skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're both making too much of this. I mean, Javascript applications are going to be doing this naturally, have been for decades now, and... it's fine. Floating point can indeed be a footgun, but generally not in the space of single numbers like this.

And integer representations have traps too. To pick on your particular example: "timestamps" are not the same thing as "times" and if your code predicated on that, it likely has bugs already with monotonicity and uniqueness assumptions.

And the benefit is that, as the article points out, you can have easy subsecond precision, something that is much harder (and pervasively unsupported by existing libraries) with fixed point math.

Should one go to the mattresses to defend either of these designs? No. But on the whole my heart agrees with the linked article. If you have to make a choice today, for new code, stick with a double.
Mall grab

Industry plant

Friends don't let friends push mongo
Having actually done this, it is a loosing direction (sadly). The idea is great, but people just don’t participate in that way. The closest I got was a Watch community that linked to eBay and I would add affiliate links if there were none. But that was one forum out of a million.
It depends on what you’re measuring.

If you just want to see if a project is active then commits is useful.

If you want to see if there are multiple committers, then active people is useful.

I don’t think you should compare repos based on this metric, but knowing if a repo is active or not is something.
> The whole point of YC was to imbue every founder with "do not be evil" in their DNA.

That’s not really the job of the startup investor. At best you try to screen for that. But like active ethics education… no.
Again this is just a hypothesis and nothing has come from it despite the fact that it is very old. There isn't any good reason for it to be true and no one has done anything to show that it is.
>There are other incentives like fun, passion, and anger that will break any economic model.

Yes, because those incentives can't be reduced to numbers, which is the only thing the economists, bean counters and ambulance chasers, among other professions, can even understand, let alone employ, in their models.

Reductionism at work.
There's loads of ways you could do this. e.g. cross attention, completely separate tokens for prompt and data, arguably special tokens to surround system prompts (GPT-4 api does this)
>You are badly misrepresenting the content of your sources.

If that's the case, so do you.

>[1] do not blame only cats.

[1] is a direct attack piece on Google's TNR program. The entire article is centered on that. To say that they "do not blame only cats" is laughable. Who they actually blame is Google's employees who ran the TNR program.

>They also do not call for the killing of all cats

Ah, but isn't it neat? They don't say it, that's just the impact they want (and got).

See, the entire point of gCat feeding stations was attracting un-neutered feral cats, trapping them, and neutering them. That's the T and N of the TNR.

R stands for release. Why release? Because not all cats can be domesticated. gCat has adopted dozens of cats from the street, but not all cats were OK with that.

The call to "not feed" the cats meant an end to the TNR program, because it could not trap the cats. It also meant that the released cats kept coming back to campus, looking for food.

Lacking a TNR program, these cats were captured, then killed (because adoption was not an option for them).

>[2] says:

Oh, we're quoting [2]? Let's quote [2]. [2] lists the following threats:

- Systematic and regular grading on a large scale destroys prime foraging and nesting habitat

- Insufficient high-quality foraging habitat

- Insufficient mowing during the breeding season to maintain nesting habitat

- Disturbance by vehicles going off-road, leading to erosion (of habitat)

- Formal and informal trails and unofficial roads in owl habitat

Notice anything common with al of the above?

And yes, after all of the above, cats may also present a threat.

Not the gCat TNR program cats in particular. Cats in general.

>One suggested solution is to: "Proactively discourage all feeding of cats in Shoreline"

...not differentiating feeding feral cats, and feeding stations in the TNR program.

It's infuriating that you accuse me of misrepresenting truth.

>You seem to acknowledge that the large cat population was in fact a threat to owls, but still object to the NYT story.

Large, uncontrolled, feral cat population is a problem.

Google's volunteer-ran TNR problem was a solution to that. Many cats were adopted (over 50, IIRC, the website has since gone down). The ones that were not adopted were neutered, and their romaing range was made smaller as they (predictably) returned to the feeding stations, instead of roaming freely.

