skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is wild that a company that is nearly two decades old and seemingly has never been profitable is doing an IPO. Who is going to buy their stock? What would make someone think that Reddit will suddenly turn things around in year 19 and actually become profitable?
Yep. It said Europe's balkanized geography (islands, peninsulas) begat literal balkanization, which begat competition, which begat innovation, which begat exploration and technology which dominated the world despite all other European failings.

Meanwhile, Asia's geography lent itself to unifying monopolization, which begat immense totalitarian states which were more complacent.

Both geographies fostered dense cities with draft animals, creating plagues and immunity to those plagues, which let the Old World dominate the New in numbers, technology, and immunology (nevermind that they had a few thousand years' head start in technology since they didn't have to switch continents).
Pretty great how cheap new NUCs can compete with used old ebay gear.

Intel should do well tuning & putting a hundred+ of these on big chips (Sierra Forest).
It must be my grognard roots. The bulk of my on line participation is in long running, old school, private (i.e. hosted by a very small concern hosting ads for hosting money, vs some large entity, most anyone can join these should they so wish), "phpbb" style bulletin boards that focus on the niches I enjoy. I am not active on any "large" social media sites, save for, perhaps, StackOverflow and it's sub-genres (and even there, not much).

It's disappointing I can not find such forums for all of my interests, but I muddle through and get by.

Obviously I'm a minority of 1, the populations of all these sites in terms of active, posting participants, is well south of 1000. Maybe south of 100...that's hard to say. I don't know how much reach these sites have in terms of lurkers watching us old folks quibble, but some of them are well known in their genres or communities (both geographical and internet-wide).
If they don't say anything, they're incommunicative. But if talk and say effectively nothing, they might get egg on their face for people watching. However they can convince people who don't pay much attention that it's just a disagreement.
This was fun. Really enjoyed the attention to connected home devices, that is really handy to have around as feature.

Other things: Too much reliance on google-products. Around here (Europe) there are concerns about privacy and Google is avoided often. Search engines, please consider adding Qwant.

My default browser is Brave, which is based on Chromium. Kind of too bad that Kera is not reusing the browser instances used by default on disk (when compatible) because they already my login details ready over there. It would help for easier transitions.
Welp the method that doesn’t slowly poison our environment or kill our parrots is less convenient, guess we have no choice but to layer on the forever Chemicals.
> I for the life of me can't figure out why they are charging so much money for the API

They are discontinuing the API, except for a small number of customers willing (maybe) to pay their price for the API.
I really like the street versus mall analogy. It used to be way more organic, and now its heavily curated to suit a specific purpose (consumer capitalism). Even if many things have improved, it lacks a certain je ne sais quoi.
Then we would be subject to the moderation policy’s of our ISPs. No thanks.

It is way easier for me to create and delete an account at any number of websites than it is for me to change ISPs; and I don’t need any bill on my internet bill when I can just Apple Pay for whatever.
All they have to do is keep the ship afloat until it goes public, once thats done they cash out with their millions/billions and then to hell with the site. They'll resign, get fired or whatever but they wont care because they'll have their money by then.
Ask HN: Why not close one eye to select in the Apple Vision Pro?
You could even make it so that closing your left eye does a primary select while closing your right eye does a secondary select.
Fwiw, if you get a call from a debt collector and would prefer not to speak to them, tell them the call will be recorded and ask for their permission. It’s been some time since I’ve had this happen but I’ve been 6 for 6 on them not giving permission and the conversation ending. (Yes, even after I consented to them recording the call)
The problem with hegemonic "stability" is it can be derailed by one guy who likes to fire people on television.
It is better than nothing, but an actual recording would be a way more solid proof.
LLMs will just scrape the website like they do with the rest of the internet. For Alphabet, Microsoft and some others they don't even need to do that as they already have everything stored for search results.
Shareholders don't care, the shareholders are the VCs that are now demanding profits and dividends for their initial investment. Why do you think the sudden push for the monetization of the API and the "lost opportunities"?
Are you active in any of tho relevant fields? If not, then why do you think you are better qualified to judge the academic quality of his work than actual academics with the proper background?
For whatever reason I had similar hopes, just grasping at straws not wanting to lose my addiction [1] ... Alas, I need to let go.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36123342

In retrospect, there's a lot of irony in that comment, I had no idea this was coming ... Thanks spez for ruining something I liked, and saving me.
Surely CGPT can tell them how to get out of this one.
Not sure if this is relevant, but the Hacker News BigQuery dataset also stopped updating since Nov 2022: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/261579123
Growing up in the 80's we had a set of 1960's world book encyclopedias. I would read them for fun. Sort of the same sort of thing as hitting random on wikipedia today, but in alphabetical order. Admittedly I suspect my love of reading is largely due to not having a tv growing up.

