skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It is really quite hard for ancient or medieval armies to do meaningful long-term damage to an agricultural economy; farmers flee, crops are hard to destroy and in any case armies can’t do anything to the land itself. [...] Even a sustained collapse might mean something like only a 25% reduction in total production; by contrast Liberia lost 90% of its GDP in just six years of internal warfare from 1989 to 1995."

Now, I could pick some nits with that: crops are not that hard to destroy. But that just results in a few years of famine. On the other hand, a proper counterexample would be the Thirty Years War, but I don't know what the actual long term consequences for the northern German economy were.
> Across the board, illegal immigrants are LESS likely to commit crimes.

While true, it should be noted that part of this is because illegal immigrants can't be repeat offenders, unlike citizens. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 77 percent of former inmates are rearrested within five years [0].

[0] https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/03/09/seven-things-t...
But can you trust that the expression it generated is accurate and it's not lying to you?

I'd rather use something like https://crontab.guru/ to verify my syntax, thus I have it bookmarked for the 1-2 times a year it comes up.
Fwiw it shows up for me. I went to r/reddit in Apollo and the post is up at the top where it is on desktop. Might be stirring the pot here...
Does u/spez not realize the bar for libel in Canada is lower than the USA? The dev is Canadian and could file there right?
Competition and moral behavior: 45 crowd-sourced experimental designs
> Reddit needs to be a self-sustaining business, and to do that, we can no longer subsidize commercial entities that require large-scale data use.

Is there no merit to this?
I'm beginning to explore the fediverse more and have resolved to find an appropriate place to become part of it somehow. I don't think the fediverse as we know it today is the solution but instinctively I feel it's our best way right now to find our way there.
If you hope Reddit dies, you are also indirectly hoping for HN to become more like Reddit, because that will be one of the consequences.
That was one thing I was thinking 3d printing would gut with respect to that type of gaming. But from what I have seen it did not really stop and the 3d printed stuff is looked down upon.
They absolutely cannot budge, their investors won't let them. And by now, the investors probably own most of the company. Reddit is targeting LLMs as their main API clients and that will give a huge bounce on share price after the IPO. Right now, being firmly in the AI supply chain is probably the biggest driver of share price growth
For $10 a month, all Copilot has to do is save me a handful of minutes each month for it to be worth it.

Most of my current work is creating new React components. In these tasks, Copilot probably saves me 20 or 30 minutes a day on average. Often more. It's not always right, but often close enough, and I'm not committing my code without testing it anyway.
There's a hell of a lot more involved in hosting 400+ TB of data [1] than "renting a computer".

[1]: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundations-financial-su...
Amazing Reddit is risking everything with this API change when they could have paid $10 million for Apollo
missed opportunity to explain how compression and prediction are related, and that the better you can predict the next token the better your compression gets, then your article gets to mention GPT hey
So within a community on our platform the creator can create different discussion boards for all the relevant topics related to their niche. Within those discussion boards, posts can get "bumped" to increase their relevancy within the board. We have an aggregation feed as well which shows the most relevant posts across each board within the community. We are working on expanding the ways in which we aggregate the most topical posts across different time spans for the reasons you mentioned.

As far as content moderation, we are leaving it mainly up to each community to self moderate. We are also looking into leveraging AI to assist with flagging posts for the moderators to review to help improve their job.
Apple Is Still Sabotaging Offline-First Web Apps
Enduring the wait and the upcoming flight are good reasons. Drinking eventually makes you sleepy when you are mid-air. It's also more awkward to keep asking the flight attendant for drinks, the looks you'd get if you asked for the whole bottle lol.

Plus, who cares?

I remember last year returning from a long trip at the airport, the long drive home felt too much so I had drinks at like 7AM alongside some breakfast at the airport before picking up my baggage and heading home.
Show HN: DilterBilter – a Chrome extension for ChatGPT to filter conversations
Hi HN community!

It's one of my first extensions. It deals with numerous conversations at chatGPT that I have. It may be glitchy.

I would really appreciate any feedback about the way it work and what can be improved.

By the wya, it was developed with ChatGPT
You have the right mindset. Being supportive of someone doesn't mean you have to be a sycophant and start doing all the song and dance. In fact, these people are the exact antithesis of being supportive, they usually become the catalyst for toxic narcissism and impending doom at some point in life of the people they support. In fact, the most supportive person is someone who speaks their mind out and gives genuine advice they need to hear, not the one they want to hear!
I'll quote directly from the audio (https://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-... starting around 2:18):

> Apollo dev: How did you take that, sorry? Could you elaborate?

> spez: Oh, like, cause you were like "hey, if you want this, if you want this to go away, like [unintelligeble]..."

