skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really perplexed why that wasn't their go-to. Then they could just add bulk tier for data-sucking apps
That's beautiful! Inverts the whole process, flips the script. I can see it splitting bi-modal in a bad way though. Friends are one thing, but most following will probably be of aggregators / known figures, and they're going to be either lowest-common-denominator, or highly specialized. Basically gonna look like old reddit, where your options are AskScience or rage comics.
This comment is fairly dismissive of GP's experience and intelligence. If you think you can solve a problem just by spitballing it, and GP's team at yelp couldn't figure it out for years, either you're much smarter than everyone on their team or you're underestimating the problem.

I worked on an anti-fraud team in a similar role, and I agree with GP that it's a harder problem than people realize. It's easy to come up with a simple metric that would identify the fraud that you observe, but you don't know what false positives it would catch as collateral damage.

Like this example that you find wildly implausible:

>Two actors, seemingly independent, have each reviewed three businesses only. And they've reviewed the same three businesses, in the same order. And perhaps they each reviewed the first business, then two weeks later, the second business, and then the third. Odds? Getting pretty slim now. A third actor, doing the same? You're stretching the bounds of credulity for sincere reviews.

I think it's highly likely that if you used this metric to find patterns, you'd find fraud, but you'd also find lots of legitimate reviews (e.g., friends who go to the same restaurants together, friends who recommend restaurants to each other).
IANAL, but can an NDA legally bar someone from reporting a suspected crime to law-enforcement?
I think Google is scrapping websites, not using the APIs?
Inflation is already gone, back to secular deflation we go
we are doomed to the fake web theory.
So I took a look at the actual shader, and it really should not require anything powerful (decade old, worst-you-can-get hardware might struggle). A much more likely explanation (that the gp is alluding to but didn't explicitly say) is that the issue is related to your GPU drivers or related software. These are often buggy and/or hit a slow path for whatever reason. This is almost guaranteed to happen for some browser/os/hardware/driver combo (of which there are _many_) and you seem to have drawn today's short stick.

The animation itself looks fine, its slow enough that it doesn't feel distracting. Just a bit of flavor.

Its mostly just a few calls to a cheap noise function and no footguns I can see. Also hurrah for dev tools and open text formats! If you're looking for better performance, it looks like the noise could be precomputed (the same blob always gets the same noise)". Might be faster, might just hit more bugs.
> OK, sure, and the next logical step is telling the delivery people when they're on shift, where they have to wait when they're not making deliveries, and prohibiting them from multi-apping, etc.

I don't understand exactly which workers are supposed to be angry about sitting somewhere and getting paid that wouldn't be angry about delivering something and getting paid. Or which ones are desperate to work on another app while they are currently being paid by the app they're on.

> "let's destroy the entire business model"

What interest does the state have in preserving this shitty business model?
I live in NYC, but I've always tipped. I thought that they couldn't see the tip until after. Factoring that in, I read it the same way as you. That said, I order food less than once a month simply because I find it such a rip off (already).

I wonder whether Fresh Direct / grocery delivery prices will go up as well.
There are so many people complaining about the sales people doing this stuff.

https://youtu.be/C67Lh4LE5LY
By the way, we enabled this, and it ended up reducing compilation times by almost a whole minute! Highly recommend for local development.
How astronomers detected AT2021lwx from 8 billion light-years away?
It is in Europe.
Moderation on reddit is incredibly inconsistent and as bad as the users can be the mods are ALWAYS a jerkoffs. The vast majority of subs have a very "in your face" attitude to moderation, and it's clear these people really get off on the tiny bit of power they get.

Perhaps you never had an issue with them? If you really keep your nose clean there's a good chance you never encounter the mods, or rarely at least. HackerNews as always is tamer, but you still get some of those vibes.

I would also add that multiple groups are disproportionately represented. Ironically, police sympathizers are very powerful on the site. So as anti-police as reddit seems, I assure you, it's 10,000X worse. I've gotten disproportionate blowback by attacking doctors (during covid, but not about it)... this definitely happens on HN.

Reddit is incredibly biased and it's kinda gotten complicated now. It's not just a left leaning site.
Funny because I remember in an AWS conference that the presenter touted Mechanical Turk as AAI (Artificial Artificial Intelligence) because it was a fake AI service done by humans, and it seems that it will become soon AAAI (Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence, or A3I).
If reddit did that from the start we wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place?
I hate this tired argument. If I'm building a startup I'm building it with the intention to hit scale. If I can use cockroach or yugabyte and get 90% of the benefits of postgres without significant additional cost I'm going to use it. I've been at multiple startups that have had trouble scaling their database and the cost to switch database technologies when you hit scale is massive. And worst of all, the limitations of the technology always impact product development. I don't care what cool features postgres has if I can't do online schema changes.