Some people say they read the dictionary for fun, which I never understood, dictionaries are boring. encyclopedias are much more interesting. (probably why I am unable to spell worth a damn today)

And if you were wondering C was the best volume, although I cant remember why.
I also wonder which two islands are considered large out of GB, Ireland, Iceland, Corsica, Sicily...
I feel like there's a couple of big islands around China too... Taiwan, some in Japan, Borneo, Philippines for instance. Indigenous Taiwanese settled the whole south Pacific.
Because it is stupid?
The only reasonable response
I'm not even going to bother reading this. No one should be returning to Reddit at this point, no matter what they say or claim to be changing. They're still going to make user hostile decisions as long as they think it will make them more money. It's just that the next time they do that they're going to make the change more slowly so they don't end up with one big event that blows up on them.
This goes well with "Technology is an independent variable" by Stanislaw Lem. Yet so many think they can control it.
> allows the developer some discretion on how the ads can be formatted visually

this is absolutely the opposite of what they would want. Brands have very tight control over display advertising and would have to approve it everywhere
The paging API only gives back 1k comments (which for you is apparently back to 2021). You can request your GDPR archive from Reddit and point the tool at it and you'll have a more complete archive.
It's not science, it's speculation from someone with experience in the field. I don't think this was sold as a scientific conclusion
somehow facebook made it through..
> We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive. Unlike some of the 3P apps, we are not profitable.

Full quote of a CEO stating that a bunch of independent developers are able to make a good profit while the pre-IPO company he's running is not.

Can you short an IPO? Not sure how these financial shenanigans work.
Doesn't have to be that complicated to be dodgy. A bunch of carbon offset works on optimistic to downright stupid metrics for carbon capture.

For example they buy a plot of land and then raze it, then they will plant 10k saplings and take that figure at face value even if most of those won't take and actually become trees.

Then they will estimate the CO2 captured by averaging it over the entire life of the tree (say 30 years) and count year 1 as if it captured 1/30 of the CO2 even though the carbon capture potential of tree is not constant throughout its life.

Beyond that they will double count the carbon credits of the plot of land by selling them twice.

Finally after all the above, they will sell the plots after ~5 years to buy some other plots and it will be razed anyway. No one actually checks that the carbon capture forest will be there in 10 years, let alone 30.
A good "PR answer" does not raise concrete questions, it makes all questions feel equally invalid. In this case /u/spez'es answer did not calm or invalidate the questions.
It's not even profitable _now_ with all their monetization. But their overhead is millions of $/year. There is precedent for non-profit sites of that size but it won't be easy.
s/executives/humans/g
Oh that's even worse. What a dumpster fire this has become.
When AI Comes In-House
~250x in two years? Starting with a 13m pre-seed round? Does this make any sense?
Same in China.
What? Hitler started a war with UK, France and other countries to annex Ukraine a few years later?
> it requires energy to be added to the system from outside the system.

Yes that is exactly what energy that doesn't 'exist' means.
Most of these platforms are highly opinionated—-colors, buttons, text to dissuade or attract users of one specific kind.
Eric Rowland's introduction to the p-adics [1] was a bit easier to digest, for me!

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gyHKCDq1YA
But... HiCA just disappeared. Their site is gone now.
Frankly that sounds exhausting to me. Do an experiment: for the next hour, every time you click something, blink your right eye. See how long it takes for fatigue to set in.
> that's not how economics works.

It is. You can erase all debts by hyperinflation, for example.

China for sure has problems, but it's not the "crashing down tomorrow" kind of problems. They still have a robust growth, now that COVID restrictions are over.
I can't stomach the thought of using reddit and being spez's useful idiot. I want to migrate to a new community but I don't know which. Where is everyone going? Mastodon seems a bit pie-in-the-sky if I may be honest.
- Eyestrain is already an issue with VR

- Your eyes are being reprojected on the other side and it would probably look awkward

- Hands offer a more contextual options than two eyes do
Those at the top of this play all still make off with life-changing money. Who cares about business stability once you've secured your personal wealth?
Correct but he also worked on reddit and wouldn’t have handled this situation anything like this.
At this point my theories are

1) Ego and emotion are driving decisions at reddit

or

2) Reddit's leadership has run the numbers and genuinely thinks it will benefit their profitability plans if the users reacting negatively to these changes all leave. This is well past the point of just killing 3rd party apps because the API changes alone would have accomplished that.

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence." What do you do when incompetence would be unbelievable in scope and malice would be unbelievably incompetent.
You will run out of the people doing it remotely well very quickly though.

