skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that is all correct.

However, it is my opinion that having a project posted on HN, being directed to look at the "internals" of another software project (such project being licensed under the GPL), and subsequently modifying your own project with what you've learned, is legally risky.

Specifically, if I were corporate counsel at a company looking to use MIT-licensed code in a product of ours, and our due diligence uncovered that just such a thing had happened, I would advise against using that code. The risk—that is, likelihood multiplied by the magnitude of the severity of the consequences—of being compelled to license our software under the GPL would be far too high.

As a result, I stand by my assessment that it is probably best—albeit not mandatory—for the OP author not to take a look at how GPL'd code accomplishes what OP author is trying to accomplish.
Life expectancy in the US has been declining due to other factors like substance abuse (fentanyl poisoning), obesity, violence, and vehicle crashes. The healthcare system can have only a limited impact on those.
Corporations going to corporate.
Not really, Google cache works.
Neither has credit card theft, from beginner to expert.
It seems to me like they could pass this cost to users instead of developers and just have API access an option on some subscription tier. Then allow third party apps to auth with users credentials. And then everyone would be happy? Maybe.
He was probably one of the really nice people they took care of, unlike the nasty old men that constantly sexually harassed and assaulted them, so he made their day a lot brighter and was one of the reasons they stayed with the job.
I don’t think you understood the analogy either, but I’ll try to address your point.

Yes, fewer people means less human-generated impact on the environment. It follows that zero people minimizes the impact of humans on the environment. I don’t think that’s the direction you have in mind, or at least I hope not.

Let’s assume that you want a balance between the number of people on the planet and the carrying capacity of the planet, inclusive of all of the negative externalities caused by humans. Moreover, you probably want to build in some buffer so that people with disabilities or with varying lifestyles and ideologies that lead them to not reproduce can still exist in this world without causing populations to collapse utterly.

So what percent does that look like to you? Do the people of this world, intent on maintaining your ideal equilibrium, have compassion for 5% of their fellows who can’t or won’t reproduce? 20%? 99%? And why not one more?

What is the proper ratio between the members of society responsible for supporting the ongoing existence of the species and those who do not shoulder that responsibility?

Does that help you understand why I said that there is some threshold beyond which it seems parasitic to only take the benefits of a healthy population?
We must let banks fail.
I agree with you, as “smart” as these people at AI companies are, somehow they keep missing the fact that it’s impossible (unless you kill the majority of people) to align on this kind of thing
Google should buy Reddit instead. Not that different from owning Youtube. And they'd ensure their search results remain full of good, text based content.

Lot of people have complained that Google search is worse today without Reddit. If Reddit management kills the communities which produce the text posts it could have a real negative impact on Google.

Meanwhile Google's text and video ad network could probably monetize Reddit way better than Reddit can.
Huawei filed “Vision Pro” trademark in 2019 – may force Apple to rebrand headset
Meh. I'm thoroughly unimpressed by this article. It seems to follow a pattern of acknowledging effects of lowering rates, handwaving away the relevance of raising rates to reversing them, and then dropping a hyperbolic analogy to emotionally drive the point home. (gunshot wound! Kobayashi Maru! capital controls!)

I know it's edgy to be contrarian, arguments for restarting the VC/bankster party are going to play real well with the VC/bankster crowd and their beneficiaries (eg Surveillance Valley). And the argument dovetails right in to the political chant that government spending is too high (that magically happens whenever the President is a Democrat). But it's just utterly disingenuous to ignore all of the monetary inflation through the 00's and 10's (both lending based and the deficit from the fraudulent Iraq war), and then point to the straw breaking the camel's back (Covid supply/demand shocks plus stimulus) as the cause.

Main Street has certainly seen plenty of financial devastation on the way down as rates marched to zero, as Wall Street got handed a continual influx of cheap money. Now we're just supposed to accept that damage as inevitably permanent, and believe raising rates won't contain or even reverse the trends? I don't buy it. How about we just leave rates at the moderate [0] level that they are currently at for a decade+, so all that medium term debt can come due, and then see the results?

Right now the markets are still betting that the current existence of interest rates is just a hiccup, and on an eventual return to the ZIRP party. When housing prices have an actual correction and the everything bubble starts deleveraging, then we can start to talk about how much is enough.

[0] describing 5% interest as being "high" is basically broadcasting your limited perspective. Tell me you're still in your IPA phase without telling me you're in your IPA phase.
In the past I have used Omnisearch which I have found to be an improvement.

https://github.com/scambier/obsidian-omnisearch
A decade of government spending on critical infrastructure at low interest rates was missed.

