skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do too! It’s not just Reddit and Twitter I want to replace. I think Quora and Stack Overflow, even Wikipedia, had some good social ideas as well. Most of these were ruined by chasing growth (diluting out the good original user base) and trying to juice out as much revenue per user as possible. They’ve all been enshittified unnecessarily - even though not all are profitable, in most cases where they aren’t, it’s because of over-hiring. Running a website isn’t that hard

Unfortunately I will need to switch to a non-pseudonymous account to launch and really talk about it, so can’t get into too much detail on this one.

I honestly think that, if these sites had been ok with measly 9 figure valuations and didn’t go chasing 11 figure valuations (or, a huge nonprofit treasure chest, or allowed petty busybodies to exert undue influence on the site), none of them would have gone to shit.
To this day I still use BBEdit even though most of my daily meat-and-potatoes text editing and development is done in neovim. For some things it's just really nice features and UI, in particular:

- the multi-file search and replace,
- the diff tool,
- shell worksheets

and so much else.

BBEdit has always been a fundamentally fast and reliable text multi-tool and I've used it since 1994 when I first started poking around HTML and learning Perl.
Looking at the last 20 years of big tech development, I think my answer is “yes”.

Or are you actually being sarcastic?
The US had significantly more community pools before desegregation. Once they were required to allow all swimmers, construction of new public pools stopped and many existing pools were drained. This is the reason private pools are so popular in the US.

https://www.marketplace.org/2021/02/15/public-pools-used-to-...
Just came here to say don't give up, like you pointed out the current wave of dating apps aren't optimized for long-term relationships. VC-backed apps have to optimize for retention and revenue per user.

I remember the previous era of dating sites (eHarmony) proudly published stats about committed relations + marriage.

Anyway, have you gotten friends invested in your search? The first thing I would do is ask friends, their partners, and their partners' friends, and their partners' friends meddling aunties to set up a few blind dates. Mention that you're trying to meet "the one."

Good luck out there, hope your story is different one year from now!
>I’m unsure of anyone producing games of a quality and polish level that rivals Nintendo, but that’s subjective too.

like sub 20 FPS, empty worlds, 5 enemies with different skins(okay, factually there were 11 enemies, meanwhile MM had over 70 enemies), same story as the last 30 years, annoying combat mechanics, grindy crafting(food) mechanics.

But IGN said it was the greatest game of all time 10/10 and never mentioned a single issue. That is what happens when we grade on the Nintendo curve.
> It only encourages other developers to build a following that they attempt to leverage against Reddit.

Isn't that what the app developers and their users want?
You can get GPT 4 access by submitting an eval if gets merged (https://github.com/openai/evals). Here's the one that got me access[1]

Although from the blog post it looks like they're planning to open up to everyone soon, so that may happen before you get through the evals backlog.

1: https://github.com/openai/evals/pull/778
> That would be mostly heatsinks, right? If you switch to liquid cooling does your score change?

You still need a radiator with liquid cooling. It just makes the setup more fragile. And lets you use a bigger cooler/fan.
Show HN: Apricot – because RSS won't come back unless we move it forward
I’ve been using RSS readers for decades, but they’ve started feeling more and more like a chore. Something about the inbox/to-do list design, counts of unread items, managing teams and complex filtering rules... I realized they add to my stress level instead of reducing it.

I’ve also come to rely on social media for discovery – hearing about new ideas, tools, papers, people, etc., but I’m so tired of the ads, spam, addictiveness, and toxicity.

Apricot is my attempt to distill the best of both worlds. It’s a web app where users subscribe to feeds like an RSS reader then see new items as they come in, in a single, combined, social media-style feed.

Apricot goes beyond traditional RSS readers in a couple other ways:

* Users can follow TV shows (via TVmaze), Spotify podcasts, Substack newsletters, YouTube channels, and Subreddits (if/when they come back online) in addition to traditional RSS feeds. I’m open to adding other platforms if there’s demand and the content is programmatically accessible.

* Cross-platform feed search. I know search isn’t hot at the moment but it’s pretty useful in this context. Search for “Star Trek” and find not just the TV shows, but the podcasts and Subreddits too.

* Items can be sorted chronologically or with an ML-powered recommender system.

* Users can filter their feed by platform, which is helpful for specific use cases like finding a good podcast episode for a car ride or a good TV episode to watch after dinner.

* On-demand, GPT-powered content summaries help users see what an article is really about before clicking. (gotta sprinkle some gen AI on there!)

Apricot is free while it’s in beta. I’m still thinking through the pricing model, but it will likely be some form of freemium starting in September. I want to avoid ads if at all possible.

If you’ve got a few minutes (and come on, with Reddit offline, I know you do), check it out and let me know what you think!

