skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They bought a 3p app called Alien Blue way back in the day... and proceeded to do virtually nothing beneficial with it. So I don't think they understand the value of proper UX for power users.

Moreover, that's part of the problem: they aren't inflating user numbers, they want to inflate revenue stream. And for whatever reason it was easier to try and force everyone into the app than to try and get ad streams setup in 3p apps. so that's why the cards are falling this way.
As far as I can see Wikipedia has even worse relations with its users/contributors than twitter/reddit/facebook/et al..
That would be the opposite of emotional control. But surely you got the point that besides suppressing emotions men also tend to simply have less emotional needs or desires to express them.

To bring this down to a real world meme-like example: my girlfriend can fill a solid hour every day discussing her work day and in particular developments in her dealings with colleagues.

I struggle to fill a minute. I'm not suppressing anything, there's simply not much there as it comes to work.

These are just differences, nothing wrong with it.
> It seems this would imply that the LLM had somehow managed to expand the dimension of vector space spanned by the original training data.

The number of dimensions? Well, not by itself I guess. But the span of output compared to training data? Sure, why not?

I think it's also worth pointing out there's a difference between text produced by an LLM looped on itself, which arguably may not contain any new information and would be like repeatedly recompressing the same JPG, and text produced by LLM/human interaction. The latter is indirectly recording new knowledge simply because people's prompts are not random. Even with human part of the conversation discarded, feeding such LLM output back into training data would end up selectively emphasizing associations, which is a good signal too (even if noisier than new human-created text).
Ask HN: Easiest way to set up email form?
I'd like to have a simple static website with a form that would send the filled data to my email. What would be the easiest setup to achieve this? I would like to avoid using PHP or another language and handling the e-mail myself to keep the website as simple as possible. JavaScript is incapable of doing it and it would expose credentials. So I guess I am looking for a simple mailing service..
And rightly so, because noone writes prose like that. It sounds unnatural.
Good idea, but Google does the indexing job way better than the very Reddit Search
For something at McDonalds’ scale I’m sure they could do an injection moulded run anyway.
Exactly. A lot of us have no problem with making money by delivering value on straightforward terms. It's the underhanded shit that receives richly-deserved scorn.

Autodesk: "Oh no no no, you didn't BUY this software CD in a shrink-wrapped box. You just rented a 'perpetual license' and how dare you attempt to recoup that if you end up not using it."

And Autodesk managed to finagle a ruling that utterly tramples a consumer's right under the Doctrine of First Sale:

"The first sale doctrine, codified at 17 U.S.C. § 109, provides that an individual who knowingly purchases a copy of a copyrighted work from the copyright holder receives the right to sell, display or otherwise dispose of that particular copy, notwithstanding the interests of the copyright owner."

But somehow Autodesk is exempt from this. WTF.
On Linux, I use keyd[1] and while I understand that keyd itelf could never run on the Mac, I'd love something that could take my keyd conf and make it work (even approximately) on the Mac.

[1]: https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd
Plot hole: It's laxative.
The only spending it was “not a lot” compared to is the years after. It was still more than presidents before.
>Back in college (now 15 years ago) I did an analysis of fast food menus for a nutrition class.

>McDonalds turned out to be the easiest to get a healthy meal from at the time.

The McDouble is "The greatest food in human history" <https://nypost.com/2013/07/28/the-greatest-food-in-human-his...)
That's funny, the main side effect for me was inability to urinate.
I agree. The bigger mods should try and pick a community and slowly migrate there. That's the hardest part of fostering a new community and the mods have some leverage to help sheapard that.

But I imagine for many mods the goal isn't to truly leave reddit. So there in lies the grind. I've been done for years and want to really make a jump, but I don't think many mods want that end result.
Just reading that, it looks like this isn't free. Essentially, what you're paying the IRS for here is for them to procure legal advice for you (with the added benefit that they'll bind themselves to that for a while?)

However:

> Even with a favorable ruling, a taxpayer has no absolute guarantee of the tax consequences, since the IRS can modify or revoke a previously issued private letter ruling if it is later determined that the ruling was incorrect or inconsistent with the current position of the IRS.

So even with a PLR, you have no guarantees.
This blog post is from 2019 (with updates from 2020). I guess Rust has matured since then (and especially the RISCV support in Rust). Does anyone have more insight into this?
how so? genuine question, it looks rosy from the outside.
He was denied tenure before writing the book. So I guess if you refuse the shepherd dog, be prepared to face wild dog predation.
Entity component system is popular for this
Google shows me results for "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and gives an option to search instead for "Neon Mega Drive Evangelion". Both are very different SERPs.

It does not look to be synonymising "Genesis" and "Mega Drive" to me.
What is Reddit’s plan? They seem to simultaneously hold two conflicting ideas:

1. Third party app users represent significant enough lost revenue to make it worth making the API prohibitively expensive for third party apps to run, forcing those users back to the official app.

