skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, this isn’t the CIA here. It’s a tech company people are probably filing in and out of in about two years. And the salesmen are all meant to be in on it?
It's section 230 not article 230 but yes it's somewhat protected. You could go after the end user for defamation and you could probably use the legal system to force yelp to turn over identifying information from their logs if a judge agreed a comment was defamatory. But you'd have to go after the poster not after Yelp.
My bet is that investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital are pulling their hairs out, seeing Reddit lose money at the end of the month, after Open AI and others are raising trillions by scraping their data
Side topic: Anathem is actually my favorite book of his. I feel like it's under-represented in a list of top NS books.
It looks like there is a bus factor of 1. Is this not a concern for you?
> How do you feel about giving your colleague your password?

I usually don't, mostly just out of good security habits, but also because most employers specifically prohibit doing that.

Almost always, your colleague can be given his own access to whatever the password is for anyway. If that's not possible, then I'll share the password and change it immediately after my colleague doesn't need access anymore.

> you have a professional responsibility to secure your account from absolutely everyone.

I agree -- that's part of treating credentials the same way as all other sensitive company data. But it's still my employer's data, not mine.

If I quit the company or if my supervisor wants to see the contents of my machine, I'm fine with that. The machine and everything on it belongs to the company anyway.
I have my domains on Porkbun and all info is hidden, including in .com domains. So maybe they saw that with some other tld
Don't forget the epic story of the fall of r/worldpolitics and the rise of r/anime_titties as its replacement.
Oh, I believe I understand what you are saying now.

Existing open source products on the market within the space I am working to evolve have basic MIT licenses that they have ammended with their own terms.

Thank you for your input! I am going to go research OSI more in depth.

I do actually want to open myself up to much larger Fortune 100 and government type clients who have stringent polices on what open-source projects they can use internally, and how they can host them.

I've heard some rumors that tools like Drupal are still the approved standard for content creation within some organizations. Kind of like the COBOL of blogging.
Because you can't include ads in an API response
That's quite a question coming from a self-proclaimed non-programmer (are you sure you're not one?)

I didn't use a Trie. The main data structures used are Linked List and Priority Queue.

The tokenization begins by transforming each character to a token. After that merges are applied in priority order as long as merges are possible.

The current state of tokenization is represented as a linked list where each node (token) points to the previous node and next node.

Nodes of the Linked List are added to a Priority Queue _if_ a merge to their corresponding "next node" is possible according to vocabulary (we use a Hash Map to perform these checks fast). Even though we are technically adding nodes of a linked list into the Priority Queue, you can think of the Priority Queue as holding "potential merges" in the order of their priority (priority according to the trained tokenizer merge data).

When we poll a node from the priority queue, we first check that the merge is still possible (because the situation may have changed between the time the node was added to the priority queue, and the time when it was polled from the queue). If the merge is possible, then this is guaranteed to be the most highest-priority merge, so we apply the merge. At this point we need to do several things: we need to mark the previous nodes of the merge as "deleted", we need to create a new node representing the merged token, we need to update the pointers of the adjacent nodes in the linked list, and we need to check if new merges have become possible, and if they have, we need to add the corresponding nodes to the priority queue.
That's only in the short term. Long term, we've seen what happens to unmoderated discussions: spam, (child) porn, violent/illegal images, and more. The worst humanity has to offer.

It's like taking your hands off the wheel when driving. A few seconds and you're probably okay. An hour? You're in a ditch!
According to the API, reddit post and comment frequency is higher than it was 4 days ago: https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

Seems like the blackout is not working even a little bit.
"The US failed to break up a monopoly that to this day stifles competition and prevents effective capitalism by making itself to complicated to regulate, so lets keep making the same mistakes"
I forget, how does this come up in Anathem?

I remember similar notions in his novel Fall — where the internet is so full of fake news and sponsored content that people need additional services to filter out useful information
What can you say about these accusations brought up in this thread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36329248
It’s also a clash between the profit motive of these platform runners / investors and the increasing value of data itself (in the “age of AI”).

Enthusiasts need our help as Usenet as is, phpBB, etc just don’t cut it anymore in terms of ease of use for admins and exploration and fun for users.

Todos then:

1. Centralized solution it ain’t

2. Remove (boundless, blunt) profit motive out of equation (don’t depend on this at least)

3. Actually care and be professional about UX. UX quality for centralized services has been decreasing over the last ~10 years (I blame Apple for continuously dropping their own ball there; role models are important) so it’s actually not as high a barrier as it used to be (relatively speaking).
Brain fog after Covid-19 has similarities to ‘chemo brain’ in humans and mice
What does it mean that guys like this and SadlyItsBradley were not invited to try the Vision Pro? Interesting to note that the experts in the state of the field were not given a chance to try it.
This is why solar and net zero metering are huge in California.

