skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bit too late for that I believe. This one wasn't going to create a monopoly since Microsoft is not anywhere near being the largest provider in the gaming industry.
I like his personality a lot. You could call him naive but he writes and speaks humbly and optimistically and it endears him to people. I'm sure the reddit employees who interacted with him day-to-day liked him. He posted a couple email threads as evidence recently and the tone on both sides was informal.
It's clear he is blackmailing them and the upset users are his leverage. After posting that "Apollo will close down on June 30th." he now says "Same as always: I love building Apollo, and if Reddit is willing to to talk I'm happy to as well." which of course was not what he always said. He was never joking about asking for 10 million dollars and is still hoping for an offer.
You have to watch more ads to make up the the costs incurred by 3rd party api usage as well as the costs incurred by the users of those apps seeing no ads at all.

It's kind of a funny protest - poor people who watch lots of ads protesting for the rights of rich people to enjoy an ad free experience.
I think the OP is just saying that Selig thought he was bro's with Reddit and didn't really consider that they are a for-profit corporation with a board of directors and shareholders that will abandon him the second it makes financial sense to do so because their leadership are fiduciaries, not bro's.
lol the US government is not on the people's side
The right to AI is different than the right to free hosted inference.

Anyone can download a model and use it completely offline, or hosted on your own server. And there's a lot of effort to make these models work on devices that don't have much computing power (even phones [0]), which increases access even more.

Since this is the world we currently live in, what are you suggesting should change?

[0] https://mlc.ai/mlc-llm/
How is it much different that wikipedia or just about any other source of information?
Python Torture Chamber is, of course, an eminently viable tool, but I gather some people prefer a more streamlined toolchain like that of C. Or COBOL.
In the interview he runs down the issues they encountered going down the pure AI accelerator path. It sounds like they've decided the opportunity wasn't there (i.e. too hard) so they've pivoted.
> Did GP imply if a virus was leaked it must be man-made?

This is what the “lab leak” theory is. It’s why every conversation of lab leak is tied up with comments about gain of function, etc.

The interesting thing about SARS-COV-2 is that it can infect humans and cause illness (unlike the vast majority of known viruses). When people talk about the origin of the pandemic, it is the origin of this property specifically that they mean. The lab leak theory is that this property originated in a lab.
I don't care about speed. I like how convenient is it to organize and move windows around compared to floating window managers. Especially when using multiple monitors.

My hand gets tired if I use mouse too much especially with dragging operations.
Using TWM and modal text editor helps a lot.

I really miss it on macos when I have lots of stuff open and have to switch between multiple windows. I haven't yet tried any tiling apps on mac because configuring is always a deep rabbit hole. I use Rectangle but having more than 1 window on a 13" screen isn't that useful and still requires manual arranging. A better control over workspaces is what I miss.
> I think what you are missing from this discussion is that both renewables and nuclear require dispatchable power to fill the gaps.

Well, obviously. Either you overbuild generation capacity or you use dispatchable generation. This is 101 stuff.

Why would you assume I would be overlooking such an obvious thing?

> If storage is "impossible" then a nuclear grid is impossible unless you overbuild it leading to costs multiples higher than Ukrainian war gas crisis costs.

That’s an interesting comparison. How did you come up with the cost comparison?

A nuclear grid isn’t “impossible”. We already have a nuclear grid. What we don’t have is a 100% nuclear grid.

> The problem is that renewables and nuclear are economically incompatible

Yes, because of the rules imposed on the electrical market.

Begin by changing the rules so that they stop disincentivizing running nuclear at 100% all the time. Variable renewable sources should not be must take. Nuclear should be paid first and then, if there are any takers, variable renewables.

Non-variable renewables should be free to eat nuclear’s lunch.

> Renewables easily win this battle as the cost for new built renewables are in the same range as operations and maintenance for paid off nuclear plants.

Only because must take rules and renewables using other generation to compensate for their variability.