The high quality modding of askhistory, anthropology and other science sub reddits are provided by actual domain experts working for free. You can find someone to replace them, but the quality will plummet and the users will leave.
Thats actually the best structure for reddit because of its coopertive nature, and the difficulty of making money from it without compromising its essential nature.
No. Nothing beats a truck full of drives for bandwidth, nothing beats fiber for latency, they need both.
I think Reddit probably had a path to making a modest profit, but investors don't want the 2x dog. Now they're probably going to do the social media equivalent of selling the copper wiring from the walls.
This isn't exactly the first drama from Spez...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/5emsq3/reddit_reacts...
Brain: Searching for the first PC virus in Pakistan (2011) [video]
Airbus ?
The headset could omit animating the closing of one eye.
Why does the Apollo guy see the API as his entitlement? Reddit ain’t a charity. Neither is HN.
reputation is a lazy filter.
When cats knead, they also purr a lot and their nose gets extremely wet and cold (it even starts dripping), so it's clear it's some special physiological exercise rather than just testing the surface out with their paws.
Biscuits in the American sense are scones in the Commonwealth sense.

Scones in the US sense are sweet. Scones in the rest of the world are savory, more like American biscuits.

Biscuits in the Commonwealth sense are American cookies, although I feel like American cookies are usually the thick kind with chocolate chips, whereas Commonwealth biscuits are often the plain thin ones that you might dunk in a cup of tea.

Speaking of tea - dinner?
What would be a good PR answer to refute the audio recording, out of curiosity?
Absolutely, and very well put. The costs are pretty close to zero at this point for something that would have been mostly considered, publicly at least, as science fiction just a year ago. It's what the printing press was to the scribe, only way, way more disruptive. I don't know if I'm correct here, but that is what it looks like right now and we're basically still at year zero. I mean, it even got the Google all riled up. The company which basically equates to "The Internet" is having to react, I'm pretty sure that's the first time I've seen such a thing in my life. It goes way beyond their reaction to the iPhone, way beyond the threat of MS exercising their monopoly(ish) power back in the day to try to mitigate the Google threat.

History repeats itself albeit in a fascinating way which I'm still trying to grasp.

I don't blame SO. I think they are acting rationally and as anyone would facing such a threat.

Secretly, I want the internet ad economy of nothing to go away. I won't mention any names (cough taboola cough cough) but that might be the only upside to this tech. Let's see what happens six months or so from now.

Side note, I'm running llama on a really crappy old server and that was enough to convince me that I'll be able to run an LLM on my watch in the near future.
N & S America civilizations were quite fragmented, as well as African ones.
I was asking if they believe what SpaceX is doing with rockets is cgi. If they believe the space station is cgi, or the space shuttle, if they just made up the casualties in the Challenger and Columbia explosions? Do they believe in Project Gemini? Any of the Apollo launches? Is it just the landing on the moon piece?
I love this just on principle, but maybe someone can clarify something for me. Does this:

1) Provide a better experience of the game immediately?

or is it

2) The (very high) value of this tool is that it will lend itself to faster/better/easier fan base development and modification of the game, enhancing the entire ES ecosystem?

3) something i didn’t think of

4) some combination. Of the above

Regardless, it makes me want to kick my current gameplay to the curb (it’s Shadow of Doubt, it’s incredible check it out) and dump another 100 hours into Morrowind right now.

Nice work!
What about a slow blink with both eyes to select?
The point is, double precision fixes this for timescales within reach of human existence.

A 24 bit mantissa isn't enough for anybody. A 53-bit mantissa is enough unless you need +/- one nanosecond precision at 100 days. If you need that -- and some people do -- your application is too exotic to influence the standards that apply to everyone else.
Facebook owner Meta plans to create Twitter rival
Also in devices -- both Android and iPhone have consistently made it obnoxiously hard to record calls, across many years and many security decisions.
> I for the life of me can't figure out why they are charging so much money for the API.

The claim (made by several mods) is that they are spending > $10m annually on the API once you include eng effort, and they want a return on the opportunity cost, not just the pure compute cost.

Additionally, they've run reddit so shockingly incompetently that they appear to have separate, better APIs that they only allow their internal apps to use. So when they complain about the inefficiency of use of the available APIs, keep that in mind...

Clearly, however, they just don't want other frontends. See eg them moving to measuring API calls on a per-app basis, rather than on a per-app per-user basis. It's dumb, imo, to not just say so.

And like everything reddit does, this was done wildly incompetently. I'd ask how they could possibly have not thought through the impacts on accessible frontends, or mod tools (which itself demonstrates the fractal incompetence of reddit: why do mods have to build or buy their own tools?), but... well, reddit.

