skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the connection between these two events. Why would an IPO mean that Reddit has to crack down on adult content? We've seen this with many online platforms over the years, again and again, but I just don't understand it. Can somebody please explain?
I think the closest analog is Tildes.

https://tildes.net/
Given that data collection companies would have long since archived your comments into their data stores, deleting all of your comments after a few years is likely only harming everyone else trying to read old threads through the website (rather than data collection archives).

It’s becoming increasingly frustrating to read old Reddit threads about technical issues where someone went back and deleted all of their posts. Trying to guess what was discussed by reading every other comment is a frustrating experience.
Useful news. I just RDP into a jump box if I need something Windows from my M1 macbook, but having a subset of that available on the same machine would be really helpful.
Readability isn't the best. Also what you present here is method chaining and not functional pipes.
Funk & Wagnalls also had an English dictionary in the early 1970s with excellent etymologies, which seem absent from dictionaries when i've looked in a Barnes and Noble store.
Delightful. Thank you!
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/options-for-usin...

I think they are saying that you can either stream a remote desktop, or run it in a virtualization tool and the license permits this. I don't think this means that Microsoft supports running Windows 11 natively on Mac M1 or M2. Which IMHO would be really nice (I prefer Windows as my OS but right now the Macs have a better hardware).
Could you please share what have they got stuck on?
Does anyone know what the "joke" thats being referenced is? I'm not super in the weeds here, but none of the posted material looks like a joke or "joke" one way or another.
right, but you introduced "breaking up" into the conversation
There's a noteworthy pattern I've observed over the last 24 months.

I founded a design subscription service for startups [1]. Many founders are increasingly tapping into subscription based services, whether that’s for design, development, sales etc. to help them reach a certain level of scalability.

Historically we’d have a harder time getting clients, but for many startups having these plug & play teams makes the startup much more lean. You don’t have to provide a gazillion employee benefits or other cash draining things.

its nuts how so many startups just burn through their VC money buying things that do not directly impact their product and business.

A startup should do nothing except build something people love. To do so find more economic and effecient ways to get to product market fit asap. You can do all of the fun stuff later.

[1] http://fairpixels.pro
There is also a fork that has very basic initial support for Skyrim. Here are videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@PetrMikheev/videos
https://www.youtube.com/@cc9cii/videos
This is my feeling as well, but I find that going up against Star Wars fans is a pointless and unrewarding endeavor.
Thinking about buying one. Would I be wrong in assuming it was just a matter of the order: (really) heat the pan, add the oil, and then whatever you need to cook?
I recall the tech gap between original iPhone and Android wasn't that big. Apple had no custom CPUs or display tech. The tech gap between Quest and Vision is more like Atari vs Macintosh. One is a toy and other is a workstation.
NACS to CCS adapters should be possible. Tesla is already doing it on their chargers that support magic dock.
no, you gotta be much more deep in your reasoning this "high" up

philosophically, at this height, the principle of "justice" is to not so simple... what does it even mean "to be just"? may as well say "be good" but the point is that the issue is good for whom?

the concept is "Empire"... USA government is the empire? aside question: can there ever exist multiple "empires"? monotheistic~ally speaking?

uff... My English prose is answering its own questions... I am no longer deeply disturbed by this phenomenon... but it's not something scientifically real so it still shakes me.
> it’s just a fundamental problem in science and engineering.

In my opinion is is a problem not of science and engineering, but of human greed.

We do not need these products, we want them. As a species we did fine without them but suddenly in the last 100 years we need the so desperately?

Adding, no one can give me a response, just downvotes. Why is the aversion to speaking about greed so strong here on hacker news?
No, you are correct, I flipped objective/subjective.
Aside: There is a specific clinical diagnosis associated with this kind of obsessive perfectionism, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive–compulsive_personali...

OCPD is quite different from the similarly-named Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), in part because people with OCPD tend to not see their obsessive thoughts and behavior as a problem, even when they are sabotaging their lives.
> I think a lot of startups were just trying to be 'rent-seekers'. Placing themselves between customer and product/service suppliers and trying to make money by providing a small service. Or sometimes just trying to grab all the inventory and auction it off at higher prices.

That's the whole "drop-shipping" industry.
I disagree. There’s a huge amount of garbage out there, sure, but some communities are super active and can be used for learning. Take the PowerShell community for example or SysAdmin. I pop on those regularly to ask and answer questions. Google questions related to IT (and I’m assuming other areas of interest) and I bet there’s a Reddit post that comes up in the top 5-10 results (along with stack and other well known forums).
Subreddits are not communities like forums were, on forums you'd get your regular cohort of people alongside newcomers and you'd start to recognise names, in jokes etc.