> For nuclear this inflexibility comes from pure economics. It is economic suicide to build a new plant and operate it at 100%, now try operating it at less than 50% on average.

Again, this is only due to outdated energy market rules. If

> Generally, the research available see no issues building 100% renewable grids, so I do not know why you keep hampering on about it being impossible?

Please stop putting words in my mouth. I have never said or implied that 100% renewable grids are impossible. Clearly they are from a theoretical perspective and small grids have been built using 100% renewables.

What I am specifically asking is, how are nation size grids going to be decarbonized, i.e. turned into 100% renewable grids in practice and what timescales are required?

As far as I can tell we either need a boatload of new nuclear, storage and/or megaprojects to build out trans/intercontinental transmission networks.

Storage projections don’t look optimistic.

Trans/intercontinental megaprojects are hard and come with fun spices such as geopolitical risks and massive failure modes.

Nukes are expensive and take a long time to build, but at least we know how to do it.

If we don’t have a plan and know how to build TWh grid storage faster than new nukes, then we should start mass producing nukes right now. At least we’ll have the nukes built eventually.
Thanks for the detailed response. Rebuilding the Docker images sounds painful!

It is a minefield. Before starting our product company we did a lot of consulting gigs and security updates etc. were a big part of this. We have seen the other side of this for 10+ years and _want_ to do a good job but it's not actually easy to define what _good job_ means here.

If you have any feedback for us what would make your life as a customer easier please do let me know (my E-Mail address is also in my profile)
I was worried this was going to veer into just another "Garbage In, Garbage Out" exhortation. But it went full on "Remember your processing system may exist in a world into which you have limited visibility."
As a Rails person, I get a lot of those requests.

It may be that after years of working on other technologies, you just aren't passing the filters anymore. When we were aggressively hiring Rails devs in 2021, we specifically searched for the seasoned Rails devs that could hop in and get going. I've found less appetite outside of the big shops (Shopify/Github/etc) to pick up junior Rails devs which isn't great.
Show HN: Daily octopus facts – a simple low tech project
I'm excited to share a recent project, tentacles.love, a simple low-tech website that presents a new fact about octopuses every day. My fascination with these intelligent creatures inspired me to create a website where people can learn something new about them every day.

The technology and design of the website are straightforward and minimalistic, as I wanted to keep things as simple as possible. Every day at 00:00 UTC, a script updates the website's HTML with a random octopus fact. This script is triggered daily via crontab. Simple :)
The new rate would require Apollo to monetize its entire userbase which includes a large number of free users and life-time-membership users in addition to increasing rates for existing subscribers.

Further switching to the reddit-model would require turning their back on free users with disabilities.

So while it is practical to shell out many of the principals behind the Apollo project in order to meet Reddit's IPO stat-padding requirements, the developer has chosen to shut down.
I'm not sure why you're trying to make a point. HN has a voting system, you could just have provided the "better" quote and be done with it.
I read this as a pretty scathing dressing down of incompetent engineering at reddit. But after having breakfast, what I'm realizing again is that perfect code and engineering are not required to make something hugely successful.

I've been parts of 2 different engineering teams that wrote crap that I would cuss out but were super succesfuly, and most recently I joined a team that was super anal about every little detail. I think business success only gets hindered on the extremes now. If you're somewhere in the middle, it's fine. I'd rather have a buggy product that people use than a perfect codebase that only exists on github.
I think you are too cynical about Vice and too kind to HST.
I mean, if by “trying the hardest” you mean “saying they’re trying the hardest while not outright banning apps” then sure, I guess they tried the hardest.

They’ve made it pretty clear they’re not really trying to keep apps. Several developers in the Huffman interview pointed out that they’ve reached out for months if not years to absolute silence in return.
The transcript is basically:

Christian: Oh, just give me $10 million and i'll be quiet.

Reddit: What?!? Did I hear you right?

Christian: Huh, oh I just mean the app is loudly using the api and i'll make that quiet.