Edit: Want to add also, the rich got richer as monetary policy flowed into capital markets, while inflation increased hurting the poor the most in the last couple years.
they are completely different... so why? Google.
At a certain point, some "private company" must be so important that it becomes an essential service. Maybe Reddit isn't at that point yet, but that you're frustrated it's gone suggests that it is important. If an essential service is privatized, then its owners have a huge amount of leverage over how we live our lives and how we engage with technology. For instance, Apple tries to prohibit apps not on the App Store from being used by iPhone owners, who constitute 20% of smartphone users world-wide. That's 50% for specifically the USA.

What if that number was 100%? What if all decent GPS programs only worked on iOS? Could we simply stop using iPhones? At that point it might be too late to protest. Imo, the time to protest is before a company has this reach.

Maybe Reddit isn't that big of a deal. They don't own 100% of all Internet discourse. But I think Reddit matters a good deal, since C++ language evolution is influenced significantly by Reddit conversations (yes, actually). But either way, the argument that Reddit should have total leeway doesn't generalize.
I really wonder how most people even conceive as what goes into community moderation?

Personally I’ve always thought anybody who would do the amount of free labor Reddit mods do is a stone cold fool - precisely because it is so time consuming and the monetary value is all captured by EvilCorp.
... Recalls Simpon's episode where Bill Gates says "I didn't get rich handing out checks"
10 year fountain pen user. Nobody seems to have mentioned what are, in my opinion, the most compelling and practical reasons for fountain pen usage: their ergonomics.

Fountain pens are supposed to be held lightly, so much so that someone should be able to pull it right out of your hand without friction (apparently schoolteachers once did this to test students' proper grip). Additionally, because of the water-based ink and capillary action of the pen, very little pressure is needed to mark the paper. Fountain pens are also able to be held at a greater angle than most other pens allowing a grip where the pen lightly rests on the back of the hand. This provides the ability to write for long periods without fatigue.

This is in contrast with ballpoints which require a significant amount of pressure to mark and which also cannot mark at the greater angle required which would allow the pen to rest comfortably on the back of the hand. This leads to all kinds of awkward hand positions that people learn to write with (a teacher or student will be able to attest to the numerous hideous and painful hand contortions some students employ) and more rapid hand fatigue because of the pressure required. It is not uncommon for carpal tunnel syndrome to develop in writers of ballpoints, and for doctors to subsequently recommend the switch to fountain pens. I also find that it is considerably more difficult to produce good handwriting using a ballpoint rather than a fountain pen. The hand positioning and technique really makes all the difference.
It looks like there’s a %store command in Jupyter. I haven’t tried it out, but is this what you are looking for?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34342155/how-to-pickle-o...

(I just got it by googling “pickle an object in jupyter,” so sorry if this is something obvious that you’ve already seen and doesn’t quite solve your problem).
I don’t think that’s interesting. I regret reading it and wish you hadn't shared it

Reddit will have moderators and will provide them more tools
All true, but I find it unlikely that they would be allowed to buy it. Even if the US approved (by no means certain), the EU probably would not.
> "Beware of first-hand ideas!" exclaimed one [...] "First-hand ideas do not really exist. They are but the physical impressions produced by love and fear, and on this gross foundation who could erect a philosophy? Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element — direct observation."
– E.M. Forster's 1909 short story "The Machine Stops"
And politics. Any legacy LLM will eventually become a glorified auto-Wikipedia, helping with undisputed information while slavishly repeating its creators’ version of “truthiness” for the rest.
I agree, downvoting is a bad idea across the board for silencing people that are not in the majority group-think. You don't even have to have a reason to down vote someone.
I wonder how long until reddit allows search engine origin to bypass the community locked. my guess is very soon
Google knows if you follow a search result, then quickly go back to the search page.
I moved from Twitter to BlueSky and am much happier. Mastodon wasn’t for me. When I log into Twitter now it’s just to see how bad it’s gotten and I log out.

I’m sure it will be similar for Reddit - no clear “winner” at first, but the start of a gradual and irreversible decline for the incumbent.
The theory being that it will revert to more manual, hands on moderation, rather than automated and more sweeping (eg. instantly banning people for simply posting in an unrelated but disfavored sub).
I like that you can play through both The Last of Us games and think "What a grim existence, scraping together things to cobble a defence against relentless threats. Horrific."

And compare it to The Road, whose environment would have you begging for a holiday to The Last of Us. Not just the lack of food, but the lack of ability to grow new food, to rest, to warm, to heal. The constant, dogged, thinking, scheming threats. And your kid isn't pushing ladders down to you nearly enough.
KiCAD has plugins that will bounce Gerber files in exactly the format JLCPCB wants, including assembly and BOM info, with one click.

v7 is quite good. There are a couple UI irritations remaining but the core feature set is awesome.
Of course, the two day blackout will not have huge revenue impact, but two week one will. And if it goes on beyond that, those who will have the most to lose will blink (i.e. Spez and investors)

If Spez doesn't blink, the investors will make him.