2. Third party apps users are few enough that Reddit can afford to not compromise and lose those users just to kill off third party apps.

Are they expecting the third party app users will come crawling back to the official app? As far as I’m concerned the official app is borderline unusable compared to Apollo, for example, and I’d expect most users who have seen the light to find the official app completely intolerable.

Perhaps the presence of unofficial, basically un-monetized third party apps was flagged as a risk for their IPO by some investor types. Still, they could have found a better route to monetize those users than just killing off the apps altogether.
Apple Is Ignoring Something Big About Augmented Reality
I am getting into M&A, which is what PE do, and I don't even need to read the article to know it's bs.

In essence, the PE firm's goal is to consolidate multiple companies, make them work as efficiently as possible, by sharing resources and utilize the best processes, and then either operate them for increased profit or sell them off for good multiples of earnings, because they have added value to it, so someone else can run it from there on with less headache and no more need to put these efficiencies in place. There is nothing bad with any of this. In essence, it's about bringing efficiency into the market and getting paid for doing so.
I don't know where you got the idea that power users produce most of the content.

As far as I can tell it's ordinary users who produce much of the content.
There's a substantive difference between a religious argument on Twitter and proper theological argument which leans into philosophy. The problem is that people aren't typically exposed to the good stuff because teachers and the media don't know it either. Sadly even local religious leaders; that's a serious issue.
>They need to stay up but use their subreddits to publicly plan Reddit "exits" for each community.

I have to wonder if this would be allowed, in the past this has only been tried for subreddits that feared being banned in an imminent fashion. On the other hand, you have rules against mods purposefully destroying their own communities, and trying to force an off-site migration in a heavy-handed fashion (eg. stopping user contributions/participation) may be seen as running afoul of these rules.
1) Every social network sells ads

Yes, but all other social networks are GOOD at it and make a fuck ton of money. That’s the issue. Reddit has had plenty of chances to turn profitable, but they can’t seem to figure it out. Now they’ve run down the checklist and apparently “kill 3rd party apps” is their newest brilliant idea to make money.
Grammatically, the location of the apostrophe makes parent singular. However, it seems weird if I think of it that way, likely because pronunciation as a whole is the same regardless of parent being singular or plural. Computers is plural regardless. This really doesn't effect me ib any way, but somehow seeing someone else want to know makes me want to know.
Dojo's aspect feature is one of my favorite feature in the framework.

https://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.9/dojo/aspect.html

Now dojo is gone. But sometimes I still will port this feature into react/vue project.
Finishing is hard so it needs to be the strongest point of the project.

When you got started you were in the open mode, playing, prototyping, dreaming and iterating.

When you finish you have to move to the closed mode and have an internal editor that says "ship" and "cut that" or "move to an update" and that is a difficult ride. Sometimes people don't finish simply because it is too painful for a labor of love to be trimmed, but it is the skill you need to ship. It sucks but is.

What you have to do there is revisit the love/play that initially got you to the idea and project.

See your project in the world/market and feel the original feelings of when you started it. Don't focus on what you had to cut or didn't meet your expectations, focus on what did and head to post-production and ship.

Ultimately we are only what we ship to the world, no matter how much you have in development or your adventures. If it isn't where you want to be improve it, but also learn to love each ship as that is a major step. It is a joy when what you envisioned comes out as you wanted or better, when it isn't, make changes and updates.

Both "work with a high degree of quality" and "finish strong" are good areas to strive for, but "finish strong" is where it is at.
This would be more useful/interesting if this podcast used https://op3.dev - an open service which many others use. The data quoted here seems to be mostly proprietary data from Spotify, which is a bit of a black box.
I would high recommend the book The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything. The book was released 3 years ago and people are now waking up the devastations caused by the private equity firms everywhere.

The fuel of private equity firms is yours and mine 401K. That's trillion of dollars of money floating around. PE firms gets tons of cash as debt which gets sold to 401K fund managers. So, in essence, PE firms get money from you and me to destruct the local businesses we depend on. The entire story of making businesses capital efficient is bullcrap. PE firms lives to make short term profits and move on. They are not into business for its philosophy, values and long term customer loyalty. They want to cut the cost, make it look profitable and sold it to sucker to cash out.
Just wanted to say that the paper is extremely readable and well-written. Congrats to the authors!
You cannot put pictures and YouTube videos in #%% .
You're in minority who enjoy garbage software. There's a good reason why people want to use alternatives and not reddit app and why so many Reddit users make so much fuss about it.
I come from an era when free news was the BBC news broadcast on the radio. Some had TVs but the same applied more or less. Otherwise you bought a newspaper.

