skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But there the priority is pretty much everything else other than the beg button.

I can't help but wonder if such aggressive timings discussed in the article are good for people with disabilities. People often panic when rushed by a change to red.
Apple Tablet Concept: The iPad Touch (2007)
I was just about to give up when it finally loaded
https://archive.ph/57yWG
Sure, but without those moderators there's not much of a site. I don't spent a lot of time thinking about trash collection, but if all the garbage on my street stopped being collected I'd absolutely notice.
When Did All the Fun Stuff Go Upscale?
Users who use 3rd party apps are part of the equation.
It is very hard to find now because politics has infected everything so very, very hard.

Your best bet will be dusty old books that have "stood the test of time" but even that can be hard to digest.
Does anything like this exist? A feed of unfiltered, unmoderated content + conversations, fed to a multitude of websites, each with its own moderation filters and content standards. All submissions go to the to the shared feed, but hit moderation and content filters on the website before being displayed. So you can have a reddit-like website with a lot of good content, but if it ever goes south people can quickly flock to a peer.*

Is this how Mastodon and Nostr expect things to work? If so, are there any "winning" websites where most Mastodon and Nostr users congregate?

For most users the back end philosophy is only there to serve the end result. For any given post or comment you need a simple website link you can share with friends; no thinking required.

*Bonus: if people feel like their views are being improperly censored they can, again, jump to a peer with different filtering standards.
Fantasque Sans Mono is my favorite as well, and is the only font I use for coding (in Vim, VScode, Ryder, etc...). The slight hint of style makes it so easy to read, and not boring (unlike other monospace fonts). It's free and good alternative to Comic Code, which is not free. I don't like the loop on k, so I use the version with non-looped k. Before it, I was on Nanum Gothic, which had the ideal spacing/size for editor.
Considering the amount of media attention this has gotten from even mainstream sources including places like the BBC, I’m going to go out on a limb and say the number is far higher than 99.99%.

That doesn’t even count all the people that are visiting their favorite subreddits only to see them closed with a message detailing what’s happened.
As the article states, this only works for stuff that can be broken up into low effort chunks. Not everything is like that such as maintaining legacy systems or working with large teams. :)
Yes. Hashing would therefore accomplish little other than wasting energy.
I've been using this as my standard font for maybe 1-2 years now (no, I am not joking). While I don't think that the font is any more legible than other fonts, the quirkiness and the character of the font makes it rather enjoyable to look at.

If legibility is an issue then I would seriously recommend increasing the font size, I think that will do much more than choice of "most optimal" font. And if increased font size makes your code "harder to read", consider that someone else might be unable to use a smaller font and will be forced to read code with a larger font size.
I'm so confused, I really REALY want to hate it, but think I love it...

I'm going to have to set it as my editor font and see how it goes.
What perceives the illusion?
The free HTTP API I'm talking about is just GET / HTTP/1.0...aka the web interface offered by reddit.com on port 80 or 443
Using numbers makes it easier.
Yes. I quit mindlessly watching TV long before I stopped using Reddit or reading low quality newspapers. Probably around 15 years ago? Streaming services became usable here (in Norway) a few years later and they lead to me (well, me and my wife) spending even less time watching TV. Things became a bit more structured. We usually watch the news at 1900 on the public broadcaster here in Norway (NRK), and then perhaps a movie, a documentary or a couple of episodes of some TV series.

About 3-4 days out of the week we only watch the news broadcast, and then spend time downstairs in our hobby spaces. I build electronics, 3D print stuff, program etc, and my wife does various textile projects. Some days we spend a good 4-5 hours just making stuff. Or we go for bike rides.

In fact, the only reason we still have basic TV service is because my wife likes to watch baking and sewing shows live (as they air for the first time). (Can't remember the name of these shows ... "Great British Bake-off"?). About once or twice per year I try watching movies on regular cable TV (well, IP based "cable") and I find the experience really annoying with all the commercial breaks.

Spending less time just mindlessly scrolling through reddit or low quality "news" sources also means I have more time to read books. I don't think I've read this many books per year since I was in my 20s.

I find the things that I've replaced Reddit (and other things) with far more enriching and fun. I regret not being more selective about what I spend my time on in the past. I've wasted a lot of time on things I didn't enjoy all that much.
One of the craziest things I've seen is that by using this technique, you can look at things in the background, like leaves on a houseplant and reconstruct sound at sufficient fidelity to recover human speech!
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This is remarkably hard to follow. The actual technology at play here is bicarbonate-formate redox; as the linked paper states:

>It is also clear that more integration between the disciplines of electrochemistry and heterogeneous catalysis is needed to overcome the challenges for advancing the HCO3−–HCO2− system as a feasible green alternative for storing and transporting energy.