Of course, anyone that can’t install solar really gets destroyed by all this.
In case the author is reading:

> first i tried to "dd" the whole disk to a file, but every time an input /output error occured, dd would of course stop.

This is exactly the purpose of the "noerror" option to dd -- to tell dd to continue reading even when an error returns from the disk.
AOL actively wanted AIM to fail.

https://mashable.com/archive/aim-history
I just had this thought. Seems like user generated content is gonna be very valuable from now on, so wouldn’t it be good for companies like Microsoft to foster new websites like Reddit?
Pithy retort: that must be a parallel dimension to suggest Discord is good for privacy.

Letting ideas float around a chatroom is good but communities hopefully have motivated members to consolidate and publish some of the good ideas for posterity because we will lose them over time. Some places do a better job, but a lot of content is straight up locked out from the wider internet where users are required to give away credentials to a private American company just to get access to it; at least private American Reddit I could read without an account with answers to folks web searching for a quick solution. But we’re tech-savvy folk and know better, but it seems from even the Stack Overflow survey results yesterday that our industry is also trending in the wrong direction.
I'm quite sure he means a post-hole digger. I can practically smell the odor of digging in rocky soil with those, coming off the page, almost feel the cracked dust-sweat-caked knuckles of setting posts on a hot, dry day.

[EDIT] As for the rest, putting aside metaphorical readings, the clockwork-like progression and repeated crossing of the line of holes calls to mind the stop-and-start movement of running barbed wire and working a ratcheting tensioner tool behind the one digging the holes, and in the right country, the curious among those workers may pause to reflect on the remains of long-dead things (fossils, "bones"—fish, horse, bison, mammoth, spine-like crinoid stems, shells and coral from an eons-dead sea, even dinosaurs—the ranches and farms of the West largely sit atop the shallow graves of life's history on Earth) sitting flat in the dirt or exposed by the digging, while others may pay them no mind. There's definitely a defensible reading of this as on the surface a plain, if oblique, description of a work crew running a fence line—not just the one digging the holes, but the whole set of folks described. I'd wager that's what's intended (though not the only thing intended), in fact.
Heh.

I just ran a Google search on some code I was working on 15 years ago, posted to blogspot.com. It was about card game X, using programming language Y. The relevant keywords appear in the blog post. However, it completely failed to show up in a Google search. Just... nothing, even when I scrolled through the "more results" stuff. There were relevant and more recent links to the same topic (and likely better implemented, but let's leave that aside).

I did find my page on a Bing search after getting it to not ignore an important keyword, so that's something.
Apparently the people running the place asked the same question.
> I’m not the only one to catch this seeming contradiction in messaging.

The contradiction being introducing a new product with a screen? Guess what, watchOS will still suggest you go outside, whether you use a MacBook or a Vision Pro.

This analysis is not particularly sharp.

The vergence issue he is very hot about, but like anything in this space the question is “is this good enough for a lot of people” not “did they solve this to my personal satisfaction (having not used the device)”
I'm stoked that you're building this open with Linux! I'm willing to tolerate a lot of (what's the opposite of polish?) but for me it has to be open and workable with my current setup (which is all Linux), and I don't want it loaded with privacy invasive analytics. I'll put down a lot of money to buy something like that.

My advice in no particular order (I know you probably already know all this but I already typed it so I'll post it):

1. Get something shipping ASAP. This space is rocketing forward now at an electic pace and the ecosystem for the average person is going to get locked behind walled gardens if something open doesn't get out there. If it were me I would try to get beta units available soon and let the open source community and early adopters run with this thing while you stabilize/polish. Don't rush to "stable" too quickly, but also don't prevent shipping too long that competitors beat you to the release line.

2. When you market this to consumers, don't hide the "Linux" part since people like me will be very attracted by that, but don't emphasize it either because most people don't know what it means. Just describe "computer workstation on your face" rather than "linux machine on your face."

3. Provide factory images so people can hack with the hardware but still escape back to supported territory. If you do this, there will be a ton of open source interest and efforts and they will not only develop awesome apps for you, but they'll port a lot of stuff too. If I were you, I'd be making open source collaboration a huge part of my strategy.

4. I would also be looking at things Valve did with the Steam Deck for tips/guidance.
wanted to share for the new beginner
Others have mentioned the "plain text files" thing, so let me just mention the "plain text files" thing.