The NYT story specifically attacks the TNR program, and misrepresents it as the problem.
When I first read GG&S in a university anthropology course in 2000 or 2001, I immediately disliked it. The reason was not because I thought it was racist or imperialist— I don't think it is. Instead, I disliked it because it tried to explain the shape of history with an overly simplistic model that tossed out every nuance which didn't fit the thesis.

Now that I'm older, I understand that this is what pretty much every popular treatment of anything must do, and Diamond was just more successful at it than almost anyone else. Is that to his credit? As a writer, maybe. It's ultimately a complaint about the danger of arguments which are so simple, elegant, and easily understandable that they suck all the air out of the debate, not against him or his book per se.
We’re an unhappy bunch and love a quick fix
https://archive.ph/krMzN
If you depend on the company making the chemical to do studies and be transparent about them, of course the reaction time will be bad. You need independent studies and environmental monitoring.

The blame game gives the politicians and bureaucrats a nice excuse for inaction, and not much else. And 50 years later it just looks ridiculous.

Sure, if someone does something bad, blame may be a part of the response. But you need good outcomes first and foremost, not bad outcomes and blaming.
Trading trust for money seems to be very in-vogue in the past decade.
A scholar of Hume has speculated that Hume might have heard about Buddhism from a traveling Jesuit priest.

http://alisongopnik.com/Papers_Alison/Gopnik_HumeStudies_wit...
> I am not actually a Reddit user --- I use the site read-only

That means you actually are a Reddit user.
I thought the same thing for a long time. The reality is that I knew nothing about NixOS other than the sales pitch the day I installed it: nothing about the language, nothing about flakes or derivations or whatever. By the afternoon I had most of my setup replicated. By the next day I had both desktop and laptop running identical configurations.
>Domestic cats as a species had been introduced to America by humans, and still are explicitly kept and feed by humans. I'd call that breeding. This also sets an easy and natural metric of how many cats should be there: 0.

Same applies to humans of non-native descent, I presume?
Here we are, all pretty happy on our anonymized and centralized HN.
Which is basically just boring normal business leverage.

"My customers are more loyal to my portal to your platform than your platform. You're literally putting me out of business so you can buy my app and keep running to keep those users for a price.
This isn’t my logic and I don’t think it’s sound at all. But expect that NYC will still sue using the logic.
Discussed at the time:

To save C, we must save ABI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30660528 - March 2022 (128 comments)
>it's not anywhere near the echo chamber Twitter was when he bought it

Are you really implying that the fact that Twitter (as opposed to Reddit) actually had a visible diversity of opinion on Musk as evidence that it's an echo chamber? The seething, petty hostility to Musk that is routinely on the front page of Reddit is so objectively correct to you that dissent from it must reflect echo chamber dynamics? Incredible.
Yeah there’s a shitton of people trying to mod stuff.
Doubling down works when you can be confident that you'll be able to keep rolling the dice indefinitely, because no matter how great your losses have been so far, no burly security guards have come to escort you off the premises and block you from reentry.

This is pretty much the story of the internet at this point, perhaps accelerated by the success of certain celebrities who proved that fame for fame's sake can become an indefinitely self-sustaining reaction, and there is no such thing as a downside as long as someone will stick a camera or a microphone or some kind of amplifier in front of you. Thus doubling down has become such a ubiquitous strategy.
Setting the temperature to 0 is not good practice for most tasks. It's great if you are doing a multiple choice benchmark, but for most generation tasks the output will be noticably worse, in particular more repetitative.
Right when the commercialization of the internet was permitted.

The fact that we did that in the heydays of neoliberalism so we fumbled the ball into this current trainwreck will probably be part of the history in books written 200 years from now
This doesn't crack my list of the top 1000 programming debates, but it's not controversial to say that given that literate programming, the Smalltalk IDE, and the REPL were all around before Mathematica notebooks, they didn't bring any new ideas to the world. It may still have been an innovation to create a remix of ideas borrowed from others.
A new kind of new kind
There was a bit of sarcasm implied.

