skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, their user experience is atrocious. The mobile site tries it's best to push you to the app and the app is just... bad.

I like to consume text content in public transport. Unfortunately, Reddit is like the worst app possible with bad/interrupted connection. Even a real-time strategy game I'm playing that needs constant data exchange works better in the subway than reddit.

At least they stopped forcing you of the mobile version onto the app.
> The whole point of YC was to imbue every founder with "do not be evil" in their DNA.

I'm sorry to say, but that's not in line with reality. Is there a specific source that has led you to believe this?

"Do not be evil" is a fairly vague tenet anyhow. The "whole point" of YC (if there ever was such a thing) at inception, was to test a thesis that pg et al had regarding startup incubation. It was actually a somewhat controversial idea at the time, so much so that YC had trouble finding investors.

Afaict, as long as you are a success, YC doesn't really care how you get there, as long as it isn't something illegal or otherwise obviously detrimental for investors. This is, of course, in part because one of the simpler proxies for "evil" is legality. Investors do often end up benefiting from legislation lagging behind tech and moral gray areas.
I can do (almost) all of these things with a traditional Linux distribution, git, and a few scripts written in my language of choice, and I can do it faster.

Nix seems more competitive with something like Conda or Spack than a traditional package manager like Apt or Pacman. Similarly, NixOS seems more suitable for deployment in containerized environments built on woefully outdated deps than personal dev setups with generally higher security requirements.

I've experimented with both Nix and NixOS, and while I adore both the beautifully functional language and the endlessly helpful community, I haven't been able to justify the overhead of maintaining a nix.conf, flakes or no flakes, on top of everything else I need to do on my machines. I kept running into issues where some program I needed wasn't already integrated with the Nix way of doing things or something that worked on my Linux setup failed to work on my macOS setup despite multiplatform guarantees.

Nevertheless, I wait with baited breath for the day that Nix replaces Conda among a critical mass of practitioners in my field. I've tried getting a few of my teams to switch (with help from Devbox and Devenv), but it's a struggle to get people to learn new things when their (often worse) way of doing things works well enough most of the time. Heck, I count myself lucky for getting some people to switch from the atrociously slow Conda to the significantly faster Mamba as even that was inordinately difficult despite for latter being a drop-in replacement for the former.
LLMs are good at playing you
And Africa has east west orientation too

Jarrad had to make North Africans "honary europeans" to make,e his theories work
There is no way it costs $20m to serve 2.6k requests a second. I could almost do that with a single Linode and postgres.

I do wonder what optimizations are left on the table on Apollo's side, though.
That's interesting. Looks like I'll be spending part of my day looking at how our gut changes with age.

Thanks!
Whenever someone complains that a certain project or community harbors toxicity or right-wing views, the standard answer on HN is that should't matter, software should be judged strictly on technical merit, not politics.

So start up your own instance with blackjack and hookers if you like, federate with whomever you want.
a quick read suggests the author is for a given metric, relying on picking the winner between amd and intel, and then declaring apple inferior.

this isn’t an article.
Data sovereignty is a thing and low environmental impact appreciated as well but they will have to find something else to differentiate from AWS (and the other two, I forget the names)

What could that be? Its not easy but on the other hand you dont win the future by doing easy stuff.
I love this sort of thing, photos and videos that help me to understand just how advanced our species truly is. If anyone has any links to more content like this, I'd really appreciate it.
2000 employees is still probably way too much for twitter
Why would someone refuse a trip to Martha’s Vinyard?

What makes you think any of the people transported are going against their will?

That seems like such a weird take without lots of evidence.

It seems much more likely that someone was offered a flight or bus ride to anywhere that isn’t Texas and they accepted. Financially, it’s much more beneficial to go to NYC or Denver or SFO than stay on the Texas border. And there are so many migrants it’s easy to just ask until your plane fills up.

Any kidnapping lawsuits are likely to end up in the prosecutor looking stupid as 1) the migrants transported will likely say they went willingly / transporter has documentation and 2) migrants will likely split because they don’t want to be deported
Another great reminder that the HN audience bears no resemblance to the world at large - nearly every comment on the announcement was "super dumb" and "I'll just pirate".