> Apollo dev: Oh, I said if you want Apollo to go quiet, like I would say it's quite loud in terms of its API use..."

> spez: Oh, okay, got it. Got it, sorry. That's a complete misinterpretation on my part. I apologize immediately [...]

Would you expect spez to still consider it a threat given both the literal content of what he says, and the tone it was said in? I see no way your interpretation makes sense.
I worked at a commodities brokerage that used it. No problems.
Radiological testing on the now infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing complex:

[1]

> Pruitt-Igoe was not proof of a Cold War logic; it did not display the “inevitable” failures of planned housing. It was an organized sabotage—and a clandestine site for radiological weapons experimentation. These studies were conducted on innocent and unconsenting civilians, who were mostly poor, mostly Black, and mostly women and children.

> Residents in some areas of [St. Louis] noticed unusual activity in the days and nights throughout 1953 and into 1954,” Dr. Lisa Martino-Taylor writes in Behind the Fog, an examination of the United States’s Cold War-era radiological weapons programs. “Large puffs of a billowy powder were sprayed into the air by strangers in passing vehicles affixed with spray devices. The luminous powder lingered in the air behind the slow-moving vehicles.”

[1] - https://proteanmag.com/2022/11/28/pruitt-igoe-a-black-commun...
What do you mean by better hardware exactly? ASUS' Zenbook Duo like https://www.darty.com/nav/achat/informatique/ordinateur_port... are pretty awesome. I have the previous model with i9-12900H and it is amazing. Or LG Gramm if weight matters. Or TUXEDO InfinityBook if you need more RAM/2xSSD.
Spot Levels Up – Boston Dynamics [video]
Show HN: The Conversational Journal
>Imagine trying to create Facebook today. With 3 employees and a few hundred users, what's your anti-CSAM strategy?

Two options: launch on unregulated market first or just ignore* compliance until risks for customers are high enough.

*do not mention it in written form, just have some paperwork that work is in progress.
People are quickly replying with screenshots and archive.org snapshots. He certainly can, but it would be plainly obvious and all eyes are on those comments.
If it was one of many factors, perhaps you could document a factor that could actually serve as an explanation? Because as he explained that one can't.

Vogtle is a net negative compared to other approaches they could have, and should have, taken.
Since the cold war ended it's now obvious that we both a)vastly overestimated Russia's capacity and b)pressured them into a lot of military spending simply because they felt they had to do so because of how much we were spending and all our sabre-rattling.

The only people who "won" were the very military-industrial complex Ike warned us about.
Did I parse his usage statement correctly? Is he saying a typical reddit user only consumes 5000 API calls per _month_??? I find that VERY hard to believe.
>US military would be significantly less "careful" suppressing an actual American rebellion.

I think that's very wrong. The second point, is that around 44% of US households are armed. That's a couple hundred million. The only hope the army would have of suppressing them is if half of the US households assisted the army.

If it was an actual popular uprising, the army would be absolutely incapable of stopping it.
I ran this on my user about an hour ago, and all my messages are still on reddit and also libreddit frontends. I wonder if their api is ignoring the user-agent, or there is a very long cache time.
> You just have to handle the case of not having heap memory to spare

You have to successfully handle this case. Rust already handles this case by panicking, which you've unilaterally decided isn't safe for some reason. If that's not good enough you need to succeed. You must conjure the 4kB from nowhere. Show us all how it's done, or, and this might be the better choice, slink away to your fantasy land.

You are right at the end though, if you can't accept that running out of memory might happen what you do about that isn't dream up miraculous ways to "handle" it, you don't do dynamic allocations. Which of course works just fine in Rust.
My favorite reference book is "Desk Ref", which is the larger fatter version of "Pocket Ref".

Obviously everything in it can be looked up online, but I just don't like being tied to having an internet connection. I don't have the greatest memory in the world, and am happy to outsource my knowledge to an outboard secondary brain, so actual physical reference books are quite reassuring to me.
> Note that you can also use right-click menus this way on macOS

also top-screen menu
Awesome stories! A key element in them (IMO) is in both of them the end result was recognized to be in the hands of the person doing it (not the Dr.), and they put the work in to accomplish it because they believed it was important for them. And that work was tractable.

For many people, the hard part is getting to the point they (mentally) are able to do that, which is the psychiatric and environmental elements IMO.

If someone has been convinced that they can't actually solve the problem, or that it is dangerous to solve the problem, they will avoid trying, or sabotage themselves when it looks like they could potentially succeed.

If someone is in an environment where it is impossible to get proper nutrition, or get time/space to try things or do the planning required, or where they aren't allowed to make the decisions necessary for a better outcome, then they'll also be frustrated and unable to make the change.