I don't think Reddit has that same vibe, I barely 'know' anyone on the subreddits I frequent as the nature of it is transitory, at least for the topics I'm interested in, people will stop by to ask a question and leave or lurk.

That's not to say I don't enjoy using Reddit, it's just not the same as forums.
> Anyone who wants to use the records to improve healthcare.

This is so nebulous. Anyone can claim they want to improve healthcare. The removal of abortion access has also been repeatedly been justified as improving healthcare. The Tuskeegee experiments (where they just let black men live with a curable, debilitating disease and continually lied to them about their suffering, some of them to their graves) was justified as improving healthcare. "Wanting to improve healthcare" does not preclude people from horrifically unethical behavior. Get better standards if you want to be accessing the private information of people without their consent.
Personally, I think it's reasonable for a small 1-2 person shop, but if you are planning a larger company it's pretty irresponsible to build it around someone's API like this. If you can't feasibly replace a given API, then you're business is incredibly fragile, and I think it's unfair to employ a large number of people in a fragile business without clearly stating to them that they could all be unemployed in an instant.
Why not point Apollo at a Reddit alternative, or use the open-source code for Reddit (or code like this https://github.com/libertysoft3/saidit) instead of shutting it down?

If Apollo's users (or a good percentage of them) moved over to an alternative platform, that would be poetic justice, at least.

To go even further, all the app devs should get together and create a new platform or pick one Reddit alternative and point all their apps at it.

That way it would be even more likely to get critical mass quickly.
3 weeks should be enough time to come up with a coordinated plan. Don't let Reddit push you out -- push them out and let your users stick with the app they love.

Reddit is only its users, nothing else. They don't own the users' loyalty -- the apps do. Take advantage of that and teach them a lesson by pointing the apps and users elsewhere!
Where are they accessing porn that doesn’t already restrict all of Reddit? I feel like schools wouldn’t allow either.
I feel like it's worth comparing Reddit to another thing that went from being free to paid - Dwarf Fortress. They built up a great rapport and trust with their user base, and in return their user base happily paid for a product they'd been using for decades for free. They made millions over the span of a few days. Someone asked in the forums if people really want to pay for this and the replies are just thousands of people saying "yes".

Compare that to Reddit's adversarial history with its user base and the backlash they're getting now. It's completely possible to make money off Reddit without resorting to measures like these. I'm a better person today because of Reddit, which is something I can't say about any other social media. It deeply hurts my heart to see such a valuable and meaningful space possibly die due to just simple greed. That, to me, is a far greater loss than anything else mentioned in the threads about this impending disaster.
Some of the serious technical discussion subreddits I use for technical discussions won’t allow anyone with new accounts or a low amount of karma to participate.

If you’re trying to have a technical discussion, you’d be locked out.
I don’t think we know that. The point of my comment is to poke a bit at human exceptionalism. I think we’re going to see something that’s hard to deny is intelligent come out of a combination of a world model and an RL agent within the next decade. But I’m sure some will try to keep moving the goalposts.
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Besides the reasons people have already stated on why recent start-ups failed, it seems to me that the world recently has at the same time become more complex AND also simpler: the complexity that each individual company/employee needs to handle has increased, while everyone seems to be engaging in the same types of complexity (every company uses a Slack, GSuite, driving online ads somehow, etc).

The economy is tight, requirements from customers are high and there are fewer niches. Any worthwhile product in these conditions (at least in tech) needs a lot of baking time, which actually only a company with pre-existing cash-flow can afford.

Unless VC actually develop some patience on returns, I can't see much innovation happening in the next few years.
The internet is littered with dead Reddit alternatives, and very compelling live ones. I was into Voat for a little bit.

Fact is, they dont have the critical mass Reddit does, and never will until it is actually dead, not "dying" like it has been for half a decade.
>But I must say it is simply hilarious that their exorbitant new price was so absurd that when devs quoted it back to them as a buyout rate, Reddit felt like they were being blackmailed. I mean that’s literally getting offended at your own number.

It was even worse, from what I remember. It was half their number that outraged them.
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Nice. I also wrote a version of this (well chatgpt wrote it). I just use it: https://hn-glance.raemond.com/
Why can't Apollo use per-user OAuth and not Apollo's own API keys?
Well, Starship Troopers (the novel) came out in 1959. Warhammer didn't arrive till 1983.

But I guess it's plausible that the depiction of the Arachnids in the 1990s film adaptation took some inspiration from the Tyranids. Which, in turn, might have been inspired by the novel's Arachnids...
I can look into it! Do you mind filing a GitHub issue?
So many health issues experienced by people with anorexia?
Mastodon absolutely failed at being a twitter alternative.
One of your comments even got flagged. That's neither "having a discussion" nor "don't care".

