skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone can find a spark of counterculture in 2023 I encourage it. There is no longer a battleground for the soul of society. It's safe to say the suits won.
Translation to a real world scenario:

I go to an open mic night, do a set, start getting popular. One day the club owner decides he's not going to do stamp re-entries, and everyone has to pay to get back in if they leave the club.

I get mad at this for whatever reason, and decide I'm not going to perform any more. I still turn up, but just stand on the stage in silent protest, encouraging others to do the same.

Club owner tells me to GTFO, as he ushers in the next in line.

Guys, it's not your club.
No, it wouldn't.

And it's almost tragicomic to see how imperative programmers struggle to even see the actual real issue presented in this snippet.
> The inconsistency [of everything, everywhere] in the AWS console

ftfy

AWS is powerful and very popular, but for the console, "it functions" must be the only condition the UI has to satisfy. Should every page use a unique table and sorting widget and UI language? Yes, please!

I'm assuming this helps them move fast, not having to coordinate with anybody or wait for a UI designer to tell them how it should look. But it's striking when compared to GCP.
After spending some time in the Canary Islands I realized how nice it was to be in UTC all the time and now I have my laptop clock set to UTC. Still contemplating whether I should set Google Calendar and my smartwatch to UTC as well. 8-)
Creating connections in the curriculum between math and other subjects is a good way to help students better understand both math and other subjects. I don’t have literature to cite on this though.
Ask HN: How can a BE/infra developer handle the FE side of personal projects?
I have expertise in web backend and infrastructure development, and like to work on pet projects in my free time. I'm hoping that one of these will turn into something "real" one day that I can hopefully launch and share with others, and maybe even turn into a business.

The problem with every single project has been that while I make quick and great progress on the areas I'm familiar with, they all get stuck when I have to dive into client side work – web pages, JavaScript, mobile apps or whatever else. Even the most basic versions seem like a chore and I inevitably give up.

I have brainstormed three ways forward:

– Pay someone else to do it - likely to be too cost prohibitive considering they are just hobby projects.

– Find a co-founder/partner with those skills - I have no idea where to look, and am wary of forming any kind of professional relationship at this stage again considering these aren't businesses but just something I like to work on on the side along with my day job.

– Use no-code app builders and other similar tooling - this option seems to be the most intriguing, but not an area I am too familiar with. Has anyone had success with building an MVP using these?

If someone could share their own tips and experiences with the above, or something I am missing, I would love to hear it.
Sports subreddits are a notable exception imo. While they might get a bit silly, r/cfb, r/nba, etc. are so much better than Twitter or any other public forum that losing them would be pretty awful.
Cormac McCarthy - The Road

"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery."
Oh, Airmash is dead. I remember seeing it on HN then spending half of my workday this day playing it.
Or Swatch Internet time (.beat time). No time zones, it's always UTC+1, with the day divided into 1000 beats.
No, he called out the obvious reason why NVD would decide it needs to operate this way, without acknowledging that the process they've come up with doesn't work, and is sort of an industry embarassment.
Giving people feedback like they are an excited friend it not giving them the benefit of the doubt. It’s infantilizing to both of you, and borders on sycophantic.
> You have a duty to your past self to release the project. It’s a way to honor your work and sacrifice. All the time spent on the project is time you could have spent on something else. That time was not without cost.

Ouch!

I strongly encourage you to read up and understand the sunk cost fallacy. In general, do not let past efforts be the guide for future decisions.

I've quit a lot of projects in my life. And it was the right thing to do. Put another way, many of the valuable projects I've completed would not have been accomplished had I stuck to the projects I had sunk time into.

> You also have a duty to your future self to release the project. Every time you don't release a project, you're telling yourself that you’re the kind of person who doesn't ship.

If you tell yourself that every time you don't release a project, the fix is not to release the project, but to stop telling yourself these lies.

Despite the strong complaints, the article isn't that bad and does have some merits.
To take the contrary position: give up. Your project will take far longer than you think, and you will get much less from it than you hope (at least in terms of external validation and rewards).

You may feel a horrible pressure to finish it, but you are a free person and can simply choose not to. You can free yourself from this pain without lifting a finger. Go take a walk or bake some cookies instead.

If you have the intrinsic motivation to continue with your project, then your interest will return at some point and you'll get back to it with the wind at your back. If you don't have that intrinsic motivation any more then you will only make yourself miserable by trying to whip yourself forward.
I'd love an invite.

If you have one available, please consider throwing me a tildes.net invite.

Thanks m8.
The movie does away with the ambiguity at the end of the book, in an effort to have a vaguely "happy ending."

The best adaption of McCarthy's work to the screen is No Country For Old Men. The Coen brothers seem to "get" McCarthy better than others.
The debugging engine is the same. They both use debugpy 'via' the Jupyter wire connection.
> So framing it as "men floundering, women most affected" is disingenuous.