Luckily, both are addressable except in very rare edge cases, but it is rarely comfortable or easy to do.
It doesn’t have to be all or nothing though. I’ve definitely seen (and written) functional Python in ‘real applications’ sprinkled here and there in an otherwise normal codebase.

In fact, I’d wager that any Python programmer worth their salt would suggest using a list comprehension and a lambda over a loop in most data transformation situations. Also currying comes in handy often once you have it in your toolkit.

It’s a bit silly to call two very mature libraries that are part of the Python standard library a ‘fun project’ just because the language itself supports multiple programming paradigms.
I read this very carefully several times, and there is context which you decided not to quote, what is your point?

Update on your updated comment:
> and the tone it was said in? I see no way your interpretation makes sense.

Looks like we are again in disagreement about this.
You can, but it's different (and less complete) data
Because if I'm between legs of a 12-24 hour travel day, and I started +/-6 time zones away, I don't care what time of day it is where I am when I ask for a glass of bourbon.
Not particulate matter, but photochemical smog, so nitrogen and sulfur oxides, volatile organic compounds and of course ozone.

Add sodium lamps for lighting and you get a rich, orange hue.
> ignore* compliance

And what are the consequences if something goes wrong? Does the executive team go to prison? Usually doesn't happen to the well-connected, but what if you're not well-connected?

Personally, I wish the laws were rational, and scaled according to the size of a business, rather than relying on the whims of prosecutorial discretion.

Random theory: if the law creates many risks even for people who are trying to be moral, risk-averse people will be less likely to start businesses. More businesses will then be started by people who disregard risk, and also selects for a disproportionate number of people with serious psychological issues (although still a small percentage, but higher than the general population). What kind of filter do you have, when people starting certain businesses need to be comfortable rolling the dice on a 1% or 5% chance of going to prison for no intentional reason, and a chance at a pile of cash if that doesn't happen? It sounds like it selects for the same psychology as criminals.

> launch on unregulated market first

There are fewer and fewer of those all the time, and the ones that remain are in smaller and smaller, less profitable niches. So that technically opportunities exist, but as a practical matter fewer and fewer people are able to ascend the success ladder.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make? Putin is corrupt and as a result his military underperforms. Historically the Russian and Soviet systems were rife with both corruption and military losses. This was my original point.

Putin may have inherited a corrupt system, but he certainly didn't do anything to rectify the problem and most likely made it worse.

He is actually very lucky that the world has been relatively peaceful during his reign, it appears an ambitious Japan could have bitten off a chunk of Russia if they wanted to and his military would have been at a disadvantage trying to stop them. Putin also got very lucky that the rest of the world didn't get involved in the invasion of Crimea, but that seems to have made him cocky and now he's tipped his hand and blown his bluff.
I can’t believe this
Abandoned it after 2 episodes, because everyone was grumpy, sad and serious all the time. Ridiculous.
Is this similar to “C8” / DuPont?
How ironic that Reddit's new API limits are likely causing an uptick in calls leading up to the change...

Not just mass archival / reads, but also database writes from Shreddit usage, etc.
what would you have done in Christian's shoes?
> Looks like there is no license.

No one said they were open-sourcing it. It's just published for information/transparency.
It would be cool have Phoenix controllers feeding the LiveView, and also generating a JSON API.
> CEO did something awful but not illegal

Libel is actually quite illegal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It sucks that she had to be fired rather than moved to a different role, but getting rid of her role as a QA proxy led to a HUGE improvement of AMAs. During her tenure there, they were nothing but an incredibly low effort part of normal celeb PR campaigns for new movies and similar things. And she/reddit were not very transparent about the fact that the "celebrity" responses were her paraphrasing rather than them responding.
These sorts of hacks remind me of when AOL's AIM server was exploiting bugs in their own client to run verification code[0]. Hardly an acceptable practice in 2023, though.

[0] https://www.geoffchappell.com/notes/security/aim/index.htm
Or OpenAladeen

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NYJ2w82WifU
I think it’s the exact opposite. The universe is one of the most compelling around. There is so much fiction (cannon and non-canon), and there was even a pen&paper RPG back in the day that was great fun. There is an enduring love for the universe because it’s a great tapestry for many types of story.

I do agree there is a lot of rose-tinted fondness for the movies; they don’t hold up well IMO. The problem for new blockbuster movies is that the Campbell “hero’s journey” story style is incredibly cliche these days. In many ways the original Star Wars defined the tropes but you can’t just go back and revisit and do another “it’s your destiny to save the galaxy” arc after the Skywalker saga.

