skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really excited to see more composable experiences emerge. So far they don't seem to have a set strategy for their Web Tiles to share & communicate, but still an interesting good start for making composed experiences here. Neat.

There's a very active thread on another web desktop, Kera Desktop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36260589
Let me introduce you to the CLOUD act, which multiple times have been ruled to be fundamentally incompatible with GDPR.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
I’m probably overly cynical about this, but the only people buying those seem to be fake accounts trying to prop up their other fake accounts.
If they're not logged in then there's no reason to hit the Reddit api on a per user basis.
Theodore Gray, cofounder of wolfram research, was responsible for notebooks I believe.

> I wrote the Notebook user interface for Mathematica and led the user interface group for over 20 years.

https://home.theodoregray.com/
Anyone who uses an LLM to write lots of code for them is a code monkey. They're turning off their brain.

My navigation is where I want it to be. It's not a mistake. Nice try.

Humans may be infallible, but if they wrote the code, they'll have an easier time figuring out where their assumptions were wrong because at least there were assumptions. An LLM just regurgitates statistically-massaged word lists.
The author needs to look at this in a wider context. GG&S may be defensible, but Collapse is pretty horrible, trying to force environmental explanations at the cost of downplaying European slave raids (Easter Islands) or utter absurdity (Diamond's suggestion that Viking Greenlanders preferred to starve than to eat fish). Diamond had a thesis and forced the facts to fit in the expense of integrity. After Collapse, it made much more sense to look askance at GG&S.
> One can't solve 3-body problems without Superfluid Quantum Gravity

The article (from 1962) does not predict 3-body accelerations of large masses or particles using current methods (probably because they had not yet been developed at the time).

(Ironically, in context to the rejection of AI methods to summarize superfluid Quantum Gravity for the thread's benefit (and not my own),)

N-body gravity problems are probably best solved by AI methods; it is well understood that there are no known closed-form solutions for n-body gravity problems.

Three body problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem
Why did Reddit even have an AMA for this? Everyone knew it would turn out exactly like it did. The most difficult questions went unanswered. The answers they did give were either just bland corporate speak or actively detrimental, giving their critics more ammunition including opening Reddit up to accusations of libel. The whole ordeal seems to leave them in a worse position than if they just never did the AMA.
Not just the dumpsters, the datacenters too!
It is interesting that it shows Jamaica - 179th St to Flushing - Main St as within 40 minutes but not the inverse. More dramatic is Far Rockaway - Mott Ave
to Liberty Ave.

I wonder what station has the best coverage?
Fortunately this lines up perfectly with my schedule.

About to roll a J and kick back probably gonna browse the web and some of my favorite subreddits.

I have work on Monday.

Beyond seeing this post on HN, I'd have no idea this "protest" is happening, and to be fair I'll have forgotten about it by Sunday.
That’s not quite equivalent, but there was a huge developer community upset when Unity switched to their freemium revenue sharing model.
The point is that "openly" advertising would be capped. That would reduce the price of doing so, making it more affordable to smaller players and removing the insane profits ad monopolists enjoy today. Plus, "openly" advertising is one of the most effective ways of advertising. Lastly, by diverting marketing budgets to non-traditional routes (charity donations, etc), the economy would benefit as money would be spread more evenly across
It's a necessary evil to combat a larger one.
>The fact that he failed doesn't diminish the fact that he tried.

The fact that he sent a force 1/10th the size required for military occupation does tend to suggest that he had a different military goal in mind when he sent the force.

(not that we can prove the military objectives of sending that force with any great certainty)

>No geopolitical doctrine should take for granted that all geopolitical actors are rational

Definitely not, but if you dont know a military objective for sure and from a list of 7 you pick the least rational, least likely one because reasons your doctrine is absolutely stupid.

Furthermore presenting that assumption as the sole piece of "evidence" that proves someone wrong is just...wow.

>JM was just wrong.

No, JM absolutely nailed it. Every word of that YouTube video you linked to was prescient.
To whoever flagged this: grow a spine. The poster is making an observation - and an interesting one. Not even a call to action. Instead of plugging your ears and screaming lalalala, why don't you come up with an equally interesting response to this question that has apparently made you so uncomfortable?
It should be embarrassing for Europeans that the only way they can compete with Americans in IT is by literally banning US products. I don't think that will work out very well for them in the long run. Europe is otherwise usually a fierce competitor in high tech, but when it comes to IT it seems they didn't really got going strong. Just out of sheer patriotism, European companies could snatch back a lot of customers from their foreign competitors by just offering an equal or slightly worse product.
> One data point does not make a trend.

