users.

Apollo has had since April to figure out how to make a monthly subscription work, on a technical level. Now... having done nothing smart in the meantime, are left with very little time to make the changes. That is 100% on Apollo.
r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes
>that should probably be the bottom option of a three-tier monthly price matrix.

I'm so annoyed with three-tier monthly price matrices. It's honestly a red flag for me at this point.
A dedicated absolute value instruction would save exactly one instruction every time you do absolute value, and both of the instructions for naive absolute value are already pretty fast. Dedicated L/TZCNT instructions save a dozen or so instructions every time you do that operation, and some 'clever' ways to do it might use fewer instructions but some are fairly slow instructions.

Amdahl's law. You don't gain a lot of benefit by improving something which is already fast.
Taurine may slow the aging process
What’s out there? I genuinely don’t know of any that would fit the Reddit data model.
Build a alternative reddit api that is 1:1 and then wire that up to alternative content sources? RSS to start as a POC?
I believe cars' steering are analog because it would too expensive to achieve the required level of reliability.

Planes are crazy expensive anyway,so fly-by-wire can be afforded.
Nah. They bought and then just killed a vastly superior mobile app (to their own thing) years ago with Alien blue. If they _wanted_ to get something better, they would have done it.
leverage.
It's not hard, just expensive. Airdropping supplies through winter was routine until it was cut for budgetary reasons.
This completely writes off the difficulty of and time required to build a great mobile app. If it was simple and easy Reddit would have just made their own instead of buying out an existing one.
HCl will do nothing to glass. It's strong bases that will dissolve glass (a little), and your digestive system doesn't have any.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks company's AI efforts to employees
> While, you and I would expect whole-words to be tokens, many tokens are shorter - 3 to 4 characters - and don't always match the sentence structure you and I expect.

There is a phenomenon called Broca's Aphasia which is, essentially, the inability to connect words into sentences. This mostly prevents the patient from communicating via language. But patients with this condition can reveal quite a bit about the structure of the language they can no longer speak.

One example discussed in The Language Instinct is someone who works at (and was injured at) a mill. He is unable to produce utterances that are more than one word long, though he seems to do well at understanding what people say to him. One of his single-word utterances, describing the mill where he works, is "Four hundred tons a day!".

This is the opposite of what you describe, a single token that is longer than one word in the base language instead of being shorter. But it appears to be the same kind of thing.

By the way, if you study a highly inflectional language such as Latin or Russian, you will lose the assumption that interpretive tokens should be whole words. You'd still expect them to align closely with sentence structure, though.
Wait until you hear about Bluetooth. Or HDMI.

Open standards with nominal fees are pretty standard.
Jenny Odell wrote a book about that: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/600671/how-to-do-no...
3 weeks, actually
Err why? The css adds a lot of flavor, generally doesn’t get in the way of functionality.
It's unclear from the article if that's representative of either 1) Total time spent formatting or 2) The marginal increase in time spent formatting above what it would take to follow some other common format.

#2 seems less likely, since, well, there isn't really a common format, as the article points out, so there's no default that researchers would use as a baseline.

That leaves #1. But a paper has to be formatted somehow, and that's always going to take time. So the $230M cost the article cites is going to be at least a little smaller when you take out the time it takes to write up anything at all using a consistent style and format, whether it's your own or something imposed on you.

And I can tell you based on my own profession & day to day work, format & presentation is extremely important in making it easier for your audience to consume information, and this is especially true with complex or novel information.

Undoubtedly the industry can and should do better. There should be common standards. It would smooth readability and comprehension. But it's not going to completely eliminate the rough $/hour equivalent this article is citing.