Everything is stored as a plain text file. It's just text. Hell, it's practically human-readable, if you're a fairly nerdy human.

You can store them in git, or any other source code repository. You can email them or stick them up on a server, without them getting mangled, because they're just text.

You can run scripts on them, or just plain open them in a text editor and do search-and-replace on them.

You can even write code to write files for you - take a bunch of stuff and programmatically design footprints and components, any way you like, because it's just plain text files, describing lines and co-ordinates and stuff.

Can't get any less locked-in than that!
One main difference is that you could order a computer with an M2 Ultra last week, but you won't be able to order Reality Pro until next year. Apple doesn't talk about numbers until they finalize exactly what will be shipping.
> Reddit is transparent about the fact that the company is not profitable.

There's the fundamental problem. The bills need to be paid.
Are we documenting “silent walks”, where timing is flexibly maximised into whatever the car traffic is doing? They’re a tiny percentage overall, but on quiet t-junctions they can last hours in the dead of night. “Silent” because the accessibility sounds deactivate until the phase changes.
Very interesting point. It'd be a challenge to execute, but I'd be glad to see a non-profit that lets online communities discuss topics of interest, solve problems, and expand knowledge. Maybe something like that exists and I just don't realize it.

Sorry to make this about AI, but it'd also be interesting whether such a non-profit makes its data fully open--i.e., for AI companies to scoop up--or has more restrictive terms that forbid AI "scooping" without a separate agreement. Lots of tricky issues, trade-offs, and interesting incentives involved. There could be alliances with orgs creating open source models, for example. If anyone is working on a nonprofit like this or just wants to chat about it, please reach out.
Who's side is Silicon Valley on?
I didn’t, but it sounded right. I know it might be incorrect.

However, I’ve seen plenty of bad information in google answer boxes too. And finding it in actual search results is going to be way more time. It’s not a life and death question.
I've built my own little pile of evidence against Spanner using it for several years, after previously being on Postgres. It has good potential but isn't there yet. And if you're making a startup, you're probably a long way from the scale where sharded DBs become necessary.
I think the entirety of their argument is:

> social media sites don’t produce content. They merely host it. Millions of users create the content expecting it will be widely available.

?

But this feels pretty simplistic. Not convinced that people do (or should) upload content expecting they or anyone else can access it however they want.

If you create the content then it's obviously yours forever. If you also decide post it to a platform, why is it the platform's social responsibility to allow access to that content for free.
Apollo doesn't show ads, right? In fact getting users away from Apollo and onto the main Reddit app would be net revenue positive.
Does not make sense to me. Providing Apis costs money.others can make money out of it without paying anything.
French innovation is quirky but brilliant IMO - minitel was years ahead pre internet.

For some reason French innovation doesn't spread much beyond France. Concorde (I love that plane so much) was an Anglo French project. A lot of my friends parents in the UK midlands were involved with at massive project, but it never scaled to fleets and eventually withered away after an astonishing amount was spent developing it in the '60s ($2.8 billion in that era's valuations).

Not denegrating French innovation here at all, I just don't think the rigid ENA/Ecole Polytechnique elites are practical or competent in understanding how to exploit and build on great ideas by their countrymen.
> > define open source

> denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.

Being honest, I didn't examine the OSD closely when writing the comment, but I still feel AGPL might violate rule #10 for the open source criterion.[0]

However, it's much more clear cut going over to the free software side.[1] Specifically, the explanatory text in the free software philosophy states: "The freedom to run the program means the freedom for any kind of person or organization to use it on any kind of computer system, for any kind of overall job and purpose, without being required to communicate about it with the developer or any other specific entity."

The AGPL requires that you communicate your use of the software, and further forces you to provide access to the source code. For unmodified copies, it might be sufficient to link back to an upstream project. As soon as you modify even a single line, you must now provide your own fork, which will involve setting up some sort of infrastructure. That's assuming that the source code still exists (you might be surprised how often it's lost).

> considering these facts, your opinion is honestly ... pretty dumb.

100% disagree :)

[0] https://opensource.org/osd/
[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
One of my managers had a rule of 2 (different from my rule of 2).

You haven't proven you know how to do something until you've done it twice.

That was expanded by later managers to a more general sense of reproducibility, where 'we' don't know how to do it until two other people have done it.

There are certain aspects of my life that are informed by a general dread that some day I will leave my house and never be seen again. For instance I try to tell tell people I love them when we part, even if I'm mad at them, in case those are our last words for a long while, or forever.