App: https://app.theapricot.io

Homepage: https://theapricot.io

Blog: https://blog.theapricot.io
While I think some of the points in the article are interesting, the usual evidence for the Chomskian approach is the relative lack of input data for learning language by children in the wild.

How much input data is used to train modern language models?
> They knew no app was going to pay those astronomical rates

Perhaps, but they don't have much choice. If the apps paid a reasonable rate with respect to what is reasonable to app developers, Reddit would still go bankrupt. May as well go big and go bankrupt only if that fails then not try and be guaranteed to go bankrupt.

Thing is, Apollo is on board to pay the big price, but Christian has exclaimed he needs more time to make the necessary changes to support it. Problem is that Reddit doesn't have that much time. Bankruptcy is still inevitable on his needed timeline. The power company doesn't care that you plan to make money sometime in the future when developers have had time to get around to making changes to their software. They want their money when they want it and if you can't make good then and there, that's it.

Remember, they're panicking. Their old model of finding new investment every time the plug was about to be pulled is dead and they weren't expecting that. They need legitimate cashflow now and don't know where else to find it on short notice.

Next will be a massive layoff to follow the small layoff earlier this week to address the haemorrhaging on the expense side. The "everything will be okay in a few days" notice sent to employees today indicates that something "not okay" is coming.
Maybe?

I know a lot of highly educated, successful women who wouldn't date Kevin Durant, for example. The idea of a rich man child trolling on burner accounts regardless of their high profile doesn't exactly drive them crazy. Replace Kevin Durant with Elon Musk if you're not a sports fan.
> When KKR buys Toys“R”Us or when Carlyle buys the nursing home chain ManorCare, the debt is held by the company that they bought

That right there is what should be made illegal. Somehow. There's probably all sorts of technicalities wherein KKR didn't buy it directly, but as the majority of the board of TRU, authorized the self-purchase or something like that. But you shouldn't be able to force a company to essentially buy itself, pay you a lot of fees to do so, then fuck off while it drowns in the debt you forced on it.

If you have authority over something, you are also responsible for it. Both the good and the bad.
beetlejuicing on HN. i like it
I only skimmed a few pages, but it doesn't appear to be about the Chomsky hierarchy - which was what I was curious about.
They will probably go the Twitter route and decide moderation isn't all that important.

This of course means unsavory content like hate speech, blatant astroturfing, and conspiracy theories will flourish, scaring away big ad spenders. They will try to compensate for this by allowing more ads for online gambling and male enhancement pills.
> . I need to shell at least 25k (possibly much more for GPT-4) before I can run these models for even inference

Give it a decade and you might be able to, but without the model you'll never have the option.
This. It's called block scheduling. They want every minute of every resource every day to be filled or even overbooked. Rural medical centers are difficult to do this with, so they get shut down, forcing people to drive further. A single rural medical center can't be full, but if you close down 5 of them and force everyone near those 5 locations to drive an hour or three to a bigger one, it's much easier to fill. It's corporate consolidation and greed.
Empathy as a skill is relevant in adapting the way you assert the same logical points toward a person, e.g. by taking their state of mind into account when it comes to phrasing, pacing, how much context to include. On the fly, with course-corrections.

If you want an engineering analogy, it's a bit like adding a suspension system to a wheel to improve traction.

It's very practical!
One phenomenon that I think drives this is that the engaged users (ie commenters) are usually a small subset of the total user base that upvotes things.

The engaged users care about the topic of the sub and tend to interact with it directly, while the larger audience is subscribed but mostly upvotes things from their main feed without caring which sub it is from, or visiting the sub itself to see what all has been posted there.

I have seen many cases where the “just let the votes sort it out” method leads to things being upvoted, presumably by those users scrolling their main feed who don’t even notice what subreddit it is from, and then comment sections full of “who is upvoting this junk” “this is the third time this has been posted this week” and “mods can we please do something about all of the X posts?”

So mods tend to be pulled in two directions by those two groups, and one is louder than the other so they tend to get their way.
No affiliation, but the second to top deceased site is still alive and kicking [0]

Spot checking the top results might give a better estimate for how many are actually alive vs. just using bot protection.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35543668
The mobile client may be 345 calls/day.

The backend server push server is a bit more active at about 600 calls/hour/user.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/9l3ema/apollo_13...

> For some quick math, Apollo has well over 100K active users. The server polls Reddit approximately every 6 seconds, so that's 10 requests per minute per user, or 600 requests per hour per user (assuming they only have one account and one device). At 100,000+ users, that's in the realm of 60 million requests per hour that my server would have to handle, not to mention parsing the results, coordinating tokens, etc. I really can't do that for nothing, so the plan was to offer push notifications with a small fee associated to cover these ongoing server costs.

