skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If a company like Reddit or Twitter derives most of its value from content that users write for free then it must provide APIs for anyone to download and manipulate that content."

I disagree that Reddit or Twitter derive value from content. They derive value from eyeballs and showing ads to those eyeballs. If people use APIs as a way to feed their eyeballs without looking at the ads, then Reddit or Twitter gain nothing in exchange for their massive expense of the hardware and staff required to run these services.

The other option is that people would pay to use Reddit or Twitter. But they would lose 90% of their users if they took that route, because what they do does not provide enough value that a typical user would pay for it. For most people, Reddit and Twitter are time sinks: mindless entertainment to consume to pass the time. In a prior generation they would be watching TV game shows or soap operas. They wouldn't pay $10 a month to use it, or even $10/year. They would just jump to the next best free platform and continue there.
You might want it. Apple either doesn’t seem to be able to provide it, or didn’t prioritize it.

I don’t work for Google but I often SSH to my desktop to run my code. Why heat up my lap or drain my battery?
No, they view it as a language model. You can tell lies with the same language that you can tell truth with.

If you want truth, you don't want language, you want references to reviewed work. You also want things like 'show your work' chains of though. These are really different things.

If I tell GPT "make up a story" I don't want it coming back and saying, sorry I can only tell the truth.
Look, Bob, I don't have a personal vendetta against you. I do find value in clarifying things that are obscured by pomp and rhetoric. What's more, I don't appreciate muddied conversations, particularly when the motivation for the introduction of such mud is purely self-serving, especially in monetary terms.

It seems obvious to me that Substack assesses your quality as a writer by checking on click-throughs from various sources and I would wager good money that they pay out differently depending on the behavior of the users who follow those links, either algorithmically in realtime or whenever it comes time to renegotiate terms. It's not even 2+2 here, Bob.

PS: morality is more than just "would someone else do it". Don't make me start quoting cliches typically reserved for 5 year olds.
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I'm not sure where you are getting your 1/3 numbers from as the M2 in the iPad scores pretty close in benchmarks to the M2 in the 13" macbook pro. [1] vs [2].

It's not a family. It's the exact same physical chip. You can also check Apple's technical specs too. They are both listed as "8-core CPU with four performance cores and four efficiency cores".

The only real difference between the ipad, macbook air and 13" macbook pro is the cooling solution. The ipad is fanless and the macbook pro has a fan. If you had a longer-running benchmark, or a sustained workload you would see a larger difference, but not that large.

[1] https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/1591299

[2] https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/1594101
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> And using a bullshit reason to do so (a single post encouraging people to beat cops, or crap like that.)

Was almost assuredly a false flag, given the other content in T_D.

And ironic, given the contemporary ACAB fervor in the others.
> Status, power, job security or ego can be as powerful as money and the effects can corrupt someone subtlety and even entirely unconsciously.

Yeah. How many times have any of us had what seemed like a good idea, tried it, and found it didn't work? It just takes a little more effort to try it a few more times thinking that something was wrong. Eventually you might get a result due to random chance. And at that point you've convinced yourself that your idea was a good one all along.
> 1. As mentioned, this article is about Full Self Driving Beta Pro Black Edition

The article does mention both. Notably it uses autopilot+FSD crash count (but then only divides by the miles driven using FSD).
Tied to overstimulated vasopressinergic innervation as closely as smell loss from COVID is tied to reduced vasopressinergic innervation.
Have you read the first comment on this thread and on the reddit thread?
Exactly, when users start migrating, Reddit is dead in the water.
I realize that Vercel is a business, but NextJS increasingly looks like just a way to sell serverless with goin all-in on RSC instead of continuing of what made NextJS popular in the first place: eliminating webpack pains and SSR out of the box without forcing a specific thing onto devs.
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> the second bill, S6748, would, among other things, prohibit employers from entering into or maintaining non-compete agreements with workers, absent a “good faith basis” to believe a non-compete agreement is enforceable.

There should be a more general law about this. Drafting any contract without a good faith belief that it's provisions would be valid if tested by a court should be illegal.
Both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 have gotten considerably worse in quality for me since the May 24 update. Yesterday I asked GPT-4 to refactor some code I'd written in haste with a lot of duplication etc - a typically perfect task for a LLM - and it just gave me the same code back, without comments
no it is only an ouroboros if biting its own tail -- this is more of a cyborg centipede situation
Watch some videos of various factory production lines, or ag planting for example. Machines that feed stuff to humans that may feed more machines.
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Apple Maps is the only place left where I see it, and I wish I wouldn't.

It seems Apple Maps and Pay could result in good reviews, because they'd all be tied together.
> If you're the type who will simply never wrap your head around federation, stay there. Sorted.

