skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Was it at least a good deal for the founder?

This doesn't make it any better for the, you know, entire rest of the company.

It's important to remember that this startup industry relies on selling dreams to idealistic young grads who will usually end up under the bus while the higher-ups walk away with the profit, if there is any. And a lot of us here are complicit, because we rely on cheap labor and false promises to get the next company off the ground.

Once you see your first exit where the CEO walks away with $10+ million and every single other employee's stock (even the first few engineers) was made worthless in backroom dealings, you get jaded about the way this entire business operates.
I think that means we're doing as well socioeconomically as 1800s Prussia.
> This was used to light up a pair of LEDs.

So 4 mW received. Without saying how much they transmitted does not tell much.
God I will miss his writing. I finished (and adored) The Passenger a few weeks ago. Rest In Piece.

This is a nice interview; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrUy1Vn2KdI
2008 proved that banks are plenty stupid, especially if they think they can sell the bad debt to someone else before it explodes.
Sometimes, the time and situation has an energy of its own. It didn't matter whether Leibniz invented calculus or Netwton did, someone had to do it at that time (as a matter of fact, they both did independently in their respective countries).
With layering enabled, I don't necessarily agree. Not being able to load an entire model into memory isn't a dealbreaker these days. You can even layer onto swap space if your drive is fast enough, so there's really no excuse not to use the hardware if you have it. Unless you just like the cloud and hate setting stuff up yourself, or what have you.
This is basically extortion, in order for JPMorgan not to take reputational damage. I doubt they did anything seriously out of line
It's fun watching each service fail sequentially while the aws service dashboard just updates them to "Informational" status, whatever that means.

Even management console is down, and their suggested region specific workaround does not work, at least for us-east-1. I can see some processes via api but I don't have code prepared for monitoring every service from my local.
In general, I like the empathetic tone of the article, and I appreciate that it addresses an emotional facet of software development. But nevertheless it triggers some little part of me w/regard to telling people what they should or should not do, or what they may be proud of.

I worry for someone who reads "You also have a duty to your future self to release the project" and "...you tell yourself that you are the kind of person who ships" and takes that to mean "if you don't release it, you're failing yourself" and "you're the wrong kind of person if you don't ship."

On an emotional level, I think it's better to start from a place of (unconditional!) self-love, and go from there, rather than beating yourself up because you're not meeting some blogger's expectations of how you should act.

And just to be clear: I don't think the author means it that way, but that's one way it can come across, to some people, in some states-of-mind.

I've generally found it more useful to phrase things like this in terms of "I" rather than "you". As in: "I had X experience when I did Y" rather than "you should do Y, so that you will feel X." It's a common mis-step in giving well-meaning advice, I find.

EDIT: Also, I'm sure there are plenty of people who really do benefit from advice being given in this more pointed way, and I realize it's a bit onerous to always write and phrase things for a "safest common denominator," but I think it's worth keeping in mind, at least.
Imagine being a programmer and being scared of a simple scripting language
If you want people to show up, cancel the 70-80-90% of your meetings that are completely unnecessary.
Finland and Iceland are different countries. This article is about Iceland.
Python for Finance: Pandas Resample, Groupby, and Rolling
This is what is needed to put pressure on Reddit. A two day protest then returning to normal is a blip in the grand scheme of things. But if they do not change their API pricing, stance on third party apps, etc, then a prolonged blackout could lead to an eventual exodus.

I hope the communities I used to engage in partake in this prolonged blackout.
Even putting the word "standard" in quotes is buying too much into the argument.

This is a new implementation of an existing standard.
It's a mixed bag. Everything you do IRL gets photographed and uploaded by your friends without your consent for future potential employers to scour through, Twitter becoming the whole world's HR department, your name, address and employer readily available with a Google search, etc.

I basically don't post too many opinions unless I'm on an alt account, and I'm considering tor for that going forward.
The respectable thing to do would be to call it quits, just as they explicitly stated four days ago. The only reason their overly smug tone works in that blog post is predicated on the fact that they've made peace with this possibility. Seriously, did they really expect YouTube's legal team wouldn't seize this opportunity presented on a silver platter? Meh, this comment isn't really intended as a response. I just wanted to get rid of this bad taste in my mouth.
It's only about you if you actually provided accurate information. I've never signed up with legit name, age, sex, phone, address with any system of loyalty payments. most of the time you can enter some random phone number and it'll work. so now you're just skewing someone else's metrics. there's all sorts of ways to get the store's "member" pricing without submitting your life to them
I believe that’s a descriptor of his works, not a title of one.
Why do you think you're anything more than a pocket calculator?
It's also not too complicated to add a few lines of javascript that show the datet/time in the user's local time zone (via Date.getTimezoneOffset) as well.
This: https://github.com/hwchase17/chroma-langchain/blob/master/pe...