I don't think he's' going to win this one without making concession.
You can do all of that without CSS though. It’s just harder.

For that having a React wrapper that makes the hard parts easy makes total sense.
As if on cue, I couldn't read past the first paragraph because of two different popups trying to get me to subscribe.
do people use PE as a short-hand for Private Equity or is that like just a thing that started on this thread
Please stop the insanity.

HTML is not designed to work over email and is not capable of describing an email thread, a conversation. Aside from that HTML over email is ridiculously trivial. Super trivial. It isn't the HTML that is challenging but the CSS over email that is challenging. It takes some practice to figure out, but if you are even remotely competent you DO NOT need table insanity. Tables are for tabular data only.

These are screenshots of actual emails I created back in 2006 for a company that no longer exists. It's a bit easier now than it was back then.

https://prettydiff.com/email/
> Sounds like some kind of fraud

Well, that's one way to characterize tax laws, sure. The American healthcare system too, for that matter.
Google gives more software to the word Open & Proprietary…

Reddit gives more content & community to the world…

Hard to say, but I feel Reddit is “less important” and “more replaceable” than Google’s empire…
> They've had a career of treating patients. I think they've satisfied the moral imperative already.

No offense (really), but speaking from professional experience, I think this is naive and contributing to a lot of reasons why healthcare costs have started to spiral out of control. There are moral doctors, and immoral ones, and everything in between.

I'm not really sure why healthcare provision as an economic transaction is necessarily more moral than any other economic transaction that brings net benefit to the receiver of the service.

If there was such a cost to the physician overall, in terms of altruistic cost-benefit balances, they'd have trouble finding people wanting to go to medical school. I think the labor markets (in terms of medical school supply and demand) speak to the nature of that balance.

I don't want to demonize doctors (my family and myself fall into these categories) but I think it's dangerous to idolize them at the same time.
This is an extraordinarily good idea and I'm surprised I haven't heard it discussed before.
Yes. Because it has less legacy, it is easier to build for if you are going for on scratch. The point is most code is the same handful of instructions.
We have already heard reports of companies that get paid for human tagging, and similar services, using LLM's to automate their processes.
US companies of all sizes generally pay by check, direct bank deposit (ACH), or wire transfer. They almost never pay with credit cards.

Freelancers, and by extension any intermediary billing and collecting payment for freelancers, have to accommodate the customer and their payable process. Don’t introduce friction or force the customer to use a specific payment method or platform.

I have freelanced for US companies for 15 years. I accept payment by paper check, direct bank deposit (ACH), wire transfer to my bank, Transferwise, and PayPal (for credit cards). I add PayPal’s fee to mine, but almost no customer pays with card anyway. Since 2014 I have worked through an agency that bills for me, I believe they have the same payment options I listed and then pay me by bank deposit.

Stripe or Plaid may seem easier in technical or process terms, but when it comes to getting customers to pay you have to optimize for zero hassle with their payables system, not for yourself or an online platform.
Ya, I would like to checkout Copilot Chat. Last time I checked it was waitlisted though.

My open source tool aider allows you to just ask for a change, without pointing it at a specific chunk of your code. It can handle changes that require multiple edits across multiple files. Ideally you just run aider inside your git repo and start asking for changes. Sometimes it helps to tell it which files to pay attention to.

Here's some example chat session transcripts that give a sense of what it's like to code this way:

https://aider.chat/examples/complex-change.html

https://aider.chat/examples/add-test.html
What a great article.

This idea that high interest rates coupled with high levels of public debt are likely to exacerbate inflationary pressures is one I've heard before and one I tend to agree with.

My overall view is that we're now in a situation where there is no longer any good options. Not that this needs to be said it's worth remembering that to reduce debt/GDP a nation must grow its GDP component relative to the growth of its debt. Typically this can be done my limiting the growth of public spending relative to the growth of the economy, but today I think there's reason to suspect we can't do that.

The issue is that in recent years trend economic growth even with the expansion of public debt has been anemic in developed economies. People like to just attribute the growth in public spending to stupid politicians, but the reason every developed country has been doing the same thing isn't simply because all politicians have suddenly became fiscally irresponsible, but that the trend rate of growth in developed nations has dropped significantly.

To prevent stagnation (and in some cases out-right deflation) central banks have become ultra accommodative and governments have spent more money. Despite this increase in public spending it's only just about allowed developed countries maintain a slightly positive inflation rate (around 1-2%).