So, 99% of users will stay there, and another 0.9% for the network effect of interacting with the 99%. Right?
They almost always run as both democrats and working families. It’s effectively a marker that a democratic candidate is progressive.
But that's a completely different argument than Comcast is making. Comcast is saying that compliance is too difficult or costly.

That sounds like clear BS to me, because they have no problem handling that stuff when it comes to collecting the payments.
I have seen this same claim so many times over the years and not once I have seen direct evidence of it, just hearsay. "My friend", "My wife's cousin", etc. How hard would it be to show before/after screenshots, timestamps of Yelp sales calls, etc.
>Yes? I don't think it's a very radical, unreasonable or difficult thing to provide: this is available as a first class feature on most blogging/forum software (RSS feeds) and wasn't even remotely controversial 10–12 years ago.

I think demanding someone pay server bills so you can freely access data they have stored on their hardware (to make yourself money) is radical and unreasonable in every way. If it is an education service or something I can see your point and may agree with you. But that is not what is happening. It is people using reddit's resources to make money for themselves.

Reddit has the right to want fair compensation for use of its service in a commercial manner.

We have the right to stop using reddit if we don't like it.

We have the right to run a service that does give free api access if we see it as reasonable.

We do not have the right to force reddit to provide us free access to their resources. That is completely unreasonable and would be no different than me going to you and saying you must give me access to all your credit cards and let me use them because I feel like I should have it.
> Had*. Ever since Aaron died, it's become a censorious bubble.

Aaron Swartz had very little involvement with Reddit for several years before his death, and also some of Reddit's most notorious (at least at the time) "censorship" actions took place before his death.

It's a little unfair to his memory to conflate the two things, especially given that he spent the last five years of his life doing things he deeply cared about (and which had nothing to do with Reddit corporate strategy or policy).
Don't blame them. I'm fed up of browsers using gigs of ram to display kb of data. :(
Ok then LLMs must be free.
A saboteur is someone who throws their clogs into automated looms https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saboteur
I think lots of us have a similar idea. I thought of something like this too.
> It just seems like there is a gap here in when it comes to managed databases, not just GCP laking any kind of "free tier" option, but just a lack of players in the space between free and established business pricing for HA.

Use serverless cockroachdb. Yugabyte also has a free tier. As does Fauna and Planetscale.
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Exactly! I just point to the root lack of differentiation as intractable

As in you can’t sort it out…just like so far there’s nobody that really knows how to clean up space long term
Google appears to think that I have one sole interest, which is The Lord of the Rings. And that I want to read endless poorly researched and sensationally headlined articles on differences between the novel and the films. It never recommends me anything else in that section.
this is not really true for open source, I think. since it's collaborative I think it's fair to expect people to be able to open a GitHub link
Or perhaps "ourorobos" :)
Because we work isn't a short term office rental it is a company that aims to "revolutionize global consciousness" which is clearly a growth industry.
Bing should buy Reddit and kill Google. This blackout has really revealed how bad Google Is and give reliant it is on Reddit working. Buy Reddit for peanuts, sell Google api access or block them entirely from indexing
Open source stuff are still subject to ownership via copyright.

The license allows you to do many things, but not everything.

The copyright owner on the other had, can do everything.

That’s why many projects nowadays require you to assign copyright to the team before accepting a contribution.
Same on my local PiHole =D

It's worked the couple times I instinctively sought reddit advice.
I don't think Yelp's practices constitute a crime in the USA. The crime of a hypothetical Mafia is when they threaten violence for not paying. Yelp just changes what their site says about your business, which isn't a crime unless you can prove slander (very difficult).
bing accounts for your history in promoting search results. and has a different algorithm to google, inevitable really because google's algorithm is secret and unknowable.

the problem is that google WANTs to promote forums because forums are reliable sources of truth, but with automation all they can do is look for subject authority markers (incoming link count, keywords, text references on other highly authoritative pages, etc)

SEO as an industry is about optimizing those markers to appear above "organic" results in a search page.

changing the markers only means the SEO industry will adjust to target the new priorities, but forum operators are always the last to optimize. it's a fundamentally unwinnable game
I dont think it really means anything. Neither are major press outlets or developers, inviting them only really has a downside for Apple
That would make it harder by increasing the noise, but the signal is still there.

Unless the receiving (target) phone knows the location of each of the senders, it won't be able to vary the delays in a way that perfectly cancels out the signal. The only hope is to raise the noise floor enough that it would take an impractical number of texts to find the phone's location, which should definitely be possible with random delays.
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This is a big deal! Non-competes are a major factor in the finance sector. In tech circles, this mainly impacts HFT firms and prop shops employing software people.