I turned that into cli tool, but it isn't ready to release. Mine works like this:

qwoo index .
qwoo qa "What have I been up to?"
I had been under the impression it was relatively common knowledge that the reason Reddit had been keeping both the API and old.reddit alive was that power users - both moderators and the most prolific content submitters - disproportionately used those interfaces and were considered too valuable to alienate. I have been surprised not to see much discussion about what, if anything, changed about that situation leading up to the current kerfluffle. Have enough power users been moving over to new.reddit and the official apps? Or has Reddit's calculus as to the importance of that segment of the user base shifted?
Sea lion shit right here man. We can't stop you from chilling with the nazis if that's what you're gonna be into but we aren't going to believe that it's all in good fun.
Ironically this is what's referred to as "open source" in their business.
AMD ROCm vs Nvidia CUDA has been discussed to death, but I'm curious how AMD fares compared to some of the AI training accelerator vendors. I think it would be much more damning if AMD were worse than some upstart, because the upstart wouldn't have the huge resource advantage and decade long head start of Nvidia. From my limited experience it seems like Google TPU and Cerebras are much nicer to use for AI training, from the standpoint of driver and software stability, documentation, and ecosystem support.

Perhaps that's not a fair comparison. From what I know AMD and NVIDIA use GPGPU cores (now with AI-focused instructions) plus separate AI-specific accelerator blocks. Conceptually, GPGPU + NPU on one die. NPUs can be much simpler than general-purpose GPUs. So AMD's driver and software stack likely needs to be an order of magnitude more complex than the NPU vendors' in order to accommodate other non-AI use cases. But to an end user it doesn't really matter why it sucks, only that it does.
Too late to be worrying about that now. The glass change was quite a while back.
Well then fuck iOS
Hey, here is traceroute/mtr of a few addresses from India to USA.

https://paste.debian.net/plain/1282885 (Zoom out a bit to see it properly)

I also created a few measurements on RIPE Atlas.

Ping from all probes in India to api.fastmail.com: https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/55469007/

Traceroute from all probes in India to api.fastmail.com: https://atlas.ripe.net/measurements/55469042/
One of the greatest authors of the postmodern era if not the greatest. Blood Meridian is that "great american novel" in my mind. RIP
Thanks for posting, finally some support for his supposed debunking! Interesting reading for sure.

That work fails to support Chomsky’s assertions. The research suggests a radically different view, in which learning of a child’s first language does not rely on an innate grammar module.

Instead the new research shows that young children use various types of thinking that may not be specific to language at all—such as the ability to classify the world into categories (people or objects, for instance) and to understand the relations among things.

These capabilities, coupled with a unique human ability to grasp what others intend to communicate, allow language to happen.

The fact that very smart people think this refutes Chomsky makes me quite sad. They basically restated the UG theory in the last sentence, as proof that it’s wrong…

Chomsky has been saying for literal decades that language is likely a corollary to the basic reasoning skills that set humans apart, but people still think UG means “kids are born knowing what a noun is” :(
Seems it should be possible to shut down, refund, and relaunch under a new pricing model? Does Apple forbid that?
Considering spez has shown before he doesn’t really care for Reddit’s rules that are applied to the rable and he can do what he wants (like editing others posts), I fully expect the permanently blacked out subs to have new ownership and become public again before too long.
You might be a non-native speaker, but the title is trying to say his works evoke a darker America rather than that being a work he's written.
What was the term?
Most AWS engineering is closest to (and tested in) us-west-2 (PDX) or us-east-2 (Ohio)
Apple doesn’t care about repairability one way or another. They thing they care about, that makes it seem like they hate phone repair, is that there are gangs of pickpockets who steal phones and send them in bulk lots to China, where they’re scrapped for parts to use to repair other phones, or to build phones or other devices that use phone parts. (Search “my stolen iPhone ended up in Shenzhen” if you don’t believe me. This is a whole thing.)

Apple borrowed the cryptographic pairing system they created for security in the fingerprint reader, and reused it for the display et al, to make stealing iPhones to scrap them for parts pointless. This has massively decreased the value of these phones on the black market (all you can really extract now are the low-value bits like the speaker or charging assembly); which has in turn made iPhones the least desirable target for thieves.

