skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's a weakening of Kaczynski's argument to say it's about activists not caring about collateral.

Maybe, but what you say here isn't supported by the bit you quoted.

That bit actually seemed completely level headed and well written. He defined his terms (leftist) and admitted it's a sloppy term, and then he wrote something I feel is true about most political ideologues - that they care more about their arguments and winning than the correctness of the arguments or value of their opinions.

> He absolutely mixes in there insinuations that this is all by some secret design.

Again, maybe in the overall manifesto, but not there. In the quote provided he just says "Xs works for the goals of X, even if their message is 'Save the Ys'"

That's not hard to believe, it's something we all need to try to avoid in our own thinking.

> ungodly amounts of paper writing about the motives of the leftist.

:D Have you ever read what leftists themselves write? You could fill libraries just with analyses of Marx.

I think the scary thing is that Ted is very well read and could be writing for the New Yorker ... and he justifies violence.

But not because he's the only one doing so, he's just the one who decided to take it into his own hands instead of the acceptable ways to call for violence - to advocate using our military to do it, or hoping that someone 'punches' them for 'being a nazi'.

He's scary because he disproves the narrative of a barely literate, ignorant, conservative-adjacent, god-fearing, terrorist who hates us because of our freedoms, or whatever. He is us, one of the best of us at one time, and we can be vicious.
> In particular, bishops and knights are very close with bishops being worth a tiny bit more.

I don’t think so, and I would like to see the author look in the data for 2 knights vs 2 bishops. My gut feeling is that knights are hard to block and can attack every square, while bishops can only attack their color, so half the board. They can’t protect each other and rely on pawns for this.

I’m happy to trade my knights for the pawns, but I would like to see if I’m wrong.
You are indirectly arguing that chasing social status is the norm, and my coworkers are no exceptions, just somehow hiding it.

Maybe the social status chasers were the odd ones all along. They would surely hate that thought.
They will now. Before people were just polite to use Reddit's API. I'm sure there will be plenty of 3p on Android that scrape that are a work of love off GitHub soon.
That has not been my experience in modern corporate America.
They aren't allowed to operate on US soil, and even when they do, they definitely aren't capable of going after individual school shooters
The same argument could apply to humans. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_blindness.
I've been using 3rd party apps for over 15 years -- it doesn't feel blown out of proportion to me.
The tedious parts are automated.
Conservative corporate media moguls like Rupert Murdoch have since mostly consolidated news outlets.
I've kept my font in my messaging apps Comic Sans for years. It turns out it's super readable when you're trying to read quickly, due to all the letters looking so different.

This font is nice, but it sort of "squares up" the letters to make them more uniform, which arguably makes it less readable compared to Comic Sans.

It should be noted that Comic Sans is also the preferred font for many dyslexics because of how readable it is.

People hate it because it's overused, but it is actually a very useful font.
> The problem is the CVE score do work in most cases. A lot of organizations still prioritize updates based on their CVE score, and don't bother with updating unless it meets a certain threshold. If it doesn't meet that threshold, then they wait until their monthly patching cycle, or don't even bother updating ever at all.

That doesn't mean it works; that could just mean organizations either a) don't understand the actual severity of their own vulnerabilities, and prioritize fixes based on an incorrect metric; or b) recognize that the CVE score is garbage, but don't want to appear to their users as ignoring or de-prioritizing supposedly-severe issues.

Neither one of these options is good!
Reddit should realistically charge for lost revenue rather than lost expenses. Instagram makes $50B annual revenue on 2 billion users, or around $25/user/year. I'm certain that Reddit is making nowhere near that per user, but they're probably pricing their API along their most optimistic projections.
Microsoft isn't a gaming monopoly, and regulators aren't even claiming they are. Just that this deal would create some kind of "cloud gaming" antitrust problem which makes no sense because that isn't a distinct market from "gaming", and it isn't proven people even want cloud gaming, and also there are really no other people even trying cloud gaming.
Just signed up and I quite like it. It feels like HN, it's smaller scale so not quite as addictive and I'm not spending as long browsing it. Which is a good thing.
Please explain how it's wrong __in the context__ where 'system' is the entirety of the database and consumers (applications / etc) of the data in that database producing results? Note the qualifying portion you truncated, "by preparing what's most commonly going to be seen together in that form."

> Does the data really belong together? If a query wants (id, x) how often does it also want (id, y) or (id, z) etc. These pieces should be combined to larger tuples / object fragments if frequently accessed together.