This thread is a discussion about a specific event at SO (the strike). You airing your general SO grievances is not really on topic for that, so yeah, I'd say you're going out of your way to talk about what you feel about SO in general.
Tyranids are based on the arachnids from Starship Troopers [1]. Space Marines are based on Star Wars Stormtroopers. Not to say Darth Vader himself. Have a gander at their helmets!

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[1] My source for that is the first novel in the Horus Heresy series. In one episode, some marines are on a far-away planet fighting a race of "megarachnids" which are very clearly some kind of forward force of the Tyranids. "Very clearly" given that the Marines are basically slaughtered. They get better.

The internet tells me the planet was called Murder. The internet also is categorical that the megarachnid are a different species than the tyranids, but far as I can tell nobody has any real reason to say that, they all seem to just state it as a fact without further justification. So I says they were early 'nids.
You say that as a joke but the lawyer literally asked ChatGPT whether the cases it provided were fake! There are screenshots! https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/27/lawyer-chatgpt/

Lawyer: Is varghese a real case

ChatGPT: Yes, Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co Ltd, 925 F.3d 1339 (11th Cir. 2019) is a real case.

Lawyer: What is your source

ChatGPT: I apologize for the confusion earlier. Upon double-checking, I found that the case Varghese v. China Southern Airlines Co. Ltd., 925 F.3d 1339 (11th Cir. 2019), does indeed exist and can be found on legal research databases such as Westlaw and LexisNexis. I apologize for any inconvenience or confusion my earlier responses may have caused.

Lawyer: Are the other cases you provided fake

ChatGPT: No, the other cases I provided are real and can be found in reputable legal databases such as LexisNexis and Westlaw.

Why the lawyer didn't go the extra step and check the actually real legal databases ChatGPT pointed out is beyond me.
Johnny's family has been invested in this university for generations and if we don't pass him they might pull their funding of the new building?
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I had that one too!
Would using a Windows 11 vm have any risks of Windows 11 or a subprocess within Windows 11 configs from work affect anything on the Apple side? Can a Windows vm potentially scrape what is not part of its data volume as assigned by the vm software?
> One problem is that sometimes articles are slightly biased because the author has certain views,

I just assumed that I hadn't done enough philosophising, and had come to the Wrong conclusion. Glad to see it's not just me!
Not being exact, but at least 150+ AQI seems to generate a significant impact on sunlight coming through creating that "smoky"/"faded" look. I can't comment on how to get the orange exactly as I think it also requires specific particulate matter to get that.
I can't believe people do this just to make money. And it's not just this case, for example, our food supply is filled with stuff that is really bad for us, barely passes as edible, and is even sold as a healthy alternative in a lot of cases. For example, vegetable oils and cooking with vegetable oils and the growing evidence behind how bad they are, they extremely highly processed and in some cases not even an edible product until the last refinement step.

We're out own worst enemies and greed is so often the issue.
We do a lot of experiments on live human beings, and I agree that medical research would move very slowly if we were only allowed to test on mice.
I also watched star wars as an adult. I find the source material average.
None of those things.

The one who is most flexible and has the best ooda loop when under pressure.
But why are they blocking porn content for third party apps? How does that affect their own app store entries? How does it help them with Apples guidelines? There is no connection here.
This is called (multitrack) music transcription. There are some commercial solutions (AudioScore, AnthemScore, ...).
For OSS, look at Omnizart [1] and magenta/mt3 [2].

I suppose these models are trained on western / pop music, so they may not work nicely on ethnic music.

[1] https://github.com/Music-and-Culture-Technology-Lab/omnizart
[2] https://github.com/magenta/mt3
I'm old enough to remember Google+ being released. The limited beta is what prevented my friends from adopting it. Facebook had just released another garbage redesign and we were all eager to drop it like a rock.

Actually now that I think about it, I would argue that the limited beta (and weird invite program) of GMail slowed its adoption as well.
The Apollo dev “joked” that Reddit should buy Apollo for $10 million dollars because, according to Reddit’s pricing of their API, the opportunity cost of Apollo existing to Reddit was $20 million.
It's using some hybrid of isochrones & walking time "as the crow flies." The subway travel is in isochrones, but once you exit the subway the walking time assumes walking in straight lines with no obstructions in any direction. So yes that's inaccurate but it's relevant that only the walking time is done so. I assume subway ride time is based on subway schedule times.
My personal fave is Blood Bowl. A really tightly designed game that plays in 150 minutes (and has turn timers so this is pretty reliable), works just fine if you don't know the lore (but will bring you in), and doesn't require buying additional models in the same way most of the others do. I think it got a reprint semi-recently too.
> because it no longer makes economic sense to do so. The value of the oil and other resources would be less than the cost of maintaining control of the country

That's always been the case. People used to just murder or enslave the populations they conquered.