That 345 calls/day is again mentioned https://youtu.be/Ypwgu1BpaO0?t=1734 but shortly afterwards ( https://youtu.be/Ypwgu1BpaO0?t=1772 ) he describes the process for push notifications (10 days ago - this isn't just the 1.3 release from 5 years ago):

> I guess there's an analogy um the way Reddit notifications work just for your
inbox like you got a message or something um they work in so far as if I the developer of the app want to um say make sure that you get that notification within 10 seconds I have to be checking Reddit every 10 seconds to go like is there anything new is there anything new? is there anything new? is there anything new? okay. There is okay I'll tell is there anything new and then just repeating that at nauseam so you can imagine if you get a message once a week I'm checking every 10 seconds and then once during that whole week I get that message and then I can send it to you um so 99.99 of those API calls were wasted so we've talked to Reddit like that my friend who works on my server um and myself and I've said like what would be so much better is if we could just kind of keep like a port open with Reddit and say like you just tell us when there's a notification ready and we'll beam it off we don't have to bug you all the time and it's logical right and that's how a lot of services do it it's like an event-based API and um that's just not something reddit's ever uh given us

He's making a lot more than 345 calls per day per user.
Well, maybe the reason why those men didn't want to complete college is because they don't have the same support that women do (or at least, that's what they percieve).
It's actually not bad, the hard part is getting the hardware. Kobold will install itself most of the time with a double click.
Source for this? I think this is a commonly spouted stat that applied to non-social media websites. I have trouble believing social media sites have the same demographic makeup.
Like most traits, I think men have a higher variance in focus on long-term planning than women do. Men are disproportionately both people who don't plan for the next paycheck and FIRE-enthusiasts.

If you look at FIRE-oriented online groups, men significantly outnumber women. I think that's what the parent is referring to. And there are fewer women (relative to men) who are willing to take a significant drop in consumption in order to e.g. max a mega Roth backdoor.

So a man who saves 20% of his take home income is husband material. A man who saves 80% of his take home income is a weirdo man child who needs to grow up and act like a "normal" person.

Every female partner I've had (except my current one) has pushed me to scale up our consumption and save less.
part of the 'narrative' sold by society is that people fall in love while going through their casual dating 'phase'. nobody under the age of 30 (maybe 35) is going to be looking for a 'serious relationship'. if you explicitly state this in your profile or even on the first handful of dates nobody is going to respond well.
The author (bafflingly) seems to have completely missed the point- since anything they state up to page 15 (at which point I stopped reading) does not refute Chomsky's points at all. The author talks about LLMs and how they generate text and then goes on to talk about how it refutes Chomsky's claim about syntax and semantics. However it does not since Chomsky's primary claim is about how HUMANS acquire language.

The fact that you can replicate coherent text from probabilistic analysis and modeling of a very large corpus does not mean that humans acquire and generate language the same way. [edited page = 15]
Moderation is the worst part of Reddit. If this succeeds in running off these folks, I’d consider that the best outcome.
It seems like also Bravo, the first WYSIWYG-Editor, abiword and word used/use piece tables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_table#Usage
anyone can fill out the form and agree to be invested in by those guys?
This is kind of conflates the idea of a person doing a job quickly, and the idea of tools having low latency/quick response, which confuses the issue if what you care about is working quickly — the bottleneck for work is usually the speed of our thinking, or the limits of our motivation to work. But, it's usually not the speed of our tooling. You wouldn't become a better programmer with a faster computer, and usually not a more effective one either. I'll ignore the second definition.

In my opinion, you want to spend about as much time as ever, but spend more of your time working on something that is close to a solution. So, you want to work on the first draft as quickly as possible, so you can either refine it, or toss it out and do another iteration. The advantage is overall quality and confidence in your solution.

For reasons mentioned in the article, I do not prefer to be thought of as working quickly and well, since that often means someone sees your first draft and says "great, looks like you're done, now let me give you something else to work on". Better to have a reputation for taking about as long as most people, but producing better results.
Is RISC-V any more efficient than arm?
Fun story, it literally doesn't matter what Mr Gensler says or doesn't say, the related law exists on paper. Gensler doesn't make the rules. The SEC is tasked with enforcing the rules.

If your company wants to know what is and isn't a security, that's up to your legal department to put together a working theory, one you think could win in court if the SEC sues you. Judges are the only people who get to clarify law without writing new law.

Gensler could be fired tomorrow and the only change would be the case getting dropped, but that wouldn't make Coinbase and others compliant, any different than states with legal marijuana are compliant with the law.
Someone please start the GPT 5 training before the regulation kicks in.
Unless you want to do device to device transfers, in which case you can move it inside the switch. You could for example transfer texture data from an SSD straight to GPU memory, a la [NVidia's GPUDirect](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/gpudirect-storage/)
This is exactly my problem. They are doing quite well, and closing the door behind them. Open AI isn't your friend and reserves the right to screw you down the line.
This would have been plenty fair in my opinion, and may have even gotten me to buy Reddit premium.