Reddit: Oh, sorry, I misunderstood you to be asking us to pay you to go away.

And then Christian would go and spout off how "even reddit agreed that they misunderstood me on the call". It's so incredibly disingenuous of him.
The apps can make whatever they charge. $2.50 is now the base cost to add to every subscription. If the users value the service they will pay.

Developers already pay Apple & Google 30% for the privilege of being in the app stores. Is it too much for the very service that is powering your entire app to ask for their own cut?
Don't forget the infuriating situation where infra designers/whomever decide "we can't put a sidewalk here", or governments allow construction to close a sidewalk for years on end.

Why it's acceptable to put up signs saying "don't cross here" and instead require that people cross the road 3 times to go a few dozens of feet is beyond me.
In one of Christian's posts, reddit agreed that the price was for the opportunity cost of serving that user without ads - since they're not going to get any ad money from these users (and are unwilling to serve ads to these 3p clients since they probably can't guarantee to advertisers the 3p app isn't doing anything shady like hiding the ad while logging an impression).
You state that deliverability is the problem that has been your pain point for years & you want to solve it.

I have 1 question.

How?

'cos React email templates isn't the answer to that.
It was the right decision not because it was made of cardboard, but because it "fluttered".

If it had been full of bowling balls and just thunked to the ground, it would not have been the right decision to just drive over it.
If Apollo is so popular, why doesn't Reddit clone the best features for their app?

I'm guessing the Apollo founder here is trying to get bought out at this point, which is pretty smart.
The Beatles were/are a band, but someone still controls who is in the band as band members can (and often do) change.

At the moment the people that control the band are Paul McCartney and Sony.

So, the "Beatles" and whatever the band comprises is whatever Paul wants it to be, not what you want it to be.
Biological Age
>In Part Three of Immortality: A User's Guide: why do we age in the first place? And was Steve Jobs correct that death is "life's change agent"?
The selling point is that this allows leveraging existing React knowledge, as per the founder's comment upthread.
Can I have some of your drugs?
Sure, but none of the means we know what "consciousness" is.
Feel free to interpret this as "people who have actual swastika flags in their rooms and think that the way to create the best society is to mass murder jewish people."

That's a real population of extremists. Having them hang out on HN does not make their numbers dwindle.

And no, I do not think that banning Nazis from forums is "the same playbook" used by the Nazi Party.
I cannot possibly emphasize this more strongly. It's so important to deliver complete and working products quickly and regularly, that it's worth the cost of the occasional lost customer who leaves because all of their needs aren't met immediately. A) they're rarer than people seem to think and, B) the people you gain due to this incremental approach more than cover the losses.

That said, some devs interpret "quick" to mean "sloppy", which is not correct. When you can cut releases hourly the cost of some kinds of bugs does go down, but fewer bugs is better, and as always some categories of bugs are, "never, ever" (e.g. data corruption/leak, security bugs, outage inducing bugs).
Just yesterday I learned that the inverse of this also existed: TV Radio [0], where you could listen to TV broadcasts (audio only of course) using your radio.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_radio
This summarizes the actual hard parts of my job as a government statistician.

But I'm hoping LLM-generated code (R in my case) can let me stay "in the flow" when exploring. I can spot-check generated code pretty quickly, but finding data, reading their docs, then finding packages to do what I want takes time. I'll often forget why I asked the question in the first place. For example, "How many children lived within 50 miles downstream of X in 2015 and were diagnosed with Y?" I can imagine how the finished code would look, but writing it myself means brushing up on the diagnosis records, two or three GIS datasets, and a GIS package. If we had a nice database or warehouse, this wouldn't be terrible.