The idea of storing energy by converting bicarbonate to formate has already occurred to me years ago and probably was thought of by thousands of other scientists, because formate is one of the most common hydrogen precursors used in practical chemistry. The storage density is low, but the materials are extremely cheap and stable. Unfortunately, the paper does not seem to be announcing a breakthrough, but tallying up the current progress — which just isn't there yet.

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/gc/d3gc0...
I don't advocate for waiting for it, but for funding it, using it, and building it.

Like say, if you want to reduce consumption, that's technology too. LED lighting is pretty new, but far more efficient than incandescent.
> Essentially, when we state that H2O has less mass than H+H+O, what we actually mean is that H2O bends spacetime a little bit less than the three atoms individually that made it up. There's no accepted variant of QM or the Standard Model that explains this.

I'm not sure this is correct. It bends spacetime less simply because it's in a lower energy state. It's correct to say that the Standard Model doesn't explain spacetime curvature, but the curvature in GR is implied by the energy which is explained.
> You need an energy storage solution for nuclear too, unless you want to heavily overbuild, which raises it from too expensive to stupid expensive.

Why do you energy storage for nuclear? As someone who lives in Ontario, Canada, where 8-9 GW of nuclear power chugs along continuously:

* https://www.ieso.ca/en/Power-Data

I'm not sure what needs to be stored. We just bring online hydro and gas as needed (along with having fluctuating wind).
Why is this rate absurd?

From the article, it says Reddit would charge Apollo $2.50 per user per month. Right now, ad-free YouTube costs $12 a month, ad-free Twitch costs $12 a month. I can't buy ad-free Twitter at any price. Is it really not worth $2.50 a month to have ad-free Reddit?

Personally, I like Apollo, and I would be willing to pay to keep an ad-free Reddit experience. I'm disappointed that the two sides didn't manage to work this out.

I feel like Reddit is getting attacked despite being the company that is trying the hardest to make this work. The standard approach is just to ban apps that compete with the in-house app. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, all of those services just completely forbid things like Apollo. All these complaints are going to encourage companies to simply ban alternate apps rather than trying to price an API in the future.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230602051336/http://jsomers.ne...
There are two Reddit APIs - the public REST API and a private GraphQL API which limits access. Third-party apps use the REST API and the Reddit website/app use GQL.

For a hobby project you could maybe get away with scraping a GQL bearer token and issuing requests as if you were an official Reddit client. Or you could even request the HTML and scrape that. At the scale of these third party apps that approach just wouldn't work.
this too! and throw in OCR of any pdf/image that i send you and you really have a stew going
Bitcoin keeps falling as Nasdaq goes up intraday
In 15 plus years of trading I have never seen anything so consistent. And it has gotten no media coverage. How can can something so profitable so long stay so covert? Basically , you short Bitcoin when the stock market opens and go long QQQ. And then close both legs at the market close.

This has netted something like 60 percent returns over past few months, I am running it now (and so are a few people I know) but it's crazy how well it worked. I wonder if this has to do with Silk Road coins being sold intraday by the fed. government on Coinbase. Who knows.

It makes Renaissance Technologies' 30 percent ( net) returns more believable, the fact such a simple trade can work so well for so long. Imagine scaling this up with more assets, more computing power to find more patterns .
The straight answer is that ads are embedded in the "HTTP API" and the vast majority of browser users don't have adblock, and Reddit can't force ads on any API users (except through the official app).
Another notable deviation that may affect the aesthetic is that it's been slightly seriffed (fIijl) for some reason.
Sure, you have experienced grass with more senses than just reading about it, but I do not think that this fundamentally changes anything. If I lied to you your entire life and told you that you are walking on or smelling grass while you were actually walking on moss, you would learn a similar mistake spanning several of your senses.
Based on their published user numbers and revenue, Selig estimated that reddit's revenue per user is about $0.12.

They are asking for $0.24 per 1,000 API calls. Apollo averages ~345 calls per-user per-day (although some users are much higher), but Reddit claims that other apps are "more efficient" and only use about 100 calls/day.

If we assume 100 calls/day/user, then that's 36,500 calls/year/user, and a user is worth $0.12/year, so to break-even, reddit should be charging about $0.003 per 1,000 API calls, instead of $0.24.
Secondaries of this AI startups (ThoughtSpot) is getting hot. Discussions?
The germ of an idea for what would become ThoughtSpot came to Singh when he noticed that people's ability to store data was really improving. Companies such as Aster and Hadoop (an open-source collection of software that uses networks of computers to process very large volumes of data) were starting to gain traction in the late-2000s.