I am also getting Samuel Pepys diary from 1660 in my daily feed, who had news only through his contacts.[1]

If free news is a right, it is new thing, and maybe not a permanent thing.

[1] https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1660/06/13/
The main reason it's not too exciting to me is much simpler. They tested it for 6 days. You can do all sorts of wonderful stuff with a drug for a few days. But for most drugs, the effects simply cease if you keep taking it due to tolerance.

And there doesn't seem to be a huge amount of leeway to up the dose either because it's a laxative.
I went through multiple accounts since 2009, first one I closed was due to harassment as a result of posting about the Xbox One (which wasn't released back then)...

reddit always had extremely cringy but popular sides to it (Unidan, Boston Marathon witch hunt) and since the very beginning the decisions of the leadership have felt immature, off and wrong.

Reddit's leadership has always prevented reddit from being a thriving, productive community and their ineptitude has simply reached a boiling point now. For most of the time it felt like sifting through liquid poop to find a gold nugget once a week.
They make friends because of product they sell and gather around. It's different.
It was taken off me by the same people that I registered it with. They may have broken rules to do so. I just know they said I shouldn't have been given it.
"Blowing up your life" can mean completely different things for different people. And your experience reflects a good way to do it I think. No need to burn the boats in my opinion. We are in a quite privileged position to do this as we both have some assets to afford it. In case I run out of money I still have some support network at home and should relatively easy get a new job in theory.
In practice it will need some work and will be probably be stressful to look for a new place and work at the same time.
Some people that are pushed to move due to less opportunities in their home country and immigrate to another place have probably much more stress. They completely change their life for a better future.
Governments keep going after big tech, trying to break them up and limiting their power. But in my opinion, the bigger issue in society is that a significant portion of the mainstream media is owned by Rupert Murdoch, which means he can alone can push any agenda he wants.

In Australia, Murdoch bullied politicians into forcing FB/Google to pay for news or the media will paint the candidate poorly, which means the candidate likely won't win any future elections.

They can make you pro-war. They can make you hate entire countries, even though those countries never did anything to you and people in any country are just trying to better their lives just like you. They can make you vote against yourself.

In any democracy, it only works for the people if the people can receive unbiased, truthful information.
Mental Calculation: A Reminiscence of the late Mr. G. P. Bidder (1890)
This is interesting, but can you further explain how yoy get broad ranging social influence from focusing on ads? I don't quite get that.
Huffman co-founded Reddit with Alexis Ohanian. Aaron Swartz joined later when his company was acquired by Reddit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#History
I’m starting to feel like this recently with all the certification programs that are available.

AWS expert this, Microsoft that, and now the engineering regulatory body has micro-certifications and badges for CPD. I can get a micro-badge that says I’m good at project management, yay!
Reddit has replaced mods before, they'll do it again. If they can't do it for hundreds of subs at once, that's fine - they'll start with the largest ones and go from there. Once it becomes clear that top mods will be removed if the subs don't reopen, the protest will largely crumble, if it doesn't do so before this becomes necessary.
> Books don't even have a progress bar on them (at least physical ones don't yet)

I find the idea that books don't have progress bars to be very amusing. Have the author never looked at a book with a bookmark in it from the side? :)
If I remember correctly, the ROM gets read once to check, and then again to display. One could use some circuitry to deliver another logo on the second read.
Between chat and branching threads, is it really worth going back to linear pagination?
A ramble about various note-taking applications
"Finish your projects", finger wags cheerful guy full of certainties, paid by large American corporation that makes money from your finished projects and doesn't care what happens to you before, during or afterwards.
Oh, I made an AOP library for python when I started uni back in 2008. That's actually where my nickname comes from: aspyct (a concatenation of aspect, python and aspyc).

Sadly I lost the contents of the old wiki. I did pour a lot of energy into that :) But I still have a page on my old blog: https://www.aspyct.org/aspyct/ (funny URL though \o/)

It's never been a huge hit, but from time to time I would get emails from students who were investigating it for a university project. That was fun :)

Is was adding some interesting features (notably pointcuts), but ultimately it didn't bring enough added value compared to a simple decorator in python, and I ceased development.

It's still available on SourceForge, for those interested: https://sourceforge.net/projects/aspyct/files/aspyct/

EDIT: wow that was 15 years ago. I'm not getting younger :p
Optimized QuickSort – C Implementation (Non-Recursive)
Ah the dark art of pricing. All too often, we as engineers think the only honest way to price something is to take what it costs, add a reasonable margin on top, and call it a day. And get outraged when someone has the gall to charge money for goods and services. How many of you pay for YouTube premium?

I'll telling you that way of thinking - that just adding a reasonable margin on top - is wrong.