My 2c as a gay man that has many women as friends. They aren’t looking for “status” they are looking for someone who is emotionally intelligent. And thinking that gaining status is how to gain women is pretty much the opposite of that.

Patriarchy hurts both sexes. By thinking of status and power as avenues to sex you stunt your ability to connect with others. And it sets up a negative dynamic because if gaining power is the goal then having an egalitarian relationship with your lover is not possible.

> Maybe men use porn and play videogames not because they'd rather have that than a real relationship, but because modern relationships don't offer much more than that.

If you think that lowly of women, why would they spend any time with you at all?
Reddit can't afford to pay the employees they already have out of the revenue they make. That's ostensibly the reason why they raised prices on the API in the first place. Losing all that free labour is absolutely the last thing they want at this juncture.

But even ignoring that, suppose all >15M subreddit suddenly get salaried mods. Don't you think the mods of e.g. a 13M subreddit would want a piece of the cake too, and would strike to get it? Or would they just wait around and keep working until their subreddit is also "siezed" by Reddit inc.

Is there any example of a community which successfully runs on mixed salaried/volunteer moderator labour in such a way?
Unfortunately I don't get paid to finish personal projects on GitHub, and I need to get paid to feed my family. (And I don't have other devs, product managers, QA, etc. to help, either, like I do at work). And judging from the nature of the vast majority of stuff on GitHub, most people are in the same boat.

Someday I'll retire and then I can get some real work done.
I'm not living in fear of that.
AI will replace the users, too.
Encoded Chinese. https://icannwiki.org/.中国

(And other Unicode names)
bagder (of curl) also made trurl to address URL manipulation:

https://github.com/curl/trurl
As an European which spend 4 years in Sydney recently I was always surprised at the opposite. Every after going out at midnight, Hurds of people would be waiting for a red light with no car/traffic in sight for a mile. I always jaywalk, feel particularly upset that a computer is telling me to wait for a save time, without context, while I can obviously tell it's save.

Recently discussed this behaviour in Sydney, remember it was particularly bad around Surry hills
Replacing a few mods that moderate many large communities with paid mods is ripping the door wide open to lawsuits
OK, personally If a friend recommended me a library that didn't exist I would reply back to him "you made that up".

So, ChatGPT is "making stuff up".

To me hallucinating is a really similar term for "making something up". So the term works perfectly well for me.

I mean the definition on Google at least is: "an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present."

Isn't that what's happening? ChatGPT is experiencing (writing code using) the perception of something (the library) that is not present.
For bulk, sure; for flavour, wild is superior. But it's a finite luxury.
I'd like to believe all the big brains at the FED have teams of math/finance wiz's crunching these exact same points and would not raise rates if this were the case.
The really good movies are immune to spoilers and you can watch them many times.

But there are also plenty of ok movies that are fun, but mot rewatchable. I usually enjoy a movie more if I watch it without knowing much and getting surprised.
To my knowledge, ads and buying awards were never available from the API anyways so it's not like Reddit can use that as a valid argument
I will pass you the address of a struct timespec, please fill it in.
Best latency from where almost 90% of my users are?
>Honest question, what is so bad about the Reddit app that you would give up browsing the content you like?

I don't appreciate being lied to, treated like less than garbage? And I'm certainly not going to keep contributing to a platform that does that to me? Especially when this stuff is only going to get worse as they "march towards profitability"?

I gotta log off. I don't know if ppl here are young, naive, or if it's just the usual inability to remember anything from more than a few years ago, or the short-sightedness of not seeing where this is going. Catch ya on Digg.
Growth equity blurs the line between traditional PE, on one hand, which spans buying and responsibly operating good companies to LBOs, which require cuts, and venture capital, on the other hand, which is more hands off but also more brutal if you don't look like you're flying moonwards. This ambiguity as to what "private equity" is might be clouding the data.
The problem is not ramping once, it is ramping repeatedly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_poison
If any of this were even remotely true, Android would have blown past them easily.

The reason people choose Apple products is because they want Apple’s curation. That’s it, pure and simple. Apple is profitable because customers value this.

Those who don’t like Apple have always had plenty of options.
The 100k users is the total username when he released 1.3 if he were to have that entire user base get push notifications.

He didn't do that - he set up a new subscription tier for the app to handle that. Not everyone in the 100k user base bought a subscription.

The 100k number was also from 5 years ago and is likely not accurate for today. The main value from that quote is as a description of how he was architecting the notification system then and the YouTube video is how showing that this is how he is still doing it.

Unfortunately, we're going from incomplete numbers that are being interpreted different provided by different entities. The best we can do is set floor and ceilings for the numbers. And I'll admit that my math may be off in places too.