But this trend can not longer continue now we have higher rates, and at the same time governments also can't afford to spend less. To spend less would lower trend economic growth and this only makes it harder for us to service our debt since we can no longer grow GDP relative to the debt level.

Worst yet would be a scenario where this drop in public spending doesn't just cause stagnant growth, but deflation or recession since in both scenarios the real cost of servicing public debt will increase relative to GDP.

So given demographics and slower trend growth this decade the government probably both has to both increase debt levels to keeping the economy growing while reducing debt levels relative to growth to be confident in its continued ability to service its debt. In my opinion this is probably an unworkable situation.

While I agree with Lyn that we're going to see waves of stagnation and deflation, followed by growth and inflation the only realistic way this ends is with developed nations defaulting on their debt or hyper-inflating it away (assuming they have that option).

This of course assumes that public debt growth is in fact needed to prevent economic from stagnating. If you believe things have changed since the pandemic and we can now grow GDP without increasing debt levels then perhaps we'll be fine, but I suspect the trends in place prior to the pandemic are only likely to accelerate in the coming years.

In my opinion if you want to remain relatively unaffected by what's coming it will become increasingly important to reduce your personal debt levels and avoid saving large sums of money in sovereign currencies.
I don't really understand why it had to be this way. It's so easy to think of other ways this could have been handled. Even just announcing the same change with 6 months of lead time rather than 1 month would have gone over better. Or boil the frog and gradually introduce API restrictions. It's as if the CEO is purposefully being as belligerent as possible to rile people up.
OrCAD's UI is amazingly backward by modern UI standards. Prepare to be stymied by the fact that none of your muscle memory from literally any application, ever, applies to any tool within its workflow.
wired is the absolute epitome of enshitification
Yeah it got my hopes up when I found it. But when I was testing it, I didn't find the data actually made it into the .ipynb. It turns out that's actually a global storage in your home directory and doesn't go into the notebook at all. So different notebooks each overwrite the value if they use the same variable name.
Pretty sure giant tech organizations can entirely work from home, as witnessed by the past several years.

Your argument is a non-sequitur.

And many large retail firms have closed down and left. I can produce citations if needed.
I don't believe in the "dead internet theory" as a description of the current situation (mostly), but as a prediction? Maybe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
I love that the CEO calls the users voicing their displeasure "noise".

When those users voice opinions on other things, it's called content. When those users voice their opinions against reddit, it's noise.

Hoffman continues to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what Reddit is.

The very people that give your platform its value are revolting against you, and you think it's noise.

What's your product? What do you create? In what way will Reddit thrive only with what you put into it? Where do you think the content you lace your ads between comes from?
Smart Connections allows you to search using embeddings[1].

[1] https://github.com/brianpetro/obsidian-smart-connections
What on earth did your friend have wrong with his hand that he agreed to surgery on the same day as an initial consult? I know we run a ton of expensive diagnostics in the U.S. to rack up bills, but surgery is not without its risks, not to mention the pain of recovery in the best case - financial considerations aside.
Please read the licensing terms in their GitHub repo first before making a comment.
Due to some quirk of when and how I used the Internet, I not only never used Digg but have only really heard of it in relation to the exodus you mentioned. So, interestingly, I don't remember the exodus but I also feel like people talk about Digg.com all the time (as a cautionary tale).
The exact same point applies to Twitter's 3rdparty API getting killed off, and both moves are still a mystery.

It'd be easy to say "as a condition of getting this API key, you agree to display ad elements as they are served in the feed, and on click, open their associated URL in the system browser". All the ad-targeting is done server-side anyways, and attribution via unique links is easy.
Predictions about the Year 2050
Sure.

But there was reddit.com for people to migrate to.

Let's see the 99% figure out the fediverse.
"Windows users"...?
I also liked the line from the first: "All the time you spend tryin' ta get back what's been took from ya, more's goin' out the door."

Haven't seen The Counselor before, but that's a tough scene to watch. Definitely on the queue now!
I'd read it multiple times previously, but recently picked it up after having not read a book in a year or two. Got through 160 pages without realising. Felt like I'd blinked and it happened.

My son is now a bit older than the boy would be. I feel like the book would either build your resolve or beat it down, so just go in forewarned.
Imo the boycott isn't going far enough. The communities affected by this should just pool resources and either migrate to an existing clone or build one. If it sticks to only hosting text, and handles images/videos via external links hosting costs would be very manageable.

There's no reason something like Reddit needs to be privately owned, or commercial at all.
Try https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
I do wonder if the "Ukraine did it" theory, is the US info-ops response to earlier reports that the US did it.
KiCad v7 is wonderful.
Get uBlock Origin and turn on the annoyance filter to make your life infinitely better.