That may be true, but apparently enough people wanted to keep Netflix and were willing to pay. Not surprising since a company like Netflix is going to do some research and surveying before making such a drastic move.
Christian also built the app out of college and is now thrust into C-level conversations? I would nominate him next CEO of Reddit if he wasn't a bit all over the place.
Not having immutability isn't the worst thing IMO. I guess if you can't trust your coworkers to not modify their inputs, it's a different story.
With far more than 1000 users.
It's a very inspiring and interesting book. And it causes a lot of discussion, that alone was(?) usually enough to get a lot of recommendations for reading. Academically, we must of course read it before we can criticise it.
self promotion in and of itself isn't evil, but drive by self promotion in a group you do not regularly participate in is pure spam. we used to allow it on /r/indianfood on the theory that on-topic selfish promotion would be fine, and it nearly killed the subreddit with low effort youtube and blog spam blindly cross posted to a ton of groups.

also I am convinced that while the majority of people don't block ads, pretty much no one values them or wouldn't make them magically disappear if they could.
> I don't know if I'm getting old and just feeling like "it's the end of an era," or what. But I grew up in a 2008 that was unlike anything on display here.

The US has been pumping money into their economy (AKA, some chosen entities in it) since the middle of the 90's, with more and more countries just copying their strategy with time.

There was a decrease on the rate of money pumping on 2000, and a reversion for a month or two in 2008 (followed by an increase by an order of magnitude). It was an era.
The rest of us, including a number of hardware engineers who have learned from history, would point to the real-time clock chip that did hardware rules for things right for only one country for a mere three years in the 1980s, until the legislation changed, and whose behaviour has been wrong ever since.

Step forward the MC146818, used in the PC/AT and emulated by chipsets since, whose built-in daylight savings time change rule implemented in hardware was rendered obsolete in 1987.

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk./Risks/24.60.html#subj12.1
> With contemporaneous notes, you control the editorial aspects of it

This is what makes it weak. You show me your beautifull contemporaneous notes which show that you are a saint and you are dealing with the devil and I will assume that you left out the bits undermining your viewpoint.

> and have no legal risk in most situations

This is acknowledged by the very thread you are responding to. They said they wish every conversation were 1 party consent. The very fact that they are wishing for this means they understand that they might have legal liability now.
Recovering from getting the Zoster vaccine yesterday. So, yay?!
All users should have seen this coming, for years they poured their life inside those free digital platforms, made a digital life with digital friends, and feel all cozy inside because of their digital followers.

At the time of Usenet, things where different. Those who remember brought many lessons from those times, but something to consider is that the vast majority of the user-base of nowadays' services never had to deal with a fax modem, P2P connections, and nothing out of the 'really basic'. A lot of the same people who are now calling to 'decentralize' things uses a proprietary OS on their phone that probably listen to them and they do not care about it. They do care about their life online, about the void it would left in their lives if it was all over. Those users want comfort, babysitting, somebody to take care of spam and bad people from their line of sight.

Decentralized services will not work for the masses anymore simple because they learned to be in the comfort, and they will always prefer the service who offer the most of it. I really wish to be wrong, but i do not see this being possible on such decentralized services where people have to take care of themselves and actually learn a bit to use some services.

The solution for this issue is very complex, and would require a complete reeducation of those users for a new way of interacting online, in my opinion, or else it would be for nothing. The mess has been made already, backup everything and let it die. New services should still be created, but to cater to new users and people who actually knows the importance of this move, trying to recreate what already exists is a waste of time.
Thinking about it your theory makes absolute sense. Realistically such a shared document would otherwise just have a reference to the question and the answer without the necessity of describing the answer using "A:". Wow.
Well, when one of the big arguments is whether Diamond absolves European colonialism, and in a later book he does exactly that, that does lead me to assume less good faith even in a previously written book.

[EDIT: Note the title is "Jared Diamond: A Reply to His Critics". While the substance of the post is about GGS, the title is about Diamond. I think his other 'work' is fit for discussion under this title.]
Of course they could, but it’s very unlikely. Even if 10% of the users did this, there would be an uproar.

It’s much more likely they just disallow editing and deleting.
Edmund Burke was a more complicated thinker than realized
>icon-focused, color-coded items

Sounds like an accessibility and discoverability problem. Icons can be eventually learned, but only for frequently used items and only if user discovers the function. Colors… good UI does not require accessibility settings, it just works for any user.
YC exists to gain a return on capital investment. I see no reason why a group of people making money from the labour of others would care about morals.
https://archive.ph/20Dqy
Yeah, my experience was that there's like 20-100 people total that spend all day every day actively modding for the whole of reddit, then a ton of people who do next to nothing
Why would Reddit add another backend layer?
Such a lousy AMA, Spez only made 14 comments, and it was locked after that.
That's why you see this at the computer history museum:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot

sort of like the great-great-grandparent of 3dbenchy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3DBenchy
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3408371/

"Average body mass globally was 62 kg."
In today's post-GPT world it's important to recognize the role of embodiment in intelligence as well.
Washing cast iron with soap is really fine. Actual seasoning doesn't come off with dish soap.
None of that was all that original... Slashdot had the links & stories with votes and a thriving, nested comment section (although it was curated), and link aggregators were a dime a dozen. And I mean, there was Digg. They put it all together in an effective way, though.
I guess so. But I also suspect that their value isn't as much as they think it is. Some will actually leave, but most will stay and just continue to grumble about it. And keep working for free.
This happened to me too. After I left our company, my business partner told new investors there was never a CTO. However, for nearly a year we had jointly agreed I was CTO -- and he routinely put it in writing.