How many have to exist before it can be considered "progressivism"/"diversity" then? Also can you provide those examples that occurred post-Disney? As a huge marvel fan it should be easy for you do. As someone who isn't a huge marvel fan I can think of several off the top of my head that occurred pre-Disney.
NASA concerned Starship problems will delay Artemis 3
> reframe the problem as an economic model,

Every social problem can be legitimately solved by throwing more money at it[1]. That is, effectively, an economics model.

Corollary: Every economic solution can be improved by removing blockchain from it :-)

[1] Sometimes you have to throw the money at people who will spread your solution, sometimes you have to throw the money at media to spread the solution, sometimes you have to throw the money at campaigning, etc.
And there was literally more on the internet. I could search for a book, and get a ton of information on it from a ton of different perspectives. Now I get results page after results page of links to the same copy over and over again, and tons of people trying to sell me something or to trick me into downloading a trojan. At some point, all the search engines decided that they didn't even need more than five or six pages of results (that they silently repeat.) I mean, they gave you the Wikipedia entry and a link to the Goodreads page as the first two results after their ads - what else could you possibly want to read? Are you a terrorist or something?

The only countervailing events were Google's book scanning project, the founding of archive.org, and the growth of Wikipedia. Google Books is a shadow what it was, was under attack, and was largely an AI project. Archive.org is in danger, and had to limit access to 95% of its content; I can't download a book from the 40s that has been out of print since then, and where everybody who was involved with it is dead. Wikipedia is falling apart under the influence of paid editors and people attacking other people through edits to their biographies.

It's getting to the point where it might be better not to be on the web. I don't like it. Even this web 2.0 commenting on everything seems like a pointless outlet for frustrations. And all it does is make various files on you, in dozens or hundreds of hands, grow slowly.

edit: I don't want to diminish how awesome it is to have a good proportion of 17th-19th century nonfiction online. It's nuts.
You can also model any problem as a hydraulic circuit if you want.

There are other incentives like fun, passion, and anger that will break any economic model.

If HN had some internal-economy model where you were cycling around karma as if it was currency, paying upvotes into new posts to get a return back for your “early upvoting” if they do well, giving you more capital to spread to other new posters… I know exactly how the dynamics of this site would change for the worse. People just post here (free work!) because it’s interesting. How irrational!

There’s some merit to the idea that you need aligned incentives. I’ll give you that. Just doesn’t always need to be directly boiled down into units of exchange.
That's not true. Unix time is specifically defined as "A value that approximates the number of seconds that have elapsed since the Epoch."

Are you perhaps confusing that with the standard algorithms for converting between Unix time and "human" time? Because what you say isn't wrong for that case, and this is a classic trap for new players:

"A Coordinated Universal Time name (specified in terms of seconds (tm_sec), minutes (tm_min), hours (tm_hour), days since January 1 of the year (tm_yday), and calendar year minus 1900 (tm_year)) is related to a time represented as seconds since the Epoch, according to the expression below.

If the year is <1970 or the value is negative, the relationship is undefined. If the year is >=1970 and the value is non-negative, the value is related to a Coordinated Universal Time name according to the C-language expression, where tm_sec, tm_min, tm_hour, tm_yday, and tm_year are all integer types:

tm_sec + tm_min60 + tm_hour3600 + tm_yday86400 +
(tm_year-70)31536000 + ((tm_year-69)/4)86400 -
((tm_year-1)/100)86400 + ((tm_year+299)/400)*86400"

(Quotes from https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...)
What do you mean "even if"? Can you name a single battery factory that has seen delays of cost overruns like nuclear regularly has? Can you point to a single investor that's willing to back new nuclear in the US like they are backing new battery factories all over?

Your usage of numbers is off and extremely biased. Warranties for grid storage batteries are already longer than 10 years, and they don't suddenly stop working, they just experience finished capacity over time. Whereas 80 years for nuclear has no basis in reality, and most are getting shut down at forty due to excessive costs to continue operation.

This sort of rose-colored view of nuclear, cherry picking the very best case from one's imagination, and then taking the very worst possible estimate of the comparator, is the type of self-deception that results in nuclear losing again and again. Without a clear view of why these projects fail, and what they actually can deliver, the entire industry has lost any credibility.
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It blows my mind to think it will have any shareholders. A fool and their money.
Well, I disagree, certain groups and states are attacking porn itself, but most of the lock down on social media recently is due to increasing levels of non consensual sharing.
There is already a grest swedish cloud peovider called GleSYS. They are 100% running on renewable energy and the have an awesome control panel to control your servers. I only wish that they had more hosted solutions like digital ocean.