What we can do is identify how much it would cost for one account with the push notification server request as part of the API cost (noting that one subscription may set up multiple accounts - see https://apolloapp.io/notifications-faq/ How many accounts/devices does this work with? ).

The estimate I have is that as the push notification server is written, it would cost about $2/day/account (8640 requests/day x $0.24 / 1000 requests).

$2M/month would suggest that he has about 33k users with push notifications. At about 1.5M monthly users that's 4% that signed up for a subscription.

That's a ceiling as I'm not counting the "how many requests per day come from an average user with the 900k daily active users claimed".

(Some data points)

* 2M monthly users https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759180/reddit-protest-p...

* 50,000 people have a yearly subscription to Apollo https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/06/08/reddit-app-apollo...

* 1.5M monthly active, 900k daily active https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/31/popular-reddit-app-apollo-...

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And yes, I will certainly agree that Reddit, lacking an event based notification system is an oversight in how their API was used.

The push notification server needs to be considered as part of the API load and it is really easy to get that number to grow.

If you scale back the notifications from 1 every 10 seconds to 1 every 5 minutes, it becomes a much more reasonable number with only 288 requests per day per user - which gets into very different numbers when dealing with a subscription.

Let's call it on average 600 request per day per user overall then, and you're at 18k/month/user and that's $5 of API use cost. Up the subscription from its current $4.99 to $9.99 and you've paid Apple's 30% (or 15% if more than a year) and Reddit's API costs and made a profit.
LLMs have two senses, time and text
So Shopify spends millions of dollars in engineering salary to get a substandard performing language up to par with a dozen other contemporary better choices? The choice to stick so hard with Ruby just doesn't seem reasonable at all with their scale. It must be something dogmatic from the top.
I didn't say I had a project at all; I think I just said I wanted to learn about it. I got access w/in 3 weeks. Maybe I was lucky and it was random? Or maybe they figured I wouldn't add that much load?
Is it hard to find volunteer moderators who wouldn't block off access to sub reddits? I also doubt the number is as high as 20k. As long as the top mod aligns with Reddit, the other moderators can do nothing.
I had this one piece "keyboard upgrade":

https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/36030/Sinclair-ZX81-...

It's debatable if it improved things or not. Must have been really cheap to manufacture though.
I have two projects on the shelf right now. I’ve been dragged away (read: need money) to work on non-code projects. To the point where I don’t feel confident about opening my IDE!

So, this article is really timely. Thanks.
I have an Instant Pot, and love it a lot. But, here is some perhaps relevant anecdata:

1. The original stainless steel removable liner is embossed with nice, legible capacity levels. Unfortunately, they're way off: the "9 cup" line is actually about 12 cups. (Not a big deal; we just don't use the markings.)

2. I bought the Instant Pot Air Fryer Lid lid add-on, which was supposed to support temperatures of up to 400°F. But, after a lot of testing, I found that it was seriously limited as to the heat it would supply. Basically, the internal temperature never got over 360°F, and in fact after eight minutes of running the heater would turn off and the unit would cool down to 270°F and then maintain that temperature. All the while, the external temperature would happily show 400°F.

My guess: they discovered late in the development cycle that the air fryer lid would overheat and kill older Instant Pots. They couldn't fix this after the fact, so they modified the lid firmware to limit the actual temperatures, but keep displaying the desired temperature, hoping users wouldn't notice. (I complained, and they promptly send me a new lid. But, it had the same flaw.)

My Amazon review with the details: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2D14J5XXHC2GA . (Yes: I may have too much time on my hands...)

IMHO, a company which ships clearly flawed products and hopes their customers don't notice is just burning their reputation.
When I read about speed of doing things this always reminds me a tale of two programmers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=677655,
archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20121226223216/http://mail.linux...

I'm not against or in favour of speed. History showed us many times that most people don't care about truth and correct solutions, people care about efficiency and moving things fast. Just look at gaming industry and preordering. Agile project management. This is what is called taking risks and making a jump into abbyss before we look what is underneeth. Taking risk is always praised. Question is which jump will be last one and will kill us all?
I guess those loans are rather quickly sold on to third parties, either as bundles or stand alone. Kind of like what happened to MBS, mortgage backed securities.
There hasn't been a strong need for alternatives so there was little motivation to make one (or improve the ones that exist). I think that's going to be changing now.