Every hurdle you have to jump to take part in Apple’s self-serve repair program — the “phone Apple to activate the pairing of these parts” step, the only being able to order parts once you have a specific broken device to order them for, etc. — is the way it is precisely so that the people who scrap the stolen phones can’t participate.
i don't buy this at all

there's a lot more to having start up culture than getting investment daddies.
wanted to install a new ssl cert for cloudfront which can only be done on US-EAST-1, wish that would get fixed to allow SSL certs in different regions.
It is lack of access. Unlike New Zealand, Australia is very big. Many Australian indigenous people live very remotely where there are no medical facilities at all.
"If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind. So you’ll be inclined to do more." well if it is work that I know I can do quickly I'm just gonna procrastinate the hell out of it, if it is something I enjoy doing I am already inclined to do it
The only people I know that came out of UK schools unable to swim were people with a bad phobia of the water. And they weee still given individual tuition while everyone else was in the group so they’ve got some level of skill.
Isn't there significant sample bias here though? I imagine companies in dire circumstances would be more likely to bring on consultants to help "right the ship"
I'm of a certain age that my pyrex is from a while back
Linking to Reddit admin posts isn't going to do you any favours. The Apollo dev has addressed, acknowledged, apologized, and fixed that March 14th problem and it's all detailed in his post [1]. He has given everyone the receipts, phone recordings, source code, and emails detailing his conversations with Reddit. There is no reason that I've seen to not take his word at face value or think he's trying to mislead people or make Reddit look bad for bogus reasons.

The Reddit admins have done nothing but lie and try to bend the truth and I would never trust their word after this debacle. Christian has far more credibility than the Reddit admins do at this point and their "well Apollo reduced usage by 50% one time with a 24 hour turnaround so that means their app sucks and surely they can do it again if they tried a little bit!" argument is, for lack of a better word, bullshit.

That isn't how software works, Reddit knows software doesn't work that way, and it's such a ridiculous conclusion to come to that I don't even know if it's a fallacy that has a name but the Reddit admins are definitely not arguing in good faith on this.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...
When I buy a house, the house serves as collateral on the mortgage, but ultimately I'm responsible for the loan. So I'm liable for the loan amount and am legally obligated to pay.

A leveraged buyout is similar except the "house" is responsible for the mortgage and will suffer reputational damage if it fails to pay. But no person or collection of people are obligated to pay (ignoring the collateral).

One of the benefits of corporations is that the limitations is liabilities allow them to take risks that would be prohibitive for individuals. Originally corporate charters required direct intervention by the government chief executive or legislature. Corporations were limited to tasks that served a public benefit as that government wanted to incentivize.

Leveraged buyouts where the buyer doesn't intend to continue the business long term or true to drain value from the company instead of focusing on it's main business seem like an abuse of the trust the public has invested in these companies when it gave them a corporate charters.

Of course, nowadays you can get a corporation with little to no documentation at low cost, so maybe the government doesn't actually give a shit what they do...
To the people who've been in this situation, what would you do in Huffman's shoes? From my fairly naïve perspective it looks like he's doing a pretty poor job managing this crisis but am I overestimating the trouble he's in?

At some point he'll either be forced to back down or replace the mods of the big subs with people willing to cross the picket line, I don't see why he doesn't just pull the plaster off now either way rather than drag this out bleeding credibility all the while?
Maybe they’ll consider bailing out the pensions like they do the banks? … Nah that wouldn’t make any sense (sarcasm).
Bad examples, these 2 have fame in addition to status, which changes the game.
I just want reddit to moderate the moderators (there are very few that push an agenda), to me it doesn't seem an archaic idea.
This isn't about API costs. It was changed so rapidly due to ChatGPT 4 and how it shocked the industry. They believe time is essential, in regards to pricing up the data (GPT has indicated to the Reddit company that it has massively undervalued its text content).

API pricing/use is the excuse to lock down their content asap. They see a goldmine under their own feet that others are extracting value from and so far they have not.

This is all about LLMs and perceived value related to that.
There is an extensive list of boards to choose from with very different types of people, but if porn is all you look for, porn is all you get. The site is like a mirror reflecting your desires and inclinations, reaffirming and reinforcing your fixations.
You generally want to use a region close to your users, so right off the bat, us-east-1 and us-east-2 are the obvious choices for most East Coast companies. If I were starting a new project, I'd probably go us-east-2, but if your company has been on the cloud long enough, us-east-2 might not have existed when your foundational infrastructure was created. And for most companies, going multi-region is an expensive, difficult proposition that might not be worth it.

Plus, as others have noted, there are critical AWS services in their control plan that only run in us-east-1 behind the scenes. So you're kind of out of luck.
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Fantastic comment - it never occurred to me to look for an article on the topic on the Stanford encyclopedia! Good stuff, as always.
The important part is you feel superior.
ZX81 Mechanical Keyboard
How does arc browser solve that problem?
Goin on ahead and fixin to make a fire. RIP.
Thank you, I just spent 5 minutes trying to find the book anywhere on line and was starting to feel a bit nuts.
I hit Apollo yesterday out of muscle memory and clicked on one of my favorite subs. The posts were simply terrible. If that was the daily experience I would not ever read that sub.
I was a Reddit Premium subscriber and had been since the only thing it did was remove ads, give you access to /r/lounge, and a shiny badge on your user page.