> De-normalize returns the true data to a format that is efficient for the system and it's use cases by preparing what's most commonly going to be seen together in that form.
Use a different group then if somehow "has an actual swastika flag in their room" is too non-specific for you. "ISIS Members," if you want.
Sure, but presumably you want your emails to generally match the aesthetic of the rest of your product, which is easier if you can use the same tooling to make them as you do the frontend of your product.
Good point here. IRC was also nothing like Twitter or current day social media in general.

We also didn't have the massive amount of statistical evidence in mental health that came to light just recently about teenage social media use, especially in girls. Several times these studies have made it to the top of HN.
"One third of Gen Z supports government surveillance inside private homes to prevent abuse, crime: report"[1]

It is the future, and its going to get worse.

[1] https://thepostmillennial.com/one-third-of-gen-z-supports-go...
I'm not sure why either. My understanding is that the main channel videos are big and flashy but expensive, basically acting as a loss leader that increases the population that watch the rest of his channels. So they make money indirectly I guess.
“They” as in the people taking these actions now, were not in the same position to do so when your complaint was allowed.

So tiring dealing with low effort notions the government is just a vague amorphous concept when it’s actually people colluding against the public, at which the public throws up their hands in a “we’ve tried nothing but compliance and we’re all out of ideas!” way.
Because ads still need all the privacy-invading telemetry from the client device, which these apps wouldn't want to participate in.
My question is what happens if they were to merge under US law even though the UK blocked the acquisition? How can this really be a veto system? There must be some interesting funny business you could do with this.
> We favor videos that either are very short or don’t require dedicated focus, confident in the knowledge that we can move on to something else whenever we want to. We ignore thoughtfully composed “walls of text,” but we electronically applaud memetic image macros and single-sentence references that aren’t inherently entertaining or insightful

The rise of long form YouTube videos and Podcasts directly contradicts this. Summoning Salt, Technology Connections, and the dozens of other small documentary channels. Heck Matholger is able to regularly hit 500k+ views with 30min+ math videos![1]

True crime podcasts and history podcasts are also in direct opposition to the idea that we only consume short form content.

Then there is the entire rise of Medium and Substack. 10 years ago if I wanted long form journalism it was either The New Yorker, The Atlantic, or some tiny indie news magazines.

Now long form articles are more popular than ever.

Heck even movies are getting longer! [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@Mathologer/videos
[2] https://www.whattowatch.com/features/are-movies-really-getti...
Regardless it's a good thing! Many people have had no reason until recently to break out of thinking that money=usd or intelligence=humans.
Isn't the whole point of this to charge AI companies harvesting reddit data? I thought 3rd party apps are collateral.
I guess the author did the website too quickly.
Because it hasn't worked before. They bought Alien Blue, made it the official app, failed to iterate on it, and eventually gave up on it. Now they've made a new reddit app, which is also not good. No reddit official app is going to look good compared to the the third party ones, partly because their profit making attempts are at odds with good user experience, and if they buy the third party ones they've already shown they can't improve them. So they want the comparison to go away so reddit stops being embarrassed by third parties.
Agreed. Pattern matching and pipe operator were the two that I hoped for most.

The pipe operator implementation proposal that they team came up with was wrong though and I'm glad they didn't do it. We don't need alternate syntax for `.`, we need ability to chain arguments together in a syntactically pleasant way in a functional style so we don't have to write `first(second(third(arg)))` we can write `arg |> third() |> second() |> first` which is much cleaner and reads left to right like it should
If they're concerned with the amount they lose to 3PAs, paying their moderators is a complete non-starter. The whole point of this is to increase revenue for the upcoming IPO.
> Mostly but it does upload some of the vectorized data to insert into the prompt for context. When you do a query llama-index tries to discover content related to your prompt and injects it for context so its not entirely local.

When you say "upload some of the vectorized data" do you mean in a numerical embedding form or that it will embed the original text from original similar-seeming notes directly into the prompt? I've only ever done the latter, is there a way to build denser prompts instead? I can't find examples on Google.
Your parent is talking about investing in Ruby the language and its ecosystem. Not just using it.

The new GC, and JIT, along with a few Ruby Cores are all Shopify employees.
Uh, no, he can't.

He's a dev of a well liked application. That's all. He's not the head of some sort of shadowy cabal that decides when and how the blackout happens.

Certainly, he could send a public message and say "I'm happy now, please stop guys". But it's up to them to listen to that or not.
> It is wonderful to use instead of an oven since it doesn't heat up the whole room

Energy efficiency is a big point. Between my Instant Pot and Air Fryer I have few opportunities to turn on the oven. These devices heat up faster, cook faster, and provide more consistent results. This is especially true now that I'm an empty nester and no longer cooking for a large family. It also makes it easy to resist the temptation to rely on processed foods.
You’re missing the forest for the trees.

Being able to switch from an optimized CPU-centric workload to an optimized GPU-centric workload without any hardware changes sounds useful to me.

