skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've made a lot of alts and that never has been a problem, just post some vaguely affirmative comment in popular thread and boom, 50 karma.

The whole idea is utterly stupid because it is far too easy to get on popular low effort subreddit and get some points for posting absolute garbage, then go and bother people in niche subreddit.
wait wait wait - you think that the characters not being all white men is "progressive"? that would mean that reality is progressive, right?
as a former (army) nasty girl I sincerely appreciate your mildly pejorative use of the air national guard. (;
Did Steve get this removed somehow from the front page? I can not find it unless I am missing something.
One problem is they aren't very transparent on fees. They charge both the business and the consumer. Probably offer the driver the minimum amount possible to entice them to do the delivery. And the business fees eat up much of the profit in the transaction. Also, this whole thing was built on free investor money in a wildly growling economy.

What happens if demand sinks because consumers have to be more diligent with their money and 20% business fee + >$10 consumer fees + 20% tip isn't a good value anymore.

it also drive up the prices on the rest customers because the business needs to raise prices across the board to survive.
What is your goal with this comment?

> I had a look at the evidence

The evidence isn't difficult to search for, and your 30 second "look" at two sources from the Wikipedia article doesn't exactly amount to a meta analysis.
Two years ago this is where someone would chime in with a blockchain-based solution, paying moderators with usenetcoin.
The fact that everyone is hoarding data because they think there is a gold rush afoot is obvious. Everyone with loads of data is clamping down, hoping they can get a cut of those AI VC dollars. Except for Wikipedia at least.

But let's be real about the morality here: Stack Overflow is a badge-powered mechanical Turk. It uses 100% unpaid labor to go and search Google for answers and post them on SO, providing a "service"[1]. For it to moralize about the ownership or sanctity of data is irony.

[1] - There are exceptions, obviously. There are true experts who wander the virtual halls of StackOverflow and dole out wisdom. But overwhelmingly it is clear that answers primarily come from people who rush to Google and then copy/paste from blogs and tech papers. And while Stack Overflow dumps are CC because that's the agreement that it made with contributors, a lot of the content on the site was ripped without attribution and in defiance of IP. So...maybe not too many tears for SO.
> Humans discover that the cool and useful thing is toxic as fuck, but only after years go by. It takes years for the awareness of the toxicity to become widespread enough for everyone to concur it’s a problem.

There's no reason for there to be years between discovery and action. It doesn't matter how quickly the discovery ripples through lay society. Once it's known that something is harming and/or killing people, it should be stopped.
> unlike a [...] airport, I'm not likely to die here

What?
Every time I try to search for a phone number (Bing/ddg) I get pages and pages of clearly auto generated fake names associated with numbers, all hosted on that same Turkish government portal. I don't know why.
I think it was Microsoft BASIC that stored time as a floating point number. What a bad idea. Converting from it to an integer and then converting back to float would cause the time to "drift" due to rounding errors.

It's the same reason why you should never use floating point numbers for account balances.
Education is what you get out of it. Especially at the university level. If you are really engaged and trying to find new things it will be a wild ride. If you are there to just 'get the degree' you will find it dull, boring and a chore. What crystalized this thought for me was a few years ago. I had a class that started with 20 people in a corp env and optional. At first all 20 showed. By the last class there was 4. Most had checked out when they realized that you had to do the course work and be engaged (2-3 hours of study per week for 8 weeks). We even made accommodations for those who fell behind as long as they tried. I found being engaged into the coursework is not the norm.
Of course I don't expect him to say that. There's been people here and elsewhere saying, "this is good for Meta, actually", and Mark is also saying that.

And I don't know what to make of the logic. It might be right! It might not. I'm interested in opinions on that.

My comment is just that it doesn't appear to me, based on the defensiveness and lack of excitement from Mark, that he believes it.

OF COURSE I don't expect him to say they're screwed, if he believes that. If I expected that, I wouldn't be trying to work out his mood when he spins it as positive. I don't know if he thinks this is a positive thing for them or not, but his demeanor suggests not to me.
Not absurdity, it was seriously considered on Nix Discourse and Matrix. Hetzner offers very attractive options like CX line of dedicated VMs, three of which would be sufficient for this project. Alas, this still requires more consideration than the time available to switchover.

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-sx
I sure hope that more and more areas on the greater web keep getting decentralized/federated...because all this centralization is for the birds! Over the years, any content that i have posted on such centralized platforms, i consider ephemeral...and if its lost, either i already have my own copy, or i don't care (it would be content that i care less about, etc.). Of course i say that, but really it would be others that might suffer from, say, some essential answer that i provided like on stackoverflow, and then when that answer is gone, i will be ok, but others will suffer. I'm by no means a fountain of answers, i'm just proposing an example scenario. To tangent a bit, this is why the intent of projects like SOLID [0] sounded so good to me: everyone has their own somewhat copy of interactions with each other, ensuring tha at least to some degree there is preservation of valuable content among members of a community.