There's a well-trodden path in NYC from HFT/Prop #1 -> Big Tech, for duration of a non-compete -> HFT/Prop #2, that can be shortened by one node.
> Hardware company entices consumers to buy more hardware. Film at 11.

Sure, they can do whatever they want, of course. Similarly, I can also call it a shame.

> The Surface, the device that showcases the appeal of running an OS designed for mouse/keyboard input with a thin veneer of touch support spackled on top. It's amazing Apple isn't sprinting to release a product along those lines.

You're right, it works great as a portable computer that I can run anything I want on. I'm sure Apple could make an even better version if, I don't know, they created a keyboard attachment for one of their devices and made that device's OS more mouse and keyboard friendly, while still retaining the ability to run whatever software the user wants. Ah, one can dream.
Why so edgy bro? Most relationships between pets and owners are symbiotic!
> The amount of mindless "me too!" and "here's how that works /confidentlyincorrect"

This is what gets me about all the people lately claiming that the only way to get good Google results is to append site:reddit.com - I have spent enough time looking at Reddit threads to know I would never trust them for important information. People who post on Reddit are very often just completely wrong, and often that wrongness becomes a meme (in the original sense of the word) that propagates through the site for literally years. New users read the confidently wrong information, take it as gospel and spread it to other new users.
Believe me, these people don’t give a shit. I am well aware of cultural differences across regions. They see your meddling questions as just another annoyance in their day and the faster they can get you to go away the better. 99% of their patients don’t know to ask, so you are just seen as a pedantic pain in the ass.

Your point of cognitive dissonance is an interesting one. But ultimately it doesn’t matter what their state of mind is; if you are treated badly as a patient you will just give up to save your own mental energy. After all you’re seeing a doctor because something is wrong already. Why am I layering on managing the precious feelings of the doctors back office personnel on top of all that too?
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Cases where companies actually take someone to court are almost certainly not very common and tend to involve high-level people (or employers with a real grudge).

But having worked for a very small company for a number of years, we wouldn't touch anyone with a remotely relevant non-compete. As far as our business office was concerned, no one was basically worth any risk of litigation and legal bills.

That said, I have known companies that were apparently known for enforcing non-competes and departing employees who wanted to put out their own shingle for competing services would sit "on the beach" for a year before doing so.
Freedom is also the choice not to use a platform and the choice to criticize it when they do consumer unfriendly things.
What makes it worth the price? $19.99/yr for a .com is very expensive.
That's too bad, because a lot of open-source projects have moved to Discord, and it's an absolute pain that every time I want to search, I have to 1. login and 2. join yet another Discord server.
There isn't a good answer to that question. The US had set a very arbitrary definition set of trimesters which actually worked rather well. The vast majority of abortions will happen soon after the pregnancy is discovered. Practically nobody who carries a healthy pregnancy past the sixth month will choose an abortion.

There is a lot of gray area in between, but not many cases fall into it. The previous US situation allowed states to put the dividing line anywhere in there, and that was a compromise acceptable to most. It's not a rigorously defensible answer, but the only rigorous answers are "all" and "none", and both are considered repugnant to most people.

A case like this is incredibly rare, and suggests mental health issues. For that, she should receive treatment. While there is an argument to be made that she should have the right to her bodily autonomy and terminate any pregnancy, it's extremely unlikely that this is what she would want if she were mentally healthy. So this case doesn't inform much about where you might draw a line, and more about how to diagnose somebody who is probably depressed or otherwise not competent.

I am not, of course, qualified to judge her competence. I can only speak in generalities.
Anything that works gets gamed, the only real possibility would be various sites that are so absolutely local that attempts to game them would be painfully obvious.
You're right, I was railing against in-slang, if we're interrogating my actual statement. I understand why people use it on platforms like twitter; everywhere else it's like saying "ell oh ell" to me after I tell a joke.
Sleep uses almost 0 power and works flawlessly. I'm never going to waste my time, however short, waiting for a machine to boot.
The ability to position and manipulate virtual objects "in" the physical world.
It's also supposed to be capable of 3d video playback and capture.

2d screens can't really do 3d, and definitely can't put things in the room around you.

People have already dreamed up all sorts of game ideas for passthrough AR, as well as CAD and 3d design (think autocad, blender etc.).

If you're using it as a stand in for a 2d display it may not be worth it -- it's just bigger in your field vision.
There are a couple good services for finding a co-founder: starthawk and YC has its own matching service that is free.
It's robots all the way down!
Reddit hasn't been hands off for about 6-7 years.... A lot of the hate, racism and legally ambiguous stuff left years ago for better or worse. Kind of unhappy they left a lot of the degen fetish stuff though, that's the thing stopping me admitting to using the service in public.