You could even do unified memory with upgradeable separate CPU and GPU. You won’t get the benefits of having them on the same chip, but there’s nothing intrinsic about the separation requiring separate memory space.
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GPT answers are dynamic not constant like wikipedia, scientific articles, information records. It's also individualized, thus others can't help spot it is wrong. Answers are subject to be filtered or manipulated according to a hidden set of rules by unknown corporate or government agendas that make it hide or provide incorrect and misleading information, for example, in antitrust investigations, internal governmental investigations, etc...
I’m so much faster that I had to artificially wait for half and whole seconds when sending key combos in Windows (like Alt+Tab) to a degree that made my colleagues laugh. It’s like I’m constantly missing the key, except it’s the operating system that is constantly missing me.

The amount of unnecessary waiting is painful, and the degree of unresponsiveness from the UI while it’s busy changing what the visible window, is is bizarre. How can this be commercially successful?! Mac doesn’t lag like this.

Compared to past tiling window managers (ratpoison, xmonad), I’m not any faster. The most common keys are the same, because I can easily remake the defaults.
Thank-you. Yes, checklists that obscure nuance or try to shortcut understanding are bad.

Checklists created in the absence of context, or even worse, without the same folks to evaluate them (developers themselves!) are next to useless.

Regarding estimation, yes--I agree those examples are bad. I do know you could come up with effective ones too, though. Checklists should reflect the domain, some reasonable path that a person of training could use.

Maybe one of the criteria of a good checklist should also include, "This checklist is terrible and should be thrown out; in the absence of Not Applicable as a choice, or even Too Nuanced; Time Ran Out choices, here is an alternative: _____."

I don't think NVD should use one checklist, but maybe they could use it as part of an overall toolkit, one that also includes--time permitting--a detailed investigation of the subtleties behind a less severe "authentication bypass" and a more severe one.

(After all, in agile estimation, points are relative to previous story estimates, given the same tuple of [Team, Product, Sprint, Story].)

I do feel it is unfair to be dinged by a separate org. Maybe high severity ought to be reserved for when there is mutual agreement without optics. Because to NVD it's just another item, but to cURL org it impacts their metrics too.

On the other hand, there may be bad actors trying to game that.

> You get good security ratings by understanding the vulnerability

Yes. Maybe NVD needs more visibility by rating certain vulnerabilities as "High Severity (Contested: Low)," if only to underscore their limited resources.

Everyone knows how important cURL is, and how unhelpful it is to attract developer ire. Maybe we cannot label a vulnerability on a single axis alone.

I wish I could describe the problem: a proof where a mapping of multiple attributes cannot be described by any one in the same set.

> Checklists... use to organize a process... organize information... not a good tool for gaining that knowledge in the first place

I agree. Even an outline, 5 Whys, fishbone, or lots of other tools. Run the branch locally, try to repro the bug. Lots of ways.

But if NVD's reason-for-being is to assess things, not necessarily to fix them, that may also need to be considered in their findings.

At the end, before assigning the final severity, go through one (or more) checklists to ensure nothing is missed, and to shake out contradictions or inconsistencies.

It would also be good to allow a response window for developers. If it's not as bad as all that, use that response. If it reeks of damage control, stick to your guns.
I don't really get the perspective some people seem to have in here that because Reddit can't turn a profit, that's somehow something that should come into the equation when it comes to justifying or explaining away the way that these sorts of moves are being implemented. Reddit's bad business model is their problem, not mine or anyone else's other than their gambling investors. What is my problem is the abrupt and unprofessional way in which they do things, and the improper way they conduct themselves when dealing with users or third parties. The scheduling alone for the third party API switch would be inexcusable for any business vendor that I or anyone I do business with would ever deal with, yet in HN it seems to be handwaved away with statements like "I agree the timing is tight."

Add to that the misrepresented communication with the Apollo dev in particular, I struggle to see how any of this is admissable from a platform or partner who is now in the business of selling access to their API at premium rates. Reddit has no intrinsic right to exist, and the fact that it can't turn a profit and that their product is now selling access to user-generated content that is being produced despite their shoddy engineering speaks volumes. If I was one of these devs (and it's hardly just the Apollo guy) I would not come back no matter what Reddit does. This sort of behaviour cannot be tolerated or made to be the new yardstick for VC sweethearts.
The changes/improvements to `gpt-3.5-turbo` are very welcome, considering how hard it is to get access to gpt-4
every sub would then be nothing but onlyfans ads or similar spam
Steve McQueen gave his last interview to a high school student
"On my city subreddit, for instance, they’ve gotten it to the point where practically anything which isn’t a photo of a sunset is seen as off topic and removed."

hah, my reference to the one large sub where the mods are widely hated was about my city's sub which from your description might be the same. Edit: In this case, I have some empathy for the mods though, since that sub faced invasions from people outside the city who hate it.
It's in the network. The million dollar idea is how to get the users to move somewhere else.
If vendors were responsible -- and known to be responsible -- for scoring their own security issues, then everyone would at least know that, and understand that the vendor's assessment could be biased.