[0] = https://solidproject.org/
Postgres's time handling types are elaborate, and probably the best I've personally worked with.

Timestamp with TimeZone (including DST + timezone offset) is a different type from timestamp without TimeZone (ie: normalized to GMT). Timestamp - Timestamp results in "interval".

Perhaps my method I was discussing doesn't work. But the overall idea that "Timestamp" needs to be a different type than "Interval", is pretty key IMO to handling date/times appropriately.
I have no love for the extravagant dumpster fire that is the sequels, but "forced, ideologically-driven tarnishing of their childhood memories" could equally (or even better) describe the bunch of loud online critics who were strangely invested in attacking poorly-envisioned black/Asian/female characters, when the arcs of white male characters were honestly no better. (They were made by the same creators, duh.)

Makes me wonder if they are objecting to something else but don't want to say that part loud.

* I'm (obviously) not saying all online critics are like that: it's really easy to hate these movies, they're a total mess.
Task Manager with the Original Author
Mercedes-Benz beats Tesla for approval of automated driving tech in California
I'm surprised replit is not helping out financially considering they now use nix to power their repls.
> But this wasn’t a biological experiment on the citizens, which is the issue. It was an experiment to test the spread of material in a subway system.

This is like saying I was just practicing throwing punches at thin air, it just happened to be inside a crowded elevator.

Absolutely can't stand "well technically" disingenuous HN comments like this.
Seeming actual answer: Random chance, it sounds good, and no actual reasons are needed for putting all sorts of substances into "energy drinks".
> They told him they only wanted the part to last for 2 hours and the one he designed was too heavy. He had to do it again…

As someone in the racing industry, the ideal engine/parts/etc are what will get you across the finish line (and meet the other requirements like how long engine components have to last) as fast as possible, and no more.

There is a lot of money put into the sport, and extracting much of the money comes from the win/place, not whether or not the car will last 40k miles.

If something blows up/breaks after crossing the finish line, it doesn't matter much... just rebuild it for the next race.

Everyone is looking for every advantage they can find.
I have the 15 from work, it’s terrible. Heavy, bad keyboard, constantly overheats, bad trackpad. Even the chassis is bad, pressing on the bottom causes a grate to touch a fan.
One thing that the internet is (mostly) missing here is discoverability, finding something entirely random and new as you flick through.
Born in the late 90s, I spent an absurd amount of time on wikipedia in my teens. It's lack of depth on common topics at the time led me to libraries and the world of books.

As an adult, it's amazing to see how far Wikipedia has come. In spite of its perennial and well-documented issues, it has to be one of humanity's biggest accomplishments.

I think teaching "the youth" how to efficiently investigate and retrieve information is probably one of the best skills we can pass on. In 2023, I'm not sure if there's much utility for a "generic" encyclopedia in that skill tree. Although encyclopedias with an intentionally-constrained focus are still pretty valuable, IME.
but he has his own products, doesn't it make sense for him to promote his own products?
GA Power net metering is still limited access, right? Did you have to wait on a wait-list to get approved for it?
I totally agree on the cloud service side though. I don't understand why they don't offer a competitor considering how good of a product they could create. When asked, Mark always says that a cloud platform wouldn't be related to their mission (connecting people).
> And the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

This one did not involve deliberately infecting anyone, the subjects in the study already had syphilis.

That doesn't make it better, but it isn't a good example of the government "using bio weapons."
They specifically asked the NRC if the new rule would apply to Votgle and were told it would not since the design was certified prior to the rule.

Where do you see that? According to the Rod Adams piece you linked above, the final design certification document for Vogtle included that new rule and it was completed in 2011:

"As it turned out, meeting the new rule ended up requiring three more iterations on the design document and raised several issues of contention including concerns about the revised heat transfer capacity, concerns about the innovative shield building construction process devised, and concerns about the validity of the testing regime for the steel concrete composite modules that make up the shield building.

Those and other related issues were not completely resolved until the issuance of the final design certification document in late 2011, more than 2.5 years after the PSC had approved the project using the previously approved design revision."

In 2014 Westinghouse was still touting high confidence in affordable, predictable construction for the AP1000:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141225195417/http://westinghou...

From the outset, the AP1000 PWR was designed to reduce capital costs and to be economically competitive with contemporary fossil-fueled plants. This requires lower overnight construction costs and higher confidence in the construction schedule.

The AP1000 plant reduces the amount of safety-grade equipment required by using passive safety systems. Consequently, less Seismic Category I building volume is required to house the safety equipment (approximately 45 percent less than a typical reactor). The AP1000 plant’s modular construction design further reduces the construction schedule and the construction risks, with work shifted to factories with their better quality and cost control as well as labor costs that are less than those at the construction site.