I mean it's reasonable and makes sense from first principles, but we're not in first principles territory here, even for a brand new product because we've been paying for things with money since money was invented in prehistoric times. The sooner we learn that the price of something has nothing to do with what it cost to make, the better we'll all be for it. Now obviously we want the price to be greater than the cost, for longevity reasons, but nothing lasts forever, so things frequently can be found on sale for less than it cost to make them.

The price, and value of something is whatever someone is willing to pay for it. If an eccentric billionaire wants to buy a newspaper for $44 billion, then it's worth $44 billion. Similarly if someone wants to buy used underwear for $300, that's just what it's worth. We're spoiled by our stores charging a fixed, same price on items to everybody. We never have to face the fact that the numbers are all made up anyway.

Market forces are the best way to find the intersection of supply and demand given a marketplace of suppliers and consumers, but we've gone too far with it and lost the plot. The price for baby formula should be $0, not locked up behind the counter in low-income areas.
Today, Python is popular because Python is popular.

It doesn't have any engineering merits of its own. But you also cannot compete against it on engineering merits. It doesn't matter if you do everything better in your language than how it's done in Python. Unless you find a way to make it popular, Python will stay popular and your language will fade into oblivion.

What was the initial seed that created this popularity? -- well, it seemed cool for nonsense reasons. The choice of Python was often reactionary, to spite those who chose Java. Python just happened to fill the niche of "what language should I write in if I think Java sucks?"

This had an appeal to better programmers of that time (early 2000s), and this made others believe that language was what made those better programmers better. The better programmers started to flee Python some 5-10 years later, but it had already enough momentum to attract lots of mediocre programmers, and before you knew it, Python started to be used everywhere, and while the quality of Python programmers consistently dropped, the popularity only grew.

So... if you are planning on a project for yourself, or for a group of skilled and motivated individuals -- there's no reason to choose Python, in fact, you'll come to regret it if you do. But, if your goal is to make a project in the context of an industry giant, then Python is a great pick -- you'll have an infinite stream of replaceable programmers, lots of 3rd-party libraries. You'll save a lot on developing the product. It won't be a high-quality one, but in this context nobody cares about quality anyways.
I simply prefix `cache:` to the URL and that brings up the cached page for me. Of course this will only work if your default search engine is Google.
Well they don't involve sex and drugs, or questionable attitudes towards women.
Jack Dorsey said India raided the homes of Twitter employees when the company
I really don't think this is an intrinsic problem at all.

I've written JWT-parsing code and it looked for a local public key if it got an RS-algorithm and a local secret if it got an HMAC algorithm. It would be an insane implementation to treat either of them as the other.
A human beings right to enlighten themselves trumps any other human beings right to enrich themselves.

You're calling for a reduction in agency over a potential for legal action - self-censorship, essentially - in a way, forming a pre-judiciary "pre-crime" conclusion of guilt.

Code is language. Restrictions on its use are human rights violations, no matter what legal-ese can be trotted out to FUD the arena.
Or Wyndham Lewis’s ‘The Childermass’, which is 300 pages odd without chapters, just one continuous chunk of prose.
But in the end, it is about users who pay directly or indirectly (ads).

And they won't pay, if the content is not interesting.

So if AI creates interesting content and the users are happy to consume that, well fine for them.

But I think most people want actually more. Or at least, enough people want genuine human interactions, so AI taking over of the corporate "social media" will just create social networks that do care about that human touch.
Well like e.g. when I had to write UI elements into first iterations of Star Citizen, those were all in a 2D vector/sprite layer over the 3D world that had to be completely custom coded. Even the shape of the UI was pretty much completely open to interpretation. I have mad respect for people who write their own UI elements and "widgets" into games, given the restrictions that are often involved. Some do it better than others, but therein lies the art of observing and stealing from the best.
Should have just been honest from the beginning, something like "we are no longer able to support the API for free" you can't have your cake and eat it too!
> Some people may even start arguing with each other in the comments section. Their comments are stored on your server. Don't you own them?

Kinda no. As per copyright law, each comment is automatically copyrighted by the poster. If somebody slips up and pastes their novel in a comment, that doesn't grant you permission to print and sell it.

> Can't you delete them? Can't you disable the comments any time you wish?

That you can

> Now scale this mentally to reddit, etc. At which point do you start arguing that the service doesn't own the data that it stores?

Copyright law always applies, and the post are always the property of their writer. The site has a license to use them in a limited fashion. To try to do otherwise is likely a terrible idea.

I'd argue while it's fuzzy, there's a distinction between people coming to your blog because it's your blog and leaving a "This!" or a question, and people building their own community on your infrastructure.

Eg, you probably don't want to grant that AWS owns your entire website just because it's hosted on it, right? The main thing about your website is your work, AWS is merely the replaceable infrastructure to run it.
Supabase vs. Clerk.dev: Comparative Analysis of Auth Tools