skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>It was a little after 7 p.m. and Ricardo Marcos was rolling through the darkness in his gray Hyundai Elantra. Marcos had spent a long day toiling as a mechanic at a trucking company in McAllen, Texas, a sunbaked city nestled right on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Reading the opening story, it sounds like he fell asleep or wasn't paying attention. We will never know, but it's very sad no matter. It's also true, assuming he fell asleep, he could have killed others, as happened to Rod Bramblett and his wife, radio announcer for the Auburn Tigers, who was killed at a stoplight when rear ended by a driver who fell asleep while driving at a high rate of speed. Another sad story.

Hitting an 80,000lb mass in any configuration at high speed is going to be nasty no matter what. One option is to ask truckers to provide heavy bumpers and crumple zones and airbags around their trucks. The other option is to operate your vehicle safely, reducing speed if visibility is limited, etc.

I dont doubt that rear bumpers being stronger would be a good start, but by the same token, the starting assumption of a car rear ending a very large object at 60mph head-on does not seem like a scenario to weigh too heavily in the grand scheme.

However, maybe there is a compromise of better rear guards and 20% additional side coverage by guards? i.e. dont make perfect the enemy of good.
migadu is a good option too
Nobody is being denied public services; the WiFi works for everyone during daylight hours. It's just turned off at night to discourage people from sleeping there. They close and lock the library doors too.
On an internal staff email the CEO stated that the blackout hasn’t (yet) had “significant revenue impact” [0].

If REVENUE IMPACT is their measure, focus efforts there.

- Get a together a list of major sponsors to target
- Encourage sponsors to come out in solidarity and to pause sponsorship until things are resolved with the community
- make it easy for sponsors to look like good guys and ride the wave “we support the reddit community” badges etc

- encourage reddit hood subscribers to pause their memberships

Basically next step translate the stop work to have more immediate revenue impact

What else could affect their revenues?

I asked this exact question in an Ask HN earlier today[1].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759559/reddit-internal-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36331929
> barely better than a running speed of an Alzheimer's patient.

wtf
It sorta poisons the discussion, though. Mobile phone and desktop APIs are marginal-cost to call if you own the hardware it runs on. Social media APIs have an inherent cost associated with maintaining the endpoints and returning values quickly. For sites like Twitter and Reddit, that price is non-negligible enough that it has to be recouped somehow.

Overall it just feels like more pearls before swine. I don't mind it starting the discussion, but it feels like a poor way of framing it, to the point that it dooms everything to fail on the basis that "it costs too much".
By definition anyone posting/commenting/upvoting right now doesn't support the blackout. I don't think it's fair to say these comments represent the opinions of those communities.
Or store as sentence embedding and calculate the vector distance, but creates many edge cases
AFAICT you could technically use a GC'd language for either, perhaps just not best suited for it.

On the other hand, Zig can fill the niche Go does, but again, probably not best suited for it.

I guess I'm just being pedantic here :).
Just to add to the list of alternatives, I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. It's sort of a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid. We've built a place to monetarily incentivize ownership over the communities created on the platform. It feels like the people curating the communities should be rewarded for the work that they do.

Here's an example community: https://sociables.com/community/Sports/board/trending
Scope Functions
Someone is working on it: https://www.fastcompany.com/90713785/former-spacex-engineers...
I mean, you linked a comment with 700 votes in a thread where the top comment has over 9000 votes. Maybe read through the thread without cherry picking comments: https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/149cq9f/reddit_were...
Thanks, but not going there.
The reddit break has been great for me, apart from agreeing with 'the cause'. As much as I will miss the content, I will now do other things.
I never saw it as an addiction, but a pleasant habit, and a very easy one to break.
Bye, bye 5k+ points (in about c4 months).
I was actually quite proud of that.
Now, it can all rot in hell.
I definitely feel like - at some point - governments have to start actively helping speech. Rather than regulate the market, having official registries for people to file their speech in certain ly seems like one path. Ideally where we can file our own moderation opinions which can be used as moderation overlays folks can use to filter things down with.
They don't want 3rd party mobile apps. That's it. It's entirely transparent, to the point that I really don't understand why Reddit doesn't just say it.
As they should. As far as I can see, the second they ban the third party services, they will start pushing ads, hard. You'll be stuck with their official app and their website will use anti ad-blocking tech like YT is testing right now. So at the end, it's all about getting more money on the back of the community.
I'm "agnostic" whether it's lab leak or natural/from the market, but I'd like to ask how you can be certain that your gut feeling is right? I think to be certain is to be ignorant/dismiss other possibilites, and confirmation bias doesn't help in that regard, you start dismissing evidence that don't conform to your "gut feeling". I also shook my head at all the scientists that loudly proclaimed that "I'm certain it can't be from a lab, it's natural!" (A scientist should be aware, that like in a math exam, if they can be certain of something, they need to show proof/show the work!), but I'm not going to prescribe motives like a Bill Gates + Rotschild + pharma industry conspiracies behind these scientists proclaiming this. Although I am curious what did motivate them to make these very non-scientific proclamations.