Instead, many people seem to believe they can blindly trust NVD, when their severity assessment is arbitrary and based on wild guessing. And individuals at NVD probably have their own biases as well!
> The way I see it, if the problem is important - any early solution should provide some relief. If some initial relief isn't wanted, the problem is probably not important.

I experienced this today, just now. The whole org’s release for fall was hinging on what I was proposed… the relief of everyone once the presentation was over and it all clicked, when they saw the light at the end of the tunnel, that the path that I had uncovered towards that is reasonable, and tenable is priceless.

I understand now that I live for this shit. 10/10 would do it again and again and again.
> Not really mentioned was all this was changed out the blue with less than 30 days to comply. The interview touches on it but it’s insanity that a tech company think it’s reasonable for indie devs to operate under that constraint.

It's unreasonable for a company of any size. The entire storyline shows Reddit sabotaging the process. Which seems idiotic, because they're throwing away a vibrant ecosystem that is #1 in the world, and took a decade to organically grow.

A decent CEO would've made a good faith effort to monetize this rather than burn bridges.
I’m not aware of a reason why you can’t develop an iOS app on a 16Gb Mac mini or MacBook Air.

I recall developers raving how well Xcode runs on M1 Macs with 8GB and maxed out at 16GB.

Most benchmarks include developement-related data.
I had an Oxo digital thermometer that broke after a couple weeks, outside of that all their products have been fantastic
There is no source, it's a combination of a number of things Christian said in the article, a paraphrasing at best, a strawman more likely. From the article it's clear to me that Christian would come back to the table if Reddit lowered the price and/or gave app developers more time but as it stands now they haven't even replied to him in week(s). Hard to do any negotiating when the other side refuses to talk /and/ slanders/lies about you in public.
Maybe I'm missing something: why can't Apollo--or any other app--pass the API burden to the user? I get that this means the user experience via the app would effetively turn out to be paid service. But then, to match, Reddit could have also relaxed their policy to the effect that, up to n API access would be free; beyond that, Reddit would charge the user.

Microsoft, for example, already do this for many of their Azure services. Thus, if you're a moderate user on the free plan, you get essentially a free ride.
Soap2Day Closing Forever
But is that really what you want to happen IN GOVERNMENT? For bureaucracy to adapt even mildly flawed technology?! Bureaucracy + blind trust in hierarchy/computers = Kafka-esque hellscape.

"I'm sorry sir, but the computer clearly says that you've been charged with sexual harassment - we cannot renew your driver's license and we're putting you on the sexual offenders list, please report to your local PD weekly." (completely made up and exaggerated, but I'm sure one can think of similar scenarios) [1] Good luck convincing the clerk that that's not real. You can probably get it corrected after months of your time and $$.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/05/chatgpt...
The guy wasn't doing too good in the first place - not sure if it was suicide, or more so "just let me end this, I'm in no position to live anymore" - I think he had cancer...

Ted was right about a few things - I casually browsed his manifesto and I can see why he was driven to do the things he did, especially after reading how horribly he was treated by government/postsecondary education.

Society has definitely changed with the advent of technology. I think modern people just learn to adapt because it's what they were born in.

It's a shame his beliefs drove him to do what he did to all those innocent people.
Meditation is useless for gainful activity. Maybe a way to relax and have artistic experiences, but not a goal worth putting much energy into. Better go do something, meet people, in general don't abstain from action. Spoken from personal experience, I have seen lives wasted with "spiritual" inaction.
LLMs orchestrating, pulling data from, and coordinating between existing systems in this manner seems very powerful. I feel like we haven't even really seen many of the possibilities there.
> entirely irrelevant to the point at hand

What? The laws Coinbase is being charged with violating are creatures of the Congress and courts, not the administrative state. This is not a case of "the agency that enforces the rules is also charged with creating them" [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36307273
Just a note : I've noticed that when working with management, they often have issues "grokking" the issues they are asking for you to solve.

By offering an imprefect, quick solution, it lets them understand the issue and readjust their needs in consequence - and often, the quick imprefect solution is good enough/enough work to show it's a bad idea and to move on.

When starting project I have 2 steps : vomitting and touching up. You puke out a solution(minimum viable product), without thought about optimisation. When that exists, you change hats and optimise. Works wonders.