I don't expect a rapid fall of Reddit or Twitter but rather a slow decline. It's not unprecedented.
I dated a vet tech several years before COVID and it sounded like a horrendous job. $20/hr was considered good pay, you're constantly bending over, pickup up things (sometimes things that definitively do not to get picked up), and you're literally dealing with some of the shittiest parts of animal care.
That’s why I said “officially”. I doubt they want you to rip the ROM from the page or they would just add a download to it
Replace re (enter) with ne (enter) and hang out in new. Hehe
I've been looking for something like this forever thanx a ton!
There are entire websites like layoffs.fyi[1] and layoffstracker.com[2] that tell you which tech company laid off how many. I don't know about other industries but at least IT and a few others are undergoing a bloodbath right now as far as employment is concerned. BYJUS laid off over a thousand recently and they're an Ed-tech company.

[1]: https://layoffs.fyi/
[2]: https://layoffstracker.com/
The state's monopoly, qua Max Weber, is on the claim to the legitimate use of violence. That is, the right and legitimacy of that right, is restricted to the state, or an entity acting in the effective capacity of a state, whatever it happens to call itself.

Absent this, one of three conditions exist:

1. There is no monopoly. In which case violence is widespread, and there is no state.

2. There is no legitimacy. In which case violence is capricious.

3. Some non-state power or agent assumes the monopoly on legitimate violence. In which case it becomes, by definition The State.

The state's claim is to legitimacy. A capricious exercise would be an abrogation of legitimacy

Weber, Max (1978). Roth, Guenther; Wittich, Claus (eds.). Economy and Society. Berkeley: U. California Press. p. 54.

<https://archive.org/details/economysociety00webe/page/54/mod...>

There's an excellent explanation of the common misunderstanding in this episode of the Talking Politics podcast: <https://play.acast.com/s/history-of-ideas/weberonleadership>

The misleading and abbreviated form that's frequently found online seems to have originated with Rothbard in the 1960s, and was further popularised by Nozick in the 1970s. It's now falsely accepted as a truth when in fact it is a gross misrepresentation and obscures the core principles Weber advanced.

In your comment, what you confuse is capacity for violence (inherent in all actors, state, individual, corporate, or non-governmental institutional, with numerous extant examples of each) with the Weberian definition of a monopoly on the legitimate claim to violence. In practice, enacting violence on virtually any actor will engender some counterveiling response, though the effectiveness will vary greatly depending on the comparative power and/or disinhibition of the entity responding.

There are numerous examples of private corporations or non-governmental actors engaging in violence, with or without state support or sanction. There are the 100 million souls lost, respectively, to the British East India Company's occupation and administration (as a private entity, with military powers) of India, of the transatlantic slave trade by numerous private commercial operators, and of the genocide against the indigenous populations of the Americas, again much by privately-chartered corporations (as the original British colonies were). There are extant mercenary forces such as Constellis (formerly Academi, formerly Xe, formerly Blackwater) in the US, or the Wagner Group presently transacting genocide in Ukraine. There are oil companies who have initiated coups, paramilitary actions, and assassinations throughout the world. There is the Pinkerton Agency, still extant, and with a storied role in violence against labour and civil rights movements. There are railroads, with their own (private) police forces, which are in fact registered as law enforcement despite being nongovernmental.

The truth is that there is no clean distinction between State and Private use of force, lethal or otherwise. What there is in government is, one hopes, legitimacy and accountability to the citizenry rather than to creditors and investors.
This is a great idea. I'll have to try opening my obsidian vault with the new copilot chat.
That's what personally I don't like about information like this.

How can I apply it to my own situation then I wonder?

It seems like rarely does information that applies to people in general ever seems to apply to me in a relevant way.
That's pretty cool! You should definitely try Resend if you're already using Next.js, React, and Tailwind.

This should be a good place to start: https://react.email/docs/components/tailwind
> some evolved language structures in the brain.

That's Chomsky's argument. A small set of constraints for organizing language.
I've been off of reddit for 2 days now, and am willing to stay off idefinitely. TBH I'm probably happier and more productive without it. I just need to find something to read in the bathroom instead...
ELI5: Why can't reddit just unblackout whatever subs they want?
RIP McCarthy
The Road was a hard book to read - sparing with words but yet very effective at describing the dystopian landscape and the grueling journey that father and son are on.
I could not stop thinking about it for weeks after having read it - had a profound effect on me.
Unnecessary reflux obtained during US-Australian collaboration from insufficiently specific references to "east coast time".
> I don't think anyone was saying this. Some airlines plant trees. That doesn't make planting trees bad.

Then you misunderstood the comment in question. It was quite clearly saying this. We're reading an innocuous blog post, and this person is aping reddit /r/hailcorporate language to vilify a marketing ploy by McDonald's, "exploiting nostalgia blah blah blah."

You're right, they are not a good or ethical company. If it's corporate apologism to disagree with this complaint about "exploitation" of nostalgia, count me in as an apologist too. This doesn't register on the list of corporate misdeeds for me to be mad about. I'm more upset with "flushable wipes" that end up clogging local sewage systems.