skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People in general have far less choice in this than is probably desirable. They tend to have normal lives, with normal friends and normal jobs and as a result they lose their ability to make such choices. The game is utterly rigged but there isn't a whole lot you can do about it if you are trying to make ends meet with a family.

In my family I'm the lucky one, I can pretty much live in any way that I want. But the rule is that the job cycle pretty much dictates how much freedom you've got. The financial stakes are balanced in such a way that you're likely in the tredmill for life unless you get very lucky. The big problem is that there are so many little races to the bottom that if you're not very careful you will end up participating in one or more of these effectively reducing the negotiation power of others and time shifted with yourself. Unionization is one way to solve some aspects of this (though not all and some unions have their own issues that then become dominant). Alternatively you can go it alone but that kind of risk taking isn't for everybody either.

I don't think homesteading or opting out is going to be a big driver, it would be nice if it were but I just don't see it happening. What you will see is an increase in mental issues, homelessness, personal bankruptcies and more like that. Those are the indicators that things are really not going well. But many people don't care about these things until it hits them personally.
Power users are the most affected here, and power users bring the most value to Reddit.

Mods specifically have always been Reddit’s golden goose. Free content moderation by volunteers is Reddit’s only advantage over other social media platforms. FB pays absurd numbers of humans to do what power users do for Reddit for free.

When the mods fall, the quality falls.
That seems like a slippery slope, as technically every comment on HN is advertising on behalf of the account owner.
I meant go the other way -- the apps band together and all decide to support some alternative backend, instead of the official reddit. Ultimately it's the users that make a site valuable, and the clients seem to have a lot more goodwill than reddit itself right now.

Of course, "just add a backend" is easier said than done!

But not unachievable.
This whole topic is a relative subjective thing. If leadership/management feels like their teams' or product's performance is not what they need under whatever model they use currently, then they are at liberty to adopt whatever other model they think will make them more successful. If they choose wrong then boo hoo they failed. That's not an opinion, that's just how things work. Add liberty to dictate your own work location and collaboration habits regardless of your employment contract to the constitution if you disagree (not saying I wouldn't support that lol).

There are valid anecdotes from people being more productive working remote. And there are valid anecdotes from people feeling like remote work has take a toll on their mental health and productivity and ability to collaboratively solve problems. And there are valid anecdotes from people who feel like a balanced hybrid model is exactly what they need. And there's even data that shows hybrid and remote work does improve productivity.

The only opinion I've state as fact is the observation that there does not seem to be one perfect solution for every person and situation and team out there. The only opinion I've truly state is that people should consider compromising on their work requirements because it's silly to rehash an unresolvable argument about which work style is the ultimate global best, ad nauseam.

If I were in charge of this topic at a large company, I do believe this is one of those "every scenario is a bit different" situations and I'd advise managers to work with their teams to make the right call. But I'm not so who cares.
Debian's my favorite distro by a longshot. Sadly, I only recently completed upgrading to 11, so 12 will have to wait for a year or two.
What is pdw?
I found the installer was lacking something I typically wanted. Disk encryption maybe? Or maybe it’s partitioning or file system options were limited? Can’t recall. It kept me from trying it out full time at one point
> you can't trust Reddit

Sure, but what does that even mean? I cannot trust them to load the topics from /r/ruby or /r/haskell correctly because of nefarious purposes? Perhaps they have replaced all the posts with Python propaganda in the hope I wouldn't notice?
That fuel was presumably loaded for a reason. Pushing it overboard still represents a risk to the flight.
Didn't Reddit hire a child predator to moderate communities for children and then delete discussions about it because said moderator was trans?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Challenor
It did in NL, both regular police and AIVD (the Dutch secret service) have been smacked down repeatedly in court.
Informally, per Gödel’s method: algorithms are discovered, axioms are invented.

This may however be distinction without a difference, since it corrodes the intellectual form of neither, and the processes are indistinguishable.
> They just shut down a huge ecosystem of free loaders and will be able to show more first party usage and therefore ad views and DAU and so on, which aligns so obviously with their goal of having a huge IPO

My take on this comment is that these people are considered freeloaders by Reddit. It’s not necessarily rational from an outsiders perspective, but that’s not the point.

I don’t know much about reddit, but if they sell advertising, then advertisers are the customers, users are the product, and anyone else who extracts value from the ecosystem are parasites.