Instead I'm just walking away from the platform and my own small community of 15,000 readers that I've spent 7 years building.
They want everyone to use the official app so they can advertise to paid users in the future. It's the cable TV model: get people to start paying for subscriptions by offering to remove ads, then slowly trickle the ads back in.

A paid tier lets you easily identify which of your users have disposable income, and then you can sell the ability to advertise to them at a huge premium.

Spotify's advertisements are quite different because they're basically worthless. Nobody wants to pay money to advertise to broke people. Their free tier exists merely as a funnel; the advertisements function as intentional annoyances to nudge people into paying for a subscription.
To me, it comes across as a clumsy attempt to open a new line of negotiation, one which headed in the direction of Reddit buying Apollo outright.

Christian is clearly thinking on his feet, so obviously he doesn't have a value proposition for reddit. All he is really doing is letting reddit know he might be open to it, the details could be negotiated later.

Reddit clearly has all the power here (Apollo is fully dependant on reddit), so they would have been able to negotiate it down. Maybe all the way to $1 million?

Anyway, reddit clearly weren't open to it, so it fell flat on it's face.
This only makes sense if quantity of population matters more than quality.
I also avoid these types of conversations for the same reason. Even with people I know and have friendships with, I tend to be very cautious when approaching those topics. There's definitely a sense of "walking on eggshells", especially with the younger or more progressive crowd (note: I'm mostly progressive as well). I am nearly 40 and living in the West Coast of the US, so that may play a part.
Having the data isn't enough; someone also needs to look at the data and draw conclusions. If it's an environment focused on pumping up metrics for the newest thing then this may not be happening.
If you're taking suggestions for languages, support for javascript+html would also be a nice addition, since it's the de facto common language at this point.
Do children really lack input data though? Human sensory input is quite a lot of data. Our languages may have common structure because that structure reflects causality and physics encountered by directly sampling the real world.
Because they don't care what the truth is, they are HEAVILY invested in crypto going up so they can cash out, and this whole "being explicitly illegal" thing is a threat to that.
Here's an alternative explanation, which I know is true for at least one nationwide property ownership/investment company.

The company has three core activities:

1. Raising money from investors
2. Buying properties when the price is less than the expected profits.
3. Selling properties when the price is more than the expected profits.

At a point a year or two or three ago, the math on buying properties just stopped making sense on individual property basis. That whole side of the business just ended up going into sleep mode. No purchases since forever. However selling properties (adding cash), and fund raising (adding cash) kept right on going. The net result is the company owning only a small percentage of what it used to own, but having one heck of a war chest. Which they are sitting on, waiting for the economics to make sense again.
This is a weird take. You're saying that 3rd party apps should just charge their users whatever is necessary to satisfy Reddit's pricing? As a user, I don't feel like that's a viable solution. Ultimately it's the users who pay and not the app makers.

How much is Reddit worth to pay for only on mobile and with a degraded (no NSFW) experience?
Oh okay I don't see that happening any sooner than the heat death of the universe.
the US has a culture where regulations and general social interactions are so pro-business that people blindly accept false advertising in the form of fees and taxes being tacked on after-the-fact rather than impose on businesses by asking them to name an all-in number.

it's not just tipping but also sales tax, restaurant "courtesy fees", airline fees, fuel surcharges, resort fees, electric surcharges (I pay more in fees than I do for the actual electricity!), auto sales bills, etc.

The US is allergic to the concept of having to advertise an out-the-door number, because that wouldn't make for compelling advertising, and that's the focus in the US.
What I know about PE firms in Europe, they mostly operate the same way as in the US. There are plenty of PE firms and in general to me it feels like they are more popular here than US actually, as with LP's they are perceived as lower risk.

What I don't understand from the article, is how the PE firm is able to shift the debt from the buyer to the firm. That shouldn't be possible in any jurisdiction I know a little bit of, and I highly doubt that it is easy to do in US.
I hope RISC-V servers will come with open BIOS, given Ron Minnich stance on the proprietary BIOS issue during his time at google I think hyperscalers would like that too.

Recently had basic BIOS/BMC bugs it's annoying as hell.
The article doesn't directly state "new" anywhere in regards to loans. From my reading, the author is implying these real estate entities walking away from existing loans.

My understanding a lot of commercial real estate is pretty highly leveraged with mortgages that only have a few year fixed rate. It sounds to me like there's a lot of buildings which are having significantly reduced incomes (fewer tenants) while their loans are about to get a good bit more expensive. For those with non-recourse loans, walking away in another few years might just be the only viable option assuming commercial real estate doesn't turn around.

I've got no opinion on whether the author here is full of it or not, but it doesn't seem entirely implausible to me.
Just making HN a happier and healthier place.
I’m not sure you can comment on WD drive quality if you use Seagate….