If you ask me why the Chinese authorities were secretive, I can come up with many theories, it could've been a lab leak, yes, but it could also be them wanting to save face rather than face the embarassment of admitting the virus started there (is there anything to be embarassed about, or is the CCP, like many political bodies, full of men with grade-school level emotions?), heck their internal propaganda blames the US, saying they brought in the virus through the Wuhan 2019 Military World Games. Or the Chinese refusals could be them not wanting foreign organizations looking around their labs. Heck, if a virus started in Atlanta and the WHO said some their investigators from many countries, including China and Russia, would like to inspect the CDC lab there, Americans would probably scream the same amount...
does the US not have something like the UKs functioning county court system?

upto about $250,000, you pay a nominal fee, both sides represent themselves, you get whatever's owed + they pay your fees if you win

you have to pay their nominal fee and your own if you lose

and if they don't pay what's owed at that point you can send in the bayliff or begin winding up the company

with something like an unpaid lease for an office it would be over and done more or less instantly
`Although, I fear the vendor lock-in intensifies here, also given how restrictive and specific the Chat API.`

Eh, would be pretty easy to write a wrapper that takes a functions-like JSON Schema object and interpolates it into a traditional "You MUST return ONLY JSON in the following format:" prompt snippet.
I didn't say it was without benefit, whatsoever. But it's not a net positive. Now you have a bunch of people who the local populace is going to be bitter at, because they get subsidized shelter. There's no jobs to be had, so you have people living there who are now going to be taking more from local social services (and they're not contributing particularly to local taxes). There's not much of anything to do there (and not in the whiny sense, there's near zero amenities, it's a town of 250 people). They're stuck there, because any notable services and infrastructure require a car (there's no public transit infrastructure).

In my mind? All you've done is create a powder keg.
The car doesn't get scrapped if you only use it for 5 years -- it gets sold on to somebody else.

And if you buy a vehicle used, you're preventing someone else from buying and using that vehicle.

Your argument only really works if you buy a car that was destined for the scrap heap and fix it to make it usable.
For the initial rollout, we'll be trying to onboard a couple teams at a time so that we can make sure everything's working fine. Then we can start ramping up and opening usage more broadly.
Why would they tell this? Just set incentives. Wink wink, we don't care how you do it but here's the bonus for the speed of delivery.
i think it’s worth noting that this author leans really had into how much money and resources it costs to grow your own food because of commercial fertilizer, but fertilizer is really easy to make and also not actually required to grow your own food. i don’t.

also worth noting that there are some extremely questionable titles under the other books by the author section

not saying it’s all wrong, just- check your references before falling down this particular nihilistic logic path.
There's a lot more involved than matmul and dot products.
These people strike me as those who will just take everything lying down. Just because it doesn't impact them it's a lost cause. The reason reddit works like it does today is because of some of those protests.
It's dated now, but 'Silence on the Wire' was a fun read. Chapter 5 is even available for download: https://nostarch.com/silence.htm
Is there any publicly available resource replicate your work? I would love to just find the right kind of "incantation" for the gpt-3.5-t or gpt-4 to output a meaningful story arc etc.

Any examples of your work would be greatly helpful as well!
Such a weird, bad take.

I am very interested in outsider/experimental/extreme music. It has NEVER been more accessible.

I am very interested in a rather niche subcategory of tea. It has NEVER been more accessible.

Art house cinema, indie videogames, bespoke accoutrements... you get where I'm going with this.

This author is the reason the Long Tail is not flourishing. This author is content with Netflix and Spotify. This author is the problem.
You have the option to syndicate information from your site at your leisure.

You are not obligated to provide it to whoever wants it,and to cover the cost of providing or insuring it is available.

This is a radical notion.

As for the for everyone wrote it,everyone has access to it. That is daft, the access to the data is at the discretion of the service hosting it, they never made any claims they would make this data available to everyone anyway they wanted it?

If people don't like the terms of a site don't use it, don't think just because you used a service for a period of time you have some right to determine how that service is operated.
The book is just a means to an end. I mention it as a summary of the idea that life is best when you make your own economy by making the internet work for you. A world of culture tailored to your preferences is available to those that want.