So yeah, I'd rather spend a few more hours picking an actual scalable technology now than spend what could be 7 figures (it can be a lot more, I've heard of this migration uber had to do that was costing them half a billion a year) and massively impact product development moving to scalable technology..
> Are they on...?

I've met people who seriously do use dumb terminals and other people who have seriously discussed using a PDP-11.

So, while your question might sound sarcastic, the answer is definitely yes.

Nerds gonna nerd. Nothing wrong with that.

I personally don't like going to gitlab or github because I don't like the businesses behind them. That's another point irrespective of whether I'm browsing in a terminal or ancient device.
Why not? Just make a bill:
* cable fee
* the actual service fee
* local tax
* ...
* federal tax

Nothing wrong about transparency
What I can't wrap my head around is trying to read a conversation with some bits silently missing because some parts haven't (yet) synced to my server. It makes it impossible to use Mastodon for anything serious, as there's too great a risk of talking at cross purposes due to missing context. (Or, simply repeating something someone else has already said.)
Of course it isn't, they want you to buy a MacBook alongside, that's my entire point. They are artificially restricting one device in order to make you buy their other devices. It's the same story as the iPad, it also has the same chip as the Mac but they restrict apps like IDEs so people instead have to buy two devices. If it were a Surface-like product instead, with full macOS, I'd have bought an iPad in a heartbeat.
Google really fucked up by killing Google+ and not buying Reddit
> What does Microsoft really get? Maybe in the beginning, telemetry was the real answer, from whichever developers didn’t opt out. But it turns out even Microsoft didn’t see the answer coming.

> Without knowing it, Microsoft built VSCode for GitHub Copilot.

I really hate articles that bait and switch the premise on you, so I stopped there. The thrust of the title and the introductory text seems to indicate that the author has discovered another undisclosed reason for building VS Code.
Ah, OK. Then we do disagree to an extent.

There are several very legitimate times when my employer needs to have access to my keys. If I'm leaving the company, for an obvious instance.

But my core point is that such keys/passwords aren't really mine, they're the company's and in the end, the company gets to decide what I'm to do with them.

I think the building access keycard is a perfect analogy. I'd never let anyone borrow mine on my own volition, but if the company wants to retrieve it from me, that's their prerogative. It's theirs, after all.
It's an example of wikigenesis. It didn't exist before someone created a Wikipedia entry naming something based on some studies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dunning%E2%80%93K...

It started as a syndrome. I don't think it would survive Wikipedia's modern standards if it hadn't generated its own support by existing in a different era.
Are there a lot of issues with non-competes? I've def heard stories, but it's usually related to poaching scenarios where a contractor gets hired by the company that they are contracting with.

That said, I also know that multiple states basically have mechanisms to prevent a non-complete from preventing work. For example, if I'm a mechanic, a non-complete can't keep me from being a mechanic and making a living because a former employer claims that every repair shop is a competitor.
Is there an equivalent to say phpBB or vBulletin, but using the reddit tree format?
Rather than APIs for everything I'd prefer that we figure out (technically, socially, politically, economically) how to separate data and applications on the "web platform" in the same way that we do on a local OS. Keeping files as distinct from the applications that use them has been a pretty effective design principle.
You don't think the popularity of atom vs visual studio wasn't the main factor?
Is the membership subscription worth the cost?
I’m not really familiar with the trade offs of modes with Postgres but why isn’t Serializable necessary?
Not really. Your HTML is, quite literally, a degenerate form of an API. The simplest way to offer a content API is to offer an alternative endpoint that serves the same stuff as your normal one, except without all the bullshit (er, beautifully design, interactive frontend).
Do you mean Python's lack of a labeled union type?
The inverse square law is a harsh mistress.

At the same time, it's always good to remain humble and realize we don't know everything about these . . utterly gigantic . . natural processes. The energy output is almost certainly not uniform over the the surface of the body, and there could be unforeseen lasing from all sorts of phenomenon. Our best science says "almost certainly not", so it would be incredibly interesting to see it happen. Or rather, see the light of it reaching us.
Hidden gem! Thanks!
Witholding data, explanations and assistance from those who want to evaluate and reproduce an experiment is obvious and immediate hostile and antiscientific behaviour, not a flaw that is only recognized in hindsight.
Not really, I've never got the previous email, only today's one.