Community is tangible.

And there are tangible KPIs for measuring the health of a community.

But Reddit's community health is clearly not proportional to Reddit's profits.

It's just another way of saying: VCs and users don't agree what makes Reddit great.
they might be unmonetizable. But they're the people who maintain the communities that bring in the mass of people that are monetizeable.
I help manage a few associated medium sized reddit communities. We share a mod team. We are joining the protest.

We talked to an admin who reviewed our logs and they were surprised by the fact that our community was modded as a team because most of the communities that they had seen and worked with were apparently modded almost exclusively by a single person.

I thought at first that this was a joke because our head mod does most of the work and because we get new mods every year and they always leave.

So when our head mod leaves the subs will die. We'll become /r/worldpolitics. And there's a good chance that he'll leave during the protest.

What I'm trying to say is that we often see moderators as interchangeable, one leaves and another joins and nothing changes, but the reality is that good mods are scarce. I don't expect an inexperienced mod to join a sub with half a million users and know what to do. Most of our team doesn't know how to use the automoderator. I'm the only one who knows how to use the custom automation bot that I wrote. And then there's the issue of understanding the culture.

So whether reddit lives or dies in my opinion won't be a matter of how fast reddit can replace moderators but a matter of how many moderators will stay and put up with the bullshit because it has become part of their lives.
With the article mentioning you need OpenAI API key, and section about personas having a screenshot of a configuration window offering you a choice between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, I'm going to guess that this version uses, by default, the usual GPT models via OpenAI API.
Yes, my bad here. Google didn't have to do that.
Why's that? I'm selling my Dodge Ram 2500 crew cab 8' bed Cummins Diesel as my CyberTruck reservation should be towards the top. I view the CyberTruck as a superior replacement for the Cummins Diesel. Then again I own a Model Y and really don't want to own another dino powered vehicle. I've replaced way to many engines and transmissions in my life. I have a 1 ton gantry in my garage that hopefully will never be used on gas/diesel powertrains again.
Also Apollo doesn't cost them shit. Unless they're arguing that they lost $20m/yr in ad revenue you can't do the math like that. Reddit users cost Reddit $20m/yr.
Yes, I'm sure there are many other ways they will benefit as well.

Earlier today, I was hearing about the marketing benefit Tesla will get from everyone going to their chargers. It has 2 benefits.

How would Apple have benefitted if everyone who owned a PC had to go to an Apple store to buy a USB cable?

Also, Tesla will now build more of their charging network, putting their brand in more places.

So, just in the marketing alone, it's a huge win for Tesla.
with dot chaining you are restricted to only the functions that the API you're working with provides. With functional pipes you can use whatever functions you want.
> It's like he knows nothing about China

Oh yes.

And East Asia is much more than, much bigger than, China.

It is a ludicrous infantile argument from a Western POV Jarrad never notices.

He is a fish, swim g in a racist sea that does not know what water is
Yeah, anyone suggesting decentralization or federation is completely missing the point. Kind of like when people were blindly pushing blockchain to be used in software architecture.
We have gotten on a discussion of storage, which is a little afield of the original point, an alternative to nuclear fission for meeting our energy demand. That, and not storage specifically, is the actual target:

- Build out solar and wind to cover the winter usage, not the summer usage (the cost with them not running is longer payback period, they do not have negative energy prices).

- Build pumped hydro storage for longer term storage

- Build more hydro

- Change how you use hydro: use them as your "peaker" to handle when the sun and wind go offline

- No city/state/country is an island, build more HVDC connecting countries, especially EAST-WEST so that even when the sun has set here we have an extra hour or two of solar from the west.

- Build batteries for short term usage (see the Horndale battery in Australia for incredible short payback periods)

- Store heat/cold when you have the renewable and then use it as heat/cold.

- And build nuclear it's great baseload, if you can afford the actual price after the massive overruns.