The fact that it never crossed their mind that a half hearted attempt like allowing Premium members, who pay more every month than a free user generates in ad revenue, to continue using whatever apps they want might stymie some of the outrage show how out of touch the execs are. It still would be a bullshit solution, but making a developer like Christian pay for API requests while I was already paying Reddit ~$5/mo was stupid.

(Needless to say, I’m not longer subscribed to Premium)
OP mistakes the problems Python users have with the actual problems Python packaging system has.

The overwhelming majority of "pain" the author talks about is self-inflicted. The overwhelming majority of Python users are bottom-of-the-barrel worst programmers to walk the face of the Earth. Their problems come from just being really, really bad at what they are supposed to be good at.

So, one complaint you could make is that Python packaging isn't very friendly to incompetent users... well, that's true, but I wouldn't care about that. Quite the contrary: I wouldn't mind it if things were more complex, but worked well, once you mastered them.

Your idea of distributing a single binary is bad for all the reasons I described in the previous post. You just decided that it's not so bad because it helps users who suck to suck less... But I don't want a "solution" that would sacrifice many other desired properties to deal with my potential incompetence. I'd rather learn how to do things right than enjoy being stupid and have someone else cover for my stupidity.
This anecdote is not only unverifiable (as most are), but vague to the point of uselessness. I don't doubt that there are all sorts of overzealous HR departments out there, but I can also think of all sorts of ways of using "respectable terms for another person" in disrespectful ways, and have met plenty of people far more creative than I am at doing so. And invariably these people will hide behind "I totally meant it respectfully" because frankly that's the game. A subtle jibe with just enough wiggle room to hide behind.

Which is the case here? Who knows? The description of events as written works just as well for both.
Well that's a real bummer, one of my top 3 authors, and the only one that was still alive.
They are referring to his little known novel “Darker America, Is dead at 89”
You know Medicaid doesn’t cover all poor people right? You do get that we are talking about a concrete instance of a child in the US who spent most of their life unable to get cataract surgery because they couldn’t pay for it?
If someone can't write readable, maintainable, understandable code

I never claimed that it's impossible to write legible code in Perl. Perhaps work on your reading comprehension before doing all your chest thumping?

it's about reading some books on clean code

It's about choosing the right tool for the job. Perl offers a number of enticements to write illegible code that other languages do not.
Corelle plates have always been that way, I think. I was raised using them, and I still buy them now that I have children of my own.

For me, they're 100% shatterproof until they're not. You can drop them over and over again, and never notice any visible change. But then when they finally do shatter, it's almost like an explosion.

I think this is because they're built from a pressurized metal/glass layered composite. Very sturdy until enough internal damage builds up.
How to find jobs in compilers?
Most people are perfectly happy paying for cost of materials + reasonable profit. It was expected. Reddit announced a month ago that were going to charge for API access -- no issues then. The Apollo developer himself already pays for API access for other services (like Imgur).

However when they announced both the pricing and the timeline, it's pretty clear that they are unreasonable. Apollo finding it unsustainable is just one developer and one app. Other developers tried to reach out to Reddit to actually sign up and get more information and they were ignored.

In principle, you are correct, this not a big deal. But in practice, it's been a total disaster. And didn't have to be that way -- they could have worked with their "partners" to ensure a win-win situation for everyone. Instead, they turned it into a lose-lose for everyone. They want control more than they want money.

Reddit would rather get rid of me than find a way for me to pay and I'd be happy to pay for it.
Technically PDT is always 7 hours behind UTC. PST is always 8 hours behind. We just change which one we use twice a year. Pacific time makes sense when you realize Fremont is the center of the universe.
I wonder if this will become similar to what happened with digg.com
It costs $30 to read that article. Here is a summary from https://kottke.org/19/09/advice-from-cormac-mccarthy-on-writ...

> Use minimalism to achieve clarity. While you are writing, ask yourself: is it possible to preserve my original message without that punctuation mark, that word, that sentence, that paragraph or that section? Remove extra words or commas whenever you can.

> Inject questions and less-formal language to break up tone and maintain a friendly feeling. Colloquial expressions can be good for this, but they shouldn't be too narrowly tied to a region. Similarly, use a personal tone because it can help to engage a reader. Impersonal, passive text doesn't fool anyone into thinking you're being objective: "Earth is the centre of this Solar System" isn't any more objective or factual than "We are at the centre of our Solar System."

> Finally, try to write the best version of your paper: the one that you like. You can't please an anonymous reader, but you should be able to please yourself. Your paper — you hope — is for posterity. Remember how you first read the papers that inspired you while you enjoy the process of writing your own.

EDIT: you posted the wrong link, I was trying to help YOU, and the readers of your comment. You removed the original nature link, and then post a condescending reply to me. It's insulting and makes me think less of you and I now deeply regret trying to help.