skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a strong reader and Blood Meridian took me a few times to read and appreciate. I just remember thinking how crazy it was that almost the entire page was a single run-on sentence. I really liked the book but it was difficult for me to read and understand.
I don't see how they'd have difficulties replacing the mods. Even if it's hard to find replacements within the Reddit community there are lots of blue checks on Twitter who'd probably be thrilled to take over Reddit moderation and might even pay Reddit for the privilege.
To a point. burnout matters too. If creating emails quickly leads to quick replies and more emails, before you know it you've emailed to your exhaustion point.

this is a tactic and strategy matters too. speed matters on things that matter.
I think the vast majority of Reddit's userbase, normies, won't know the difference and won't care. It will literally be an invisible change.
It's pretty trivial for a company to make a mold for a plastic cartridge. The chips are nothing special, they are just ROMs. Cheap and widely available.

In fact, I'm pretty confident that a competent DIYer could 3D print a cartridge shell, flash a ROM, and etch a PCB in an afternoon or two.
The audiobook for this, read by Tim Robbins with music by Bill Frisell, is spectacular.
I'm pretty sure every film since Spirited Away has been his last film. And I hope he has many more last films - they're all wonderful.
People thought the meltdowns over the various FB redesigns or [x] decisions would hurt FB too (there were many major ones).

Most regular users on Reddit view it through feeds not individual subs. It’s very plausible the bulk won’t even notice, except when other people tell them it’s happening or it makes the news. Eventually others might wonder why they haven’t seen some sub posts recently but it will probably take a month or so.

These are the people clicking ads and using their mobile app.
That's a nice false dichotomy right there...
Porting FSR 2 to OpenGL
As long as you still show which tz it is! :)

GCP's various products have gotten a lot better at this lately, but just a few months ago I could click around between various dashboards and explorers, some showing the time in UTC, some in your browser's tz, and some in your profile's tz (if I recall correctly). Some of them were showing the tz, and for some you had to guess. Sometimes you had multiple tzs on the same page. Sometimes the date picker for a control was in one tz and the widget it was controlling in another (leading to quite a lot of confusion).

The worst offence IMO was not showing the tz at all. Especially given the overall lack of consistency.
I would guess the gross margin on this product is over a thousand dollars if we're putting numbers to it.
It's pretty common for subreddits to do the blackout thing for various causes (eg. net neutrality) and has been for years.
Yep. But there are a few separate things:

1. I can't explain this because I have no idea why it is a thing and have just cargo culted it.

2. I came to this view through hard-won personal experience, but I don't really remember exactly the underlying situation.

3. I have good reasons for this, which I could explain, but I'm not going to invest the time in that, because it would be time consuming and I've had this same discussion a bunch of times before and I know I'm unlikely to sway you until you just get burned yourself.

Unfortunately these are largely indistinguishable, leading many people to conclude that it's always #1.
The X-66A could “shape the future of aviation.”
I use VSCode (with the remote extension) for the situation you’re describing, and find it works extremely well. There are a couple little pain points, but none related to the remote part of the equation.

Big positives are how it integrates with the rest of the IDE so go to definition, debug cell, and data explorer just work.

Some negatives are a possibly onerous setup if not already using VSCode as your IDE (to get some of the IDE-like stuff to work), and how there isn’t exact parity on hot keys so muscle memory fails you occasionally.
Is there a similar notebook application like https://livebook.dev/ for Python?

I like Jupyter, but after trying out Livebook with Elixir I wish there was something similar in Python.

Smart cells and Toggling parts of code on/off is extremely useful features in a Notebook app.
Is it accessible anywhere?
They are really only going to care about the top tier subs, the rest will be replaced by the community. So really we're only taking 20-100 subreddits, depending on definitions.
You think the general public is equipped to quantify risk for a novel viral outbreak, and the government has no responsibility in attempting to keep its people alive. That’s about as libertarian as it gets. You have supplied no evidence that measures taken were ineffective, because every developed country had some plan.

I’m the one that supplied multiple citations. How about you go find some to support your assertions, instead of trying to snipe and mince mine?
It's not even the regular mods getting their toys taken away, as Huffman has already clarified. It's the power mods controlling hundreds of subs via bots that will be hurt by these changes. Other users are eating up the astroturfing pushed by the power mods and raising up their pitchforks.
> No retiring physician is owed anything for the “value” of their practice.

Not saying you are wrong, but this makes private practice different than any other small business. Pretty universally most businesses are evaluated by their capex. (If the medical industry is unique it's because there is no business to evaluate without a practitioner)

But 100% to everything else you said. Private practices are clearly superior in every regard except rent-seeking.
The Athletic (sports news publication) pretty much did this exact thing. Originally marketed that you'll pay for a subscription so you don't get ads, and now for the last year or so they've added multiple ads in every article even though they're already behind a paywall.
Content spam is way easier to manage especially automatically and I don't mean with LLMs, just current tools.