This also allows more work to be done in parallel. The use of heavy lift cranes enables an “open top” construction approach, which is effective in reducing construction time.

With new computer-modeling capabilities, Westinghouse is able to optimize and choreograph the construction plan of an AP1000 unit in advance by simulation. The result is a very high confidence in the construction schedule.

If the airplane strike rule had made that impossible, they shouldn't have been advertising the impossible. I'm not even confident that the airplane strike rule bears particular responsibility for the bad outcomes of this project, because large construction projects often run over schedule and budget even if the NRC never comes near them.
> the conmen who are selling ChatGPT and the like are extremely irresponsible for the way they sell LLMs as magical AI that arrives at factually correct answers

ChatGPT has a pop-up on first use, a warning at the top of each chat, a warning below the chat bar, and a section in the FAQ explaining that it can generate nonsense and can't verify facts, provide references, or complete lookups.

There is probably more OpenAI could do, like detect attempts to generate false references and add a warning in red to that chat message - since it seems there are still people taking its hallucinations as fact (although if there's hundreds of millions of users, maybe only a tiny fraction), but I don't think this is a fair characterization.
GPT4 isn't a source of information. It's a probabilistic string of text.

Cite actual sources, please.
Not that much, not unless they are related somehow (say /r/games and /r/pcgaming). Even then they can feel quite differently depending on moderator policy.
not at all. just responding to a question with a response in the same manner. ridiculousness all around
You don't know that a nation state didn't make something ChatGPT level earlier.
most business negotiations likely will start with nda signed.
Well at least it's not a pile of hardlinks like apple's time machine. Actually that might be an interesting option for an OS... constant versioning.
Me too. I thought it was normal already to just store the unix nanos. At least that's what I do and it seems to work. Yes I have stuff with nano granularity.

You don't want to get into floating point, it gets all fuzzy and then when you need to change it, there's a bunch of code to change.
This is unfortunately true. The "MERNIS" leak is freely available, containing some 49M citizens with their ID card numbers, addresses and a lot more.
Reddit wasn't "co-opted" by venture capital. It was built by venture capital!

It literally started as a result of the founders taking money from YC and pivoting away from their original idea and to Reddit at Paul Graham's request.

Hear the story here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steve-huffman-co-found...
Ah, I see; you're not sure the big stick is actually as big as the article assumes. Yes, fair point.
A website cannot block the right click "open as new tab" action, and since that's what my gesture based interaction add-on uses, I'm safe.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gesturefy/
I use colmena[1] to manage one nixos configuration for multiple machines:
- laptop
- desktop
- server
- rpi nas

I also wipe my entire rootfs every boot with a zfs snapshot rollback[2] using the impermanence module[3] to keep specific stateful data one one of two datasets with regular snapshots: one is backed up with zfs send, the other is just for cache between reboots.

It took a little puzzling to get started, because I didn’t know about the impermanence module at first, so I built my own hacky solution. But I really love this setup. And the way I don’t have cruft to clean.

Also my backups are so much smaller now :’-)

[1]: https://colmena.cli.rs/

[2]: https://grahamc.com/blog/erase-your-darlings/

[3]: https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence
The Verrazano bridge is usually baked up with traffic as is the two major highways feeding into it: Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) and the Belt Parkway. To get from SI to Manhattan by car you take the bridge to the BQE then battery tunnel into Manhattan but that's over and hour in traffic. Ferry is another option. There's no connecting subway tunnel and a single small train line runs north south to the east. Weird borough - feels like long island or upstate. Even had a shanty ghost town to the south.
What are the actual responsibilities of a Tech Lead?
Currently, I'm in a job as a Tech Lead, but it's my first time working abroad, specifically in the USA (considering that I've held the same position for over 6 years in my home country). I was surprised to find out that my role required me to code like a regular programmer, in addition to managing the team, taking on the role of a SCRUM master, and handling partially manual deployments. It really surprised me to have so much on my plate, and I wonder if this is what a Tech Lead typically does in the rest of the world.

What do you think guys?
You just seem to think Disney has the absolute worst market research on the planet instead of admitting they are trying to push ideological messaging.
This by far my favorite article about CockroachDB, and I've been involved with CockroachDB for a long, long time.
work for interesting people who hold significant power, not interesting companies with powerless human interfaces.

no need for artificial mandated interactions when you organically interact all the time.

1:1 serve an important role in companies of a certain size, but come at a terrible cost.
Super cool insight, I wonder what the turnaround or bureaucratic process is of fundamentally changing an SOP. It can't just be generals mandating these things (or is it?).