It doesn’t matter if the parasites are an important part of the ecosystem. There is a remarkably deep bench of people willing to replace an any “parasites” that are removed, and if exfoliating the current layer will improve DAU and therefore IPO value then it will be done.

In this context, “freeloader” is a nice way of putting it.

To be clear - I don’t agree that any of this is OK, and I certainly don’t agree that moderators or third party apps are actually parasites - but that’s also the point I think the GP is making.

If the only measure of success is money, that’s what they will optimise for. And an IPO is the shortest of short term goals - a single event which must be optimised at all costs.
Even SIM cards have been hacked remotely:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/01/sim-card-...

So, "simple is safe" is just not really a thing. SafER perhaps, but also so much less useful that it defeats the purpose of using one IMO.

I think it would be better to use a secure android ROM. Like GrapheneOS or CalyxOS.
Good for consumers and awful for the industry. Having an EV with no charging network sucks.
Spall: Simple, Fast, Portable Profiling
Sorry, but "the market" doesn't think anything. That's a category error.

If by that you mean something like "VC investors", sure. They are people whose job is trying to turn money into more money while filling their own pockets to bursting. They are zero-sum people by nature and practice. If they really understood and cared about communities, they'd mostly have different jobs.

But that doesn't make it true. And there's nothing wrong with framing Reddit's execs actions in terms of morals and long-term outlooks. We should generally not concede anything to the world-view of the greedy. Whether or not this will hurt Reddit's IPO is worth discussing, but we shouldn't confuse that with hurting Reddit the community, which it certainly will.
Physically impossible to just take someone's HW token. And firmware/HW has no bugs, so malware taking the keys is also impossible to write. There were never ever any FIDO token vulnerabilities and never will be.
I suspect that the reliance on China for manufacturing combined with what sort of sanctions would be enacted when they attempt to invade Taiwan, would encourage the US and its European allies to insure they had a good manufacturing base to rely on. We have seen a number of things from the war in Ukraine but two that I think have been really impactful were the challenges of ramping up munition production in the US and the impact of factories rolling out thousands of inexpensive drones/week and those drones being deployed on the battlefield gave everyone a reassessment of some of the national security risks of globalization. Basically the lesson is that industrial war requires an industrial base. In WW2 the US had a vibrant industrial base that could be pivoted to providing war material.

Industrial base takes time to spin up, but if you have solid economy (as the US currently does) then using monetary policy and other incentives to push capital toward industrial base development is good for the country. It also plays well on TV since these factories are revitalizing towns and cities that previously were suffering from a lack of industry.

As a result, I don't see these shifts so much as a "reversal of Reganomics" so much as a realization from the Russian-Ukraine war that "globalism" isn't something authoritarians really like. And if you're primary trading partner is run by an authoritarian regime, that is bad.
Please don't. When I don't understand what a human's written, I can often reverse-engineer it by considering what sorts of thoughts would lead to that word choice. That's next-to-impossible when reading the output of a transformer-based predictive text system.

Science is not an exercise in creative writing, so write straightforwardly.
Google is also in the market of using every bit of data it can possibly record of you to show you ads.
Ah, you would be right, it appears I have a J1772 at home. I did not know that the CCS is a superset of the J1772 connector.
Reddit not only doesn't have anonymous accounts, new pseudonymous accounts can get shadowbanned after the tiniest mistake (yes, this is a huge violation of netiquette, but then reddit is basically built assuming that people are going to violate it, so...)
I normally don't do that, but I felt the urge to remove that paragraph all together. It is not helpful in any way when visiting the city. And normally nobody cares about political tensions in city.
Pardon the n00b question, but...

How does this relate to vectors? It was my understanding that the tokens were vectors and this seems to show them as an integer.

It's probably a really obvious question to anyone who knows AI but I figured if I have it someone else does too.
I like the security/privacy promises of options like snaps. It seems like other issues, like file sizes, aren’t the worst. And getting it to match your os options seems like a solvable problem. Could somebody explain why they hate these systems?
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Given how terrible their ux is they either don’t want something good or are incapable of it
I love that this is trending on HN. LLMs be damned. We still have lots of “simple” problems to be solved, like how to effectively write and share an ERD.
I did read the article. And I listened to the recording. As a businessperson, Christian should know that the salespersons statements were not a binding promise, since there was no mutual consideration and those statements were not reflected in the actual written agreement he would have signed.

As I said, I'm looking at this from the legal perspective, not the emotional perspective.
Are you employed by Reddit or something?