The only reason why it's working right now is because the mods in charge of these subs are upset, and a few mods can shutdown a 30m+ sub. I suspect the number of users on r/aww that care _that much_ to get their account banned for spam.

If it was just users being upset (which would be the case if reddit reclaims them) I just don't think there's enough upset people for there to be an impact like that.
Has tech made sommeliers a dying profession?
The nature of dating is that the people who have a good experience dating get married, and so they stop dating. People who have only bad experiences keep dating. So the people who are eternally struggling have much more experience at it and have far more to say about dating.

It's kind of like job interviewing. If you do five job interviews, get three offers, are happy at the job you take and stay there for five years, then you're averaging one interview per year. If you're struggling to find a good job you can do ten interviews per week forever. So the people who are eternally struggling at the job interview process have much more experience at it and have far more to say about it.
Are we using the same website? Reddit is devoid of any decent content right now, on account of the blackout.
From what I have gathered sofar, Spez was thinking win-win : raise the API price, if they pay, fantastic, fresh money hose. If they don’t: apps get killed (we are here) and people flock to our official offerings and we gain eyeballs.

Ofcourse this protest was probably not on his timeline. Let’s hope it kills all traction it had.
Perhaps spez thinks he can replace all the free labor Reddit gets for posts and mods with an AI? The larger subs clearly have a large enough corpus to have a defined voice.

The next step after that would be an AI to generate the replies, worn out jokes, and repost complaints.
PE exists because the cases you hear about are the failures. It would be like looking at the products of Google that never made money and then wondering how Google runs, you're not looking at the full picture. For every failure story like this, there are numerous other firms where PE has come up, removed a bunch of inefficiencies, driven up profits, and then moved on. It is just a more involved form of VC investing, and in that world failures are even more common.
Thanks for making this! I’ve found that as a pedestrian in Sydney, up to half my walking time is spent waiting for traffic lights, and have always wondered what could be done about it.
Thats right. At the end of the day, PE investors need to make their returns and blow-ups like Toys-R-Us did not make good returns. That said, there are systematic problems with the incentives involved.

1. PE investors tend to be VERY financially savvy, but sell to less skilled investors. If they see that they have the chance to sell one of their assets at a great price, they don't have any issue with anyone holding the bag. There were at least a few IPOs/SPACs that left the (relatively less-savvy) public holding the bag.

2. PE investors tend to be be finance-minded, not operations-focused. That means that their planned optimizations think about the financial health of a company, not the "real" health. Culture can suffer because of this, for example.

3. PE is very interest rate dependent, and low interest rates / bad investors can (and probably did) make the tech bubble worse.
> Considering how much people struggle with learning math I'm not sure that this is a good way of going about things.

Even more are struggling with programming, no matter the paradigm…

> I don't think functional programming classes have much more success either.

Objectively they have. I've linked already some evidence in the other reply in this thread.
Germany overtakes China as second most attractive country for green investment
Totally agree. And even after the big finish^Wlaunch, too many people give up on good projects because they don't know how to get traction yet. The truth is that sometimes that's your fault, not the project's fault. New founders especially quit good ideas way too often, way too early because they've been conditioned to want to drop things if they fail to reach hockey-stick growth within a certain time threshold. It takes time. All of it.

I briefly wrote about this awhile back as well: https://keygen.sh/blog/5-things-ive-learned-in-5-years/
Enabling delightful user experiences via predictive models of human attention
Daniel Ellsberg on the Limits of Knowledge (2010)
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One of my favorite quotes from Suttree:

He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the birches, with the oaks. A cool green fire kept breaking in the woods and he could hear the footsteps of the dead. Everything had fallen from him. He scarce could tell where his being ended or the world began nor did he care. He lay on his back in the gravel, the earth's core sucking his bones, a moment's giddy vertigo with this illusion of falling outward through blue and windy space, over the offside of the planet, hurtling through the high thin cirrus.
I've thought about doing this as well, but I haven't tried it yet. Are there any resources/blogs/information on various strategies on how to best chunk & embed arbitrary text?
Each and every one of you?
My understanding of the situation is that the U.S. federal government has been doing an excellent job of managing fisheries over the past couple of decades — there was an overfishing crisis in the 80’s, but since then we’ve gotten our act together and implemented population monitoring and fishing quotas. There are definitely problems (especially with certain methods of fishing causing bycatch problems or habitat destruction), but researchers and regulators seem to be mostly on top of them. Farm-raised fish have their own set of challenges — mainly health concerns and the potential for environmental disasters [0] — so there’s not necessarily a clear winner between farmed and wild fish. It also depends heavily on the particular species of fish.