For example, all the indie music is on Soundcloud and Bankcamp, not on Spotify.
As I said in a different comment to another user, compassion fatigue is real. Maybe this makes me cold-hearted, but where I live, sympathy, support, and assistance enable these people to voluntarily continue their lifestyle. 90+% of the homeless people I encounter are addicted to drugs and/or have a significant, untreated mental illness, to the point where they'd prefer to stay on the street as opposed to working. These people don't use the library to look for jobs, they use the library to sell stolen shit on craigslist in order to fund their drug use.
Your experience may not be the general American experience. It is a bit ridiculous that I need to point this out.
Reddit is not alienating the lurkers. It’s much worse, it’s alienating the power users, the content creators, the sub moderators, etc.
> Electric cars don't idle in gridlock

No, but the humans in them do.

Traffic and gridlock waste our time because cars are an incredibly inefficient way to transport people[1].

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[1] https://humantransit.org/2012/09/the-photo-that-explains-alm...
They're crushing it on hardware, but being left behind in the firmware/software.
I think the article is missing

ctrl-y move up 1 line without moving cursor
ctrl-e move down 1 line without moving cursor
ctrl-b move up 1 page, placing cursor on last line
ctrl-f move down 1 page, placing cursor on first line.

These are really useful when looking around without wanting to edit.
Are you seriously attacking me personally by mentioning my public info and a 10 year old repo. Not good man.
> Oracle is *on course to make Larry Ellison the world’s *third-richest man
I appreciate that you're working to improve your contributions to HN!

You might be underestimating how much curation/moderation we do of HN's front page. We do a lot. The front page is not generated by votes and flags alone (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). Upvotes and flags are important but the front page is a complex combination of those plus software action plus moderator action. If we didn't have the latter, HN would basically be impossible.

It's a pity—I'd love to manage without moderator action because the latter is tedious and it would be much more fun to write code to do it or just let the upvotes have their way.
If SARS-CoV-2 was all over CES 2020 on Jan 7-10 then people would have already been unmistakably dying. Once you've infected around 1,000 people in a geographic location it has already spilled over into an elder care facility and rips through there and kills about a third of them.

The first such incident in the US wasn't until a patient got sick on Feb 19th in Kirkland, WA.

The fact that the virus doubled every 3 days and slaughtered people in elder care facilities means that it isn't credible to think that it was floating around CES 2020.

The doubling rate of 3 days and the high level of mortality means that the virus doesn't really hide for that long, although due to exponential spread it is first very slow and then it quickly becomes very, very fast.

It is good at cryptic spread for 1-2 months, where it is very difficult to detect and the first several hundred people mostly just get colds and nobody notices and it actually spreads fairly poorly and cryptically, but then it reaches a critical mass and the superspreading events start popping off and someone gives to one of those elder care facilities and then it can't be ignored.

If it was all over CES or any other tight cluster in early Jan (the usual "everyone at work was sick in Jan I bet it was COVID" idea) then that would have marked a point where the virus was changing from cryptic spread to announcing itself. You once that happens, you can't avoid the virus slaughtering a care facility before the month is out. Since that didn't happen, then the infections at CES didn't happen.
I’ve heard good things about https://build-system.fman.io/, though I haven’t used.
Pointless bullshit from pointless wastes of time. How can a service provider tell? How does this not become a way to ruin section 230 for every other use?

You can't have kind of safe harbor... It's either possible to host content online or it's a psychotic nightmare no one would ever do.
manual intervention is not required. Patroni will just use a Standby as the new master. If the old master will be alive again it will be started as a backup. Of course there might be dataloss if it was used with async replication.

Patroni has great docs for this here: https://patroni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/replication_modes.h...
(Actually this is more or less a thing to do with Postgres)
In motorcycle safety courses, you're taught to never assume that other drivers can see you, in fact you are encouraged to operate as if you're invisible, and ride accordingly.

Growing up, I was told that it's better to be alive than to be "right" as it pertains to right-of-way. You can either insist on continuing because it's your right, or you can brake early assuming they're going to cut you off.
People with non-tech jobs already can't afford to live in SF. Unless you're expecting the formerly unhoused to suddenly become a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at FAANG, they aren't going to have a great time trying to make ends meet in SF.