But again, before we start coming up with new use-cases for hydrogen, we need to solve the 90 million tonnes annually made directly from fossil fuels. Until that's done, hydrogen remains a GHG problem, not a GHG solution.
>Can you fill the missing gap in this story? Why does the NYT have any authority over internal policies of Google?

Because Google is very PR-sensitive.

NYT articles had a big impact on what Google was doing.
Unfortunately there’s no discord equivalent of

<product review> site:reddit.com
Yup, LA. Though smog is still a problem, and I lived in Santiago which has similar geographic challenges, LA skies on the average day are considerably better than they were in the 70s.
Agree 100%, which is why I started one. The link is in my bio. I was inspired by someone else on HN who did the same.

Small, close-knit communities are always the way.
if folks like this and use JS, there is a very similar library for that ecosystem: https://ramdajs.com/
The idea is to store all times as time_t in UCT, and do all time calculations in UTC.

Do conversions to/from local time only as a first and last step.

It's the only sane way to do it. The D runtime library does that, and it has proven to be robust and sane. We're also recommending that users do the same thing with different character representations - do all calculation and processing in UTF-8. Other sets are translated upon input into UTF-8, and the UTF-8 is translated to other character sets only on output.
I only met Steve a couple times in passing, long ago, so I can’t say I know him at all, but he always seemed like a nice guy. I really hope he can see the folly of this API pricing before it’s too late.
It sort of helps that Tokyo was firebombed into oblivion roughly 80 years ago. Much easier to build, expand, and maintain. Also an entirely different culture around transportation and property rights not to mention civic pride.
Depends on what counts as "like this". The electrified truck fed by an overhead line is more than a century old.[1] Add a battery to it and you can charge it from the overhead lines while driving. Several experimental modern test tracks have been installed by Siemens as part of its eHighway project in Sweden (since 2016) and Germany (since 2017).[2] And there are alread multiple battery electric railcars in operation that can charge from the overhead wire.[3]

[1] See for example this 1903 electrified truck from St Petersburg: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberleitungslastkraftwagen#/me...

[2] Here is a somewhat dated Web-page that describes the essentials: https://press.siemens.com/global/en/feature/ehighway-solutio...

[3] The Wikipedia article on "Battery electric multiple unit" has a lot of examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_electric_multiple_unit
I think the humans in Starship Troopers (even in the (first) movie) are the good guys. What do you expect a humanity fighting an existential war to look like exactly? Current-day Ukraine under what is pretty much martial law is not exactly a liberal utopia.
That's a harsh accusation. I moderate bc i love the topic and want to encourage others.

Banning and blocking posts isnt the powertrip ppl think. It's not like being a cop and stealing cash, cocaine, and raping hookers.

It's more "oh another bot is posting chat room ads in bad grammar.

Ive seen many interesting forums falter bc a mod gets a six month interest and never logs back in again, forgets their password to their alt, etc.

And reddit already has AI duh to delete spam. It'a just not 100% so ppl have to do it.

Also mods do more than just enforce rules. It'a more abt setting the tone through pinned comments, certain flair and CSS etc. Also, intelligent cross-posting. You know, all kinds of nurturing shit. That takes TLC and passion. Lots of people like my subs but no one ever wants to help mod them.
Lucid comment. I agree.
Hard to quantify without a set of both side by side to compare. But the writing was better in the old ones. I would describe it as more technically competent.
> inflame their most passionate users against the company

this is think is the disconnect, they do not believe that is what they are doing, and given my tech bubble I am not sure they are wrong.

they have the data, i dont. I am sure their "most passionate users" are the ones using the official apps, and new interfaces, posting, upvoting, and commenting on cat photos, and cute animal memes, which is where their ads are targeted.....
He doesn't. He made it clear that he understood why Reddit would charge for their API, and that it seemed reasonable to him. He is shutting down his app because of the amount they are charging, which is outrageous. Additionally, he is shutting down his app because they have given him only 30 days to prepare for the new pricing.
For sure. I asked on a subreddit what the next biggest community for X is, and they pointed me at the discord
>Well pretty much all the successful apps have decided to shut down but perhaps you know something they don’t and you can profit from their ignorance.