My source for this is an elective class I took at Oregon State University a few years ago, taught by a professor who is deeply involved in fishery research and management. So perhaps he was biased, but from what he presented I was thoroughly impressed with the sustainability practices of the seafood industry. One of my big takeaways was that wild Alaskan halibut in particular (which is what McDonald’s uses) is among the best seafoods, and one of the most sustainable foods in existence.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_Island_Atlantic_salmon...
It's content generated by users, and it's the source of the content that matters, not the source of the moderation.

There's no generally accepted interpretation of 230 that restricts site owners from moderating user comments. https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230 "Section 230 allows for web operators, large and small, to moderate user speech and content as they see fit." See again the FB/Twitter examples I linked - those sites are also full of content generated for them, on them.

Here's a couple cases drawing the difference:

https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230/cases/anthony-v-yahoo-inc - Yahoo isn't protected against fraud claims by 230 for creating fake dating profiles, because they did it themselves

BUT

https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230/cases/universal-communicat... - Lycos is protected against defamation claims on their own message boards
Yeah I remember back in the day people stealing credit card data used to claim there is nothing to be done against them. Then warez kids on irc claiming no one can or should stop piracy. Things will eventually balance out, dont worry too much.
Nah, many countries have it. If people have a damn it would be a different story but in the US, cheaper is always better. See architecture, food, housing, hotels...
Acknowledging that it’s a multifaceted mega-corp (and some of the facets are bad) is it really naive to associate excellent marketing with moral goodness? What is this marketing doing if not signaling that at least some of the company reflects values you support? Deciding to support the company by buying hamburgers logically follows.

I’m enjoying the corporate apologetics personally. I’ve heard there is a Christian resurgence among the youth, and this makes me wonder if there will be a resurgence of pro-capitalism sentiment as well. Ideas, values, culture: it all evolves with time.
Those are just bad trailers, or perhaps, trailers for bad movies.

Plenty of good trailers that simply say hey this movie's got a cool aesthetic.
Apparently they're demoting head jannies and removing powerjannies from the big subs.

I called this in another comment. Spez won't let this continue - and he gets the nice second-order result of not having to deal with people like Merari
Once you become a bit more experienced and wise you'll understand!
Phillip Seymour Hoffman would have, he truly would have been perfect.

The best suggestion I've heard for someone living is Vince D'Onofrio but I don't know if he has the total range needed.
> ...I don't think they respect their users...

What gave you that idea? The fact that spez (the ceo) was head-mod for /r/jailbait? Or was it spez firing the AMA mod that had -massive- community engagement? Or was it spez bullying one of the top reddit-app developers (Christian, Apollo reddit-app developer)?

Reddit /obviously/ respects each and every user, the app developers, the subreddit mods, and it shows! /s
But in this case the alternative is not MacOS or Ubuntu, but a distro nobody has ever heard of. Third-party app users may be the more die-hard/advanced user group - and the minority - but I wonder how many of them are willing to switch to a small distro which might not have the content or might have an even shittier app experience.

If there are no alternatives, which today there aren't to the best of my knowledge, my guess is Reddit will win this stalemate. Sure, people will leave but not nearly as many as the leaders of the strike would like to think. At least, not for long.
What's up with those xn--* TLDs
Users could very easily make any sub effectively unmoddable if replacements are brought in. It wouldn't even take very many people.
A bit nicer than the one I did for a ZX80 many years ago.

I simply stripped the membrane key layer off the PCB, and soldered a set of mechanical key caps in place. It worked, and was a lot nicer to use.

The key caps were clear (and removable), so I placed pieces of paper with the various symbols under them.
Saying he can’t write worth a damn is an objectively false statement. His works are studied and loved by the literary vanguard around the world.

You didn’t like the book? Fine, but attacking his capabilities as a writer is ridiculous. He’s one of the greatest authors in a generation.
Everyone uses Reddit because everyone uses Reddit. Most people old enough to remember forums agree that forums were a dramatically better solution, but they're generally dead now (with some exceptions). Discourse is almost entirely Reddit or Facebook these days.
If anyone is curious to learn more, look up the "business judgment rule" with reference to D&O litigation.
> Extra: ChatGPT Gave a Wrong RegexPermalink
I consulted ChatGPT for a regex to extract domains from urls, and it gave a flawed one:

^(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:[^@\n]+@)?(?:www\.)?([^:\/\n?]+).

It even gave reasonable detailed explanations which convinced me. Later tests revealed that this regex doesn’t work for url with @ in path, such as https://foo.com/@./bar. The correct one should be

^(?:https?:\/\/)?(?:[^@\/\n]+@)?(?:www\.)?([^:\/?\n]+).