Changing organizational processes tends to be extremely hard in large orgs, and I wonder how the military deals with it.
Isn't it way more likely that the technology will become more available and cheaper/for free? It doesn't really have a lock-in effect like a UI that you learn.
Steve has always been the leader reddit deserves, not the leader it needs. The position Reddit is in is of his own creation. Even the most uninspired out of touch corporate leader would have avoided this entire clown show. Steve believes that his relationship with Reddit makes him the best leader but alas, it makes him the worst.

Steve has finally said in his AMA today, that Reddit has to be a sustainable business to survive! Very true, and that alone is justification for making radical change that people may hate. Yet, he has been so resistant to saying it that it seems like he didn’t want to admit it to himself either… and so the decisions he’s made haven’t been founded in an embrace of that idea but rather in a desperate attempt to avoid it.

Any competent business leader in charge of Reddit would understand that the reason Reddit only spends 100m/year on salaries is because they receive hundreds of millions in free labor from the small minority of Reddit power users who are fundamental to its success… any competent business leader would squeeze the 99% of users who have never delivered a single contribution to Reddit… and yet, Steve decided to target the smallest minority who actually matter to reddit’s future.

Putting YouTube style unskippable video ads into the official Reddit app would have pissed off zero power users and 10xed revenue.
Making OpenAI Whisper Better: Speaker Diarization
Unaffiliated, but https://wiby.me/surprise/ is great. :)
> “Given the issue is so fundamentally important to our view of who we are, a claim that our free will is illusory should be based on fairly direct evidence,” he wrote in a 2004 book. “Such evidence is not available.”

What does “evidence” even mean in a world with no free will. If there is no free will, there really is no such thing as arguments or evidence.
I've never seen `!!!` in JavaScript, and I do a lot of it. Care to share?
Why do you think the median user of any social-media app "consumes anything significant" through the app?

The median user of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, or whatever else, uses the app for on average ~five minutes a day. They just "check" it to see if there's anything interesting; they find that there's not; and then they close it. Or, they just decide to open one such app when waiting for a bus, and scroll until their bus gets there; then they open a different app while waiting for their lunch order to be made, then close that one when they get their lunch; etc.

Most people who "use" social media, are not addicted to social media, or even engaged with social media. They just barely use social media.

This group of people is why every single MAU figure is considered to be heavily inflated. All you have to do is open the app for a minute once a month and suddenly you're an "active user" for that month. Every social network has far, far fewer "actually active" users than they try to make it seem.

> And this is about API calls, not user engagement.

If you aren't aware: engagement drives linger time. The same people who create accounts, etc. are the people who spend hours on the app. People who just "poke their nose in" but don't engage almost always spend less time on the app. Degree of engagement with an app, can be used as a very reliable proxy (by third-party analysis firms who don't have access to actual usage-time data) for likelihood to spend more time using a given app.
likewise. I have over half a million on reddit but all I did was crosspost links and make funny comments that probably wouldn't land on HN
Your sentence would be more effective without the last four words.
Not GP.

If Copilot/GPT produces stuff with subtle problems, and it always will, then it will not be better code than someone with skills.

More testing? Generated by the same LLM? Sure, but it might be testing the wrong thing.

I think that those with skills should lean on them. Let code monkeys use LLM's; experts should be human, not a fleshy bot feeding another bot and uncritically using the spew.
It is fine to use the cloud for your initial landing zone project. But once you are n-weeks in, you really should have 1/2 or full rack at a colo with enough bandwidth and storage to backup your on two servers.

I'd start with DO or Hetzner, https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

And then move to own hardware in a colo.

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/aplus

At the same time, I'd probably keep each project as I went. From day-0 you should have some form of cloud presence in all the providers, at least a root of trust landing zone you can work from to build out infra should you need to.
Epic nerding! Thanks!
I mod a sub of 2M but our community is so toxic, we don’t think any of the users give a shit. Most of us mod on Apollo so I’m sure the sub will get a little less moderation (which is probably a win for users anyway). Most of the mod complaints about their automated power mod tools not having API access have been resolved according to spez.
Isn't this kind of the same as saying that LVMH is such a better company than Uniqlo? LVMH makes so much more money, but is it something I'm personally interested in or want to buy? That's a different question.
yeah...no. don't use floats for this.

int64 "nanoseconds since the epoch" seems to be emerging as the de facto standard.

used in Golang [0] and adopted by Python starting in 3.7 [1]

that PEP also spells out some of the problems with using a float64:

> The Python time.time() function returns the current time as a floating-point number which is usually a 64-bit binary floating-point number (in the IEEE 754 format).

> The problem is that the float type starts to lose nanoseconds after 104 days. Converting from nanoseconds (int) to seconds (float) and then back to nanoseconds (int) to check if conversions lose precision:

0: https://pkg.go.dev/time#Time

1: https://peps.python.org/pep-0564/