NB: so fractally incompetent that they apparently can't even measure api usage and share that with API users in real or near-real time. Like... how. Just how.
I hope nobody decide to approve grant for scientific research on that, because it will involve cutting limbs, opening skulls and other types of vivisections that scientists love so much. Result also be very far from certainty with some numbers and experiments conditions. But of course it will produce several phds and may be even whole professor.
Also not a lawyer, but you should strive to document "contemporaneous notes" as substitute for a recording. A good way to do this is to document the conversation as soon as it happened, with a clear timeline, and email it to yourself.
because they want to push people to the first party app to boost userbase and data collection before IPO, it's all more money in their pockets because they're looking at cashing out in the short term and don't care much about the long term

in the immediacy people are still going to use reddit either way because there's no easy and popular alternative, just like twitter held on to most users despite all the noise
I was tempted to jump in the initial post and offer help with self storage, but honestly as someone who has done large-scale self-hosted object storage (many PB of storage in fact), it's just one of those things that are almost always going to be better left to a dedicated service like S3/R2 or something else.

I'm glad to see their short and long-term plan will probably involve a subsidized professional block storage service. I think that's the right move.
> If you have too much, you're just going to spend it on things that not only don't matter

Co-founder and I recently went through a round of VC interviews with at least 5-6 VCs.

Question I posed to him is "If we got $2.5 million tomorrow, what would you do differently than what you're doing today?" My point to him is that there's really nothing that we could do with $2.5m that we couldn't do today at a smaller scale/longer timeline.

It would be nice for other reasons like having a higher profile, accelerate some of our roadmap, etc.

Both of us walked away from the experience a little jaded, TBH. He's close to a circle of folks in YC and was perplexed by some of the folks that made the last batch.
It’s that it’s happening close to large strategic allies.
Lemme modify the writers words for you to more accurately describe the phenomena : “I suspect it’s easier to teach a good waitress to be a writer than an intellectual to be a good waiter.”

Being excellent at balancing a stressful, fast paced, work environment applies to many jobs. But being excellent at being an “intellectual” whatever the hell that even means (writers? Programmers?), does not really apply to very many jobs.
Lakefield was so interesting to me. It'll be interesting having x86 grow heterogenous.

And I really really hope we see on package ram return again. Not having to route & populate ram is the best gift to a board maker you could possibly give.
I don't think that'll happen as long as x86 CPUs support a 32-bit userspace. Consider that Linux just dropped i486 support last year. The i486 released in 1989, over thirty years ago!
Nope, it makes me overly cynical and expecting the worst from Reddit.
An analogy to what you're suggesting is that this person and their wife each drove past the same bill board at different times.

I think the thing that most people would really find tragic and scary is that we're all far more predictable and homogenous than we'd like to believe.
Mercedes L3 is such a joke. Max speed 45 MPH on the freeway. Requires lead car. Probably ideal for someone with really, really good insurance against getting rear-ended and accident lawyer best friend.
> With or without ChatGPT this is easily malpractice and potentially even fraud.

AI has been used and will continue to grow in use as a way to launder discrimination and fraud. AI will never face a penalty from the justice system, so why not blame everything on it?
> I imagine truck people are mostly practical - so a design out of blade runner not only creates unnecessary engineering challenges, but misses most of the market.

They are not practical vehicles. The waste majority of people don't use their trucks for practical things.

And the Cybertruck is not really less practical then other trucks, more in some ways.

And given how many pre order and how other metrics look, there is plenty of interest in the server truck.

> maybe you should look into buying Rivian.

Why would they buy Rivian, that's a crazy idea. Its far cheaper to just take the Cybertruck parts and design a normal looking truck.

Tesla design choices should eventually make for a high margin truck.
Cyclists wearing helmets seen as “less human” than those without
Weed grower for about ten years here. If you've paid any attention at all to the legal industry, you'll see that there's an endless supply of new "genetics" coming out (99% hype bullshit) and some famous names like "Kush," "Diesel," etc.

These are called cultivars, the same species but much like dog breeds, you can select for attributes like potency, flavor, etc.

I've never seriously tried to grow opium, but I have had poppies in the garden and I've attempted to slice and get a bit of latex from them, and basically the seeds they sell for gardens are a weak cultivar that is not suitable for opium production. If you look at the Wikipedia page it's got a picture of what appears to be an Afghan farmer collecting latex, and you can tell from the photo that this is a heavy latex-producing breed, very different from what we can grow legitimately here.

I'm sure seeds for that cultivar can be acquired fairly easily, but I wouldn't know how.
Disclosure: I used to work on GCE.

"Renewable" is a broad set of terms. Importantly from your first link on GCP it says:

> Google is carbon neutral for our operations today, but aiming higher: our goal is to run on carbon-free energy, 24/7, at all of our data centers by 2030.

Carbon-free, 24x7, is a stronger commitment than carbon-neutral which would include using renewable power offsets. Amazon's methodology is at https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/renewable-energy-meth... which makes this clear as well.
This is correct, although its not unheard of for people who join a team very early to be called "founders" even if they aren't there from day 1.