Other than that, there is hetzner which I also use and is very good and probably the cheapest cloud provider out there. Then there is the french ovh.
I think a place like reddit should be a non-profit foundation rather than a business. The Archive Of Our Own community was able to do it, the reddit community can do it too.
China wants to launch a moon-orbiting telescope array as soon as 2026
sure, but what do you consider to be an ad company? is a newspaper that places sponsored articles an ad company? accounting for "marketing" expenses might be easier to track and at the end of the day, companies use accountants that are liable and so need to report accurately
No. Chrome is just an app. One that happens to host the most amazing living/alive medium mankind has created.

The page is all you need. A web site can be a canvas where everything can come together. And it can pull in other sites and capabilities.

We do need some new APIs for the web platform to flourish fully. Some small local host services might fill in. Or yes we could indeed enhance the browser. But the idea is that it's the page not the browser creating the experience. The page is the hypermedium.
Have there been any previous projects like this? Seems like it'd be tough to make it worthwhile (for the drivers and the citizenry paying for the maintenance). Would love to see some back-of-the-envelope math, though.
Community may not claim to be the first with notebooks; but they certainly seem to think they have something nobody else has with it. Per their website, "The Jupyter Notebook is the original web application for creating and sharing computational documents. It offers a simple, streamlined, document-centric experience."

Which, I suppose I can cede that they are among the first "web applications" that do this. But I have a hard time really getting behind a ton of the discussion on it. Even talking about the "breadth and depth" of part of the python community is to ignore how much had been done for years in the mathematica community.
Reddit’s current situation is an interesting case study in the difference between running a sustainable, profitable business, growing naturally, vs trying to grow unnaturally quickly and trying to extract as much “value” as possible from the business at the expense of long-term stability in a frankly sickening and vampirish manner. It’s something I see repeated again and again in this industry.
I meant it as "A", but on second thought, you're right, it's more like "B".

I suppose that my real, underlying point is that you can't reliably tell what a person's skillset is by what they do for a living.
He's barely answered any questions. Just 14 at last count. It's not much of an "Ask Me Anything" if you miss out the "And I'll Respond" bit.
The Q&A sort mode still shows the most popular questions at the top. The CEO only answered questions with an order of magnitude fewer votes than the top questions. The Q&A sort works fine, it’s just that no questions were answered.
Whenever you see a smart person doing things that seem to make no logical sense you seek out missing information that would unlock a logical explanation.

I am curious really here about Huffman's behaviour. He may be quite incompetent (I'm judging that primarily based on the observation that changes in the web site and app sit somewhere between willful negligence and active sabotage in terms of what they have done to the user experience). But it still doesn't explain some of the completely nonsensical aspects of his decisions.

I feel like there's something behind the scenes here. For example, Huffman has been told he has until September to make money or he's fired and Reddit is being sold for parts to "big LLM". Probably because there's a concrete offer on the table by some private equity or something like that which dwarfs anything they could conceivably make another way.

Possibly, in an alternative (similar) theory, they have a concrete offer from a player (say OpenAI) for LLM access that would make them profitable forever, but it requires exclusivity, and these API changes are designed to get 3rd party usage down to a level that would comply with that agreement.

In any of these cases he's bound by confidentially not to talk about it so he's stuck with doing what seem like crazy non-sensical things in public to achieve these outcomes.
There are new open source models popping up every day and soon they'll be forced to compete by taking safeguards off....unless they convince congress to take action and make an ATF like organization that shows up at your door for posting an AI model on hugging face.
In my experience the traditional branching strategies work for monorepos for continuous integration.

For continuous deployment the circumstance is a little different since you may not want continuously deploy every app if there are changes that don't affect all apps.

For example, supposing a monorepo that contains source for three separate apps A, B, C. If a branch contains changes for app A only, when merged, you may not want to redeploy all apps, but only affected apps. In this case you may want to organize a conditional deployment model instead of a continuous model. If you CICD system is tied to branches, and branch events, you may need to organize a separate release branch modeling along side the preexisting integration model.
I for the life of me can't figure out why they are charging so much money for the API. They could do other things such as:

- Mandate as part of the TOS[0] that API users must display the ads in the application unless they pay a higher fee. I get alot of people use 3rd party apps to escape ads, but this wouldn't be the end of the world, it also allows the developer some discretion on how the ads can be formatted visually which could actually be a big win for Reddit in some ways. Make all this contingent on app review and auditing of the app.

- Work with the community to establish a more reasonable API fee. I'm sure everyone can find an agreement here somehow. All but the smallest players likely would find this agreeable.

- Only allow premium (and therefore ad free users) to use 3rd party apps. If they aren't a premium Reddit user they need to use the official client. This seems like the most pragmatic option to me, since those users would by pass ad revenue anyway.

[0]: Terms Of Service
Humor often gets in the way of interesting discussion because of the ambiguity it introduces. Perhaps you can find another outlet for it, then bring your more serious thoughts here?
Much more useful to me would be to pull out the comments that have actual informational content. Most comments are upvoted just because they express sentiments that people agree with.
It's hard to have a good sense of community when you have thousands or even millions of participants.