When the new investors found out, my business partner demanded I remove CTO from my website, writing it was "technically incorrect".
Hi! Like everybody here on HN I love your site. Have you tried on a Garmin handheld too? It seems like something brr.fyi would pack for the trip
They also weigh about 4 times as much.
Who wants to do this? I'm in!
This blog post seems more of a strawman to me than anything else; GGS has a poor reputation in historian circles because it doesn't approach historical analysis with a level of rigor appropriate for academia.

This quote[0] sums up things well for me:

> Look through any r/history thread mentioning Diamond and you will see dozens of people who find our critiques pedantic, and that, in a general sense, Diamond’s thesis makes sense. This is a very difficult attitude to address, because it’s rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of how social sciences work. The attitude evaluates the ideas of popular authors from a utilitarian, practical approach: if the thesis is useful and helps makes sense of the world, it has value. We researchers take an inductive approach: if your methodology and facts are wrong, your thesis can't be right, no matter how much it "makes sense."

> For this reason, I’m kind of sick of talking about Diamond’s theoretical bents and ideologies. The standards by which scholars and the public evaluate them are so different that we have to address an entire epistemological orientation.

The "Diamond is a racist" argument is not one that historians care about. What they take issue with is:

* not questioning primary source bias (e.g. he takes Pizarro, Cortez, etc. at face value),

* exaggerating the role that disease alone played, as opposed to how disease amplified vicious cycles[2][3]

* made-up facts[0]:

> In a world where conquistadors bested Aztecs with with guns and Spanish friars set up missions in communities devastated by plague, Diamond’s arguments would matter. But this is a world where Tlaxcalans bested Aztecs, and Spanish friars set up many failed missions before gaining a foothold and witnessing entirely disrupted populations fall to disease afterwards.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6meq1k/comme...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2mkcc3/

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/8nr7xd/

[3]: https://np.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/2cfhon/

(Disclaimer: I haven't read GGS, nor am I familiar with the underlying theses. I just find myself fascinated by the controversy around the book.)
> Do conversions to/from local time only as a first and last step.

Cool.

Now how do you enforce that? Spoiler: have the local-time be reported as a TimestampWithTimeZone.

When you're doing calculations, make them all Timestamps.

When you're done, you can remember that you've converted from internal UTC-timestamps into the proper output format because you'll have a TimestampWithTimezone again.

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We're programmers. We have problems that are simple and enforceable through compiler constructs called "The Type System".

Why have the human figure out if they have time-zone back-and-forth correctly or otherwise made a mistake (ex: adding code to the wrong "part of the process" and accidentally mucking with a TimestampWithTimeZone input/output variable rather than the internal Timestamp-UTC-only type variables?)

Just... leave the job of checking this entire process to the compiler. If your n00b coworker messes up, the type system catches it and we're all set.
The smell lingers..
> This is all a ridiculous self-delusion that Reddit management has engaged in that the platform is really the “value add”. It’s not. Reddit has become the shorthand for…

I don’t understand how people can argue that Reddit is somehow not valuable and then go on to explain how Reddit is valuable.

The “work” that posters and moderators do isn’t a deliverable that investors care about in their quarterly reports. They only care about revenue, be it from ads or customers paying for features.
Here's a link to the case: https://twitter.com/Sasa_dangon/status/1667248579910553601
Knowing how to tell someone "no, I won't build that" and make them thank you for it.
Wouldn't you need additional fire suppression at those levels of humidity? It's more dry than Southern California during the Santa Ana winds!
It's not covered extensively because it makes no sense.

>Why not just increase the price of Apollo?

>One option many have suggested is to simply increase the price of Apollo to offset costs. The issue here is that Apollo has approximately 50,000 yearly subscribers at the moment. On average they paid $10/year many months ago, a price I chose based on operating costs I had at the time (server fees, icon design, having a part-time server engineer). Those users are owed service as they already prepaid for a year, but starting July 1st will (in the best case scenario) cost an additional $1/month each in Reddit fees. That's $50,000 in sudden monthly fee that will start incurring in 30 days.