I don't fear for my job. The coffee would be generated by including snippets of previous analyses in prompts, and guess who wrote those snippets? My role will become less coding, and more reaching out to policymakers and nonprofits to help them answer questions. I'll tell them what data we do have, what's reliable, and what kind of statistics can answer their questions. At least, that's my dream.
Here's a thought experiment: what are the qualities of a parrot that would make its consciousness different than that of a stochastic parrot? For that matter, what are the qualities that separate a parrot's consciousness from a human's? Or a human's from a pig's? Given the way we treat pigs, we clearly don't think consciousness in and of itself is worthy of any formal consideration, as long as the benefit we derive from exploiting it is high enough.

So, with AI, is it fair to say that anyone really cares whether it will develop qualities that make it seem as though it is an emergent consciousness? Why would we treat digital consciousness any better than we treat organic consciousness? What is the point of pontificating whether or not the type of thinking an AI does crosses an arbitrary threshold when that threshold only exists as a tool for creating useful outgroups?

However sophisticated the thing that our thinking is, it exists on a scale and we sit at an arbitrary spot. We treat thinking that occurs further down the scale as functionally irrelevant not because of any real distinction but because doing so has a high utility for our species.

So, the question of how we will treat a "truly conscious and sentient" AI has already been answered. Look at how we treat pigs. Good luck out there, HAL.
They want to go public, have wanted to go public for about 2 years now but when the market got soft and started demanding income more they’re trying to juice those numbers before they IPO. I don’t really use Reddit anymore anyway, but that is what is driving these decisions I think. Kind of basic commentary but this has a lot to do with upcoming IPO
I'm not talking about "4K fidelity", I'm talking about "the fidelity of viewing a 4K monitor", which is different. When I'm looking at my monitor in front of me, it fills a small fraction of my visual field (around 15–25%?). So for a headset that covers nearly the entire visual field, the resolution would need to be much higher in order to reproduce the pixel density of the monitor.

This is, for most people, pointless, as the rendering costs will be much, much higher (>8x for a quadrupling in resolution per eye), they probably won't care if text is not quite as sharp as a real 4K display, and they might not even be able to tell if their eyes haven't been trained on them.

Unfortunately though, I require a 4K display for sharp text (I get really weird visual effects from low-resolution displays), and my current HMD (HP Reverb G2 at 2160x2160 per eye) is uncomfortably blurry, so I don't imagine the Vision Pro at an estimated 3400 pixels per eye according to their marketing figure (`sqrt(23000000 / 2)`) can do much better.

I know it's revolutionary and this is about at the current limits of HMD technology, I'm not at all claiming that it's not impressive for the industry. It's just part of the reason why I don't use HMDs often is because the tech hasn't yet advanced enough to be comfortable for me.
I suppose... a "hydrogen battery" for solar? Build up formate (in solution? As a salt?) during the day, then burn it at night for electricity?
yacht clubs....
Slimq makes a wide range of GAN chargers all the way up to 330W. There are review of their 240W charger on YouTube that provides fair critiques in their design and Slimq also responds thoughtfully. I'm looking to get a 330W charger for my Legion 5i Pro 2022 that came with a huge 1KG power brick (300W).
I believe it is due to Social cycle theory or "anacyclosis".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cycle_theory#:~:text=Po....
> I disagree. The criticism is _not_ that basic building blocks cannot be combined to produce something richer. The issue is the "without any reference to meaning" part of the quoted definition from Bender in that article.

Right. People think the stochastic parrot description is about the Chinese Room thought experiment, but it's not. It's about the Thai Library thought experiment: https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/thought-experiment-in-t...
And the "investors" can buy them all up. Look at Vancouver Canada. They built and built and the investors bought and bought. Prices continued to climb.
I actually like it a lot
Sydney's traffic light system (Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System, or SCATS) is supposedly "a recognised worldwide market leader in intelligent transport systems" and has been exported to a bunch of cities around the world. It does (supposedly) prioritise public transport in phase timings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Coordinated_Adaptive_Tr...

> On long avenues you just stop every 200m because once the light goes green when you arrive at the next intersection the light there goes red. It seems it is synced, but to the opposite it should be doing.