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The trick is to ask ChatGPT what the right tool for the job is in your language of choice. For python, ChatGPT will happily give you:

from urllib.parse import urlparse
extract_domain = lambda url: urlparse(url).netloc.replace('www.', '', 1)
# Example usage
url = 'https://foo.com/@./bar'
domain = extract_domain(url)
print(domain) # Output: foo.com

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I don't think RegEx is typically the "most" correct tool for the job for things which likely have built-in parser libraries (XML, HTML, URLs, JSON, etc)
Totally agree. Hunter S. Thompson would just be a substack writer with a small following.

Conversely, I am sure there are many substack writers with a small following who would be just as big as Thompson if they were born at a different time.

Not only has media changed but the entire relationship of society with media has changed.

I would compare it to Adele being the only artist in the last 15 years to be on the best-selling album chart and probably wouldn't be there at all if she was 10 years older.
For me it's a cleaner UI for experimentation and when you run a cell it doesn't jump to weird places depending on the output. I've been using jupyter for so long that I find it very familiar and easy to use. With that said, VSCode has improved so much for notebooks that I'll usually reach for it over jupyter.
What layoffs? The labour market is still the tightest it's ever been almost everywhere.. don't get hn myopia from a few react developers being fired and whining here..
It slices, it dices...it even makes Julienne fries!
Japanese designers creating floating city to save humanity from climate change
its just tired at this point.

everyone knows, nobody seems to care.

Another comment of mine in this thread asks the question if you can excuse downtime of your service due to AWS outages.

Consensus seems to be: yes

which is a pretty huge deal, well worth the insane cost increase of AWS by itself. No other hosting provider would grant you such an excuse.

I would weep for the centralised future of the internet, but its already here, so theres no point.
HST once gave his press badge on the Muskie campaign train in Florida to a random miscreant he met while out drinking[0], who then the next day went on to terrorize everyone on the train, ordering things at the press bar like a "triple Gin Buck without the Buck", manhandling reporters and the campaign cheerleader girls. At a whistle-stop speech, he stood in the front, heckled Muskie, grabbing his leg and yelling for more gin. He did a lot more than just "go to places and let people talk.". I think a lot of his genius for reporting came from how he involved himself in the lives of those he wrote about, combined with a rare knack for words and dedication to the craft of writing.

[0] Described by HST as "I listened for a moment and recognized the Neal Cassady speed-booze-acid rap - a wild combination of menace, madness, genius, and fragmented coherence that wreaks havoc on the mind of any listener... so I knew we had no choice but to take this man along with us... he had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild & heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving 'normally'."
Can we find stats somewhere, something like number of outages by regions?
I'm always hesitant to self-promote in an hn comment (actually I have never done it before!), but your problems w/ Jupyter are just too closely mapped to what Hex (https://hex.tech/) solves to not plug it here!

- I get an analysis that I like, but there isn't a good way to share it with others, so I end up just taking screenshots.

You can publish any Hex notebook with literally just a few clicks, and anyone you share it with can access it, or edit it, or fork it, without installing anything— or you can even make it public. You can easily turn a notebook into an "app" or interactive report if you want, hiding/showing certain cells or choosing cells to show only code/only output. You can just share the raw notebook though too.

- There isn't a good way to take the same analysis and plug new data into it, other than to copy-paste the entire notebook.

Super easy to duplicate a Hex project and hit a different table or data source, or you can use input parameters (like ipywidgets) to make one notebook parameterized and work on a bunch of different data sources.

- The process to "promote" fragments of a notebook into being reusable functions seemed very high-friction: basically you're rewriting it as a normal Python package and then adding that to Jupyter's environment.

You can promote any part of a project to a "Component" (docs: https://learn.hex.tech/docs/develop-logic/components) that you can import into other projects. They can be data sources, function definitions, anything. If you make upstream changes to the component, you can sync them down into projects that import it.

- There aren't good boundaries between Jupyter's own Python environment, and that of your notebooks— if you have a dependency which conflicts with one of Jupyter's dependencies, then good luck.

Hex has a ton of default packages in its already installed standard library, and all the dependencies are ironed out— if you have packages you want to use that aren't there, you can pip install them, pull them in from a private github repo, or ask us to add them to the base image. You can also run Hex projects using a custom-provided docker image if you have super custom needs.

You should *definitely* check it out if you have these pain points. Here's an example of a pretty complicated public Hex project: https://app.hex.tech/hex-public/app/9b882bc1-ead3-4f0b-87d1-...

And here's a simpler one I just made the other day on a cool Silk Road dataset https://app.hex.tech/hex-public/app/cdc1b8fe-144b-4a74-a5ef-.... There's a bunch more examples at https://hex.tech/use-cases. Happy to answer any questions!
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I fucking hate the financial system
I should add that liability is a solved problem, you just have to get insurance. But people don’t want to bother figuring it out.
You're the one who asked "Do you see any resemblance [to self-driving cars] with today's generative AI craze?"