>So you see, even if I increase the price for new subscribers, I still have those many users to contend with. If I wait until their subscription expires, slowly month after month there will be less of them. First month $50,000, second month maybe $45,000, then $40,000, etc. until everything has expired, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars. It would be cheaper to simply refund users.

Ok, so there's existing subscribers. They will have get new subscribers at a higher rate, and then wait for existing subscribers to renew at the higher rate before it will cover the API charges. Makes sense.

But they suggest they're just going to refund users. So why not just refund users and make a new subscription? This is what I don't understand. It's not a binary option here of closing the app or trying to cover existing user's API fees out of pocket. The middle ground of just refunding those subscribers and starting a new subscription exists.

The whole argument is that they will be out of pocket. But that is going to be the case regardless because they're going to refund users anyway.
Contrarian take: lots of people doing parsing, has, on the whole, highly negative value, and template languages and config files are a prime example of this.

Everybody and their dog thinks it necessary to inflict some new sub-par language on us when in about 99.9% of cases they should just either have stuck to s-expressions or some suitable subset of a popular programming or existing config language with a relatively sane syntax (blaze/bazel did that right, cmake did that very very wrong).

When was the last time you looked at some config file and thought, wow I'm so glad they didn't use toml or python or whatever, but instead made up some completely new syntax nothing in the world apart from this tool itself can parse and that I can't programaticaly manipulate?

When was the last time you thought, wow I am so glad that someone invented a new templating language that creates some new injection vulnerabilities, because no one apart from the lisp people ever seem to have worked out that if you want to interpolate into something tree shaped, you should have a tree-based interpolation syntax? Because although sexps and quasiquote solve this very nicely and concisely everyone else still seems to love string-bashing plus some ad-hoc "escaping" system for this. And one reason for this is of course precisely the enormous abundance of idiotic config languages that can't be easily manipulated as anything than opaque strings.

[Edit: if you do create a new config file language, pretty please provide some means to directly query and losslessly manipulate it; for the lossless part you will either need to have first class comments unambiguously attached to a particular syntactic construct and agreed upon deterministic formatting or IDE-style complexity, the first one is probably a better idea]
It works great when you’re on the top. But when the worm turns it becomes harder to attract top talent again.
It is an attitude that has given a lot of cover to very malicious people over the years. Bush is a great example of that. Many people thought he was a moron and during his administration a lot of the things that happened on his watch (no-bid contracts to Halliburton and Abu Ghraib spring to mind) were often brushed off by people citing Hanlon's Razor.
Depends on if Netflix can translate the new capital to content that retains subscribers.
Reddit: We're losing $20M/yr in opportunity cost to Apollo.

Apollo: Ok then, buy me out for $10M. What a deal! You make your investment back in only 6mo.
> The core of functional programming is about avoiding mutable states,

I can't keep up, does this mean scheme is not a functional language anymore by modern definition?
This is a little atomistic view, but essentially in the correct direction. I would also add we need to nurture anti-centralization and anti-corporate sentiments that are still springing up in younger people especially, in their own way. If alternatives could bestow perceived social prestige for at least parts of the population, this would help preserve islands of free discourse for the future.

To be sure, this doesn't mean proclaiming decentralization to be cool necessarily (...fellow kids), but trying to be open-minded and friendly to the public, which I consider to be the actual better part of the ethos of the early Internet era. Being tech literate is "esoteric" by itself, and some complexities and social contracts cannot be really taken away from that, not without going back under the centralized yoke. But even moreso we should be trying to make it a little better by our attitude.

Even if a regulation of protocols for utilities will come, assuming it will be good, we need society to remain willing to preserve it.
I know that you are just trying to make a point, but just to be clear: no paper maker in US is importing Amazon trees to make paper out of them. That would be exceedingly idiotic from profit-making perspective.
> book is plainly anti-racist and anybody who says otherwise probably never read it.

I read it.

It is deeply racist as none of the argument makes sense unless you look from a European POV from the end of the twentieth-century

It so happens that the industrial revolution happened in England and not India, and a bunch of European gangsters went on a three hundred year world wide rampage that is coming to an ignoble end now

Jarrad has some interest ideas but his euro centric POV is so deeply ingrained he cannot see it.

He is utterly racist. He does not know it, but it drips from all his writings
Don't really care about capacity anymore, can we get the cost per TB to go down?
How will I ever learn the opinion of 19 year old college students now?
If you want to do AR apps, you must give Apple full rendering control
Promised docs here: https://microsoft.github.io/devicescript/language/runtime#wh...