Now they have the lowest value user data of any social media company and are firing people from jobs they do for free (lol) to get the site working again.
Not paying would be a heavy bias, too. Do we need something like jury duty?
I get what simonw is saying though.

Reddit: We could sell API access to your answers, per our TOS

reddit poster: k

Reddit: We're gonna sell API access to your answers, per our TOS

reddit poster: then nevermind

Both have a superseding TOS but the social contract is still appreciable
>The short sighted thing about these API fees is they will harm the company in the long term.

Black-belt in running a public company right there.
"shi-i-ta-ke" is not very accurate. It's a long vowel, and the word has three syllables.

But english mostly ignores long vowels, hence the alternate spelling.
I have tested https://fieldgoal.io/ they seem decent.

You can also write your own using something like Cloudflare workers or an AWS Lambda function. We did that for our production website.
That happened around 1994-95. By 2000, it was old news.
I feel like Crypto generally delivers on what it promises in terms of technology. If I go to investors to found Holebucket to produce the worlds first bucket manufactured with a one inch hole straight through the bottom, it isn't exactly hard to accomplish my goal. Crypto startups have a product, it's just a really dumb product. But Theranos for instance just straight up never had a product in the first place.
Why Reddit is doing same as other products Twitter, Facebook, Instagram?
Why not just make API accessible to paid "Reddit Gold" members?!

Then there'd actually be a reason to get gilded up, and 3rd-Party Apps would still work for those paying members.
Good for you, not everyone has both a laptop and desktop to get work done.

> Apple either doesn’t seem to be able to provide it, or didn’t prioritize it.

Sure, that's up to them. I can still want what I want however.
Looks awesome and will make many enterprises feel more comfortable using AI.

I suspect your intuition about moving emphasis from redaction to unified access control and audit logging over time is right.

The "AI Chief of Staff" sounds interesting though -- can you share a bit more about what you showed to companies and received lukewarm response to?
Great thinking. I'll also note that `sched_clock_register()` uses `pr_debug()`, which can be an alias of `printk()`, though I don't think that's it.
Im not sure. I feel Reddit does deserve to be profitable. The bad choice they made was how they went about it. I feel there were a couple reasonable paths to profitability. But charging app makers for api access didnt seem like a good one.

It might have stuck a chord with some users, but I think overall it would have been net positive for Reddit and the narrative from leadership much more palatable
> Gandi got recently bought

Was bought in 2019 too, by a private equity firm
I forgot it exists. Looking at a bunch of local restaurants, there has been essentially no activity since 2017, and Google and Facebook have orders of magnitude more reviews in every case.
NDAs have nothing to do with this. Employees leak all kinds of stuff from tech companies all the time despite NDAs.
Regarding my feature request: that makes sense to me. At least, it’s undeniable that you spend a lot of time engaging with any user who questions things. This serves a similar purpose to what I was proposing, but at the expense of your own time, which I appreciate.

That said, other comments of yours (where you speak about the work it takes to give HN the “HN feel”) give me a thought: HN is less a link board than it is an actual, edited, journal (lack of a better word). I mean, links are submitted by users, and upvotes are used as a signal, but unlike Reddit, HN is edited. That’s a good thing, because clearly we find this site useful.
Isn't Sam Altman on their board? I wouldn't be surprised if he was the one who pushed for these API changes, to restrict others from building a competitor to OpenAI.
Isn't this largely the point of company directory services? The machines/routers/applications/etc are all doing their authentication against the directory service, and permissions are granted and revoked there. Its a large part of running a company with more than a couple employees because when someone leaves you don't need to run around changing passwords and wondering if they still have access to the AWS account to spin stuff up, or punch through the VPN. The account in the directory service is just deactivated and with it all access.

By default this should be what is happening on all but the most ephemeral of machines/testing platforms/etc. And even then if its a formal testing system it should probably be integrated too.

Directory service integration BTW is the one feature that clearly delineates enterprise products from the rest.
Some stores prevent retail workers going to work for a competing store. That's completely bananas - you can't work as a checkout clerk at Krogers if you worked at Safeway?

If a retail worker is key to your business such that it requires a non-complete, your business model is broken or you're abusing non-competes.
My view is that discoverability is the bigger problem. The larger social media and content platforms are able to surface hundreds of hours of content users want to engage with (often from authors you haven't heard of before). If the federated networks want to gain broader adoption, discoverability of content must be greatly improved somehow to give readers a reason to keep using the platform and to give authors a reason to publish. Currently, it feels like this a lower priority than being federated itself.