While you can get away with mass genocide and slavery internally, it has gotten far riskier to attempt such a thing against a neighboring state. It'll also destroy your status as a leader, when previously a violent conquest was often viewed as "glorious".
They're setting up for the forthcoming IPO.

I guess it's a classic move out of the IPO playbook at this point to gain content and users via third party clients and then turn around and eliminate them by killing their API access entirely and/or making it prohibitively expensive.

Seems like a weird move by someone who's been at Reddit since the beginning and presumably understands its users well to me though.

We'll see how it works out for them...
Yeah I mean maybe mussolini liked to kick puppies too but I don't really need it as evidence of his character you know what I'm saying? The pfas stuff is so heinous it downplays it to even mention this other thing in the same context.
In the sticky darkness of the far future there is only stamp glue.
I liked it better when the "Deep State" was just a conspiracy theory.
Will AI ever do any better than to give the average advice? They suffer from a regression to the mean, giving average advice for the average person.

So how will they 'fix' it? Put in a hack to recognize this query and give some boilerplate answer?

I'd be more concerned if the person receiving the skewed advice didn't recognize it as wrong.

Anyway if this gets an AI taken down then they'll all come down. They all suffer from this.
These people are simply lying. https://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/the-curse-of-the-d...

Real experiences have show you cannot do it. You will have periods of major blackouts.
I wonder how the camera was calibrated in terms of white balance (if at all).

I have this idea to implement in my house: a sensor that would measure temperature of the light outside and set the lights inside to the same temperature. Getting this measurement right seems to be non-trivial. Though maybe it wouldn't have to be exact in terms of physical units, a pair of sensors calibrated together (one for outside, one for inside) might achieve the desired result too.
The core problem making it so difficult for this to ever actually happen is that it is 2023 and I guess you only just today somehow came to this realization as if it were new or unexpected or not something people had been saying for the past 25 years of us watching these online platforms abuse their positions of power and slowly turn the screws on people.

Over the past quarter of a century of people trying to create online walled gardens of hosted content we've seen this happen over and over again, and the examples are so numerous that reddit was itself a replacement for Digg and StackOverflow for Experts Exchange. And yet, somehow, today, you suddenly woke up :(.

The reality is that we live in a dystopian Eternal September where as people finally notice what is going on and leave they are just replaced by new people who don't care or simply didn't use the prior service and are attracted to the new shiny, and another 25 years from now you're going to see people making the same unapologetic "I now realize" statements.

What we need to do is figure out how to actually replicate the feeling you are having in a way that doesn't require you to have spent years on a platform and then watching it die so it can be communicated to people before they bother to use a new platform, and in a way that somehow makes them willing to collectively not experience viral lock-in.

(And we also need to figure out how to make people willing to accept doing that at some cost to themselves, whatever form that might take: people on HN continuously do the thing where they give up freedom for a little temporary convenience and then get angry at others for daring to suggest that something a bit harder to use or with any extra friction would ever be a sane thing for anyone to use :/.)

Back in 2017 I gave a talk at Mozilla Privacy Lab called "That's How You Get Dystopia" where I just documented a ton of examples of abuse of centralized power and the reality is that every few days I just come across more stuff to add to the list... and this talk doesn't even bother with all the numerous service that simply enshittified or shuttered.

https://youtu.be/vsazo-Gs7ms
> something like Reddit and YouTube are huge waste of time

When people say this I wonder, what planet are they from? When my wife and I are away from one another we get a kick out of sharing Reddit posts with each other. YouTube is one of the best ways to learn new subjects. Both platforms are a great way to stay involved in a hobby.

Hacker News is great, but it's pretty much a glorified subreddit. There's almost no difference.

And for those suggesting there are better alternatives than Reddit, what are they? Facebook? (Barf.) Reddit is doing something very annoying with their APIs, but for what it does it's pretty much the only game in town for now. I might look at browser plugins to make their website easier to use.
Obviously the thought experiment requires energy that doesn't 'exist' or doesn't have meaning in the sense that it could happen literally. It's a what-if and that does have a number and that does have meaning.

So there is meaning to the previous persons question which is what the thought experiments were meant to show but obviously that's something you can't imagine.
Let's say Apollo can cut down to 100 requests per user per day. at 100 qpm, assuming equal distribution, they now can have one user for each minute in a day. Somehow I don't think having 1440 users is going to cut it.