Also consider that different fields will be conveying different types of information, or have audiences with different skillsets, so there's not a one-size-fits-all approach here. Style & formatting guidelines, even made as common as possible, will still by necessity be different in different disciplines.
Magnesium taurate is a must for just everybody!
Hi guys I'm developing an MVP for a social media scheduler and auto-poster powered by AI, do you guys recommend focusing on a specific platform or spreading out across multiple platforms, and why? Thank you for any input, seriously appreciate it!
Speaking of trackpad, I have never touched a mouse ever again since I started using Mac and it’s been 7 years now.
Huh. I personally don’t get the issue this individual has with Hacker News. So I assume I'm part of the problem, then?
No doubt. I should say, 30% non-judgmentally. It is worth it for other reasons.
The "Why not just increase the price of Apollo" section says he's already sold 50,000 yearly subscriptions at normal price. He's going to offer a pro-rated refund and, at that point, he'll be out $250,000 of revenue he already recognized while still having all of the lifetime user loss to contend with. Even if he could optimize the API usage to halve it in the next 30 days that's still $1.25/m ($15/y) in API fees per user. After the App Store cut, the $20/y would only barely cover API cost of users who sign back up. Something like $30/y might make more sense to cover overall cost and bring in profit but then it comes to the question of "is it really worth trying to put all of this effort in to save a fraction of the userbase and MRR with a company that won't even give him more than a months notice to make these kinds of changes".

While I think there is a way to keep Apollo running in some form or another, I by no means blame them for going to this hill to let it die on. Waaaay too much work for far too little reward to have the burden of massive risk from dependency on Reddit's future whims lingering in the background.
It absolutely does compare. Especially when people start talking about how cryptocurrency was "made for crime". They sound a lot like those tiresome politicians complaining about pedophiles and terrorists "going dark" for the nth time.
It's one of the biggest games in the world, so I can see the appeal of targeting Minecraft players, especially since a lot of them are children and don't know what's going on. I checked my sons computer for this malware yesterday, and luckily he wasn't infected, but I ran OSForensics on his computer afterwards to see if he did get infected what kind of data an attacker might be able to get, and there was all sorts of PII from myself and my wife having used that computer before at one point or another. I'm sure with such a large install base there's plenty of opportunity to steal lots of valuable info.
> What charging network are you using?

Mostly EVGo.

At my nearest EVGo station all 3 chargers don't work. 1 has its software eternally crashed, the other never starts charging and only accepts MasterCard (no Visa), and the app fails to start charging. The 3rd has a physically broken connector.

There is no "call for help" button like elevators have, so I just go to a Tesla Supercharger instead.
Or I could use WebMD. What's the difference?
And now they're experimenting with using it in road paving.
> It is really astounding to see the CEO of Reddit being caught in a blatant lie denigrating a third party developer whose work has done a lot for the platform and who has the ear of a reasonably sized and loud portion of the community.

I would like to be astounded. But Reddit has taken $1.4 billion in venture capital, meaning they are expected to make VCs well more than that. And one way that can happen is aggressively juicing the short-term numbers and IPOing, so that VCs can dump their holdings before everybody realizes that they were sold a bill of goods. I suspect that they were thinking nobody would catch them like this. Or that even if they did, people would have forgotten by the IPO pop.

I think there's a fundamental conflict of interest in the business models of web communities. I saw somebody sum up Web 2.0 as "you do all the work, we make all the money", which totally applies to Reddit. Those communities can work well on a pay-the-bills basis. But investors generally don't give a shit about communities; they just want money. So from the perspective of the economic rational actor, the right thing to do is to strip-mine the years of goodwill built up, maximizing short-term revenue. That will set the business up for long-term failure, but by that point it will have been sold off.

That's an important part of the private equity playbook and has been for a while. A good example is Simmons Mattress: https://archive.nytimes.com/dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/...

And Cory Doctorow has been talking about this as enshittification: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
Dropbox Is Down
> reduces the amount 10,000 people need to read the paper

Honestly, I’d wager most papers are read by a handful of people at best. Only the /most/ (top 1% or less) popular authors and papers get hundreds or thousands of real reads.
Might as well develop your own OS
I've heard these new API fees would result in monthly subscription numbers between $2 and $5/month. I'd pay $5 to keep my third party app (which isn't Apollo). I fully believe that _most_ users aren't interested in paying these fees. But I'm skeptical that there are so few that _none_ of these 3rd party apps will stay afloat. I've got to believe that if none of the current big players want to stay in, someone else will come along soon.