If I really thought I was doing something at work that would forever change a corner of the world, I'd be super paranoid that the secret could die with me. That's the perfect recipe for me overworking. If I can't trust anyone with the information (eg, intellectual theft), then I positively vibrate. If I told people and they don't care, I have to finish it enough that I can demonstrate why they should care.
If you were just asking a question you probably wouldn't have been downvoted though…
I think this is probably a poor metric for it. Mechanical Turk is full of people trying to race their way through surveys to make a few pennies. So there's a motivation to just create some output that can't be automatically filtered out, like missing a 'please select D as the answer for this question' attention test, while otherwise just going as quickly as possible. It's a dream scenario for any sort of automation, no matter how crude. It's one step above MMO gold farming.

Tangentially related, Mechanical Turk and its various less well known clones which come down to the exact same thing, are increasingly the status quo for social science studies. They keep making really shocking discoveries with like 99.99999% statistical certainty given the huge sample sizes these services enable. Kind of weird how often they fail to replicate.
If it wouldn't surprise you then I think you should recalibrate your feelings about how surprising Unicode encodings are. There aren't very many of them, they haven't changed in a very long time, and they don't deal with any of the stuff that makes Unicode very complicated (collation, combination characters, etc). They just encode 21-bit integers, albiet sometimes in a highly convoluted way for backwards-compatibility reasons (UTF-16). It's not the kind of thing that needs to be estimated, or where a layer of FUD is warranted (as it kind of is with combination characters). When talking of codepoints, it's just "up to 4 bytes", high confidence, nothing more to it.
Conversely, it boggles my mind that people think 100+ tabs is a lot. I've got >500 open in Firefox at the moment, they won't go away just because I reboot or upgrade. I'll probably not look at most of them again, but they're not doing any harm just sitting there waiting to be cleaned up.
Don’t steal Mojo’s mojo
> You can do VSCode Remote in a browser on an iPad

I'm sorry but that's exactly the problem, I want the app natively (well, as native as you can get with Electron), executing code that I have on my file system. I don't want to execute remotely through a browser.
>>> Laronde, a Boston/Cambridge area biotech firm that seems to have had some major problems reproducing the data that helped raise them hundreds of millions of dollars last year

VCs: How the hell you put 100MM+ in a company without having a 3rd party verify that the "thing" works ?
In my book, humility is a core cultural value. You should always be willing to learn from others, and not lose your shit when someone gives you constructive criticism.

I'm not saying "armies" should never fire anyone - bad cultural fit is certainly one legitimate reason.
Oh no, not more unnecessary syntax
What is the threat here? Telemetry is just data collection. The pedals and steering column are physical mechanisms not networked APIs. This isn't Hollywood, you can't remotely hack into a car and steer it into oncoming traffic.
> You'd think there would be some whistleblowers after all of these years...

I wouldn't think so. In a society so rife with obvious scams everywhere you look, at every level in public and private sector orgs, it would be patently idiotic to trash your own career on account of a dishonest restaurant review operation.

I wish we lived in a world where such bravery were meaningfully valued, but we don't. For any might-be whistleblowers, this reality has been made painfully clear in the time since the Snowden leaks nearly a decade ago, during which nothing has changed.
I mean the internet lies and makes stuff up too, being first on Google results has nothing to do with truthfulness.
Plenty of options exist in adjacent industries. Stage rigging has a lot of nice stuff for powering lighting/effects (like Neutrik powercon) as does automotive (deutsch dtp or dthd).

https://www.neutrik.com/en/products/power/powercon-20-a

https://www.te.com/usa-en/products/connectors/automotive-con...
At this point I hope Reddit kicks out mods from all major subreddits still set to private and places their own people. I'm tired of drama from 3% of the Reddit population (or less) impacting the other 97% negatively.

I just don't think either side has the moral high ground. The mods like the convenience of 3rd party apps. I get it. It's not a real moral issue.
Reddit, like any other social media platform is worthless without users.

We will see in few months what is the situation and if someone manages to advertise an alternative for millions of people.

Then, Reddit IPO is doomed. If there is no new significant alternative where people will go, then IPO will probably continue as planned and API change went well from the Reddit’s perspective.
Huh. How's that fit with the general push against remote work I've been hearing about?
You can live in an apartment.
I search for reviews of DIY tools and all Google shows me are review sites that are just thinly veiled affiliate link farms. I even read a post somewhere about a guy boasting he has SEO optimized his review sites to show up at the top of google searches and he makes a bundle on all the Amazon affiliate links people follow.

For me, the solution is not Reddit but Youtube - luckily, Google can now link you directly to the point in the video that matters otherwise videos are not random searchable, and I haven't seen all videos have text transcripts you can search through.