You shift the blame like there’s no tomorrow. At this point you either work for them, or are getting paid exorbitant amounts of money to defend them. That’s the only reasonable explanation for why you’d be pushing the blame so hard.

Even if he had a full system set up in a month and a half (a fairly tight deadline), 32 days is an unreasonably short amount of time to make any sort of material change to your terms, let alone raising the cost exorbitantly.

Hilariously, your first comment wishes people would pledge to pay for Apollo. How we got from there to… this bullshit is beyond me. At least it only took a few hours to show your true colors.
That resin comes from a tree that is the source of the name for urishiol - the chemical that makes poison ivy such a nasty experience.

It's probably better than plastic, but remember that coral snake venom and puffer fish toxin are 'all natural' and so the concept of all natural is utter and complete bullshit.
$50/month is pretty steep for what looks like a Khan clone.
Are we reading the same information? There is not one thing I've said that is not in the linked post, or any of the previous posts regarding this topic.

You may want to believe and be sympathetic toward Apollo - fine.

That doesn't change the circumstances nor realities. Apollo screwed up, and is now throwing in the towel. It's really hard to be sympathetic towards a business operator that's made a series of bad choices and now is playing the victim card and shutting down.
I can’t speak to Capbase in particular, but in general, Clerky is pretty unique in that we’re run by startup attorneys. Partially as a result of that, we have a much stronger focus on helping people get paperwork done in a way that will survive legal due diligence (basically, review by investor and acquirer counsel). Also, our software in general is more focused on helping people get legal paperwork done, as opposed to any of the many other aspects of running a startup.
I willingly use Stable, although if you want something that includes more recent versions, you want Unstable.

Personally, there's only been one time in the last decade or so that not using the latest version of something has caused any real headache for me, and that was a manageable situation.
And pills are like $0 per 100-200mg, so we know why the hospital didn't just use those.
And Reddit has been online the whole time. People love boycotting within Reddit, but they’re still using Reddit to do that.
Is this just invective or is there an actual story behind it?
Maybe it has never seen that specific sequence before so it's like a cat with horizontal lines
Long term I think we'll get most of the way there by eliminating C and C++ from our software stacks. Most security vulnerabilities (and even more of the most serious ones) are memory safety or UB related. And systematically eliminating those will give us more time to audit our code for other issues. Eliminating C and C++ also likely leads us to standardised build systems which makes rebuilding things much much easier.
In the article on your blog, you wrote:

"GPT-3 rhymes reasonably well and often when appropriate, but the improvement is much smaller on rhyming than it is on pretty much everything else. Apparently it is easier for GPT-3 to learn things like arithmetic and spreadsheets than it is to learn how to rhyme."

I've experimented extensively with Claude, and a bit with Claude+, ChatGPT (GPT 3.5) and GPT4 on poe.com, and I've had not the slightest problem in getting them to rhyme. However, once they've started writing rhyming poetry it's hard to get them to stop rhyming. They seem to have formed a strong association between rhyming and poetry. I've also been unable to get them to obey a specific rhyming scheme like ABBAB.
if "my God" part wasn't evident, and you need a mark for sarcasm/joke/take the piss... I guess that part is beyond help
So.....now everyone encodes tracking parameters in the URL path?

Yay!
I use it as a desktop OS on all of my nonserver machines, and it's been great. Obviously, tastes vary, of course.
I am perversely drawn to applying to this job, even though I know it is at least 500% more shitty than what I currently do.
Building an alternative to Reddit is actually incredibly hard, especially if you suddenly get a huge influx of new users. Not talking about the technical side of things, but the community. How should the developers of these clients feel certain that whatever alternative they decide to endorse won't end up like Voat?
Not a GPT, but I think Megabyte does that.
That is what I keep telling my people, but they always end up boooing me. Sigh.
During the sensitive output you could flip the camera perspective to the unhappy look on their face before and the happy look on their face after you have simplified their lives. Or just use a staging environment for PCI/Fedramp as they hopefully don't just have a production environment unless they are wearing the t-shirt. I don't always make changes live but when I do, I do it in production.
spacy's sense2vec gets pretty close to that

https://spacy.io/universe/project/sense2vec/

granted, it is 8 years old, but it's still interesting
I hope the end result is not people encrypting the path and parameters so you can’t manipulate it anymore.
My understanding is that they were forced to open these standards and charging stations in order to get full credits for their cars. Is that wrong?
You have constantly pushed a reframed timeline that isn’t actually indicative of reality. You have been told multiple times why. You have ignored multiple different things that Reddit has done in an effort to shift the blame entirely onto the Apollo dev.