I won't profit because I don't have an app. But all the other third party apps that won't shut down will just start charging and power users will pay for them, because they are better than the official website and app.

>Here’s Apollos developers thoughts:

The thoughts are fundamentally flawed. They're saying their owe existing users a service and can't charge them more for using the app. But... they're suggesting they will just refund them anyway. So, why can't they refund all users that are paying for Apollo and then reintroduce a subscription model. Those 50,000 that paid for Apollo beforehand will most likely renew their subscription that covers the Reddit API charges and nothing changes.
Ballroom in Focus
I think the CyberTruck is somewhere between beautiful and sexy. Other than your bad taste in aesthetics [IMHO], I completely agree with the rest of your comment.
Stainless steel doesn't poison the environment, easily fries sunny-side-up eggs without sticking if you let it get hot first, and can go in the dishwasher.
There was a series of articles on lossless and lossy and compression techniques in, I think, PC Magazine that I read as a kid and made a big impression on me. I didn't, like, end up ready to write code to build Huffman trees or anything, but it did change it from a total black box into a bunch of smaller pieces each of which a mere mortal can understand.

The compression rabbit hole can be a rewarding one to go down if you haven't. Besides the tech itself making a lot of things work better (like a Web built on human-readable formats, or more specialized stuff like Parquet or other columnar formats, or video on the lossy side), it can give you some tools or perspective that apply elsewhere, e.g. to other probablistic stuff like caching and predictions for lossless compression, or other signal-processing stuff for lossy compression.
By way of one tiny pipeline that has to travel across an entire continent the long way, or via boat through the suez canal?
I think they want to collect a few huge checks from large orgs that want to scrape Reddit for their own analysis while also killing 3rd party client access.
That doesn't make sense. Reddit is (charitably) arguing that Apollo is costing them $20m/year. "Splitting the difference" and just losing $10m on a one-time basis doesn't make sense when Reddit can of course just cut off API access.

If Apollo were delivering $20m/year of incremental value to Reddit, then this would've been a sensical bargaining strategy. But the Apollo dev wasn't prepared to make this argument.
Same, been paying for it for years. I'll be canceling it when RIF dies though, this just feels too much like the beginning of the end.
> "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence."

This is a digression, but this saying has always frustrated me. It makes sense for a second, but then I wonder if whoever came up with it had any idea how much malice exists in the world. Many cases of "malice is at least as adequate an explanation as incompetence, given the facts or lack of them".
>It has been awhile but think the Vikings had more variables, like weather that prevented fishing

This was categorically refuted by bone analysis showing that Vikings did eat seaborne food[0]. The current hypothesis is that the fish bones were used to feed animals or burnt.

The more important point that the thesis was absurd in the first place. The Vikings were seafarers, and we have no record of any such taboos. You can't invent a food taboo completely against their way of life and with absolutely no written evidence out of thin air. At the very least, there was an extremely high level of proof needed, and Diamond doesn't even try to get near.

Moreover, We have a 5000 years history of human food taboos, and as a rule when people face starvation or just illness, the taboos get shunted aside. Even the fanatically devoted Ghandi compromised and drunk milk. The one exception I can think of in all of human history is Nongqawuse, and even that was: not a food taboo but based on existing faith, encouraged by a foreign power and disobeyed by a non-trivial faction. You didn't get complete extinction even there.

[0]
https://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/abs/2002/03/epn...

As for Easter Islands, there are serious arguments that there wasn't any environmental problem and the population survived well enough (e.g. [1]). More importantly, the Europe slave raids are documented to have carried off a third-to-half of the population, the more educated part. In other contexts of similar casualty levels, downplaying that would be called way worse.

[1]
https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/12/09/249728994/w...