My prescription would be to really lean into the richness of the universe, and tell some truly new stories. Mandolorian was trying to do this but they chickened out and added baby Yoda as a callback to the original storyline, plus there were no Jedi at the point I got bored and stopped watching in S2 - there is a tension here as I think there are interesting non-Jedi stories to tell, but after a while you really want to see the magic. I also think a lead with an inexpressive mask was a tactical error that compounds after a while.

There is a bunch of interesting stuff you could explore in the Old Republic timeline, or you could forge new canon in the post-Skywalker era (maybe go forwards a millennium or so and construct some new power dynamics, perhaps tell some fall of empire / decadence / rise of dark side stories).

I think the new anime series (Visions) is some of the best content to come out of the universe, and it’s certainly fresh. It really showcases how much potential there is to tell interesting stories in the universe, and the shift to anime allows the Jedi to be more over-the-top in a way I find very entertaining. But I acknowledge that it’s just shorts, and so it suggests they really haven’t figured out how to tell a fresh movie/series-length story in that universe.
> It's a shame we're losing the biggest internet forum, but it's been on this trajectory for a long time anyway.

But that's what so great about reddit compared to the other big social media platforms: hard delineation by interest groups (subreddits).

Instagram, and any others (AFAIK) do not have anything like this feature. It's all just a jumbled mess of user-to-user connections.

I wouldn't say we're "losing the biggest internet forum" there. They can still make reddit more mainstream without old communities having to change much, right?
I think it must have a fixed white balance, or the average hue captured would hardly change over time at all.

Adjusting the inside lights until the inside sensor is satisfied, rather than based on specifying in absolute units, would also have the benefit of taking into account any influence on indoor overall color contributed by your walls, window coverings, and anything else. Might need to average multiple sensors for best results, unless a single sensor does that through a wide angle diffuser.

This is a bit like how automatic audio equalizers (I think Sonos offers this, for example) don't work just by ensuring that the speaker delivers the desired frequency response curve (or lack thereof), but by actually using a measurement mic, since your experience will be influenced by the combination of speaker+room. The difference is that you only need to have the mic around when making changes to the room/furniture (which is rare) whereas you'd be making changes to the indoor light bulbs continuously (based on outdoor light), so you need your indoor sensor running continuously.
If you slander me and I have legally obtained proof proving you wrong I will 100% release it. Or use it in legal action against you.

Fight fire with fire. Enough of covering for these psychopaths.
DOE Announces 6M Barrels for Strategic Petroleum Reserve Replenishment
Reminds me of Japanese fart scrolls. Probably just memes for the lulz.
Tumblr didn't go down because of the controversies , and there were many. It went down because it was hostile to pornography
No Country's Interested in America's No. 1 Position
Since, as far as I know, a large part of Hacker News crowd are US citizens, I would like to clarify that I don't post this with the intention to cause any sort of flame war. Rather, because I accidentally stumbled on this essay in the chinese consulate of Rio de Janeiro and thought it will be an interesting thing to share.
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-298.ht...

u/spez is likely violating the Canadian libel laws...

Edit - Note this is not civil libel, this is the criminal code.
Overview: https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/145bxmi/c...
That's true. In Russia databases of passport data sold on DVD on local markets long before government had any real online services.
Send them your resume or ideas about how to do it faster and better, it could help !
Well first you’re talking about a different situation than the article.

In addition, in the San Francisco case you link, it was not established that the bacteria caused the death you are referring to.

> The lower court ruled against them primarily because the bacteria used in the test was unproven to be responsible for Nevin's death. The Nevin family appealed the suit all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to overturn lower court judgments

Again, blankets statements rather than facts don’t help discuss the issue. Nuance is best.

I for one think they should not have done any of these tests, and that they crossed clear ethical boundaries. But I’m not going to create misinformation, “beg the question”, appeal to emotion, or point to false cause to convince someone that it’s a wrong and immoral thing to do.

These types of arguments are why we had so much confusion, and lack of educated discussion around Covid and vaccines, the pros and cons of nuclear power, etc etc.
It seems he may be pasting pre-written answers: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
I don't care about what someone else considers ethical. If I'm making Reddit worse it's all good with me
You are too late to the party. The problem was between 15:10 UTC and 17:30 UTC on 9 Jun 2023.
Similar story for cloud services, we've seen startups burn through 100K in AWS credits before they even launch a product.
You don't think diversity is progressive? Also, yes of course I consider X-23 to be a gender swapped Wolverine.
I think of it more as a pinching motion to divide the big clumps of fat into smaller ones while coating them in flour. I'm still not convinced that cats know how to make biscuits :-)