You’re the only one who is finding it hard, and your constant push to shift the blame off of a massive corporation and onto a developer is frankly weird.

Re-evaluate your life choices if you truly believe this, but it’s clear you are the extreme minority here.
It's irrelevant to the topic, but I actively dislike Reddit and would be happy for it to die. I use old school forums more than anything else online. Reddit killed those.
Exactly - people want these to be infallible. I say stupid stuff literally constantly and I'm a grown adult. Teachers are incredibly fallible - but someone schooled in math can still do a ton of good.
Agree, there's no mandatory standard that there must be valid referrer information on all hyperlinks. It's an optional extra from what I understand.

Similar to how freedom of religion also guarantees the right to not have any declared religion.
Polypropylene is probably the least nasty of the bunch.

Probably.

When the BPA scare came I saw so many people switching to a different kind of plastic instead of stainless steel or glass. I just could not understand what people were thinking.
is that right? not a lot of support for arch.
Not gonna comment on something as subjective as "quality", but just the taste of Coca Cola is noticeably different in the US vs at home in the EU.
I doubt the API would be complicated, the issue will be in all of the little QoL/scaling features: moderator settings, automoderation bots, hosting photos and videos in a scalable way. I imagine behind the scenes bot/spam detection is an entire engineering team.
The vast majority of them I would guess.
I believe the referenced "lying" is not in the call, but when afterwards he claimed internally that the incorrect understanding was the true one.
There's Lemmy, not perfect but it is designed to be Reddit-ish.
Killer site (not a “read”) about the thing that created the term killer app. This meant, you bought the hardware because you wanted the software.

At the risk of being a hypeman, I think you should take a look. Just for funsies (though I’d gladly sell you a visicalc license).

It’s weird like it’s from 1999, but visicalc was even 10 years before that. I thought this page was fun:

http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm
For starters, I'm not incapable of nuking a frozen meal, reheating leftovers, or hard boiling eggs, things like that. Those are backup strategies still employed.

It's difficult to explain succinctly what the barriers are, and without getting in a big debate about my abilities and limits. But in a nutshell:

Start with intractable problems with pest control. If I eat delivery, I get no bugs. If I prepare fresh meals, the cockroaches, gnats and other pests immediately descend. I can't avoid standing water/dirty dishes, and so the longer I try my hand in the kitchen, the worse the bugs get. I'm a renting tenant and 100% reliant on the landlord to do the pest control, and it's ineffective. If I want a deep treatment, I have to shut down my entire kitchen, tear it apart, and put it back together afterwards. So I am roundly cursed for even trying this.

Fitness - I'm not a young man anymore and as a beginner, my time in the kitchen is very inefficient. I could spend 2-3 hours at a time for one meal in a day. I couldn't sleep or rest enough to make it up, and living with this deficit took its toll, especially if stopping to rest meant I wouldn't eat or empty the dishes from the sink, and we're back to cockroaches.

Comptenence - since I never learned how to really cook or put recipes together, I find it amazingly hard to plan out meals and produce stuff that is appealing or even normal. I found it very difficult to collect recipes and work from them, especially when trying to manage fridge/pantry inventory, and oftentimes I wound up with something edible but really weird-tasting because I put together the wrong flavors. Or, my hunger would militate against knowing what I am doing and make it incredibly frustrating to remember all the steps in cooking.

Cooking meals from scratch requires planning and organization, which I found it hard to adapt into a kitchen context, and it was crazy-making if I was hungry for breakfast now and there was nothing but dirty dishes in the sink and I didn't know where to start.

I went to the hospital multiple times last year, because I was extraordinarily exhausted and I truly felt that my heart could fail any moment if I kept that all up. It was truly traumatic. If I could merely find a middle way to preparing simple meals once in a while, just to keep delivery costs down, I would do that, but for now, I'll follow the path of least fear and trembling.
Interesting, as they have to be using some sort of blacklist, like "fbclid" and so on. I'm curious if there will be an escalation cat-and-mouse thing with less easily identifiable params, rotating names, etc.
I’m the guy who built the server end of Apollo. I can tell you that there would be no problem paying for API usage. In fact, it would have been welcomed, as this is a sure fire way to support the service you depend on.