That said, I remember the earlier days of reddit with lots of novelty accounts. I think these days the only surviving novelty accounts I've seen are Shitty Watercolor and Poem for Your Sprog.
Yes, I have noticed that their coding capabilities have been reduced greatly. Before, whenever I asked a question. ChatGPT sometimes gave me an incorrect answer, but it was able to fix after a follow-up question. Nowadays, whenever the answer is incorrect, no matter how many times I tried to get the correct answer. It will always return a wrong answer. It is becoming so frustrating that I am starting to use google/stackoverflow more frequently again.
Sure, but the reasons offsets are dodgy is because they actually aren't fungible in the way you're hoping for.

Say a paper maker is about to cut down a forest in the US. It buys up the rights to do so for $1M. Then, instead, it sells $1M worth of carbon credits to Amazon (maybe for a premium) for its data center greenwashing and doesn't end up cutting the US forest.

But then, secretly, or through some shell company machinery, it buys a plot of land in the Amazon and cuts trees down anyway to match its demand. Even though US law makers evaluate the counterfactual of the paper maker cutting trees down in the US, the net amount of trees in the world goes down.
They left room for the solar panels to power the DCs
China doesn't give a sh1t about invading other states (Taiwan isn't another state to the CCCP). They are geographically huge, can barely maintain their own borders and still think they own half of the Pacific.

In what universe do they have the reasons, guile and waste of treasure to attempt an act of war that will surely result in the absolute eradication and irradiation of 中国?
Quantum materials: Electron spin measured for the first time
Yeah, I wasn't referring to the part you think I was referring to.

>And even more of them I'd turn off only if I knew with certainty that I could turn them back on whenever I want, and that their memories would simply continue where they stopped.

Certainly a strain of solipsism I've never heard before now, but still pathological.
One of the best reasons for a train is you can drink, not on your morning commute of course, but going somewhere for a night out, and you don’t have to wait half hour to take off, or painfully slow service, you can bring your own drinks of choice. You can get nice seats with a group of friends with a table and leg room, it’s lovely.
> especially for weaker party.

How often do you see the weaker party's interests enshrined in law?
Possibly pumped up to make the acquisition happen using unsustainably expensive compute.
The time for Reddit to have gone public was with all that other spac mania during the pandemic.

These days pesky investors are going to demand things like, a business model and a profit opportunity.
Glad it worked well for you!

I think that's out of scope for this project, but I've seen some other comments in this thread linking to tools that do just that!
Those are perfectly safe. People rolling those wheels and breaking is what's causing all the harm.
I took his rules as high level observations of the environment's impact on human evolution. But human experience is much more nuanced like you say. I do remember thinking some of the observations could come across as very blunt.

There is a video on the internet of him trying to shoot an old style gun... pretty funny... needless to say it's not his greatest skill.

Jared Diamond Funny video: https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxm-OUN3XNSdXmZ_fkXs1zZUQziwjaLZN...
What percentage of the total repo is source code? I would think the compiled artifacts could be tossed at a moment’s notice, but would not want to lose the source.
$20 million per year.
Columbus' 3 small ships were also vastly cheaper than Zheng He's large fleet that had some really large ships in it (even if we dismiss the reported sizes as utterly unrealistic).

There's also the fact that the European ships at the time were more robust than the Chinese ships -- because robust ships had been really useful for sailing along the Atlantic coast for trade/fishing.
Can you speak more on how you balance your persoanlities? How do you balance speaking from a pessimistic perfpective while also being encouraging and supportive?
> On February 19, 1984, in an article in The San Francisco Examiner, Dvorak listed the mouse as one of many reasons Apple Inc.'s Macintosh computer might not be successful: "The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things."

Incredible. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak
It reminded me a bit of the oral history in Studs Terkel's "Working". The interview with the stewardess (as she called herself) was interesting like this.
I had a hard time interpreting the various criticisms from academics of Diamond in a way other than: This goes against our field's dogma, so I will fight it. Ie, I'm suspicious that, given the conclusions he came to, they would argue against it regardless of methods or the strength of his case. Eg, He underplays the role of culture? He's wrong.
This one was not John Dvorak's best predictions, and he really should have seen this one coming.

The PC was a general purpose device that replaced a whole office full of fairly expensive specialty devices (word processor, fax, teletype, calculator, intercom system, etc...). iPhone was no different. General purpose that could replace a bunch of expensive specialty devices (anyone else have a PDA, phone, music player, camera, GPS, etc...) at a personal level. It was obvious iPhone would succeed and it was equally obvious that Android was running the Wintel play and Apple was playing the Apple play with iPhone.