Maybe some people got the information 3 months ago, but definitely not all of customers.
As an aside, do you think people should be forced to work for free so long as they have jobs and their work creates value for others?
> Each one garnered the same hundreds of upvotes as the original

What's sad is how many of those aren't bots. It's not uncommon for karma farmers to have their bots upvote each other, but it isn't cost effective to have hundreds (a 1 year old reddit account can run you approx $10 for 1000 post karma). The sad reality is that of those hundreds of upvotes, almost all represent a person who fell for it.

As the saying goes "a lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on".
How is it "pretty specific?" Any developer is running code locally (unless you work for Google or some company where they have remote codespaces). Why should I not want a headset that instead serves as a replacement for a laptop?
> I was relying on a very light social contract that was in place there

This was never a social contract so I actually wonder how you or the original blog poster ever got to that idea. In fact, it's explicitly not the social contract if you ever read the Terms of Service of sites like Twitter and/or Reddit.
In that case I think the “monetization” is in the form of misaligned incentives with scientific endeavors. The incentives are having a job, getting grants funded, and obtaining prestige.
Not to worry, you can still search google/etc., which scrapes Reddit, or Reddit itself through its native search. No need to use an API explicitly to access content like that.
I dunno, man. I've seen lots of FRA, OSHA, MSHA, corporate, and food safety violations over the years - but they benefit me and my peers because they're shortcuts to the metric target. It's a win-win and everybody keeps it quiet, and everyone is on to it. And these are businesses that aren't selecting for privity.
I'm not sure what makes WeWork a tech startup. Renting short term office space is not a high-tech endeavor. But it's true that there are plenty of tech startup frauds, like Nicola.
Doesn't Spanner depend on access to globally-synchronized custom atomic clock hardware? i.e. even if it were open source, it wouldn't really be valuable unless you're a data center operator.

As I understand it, it's not a solved problem because there is no silver bullet, but rather trade-offs in every direction, and which solution works for you (including Spanner) is heavily dependent on your use case.
Courier the service is actually fantastic at sending emails, text messages, and push notifications as well. Kinda fits
I think you would be hard-pressed to find any experts who, even prior to 2017, hadn't settled on the mental model of neural networks as lossy compression machines.

Back when enthusiasts and researchers read mostly textbooks, papers, and Wikipedia (rather than blog posts, tweets, and READMEs) there was much more discussion around the 'InfoMax Criterion' -- quite elegantly demonstrated by Tishby et al. via his closely-related 'Information Bottleneck' studies -- which is just that idea: mutual information is maximized between input and output, subject to inherent limits of statistical processing of the realizations of such systems. What determines the asymptotic maximal value of the mutual information is the inductive bias of the system vis a vis the training set. This is all standard theory, perhaps so fundamental that it is obscured by all the application-oriented study and instruction.
People who want to astroturf, from everything from products to politics (though honestly probably more for "products"). Reddit is well known for being one of the few places you can "trust" product reviews (that hasn't been fully true for a while now but it's still valuable). If a near-0 karma and/or new account says "I love X product" then they can sometimes be downvoted/called a shill but an account that's a couple years old and has decent karma? Looks like a real person.

That's at least the explanation I've heard many times.
I mean, you could just flip it around?

genkey keygen
I haven't found delivery to be any cheaper than it was 20 years ago. It actually seems more expensive, which makes sense because an entire business model with thousands of employees added itself to the process.
So RSS aggregators with friends list. I think it could be interesting but on top of being probably a bitch to tune in a way that makes people happy, still someone needs to host at least the aggregates and the per user info, even if the aggregation was done entirely client-side.
Funnily enough, if it works for this use case well -

From the perspective of “it can give you an experience as if you have multiple large displays” and costs the same as ~2 Apple displays, plus comes with compute built in.. it’s actually a steal.
FWIW I do feel like I waited a long time to be born.
It's _technically possible_ but nobody does it, it's mostly available as an escape hatch to debug applications and run things as other users.
Nothing you'd ever do, Mr. I'm The Expert and You All Should Show Respect?
I may be the only evil (bit) user on the internet (2015)
maybe those people should rethink how to do stuff in 2023.
> One time I heard someone praised as a good teacher. Not knowledgeable, but a good teacher. I objected that if someone is ignorant but a good teacher, does that mean they’re effective in conveying their ignorance? Wouldn’t that be a bad thing? No, all that mattered was that he was a good teacher.

Maybe the same isn't true of programmers, but for teachers, being knowledgeable and being a good teacher are different, independent qualities.

Sure, there's some base knowledge that should be present. But it's absolutely possible to be a good teacher without knowing much beyond the basics.