On the other hand, how that data was delivered to the end users, who were often business users and not software professionals, was still very manual. One would need analysts and data experts to build dashboards, and “people had to wait weeks to get those answers,” according to Singh.
I'm not an economist so hopefully someone can explain this: what's the purpose or benefit to financial markets to have such a thing as naked short selling?
I think the implied premise is that vendors are likely to score with a low bias, downplaying security vulnerabilities.

If NVD completely re-scored submitted CVEs from scratch, then they'd replace a biased dataset with a noisier but unbiased dataset.

On the other hand, if NVD accepts high severities and only re-scores low severity CVEs, then the collected database might exchange a low-severity bias for a high-severity bias.
How would you prevent every school shooting without literally going through everyone's private communications?

What if I told you that the NSA has been doing that for the last 20 years?[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Of course I did, but that's not what was posited in the parent post:

> China and the WHO intentionally developing and deploying bio-weapons as a means of global population control

This is what I mean about moving goalposts - these two theories might both assert that it was a bioweapon, but they are otherwise very different.
The paper was published a week ago, and it suppose to be an open source model ... Where is it? Why it is still not open?
Vice was a business that commercialized writing about drugs and providing a sympathetic lap for the resentful and demoralized. They had one good science writer that the whole scheme hinged on. HST's personal style changed journalism. He brought the techniques of insight from literary fiction to reportage, along with Thomas Wolfe, and the generation that followed.
related:
Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28882043
I'm seeing a lot of similarities between Reddit benefiting greatly from their unpaid moderators and Apollo benefiting from them the same. As well as not even having to pay Reddit at all. Did Apollo ever even have to pay for anything whatsoever? Not really that surprising that business went away when the free lunch was over
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These obvious places to start would have needed to take place months ago before the decision was made, before the deadline set, before management dug in. Before the revolt.
What are the obvious places to go from here and now?
> Were the calls ever posted?

Yes. On Christians Reddit post about the shutdown. Transcripts and links to specific audio bits. Pretty easy to locate.
The bias will be by design and known to the purchaser.
Do you know this for certain? As in, have you done the analysis to prove this? Collected all the IQ and other aptitude tests of these people to conclude this for certain?

Some of them could be in the beginning part of their government career attending school. Did you run a survey to ask these people what they do with their lives?
I love obsidian but the first plugin I tried (and paid for) led to subtle data loss and resulted in many hours of checking and merging a month of backups. Not going to risk that again.
I think the question is how much money they apps can make from having users, not Reddit.
Why would people try to explain something that hasn't been shown?

Find a study or do a study that detects (and defines) variations in sensitivity to social status, and if they have detected some people that are completely immune, examine those people for differences from the people that are not. But as it is, it sounds like "but how can you explain that Jesus rose from the dead?"
My read is he is just trying to present things as if Reddit are operating in good faith. They aren't, but its more diplomatic to act like they are than it is to come out with accusations that they are bad actors.
I saw a live demo of this recently and it was very impressive. It is very difficult to search the govt knowledge base because sources are in so many formats, different location, and have different hoops to gain access not to mention code words, acronyms, abbreviations, and the mixing of technical language with contract language. I think it will mostly used as a search tool rather than generating ideas.

I think the worry about GPT-4 making things up is valid. We all know what happened to they lawyer who used GPT. But I think this comes with training. Users need to be trained to use it as tool and to verify the outputs. Now will everyone do this? No. There are lazy and incompetent people in every large organization and the govt is no different.

The concern about a LLM influencing or biasing its output is also a worry. Maybe there isn't a good solution to this one. I would say that having a govt group testing and assessing it would be best however they don't have the expertise form such a group which is the whole reason why they are leaning on companies like MS to guide their AI usage in the first place. I could also argue that this may not matter much anyway since the govt decisions are already heavily influenced by lobbyist and illegal promotion / favoritism of contractors.
AI Is About to Turn Book Publishing Upside-Down
Devil's advocate... From the bits of transcript I saw, a plausible interpretation is that the Reddit person immediately felt like it was a shakedown, then Selig said it wasn't that (maybe true, maybe not), and then the Reddit person said words of apology but it is plausible that they still felt like it was a shakedown, and were only trying to deescalate/steer/negotiate.

If they still thought it was a shakedown, it would be honest for them to later say to their team that they thought it was a shakedown.

I don't know how much to trust Reddit, and the 30-days notice to showstopper API fees looks very bad. But I see a lot of people just repeating Tweet-sized soundbites, which leads to a dysfunctional and more easily manipulated society.
It's cool to not hate Comic Sans and it's brethren right now but as an old school hater I know that our time will come again.

https://achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html
> 1. Lying about everything

> 2. Require human curation to procedure usable results, that will be biased because of that curation

> 3. Being extremely good at convincing people they should trust them

You just described politicians
Unfortunately yah. You can’t just point to the next man you see and toss him in jail.