I recall a link a while back (from HN?) that demonstrated that it's basically impossible to sync green traffic lights in both directions. Any attempt at syncing will priotitise one direction over the other. I can't find the source, and it was so long ago that it's very likely that I'm misremembering.
CIA warned Ukraine not to blow up Nord Stream, reports say
> Doesn’t AWS have a gov offering?

More than that, they even have an air-gapped regions for more sensitive purposes, where you need not only to be a US citizen, but also a certain level of security clearance to access. As an (now ex-) AWS SDE working outside of the US, those regions were a pain in the ass to bring up your service in (as was govcloud, but that wasn't nearly as bad—at least there the ops guys could share logs and screenshots without having to work around an airgap)

The ops guys with direct access to those regions had to be on-site, as they only had access from a limited number of locations, and they were often severely understaffed. They were a pleasure to work with, but you could be waiting a day or more to find out your deployment had failed (the longest SLA I had to deal with in my time there was ~2 weeks due to some unfortunate vacation timings over the summer).
You are probably right, but at the same time there are probably plenty of people willing to step in and take their place.
The Dial of Progress
I thoroughly enjoyed that and read the book afterwards. The series is quite close to the book with a lot of the dialogue being almost identical.

I hear that Netflix is going to release a Three Body series this year, but it's going to be set in the U.S. which seems strange to me as the Chinese setting was an important part of the plot. Apparently Liu Cixin is on board with it, so I'm sure I'll give it a watch.

Edit: I thought Hewei Yu was great as Da Shi - very entertaining.
"difficult" is in the eyes of the beholder. But one quite simple and well maintained package, which many have still have problems with is librosa. See for example Stack Overflow questions about it or the issue tracker. Some of the challenges come from having dependencies on native libraries (audio codecs), that need to be installed manually. Others come from using numba, which break on every new Python version.
Yeah same story here. Until about 6-7 months ago I was hearing from recruiters for Rails jobs daily, both old and new projects.

I'd be very surprised if the decrease since then is out of line with the rest of the industry, regardless of tech stack.
Many financial sites have reported Reddit users are worthless. CNBC estimated in 2019 that FB’s ARPU monthly is $7.37 per month but Reddit’s monthly ARPU is $0.30. (Though even that number should be revised down as revenue is slower than growth of users).

Again the devs are willing to pay some multiplier on this.
Do Ten Times as Much: Unpleasant advice that works
John Carmack led them to a very strong technical base. Based on his testimony they squandered it.
I remember a time when Gamestop had a better game selection than Walmart and Target.

Its just not true anymore, it seems...
StatQuest – Attention for Neural Networks
It's trivial to build some type of never-perfect verification on top of LLM output.

LLMs will be involved in complex tool chains like everything else.
> I know exactly what consciousness is based on my experience with it

OK, then what is it?
Fire Your Lawyer
> I'm also a bit confused as to why Reddit would target 3rd party apps like this.

They are trying to extract as much value before their IPO as possible.
I think boring can be good, I'm not an expert but 'extra units copy and pasted in a grid' is exactly how I imagine a hardware AI accelerator to be like
>yeah, so in other words, might makes right in the world that the US has configured.

yeah, so in other words, might makes right in the world that humans have configured.

FTFY. Violence is the supreme authority that all other authority derives from.
I haven't tested very thoroughly yet, but I'm seeing large improvements in latency and throughput by switching to async views!
Is posting a cool link you found 'creating content' ?

What percentage of posts are actually the creators themselves?

And is it not a fair trade? You're not paying anything to post a link and return the content creator gets massive exposure.
So "the illusion" is like a GPT or StableDiffusion model making stuff up based on conditioning. Nothing mysterious, we have AI that can do that. The same simulator predicts not just how the world will evolve, but also actions and their estimated rewards. It's an imagination based planning system.

Bringing all perceptions together into the simulation, integrating them into the same reference system, and using them to imagine, plan, act and learn - that could be consciousness.