My best teachers weren't the most expert in their respective domain, they were the ones who let me see the world in a different way -- also in maths, and got me excited about the domain.

I teach ballet dancing and clarinet to my kids without knowing anything about either. But I know good when I see or hear it, and I steer them in the right direction.
> … Bank owners do everything they possible can to avoid failing and being "bailed out".

Might be true. But everything they can is not enough.

First, there’s the principal-agent problem: the owners (aka share holders) can not fully control managers or staff in general.

Second, the goals of an organization do not necessarily align with the goals of the individuals that contribute to the organization. For example, young bankers who know that they will switch jobs some time will work differently than those who also own the bank. So usually there’s a bias towards more short-term profit and higher risk.

Also for the bank as a whole there’s a bias towards risk because they have to compete with other banks. If I’d be a well-intentioned CEO I would still be forced into that behavior because otherwise I would simply be fired or the bank would lose against other banks.
Not at all how NCAs work in NYS or the US in general.
It actually wasn't WWDC, it was an interview some execs did with John Gruber, which unfortunately was 2 hours long. Segment on visionOS starts here: https://youtu.be/DgLrBSQ6x7E?t=2323

I don't have time to dig in and grab the exact spot, but I'm pretty sure they didn't go into detail much beyond what I said. My guess is text rendering is as good as it can be with state of the art displays, from a software stack standpoint.
>Apps will not have direct access to the cameras

A restriction for which I am thankful.

>Vision Pro is destined to keep being a toy fully steered by Apple.

I trust Apple a lot more than I trust the "let's figure out how to fingerprint users based on how they scroll and other metrics and use it to sell ads" crowd.

>You can't access eye tracking,

A restriction for which I am thankful.

>so say good bye to foveated rendering.

Vision Pro does foveated rendering.
"98% of the time, and the other 1% of the time" Is this a strange take on "off by 1" error?
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I have never heard of anyone referring to the Unity way of doing things as AOP, and the docs do not call it AOP. In my view, if it was AOP, you could change the behavior of all Foo instances without dragging anything on them, and without changing the definition of Foo. If anything, Unity follows the composition-over-inheritance principle.
Developers would have to port their games, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work. The only real obstacle is a lack of first-party input devices.
Codicat is doing that for Stack Exchange. I don't know anyone doing anything similar for Reddit. There are apparently some Reddit clones on the Fediverse, but I have my own dislike of the Fediverse model.
Does modern MS stifle competition and prevent effective capitalism? I don't think I've heard anyone beat that drum and get a band marching behind it in years.

This is the same Microsoft that's seen its desktop market share slowly erode since 2013, right? The one holding 1.9% of smartphone marketshare? The one so impossible to regulate that the FTC is regulating it right now (https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/...)?
Mutation isn't confusing. On its own. Multiple references isn't confusing. On its own.

The observation, which I don't think I saw being made twenty years ago (I could be wrong) is that you shouldn't mix these two things. No multiple references with mutation. In theory you can safely do so in serial programs if you were careful enough, in practice you won't be careful enough and we should write fewer serial programs than we do, so why not reject this outright.

Rust is one particular (and notably successful) attempt to make a programming language about this big idea, but it's the idea in Val and several other newer languages. There are a lot of unknowns about the best way to approach this, but "Just pretend it's not important" is not a correct answer.
> You're better off doing a linear search which guarantees you'll spend less than 2,000x searching the space.

Almost. If only the last commit is slow, binary search is still faster.
> eliminate the need for having a scrum master

yes

> and/or product manager?

product managers will always be needed
You'd think that reddit would be smart enough to show web crawlers a cleaner version than real users, or is that not allowed? Maybe google needs whitelist some of the biggest sites on the web so they can feed searchable data into google in a more efficient way.
Do you realize that they all run the same kernel and OS underneath that's then restricted via feature flags? macOS can absolutely understand touch since it's all the same. This is also why their Continuity feature works so well, or why iOS apps can run natively on macOS.
Yelp and friends DO catch tons of this, but the people doing it keep working and working until they get past the filter.

Whereas if 1024core or bombcar posts a review, and it gets blocked/shitcanned/shadowbanned/ignored/never posted, we give up and move on with our lives, we have better things to do.
Look, I understand there's a lot of trouble in psychology in general and there has been some reproduction issues with that one. But the truth is, we all know instances of the guy who thinks he knows everything just because he's good at something else and just thinks everything people went through to get where they are was a mistake. Whether or not this is a psychological thing in reality, it's something most of us have experienced and that's the name people know it by.