Bad things happen to people, it more than sucks. But without evidence who raped you there is little you can do. Sure report it, but no action can be taken on any man is no evidence of who did it.

But way to go, comparing somebody being called a name to rape. Clearly they are the same thing.
They were #1 most sought in secondary marketplace (Hiive) for May? Is it the AI hype? Any HN users who've used it before?
> etched in my neurons

Along with "The key, the whole key, and nothing but the key, so help me Codd."
If you have an Apple Store nearby, you can buy and try, they have a generous return period.

My M1 doesn't appear to ever throttle or even turn the fans on, but I've not been running simulations.
Perhaps an equivalent of "risk aversion", negative implications outweigh the positive even if the count of either is the same.
SendGrid making it impossible to open a support request now
This morning we noticed our Emails weren't working. After some investigation we realized that our Sendgrid Account was suspended because it was using an expired credit card.

They require don't allow you to update the billing information for some reason so you have to manually contact support.

To do this, we tried going through the support portal and after many tries we realized that the "new ticket" form is now hidden under a scrollble "knowledge" articles.

We have been a paying customer for a long time and found this whole process very frustrating and stressful. I don't understand why corporations make it impossible for paying customers to contact them.

Here is a series of the screenshots of how the process looks like now:

https://ibb.co/QMDTHbt
https://ibb.co/2sHZL8x
https://ibb.co/WFFtjJ7
https://ibb.co/CVPggXL
https://ibb.co/HTgL0tD
Worse, in at least one huge sub I follow the mods are widely hated
I agree with this take - this seems pretextual rather than a good-faith attempt to charge for API access. Because history rhymes I suspect Reddit's leadership was heavily inspired by Twitter's killing of third-party clients, which actually ended up working out for Twitter.

IMO Huffman's behavior in this entire saga has been extremely wanting, to the degree where one has to wonder about his suitability to lead the company. And to be clear - I'm actually someone who is sympathetic to Reddit's position, where a lot of the platform's value generation isn't being captured by them and the company is unprofitable.

I'm a very long-time Reddit user but I'm generally pretty meh about the various tempests-in-a-teapot psychodramas that emerge from there, and I remain generally cool to the popular uprising rhetoric - but Huffman's behavior is pretty egregious.

And this is why I don't really see this resolving peaceably - Huffman at this point seems personally aggrieved by Selig and one has to wonder if he's behaving in a capacity that maximizes the interests of his company vs. descending into a petty personal feud.

I may be grossly misinterpreting him here - but based on his disastrous AMA and his haughty proclamations it's not an unreasonable perception. More importantly, as a company that is 100% reliant on mass volunteer labor to even exist, the fact that this perception has been projected, reinforced, and not usefully countered in any way suggests disqualifying leadership inability.
> It was manufactured in form of pencil.

Can you expand on this? I'm not sure what it means.
“It’s my human right to delegate my thinking to a higher power” works for religions and cults so why not machine learning?
Those bots also shit up the S/N and generally disrupt conversations with useless replies nobody asked for. They're a big part of the reason I stopped using reddit.

Related: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/002/054/961/748...
Calm down, nothing is as new as you think it is, nothing is as dire as you imagine, focus on yourself and the people you love first.
I forgot where I read about it, but there are some limits to certain human social groups we all share (paraphrasing from what I remember):

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Best friends: 2-3

Close Friends: 15-30

Friends / "Friends": 100-200

Acquaintances: 1000-2000

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Something along these lines. With the biggest kind of aha moment for me being that the army (notorious for optimizing everything to the highest degree) has organized itself in similarly sized groups:

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Squad

Section

Company

Brigade

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This is kind of a stretch of an argument though. We could say the same about physics and any other sciences - everything is an abstraction at some level, but if this abstraction is reproduced by multiple independent types of measurement and is falsifiable, that is what we call scientific. I don't think LLMs pass this test.
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If you don't upload them, there is very little risk (XDCC for example).
Tell HN: SendGrid making it impossible to open a support request now
This morning we noticed our Emails weren't working. After some investigation we realized that our Sendgrid Account was suspended because it was using an expired credit card.

They require don't allow you to update the billing information for some reason so you have to manually contact support.

To do this, we tried going through the support portal and after many tries we realized that the "new ticket" form is now hidden under a scrollble "knowledge" articles.

We have been a paying customer for a long time and found this whole process very frustrating and stressful. I don't understand why corporations make it impossible for paying customers to contact them.

Here is a series of the screenshots of how the process looks like now:

https://ibb.co/QMDTHbt

https://ibb.co/2sHZL8x

https://ibb.co/WFFtjJ7

https://ibb.co/CVPggXL

https://ibb.co/HTgL0tD
Look what happened to Berlin over the past 20 years. Same thing: skyrocketing rents.