It's not a city where you want to rediscover yourself in, unless you inherited property from a previous generation or you're one of the lucky few whose career is benefiting from the latest tech gold rush. You will not escape the homelessness cycle unless SF taxpayers guarantee you free housing until you get hired by Netflix.
Keycaps customization app, made on-demand
hey I made this app to customize in depth keyboard's keycaps, and get them manufactured on-demand AMA
This is not going to be a popular take , but this will hurt employment or comp of medical fellows & residents, who expect to go into private practices.

In summary, established SMB independent practices will offer fewer w2s to freshly minted MDs. Expect established doctors to require buying into a practice's equity, meaning the odd new MD with funds to buy in will do so (but will take less comp vs w2 salaried) ; while the majority of those without funds to buy in (due to a pile of student loans), will end up as W2 ...but for hospital groups.

Why ? Existing doctor-owners will be concerned with paying for the risk of training new doctors who can then take the existing practice's foot traffic with themselves across the street on a whim. Why Paying? The new w2 doctor is a loss leader a period of time, which varies across specialties. They are slower, don't know how to use new EMR, etc

So yes, i'm for competition, but expect that hospitals will benefit tremendously from this new restriction in NYS. And healthcare costs will rise accordingly.
Do you want to be right or alive?

Pick one
In the interview, he said his biggest problems are timing, and annual plans.

1. He has 30 days from the announcement of what the price was going to be, to implement new paid only plans, that follow some new rules. When the app store can take days to approve a new build, that is not much time to re-iterate and test something that being wrong could be very, very costly.

2. He has many people who paid literally a few dollars a year for apollo, and have months left on their subscription. He can give up $250k refunding their money, or spend a few millionn paying the API fees for them until its renewal time, and hope they renew.
How much social interaction do you need to not feel lonely?
This makes me wonder if Yelp is the problem or reviews as a mechanic.
It really shouldn't be, though. I.e. not unless you're parsing or emitting it ad-hoc, for example by assuming that an expression like:

"{" + $someKey + ":" + $someValue + "}"

produces a valid JSON. It does - sometimes - and then it's indeed easier to work with. It'll also blow up in your face. Using JSON the right way - via a proper parser and serializer - should be identical to using YAML or any other equivalent format.
> I don't think it's fair to say these comments represent the opinions of those communities.

The gaming subreddit, relative to other subreddits, is going to be demographically tilted towards the "anti-SJW" types who find collective action intrinsically distaseful regardless of the validity of the cause.
A controller in the box?
One of the more absurd details of the holocaust was that it started as a plan to move all the Jews to Madagascar. (I like to imagine a bunch of Nazis in a room in the early 30's with a world map and they just sort of agreed that it looked like a big enough island). They just wanted the Jews gone too, but economic realities caught up with them I suppose.
Unison Language and Platform Roadmap
Yes, product owners will always be needed. It's a full-stack skill set in itself to be a product owner (biz ops is a real thing, project management, product discovery, business management, finance, risk, security). So many areas that if a dev wanted to do those things...they'd have to learn how to be a product owner. It's a lot and it's hard.

This automation will help product owners be more powerful and effective. It will also unblock devs by streamlining live comms so that they're either desirable communications or streamlined into automation, freeing up more physical time for development, discussions with business, discussions with each other, or just shaving off half a Friday of meetings and moving to a 4-4.5 day work-week in most shops.
It is true that Reddit has problems with the way it operates. But the absurd argument that it should be provided "must be free" is not convincing. Such nonsensical claims are likely only made by socialists.
You won't have to wait long for confirmation. The Director of National Intelligence will be required by law to declassify information about the infected researchers on June 18th, including their names, symptoms, date of onset and role at WIV.[1]

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/619...
Every organization has limited resources.

A library can't have every book in the world. This doesn't mean that not selecting a book is exactly the same as "banning" it. It does mean the issue is nuanced.
"Picking winners" here doesn't mean Yelp is doing the faking themselves.

I just mean that Yelp has chosen to filter and limit in addition to what I'm actually searching. It might be a conversion thing - if I have one really good match it's easier to decide than if they actually show me all 10.

But it means it's really really important to the business now to be that 1 that doesn't get filtered.

And THAT really increases the market for all these fake-review things.
Ask HN: Is there a good cloud provider to archive large files to?
Here's my need. I have enough iCloud drive space, but some of my devices don't have enough hard drive space to download all my iCloud drive files. And I'm seeing sync issues that I suspect are related to those laptops needing to try and store some iCloud drive files only in the cloud.

What I'd like to do is find a service that's super simple and with low pricing where I can upload a few hundred GB of files that I almost never access, to serve as a kind of "self storage unit" of the files that I want access to if needed, and I want with somewhere that has good backups, but that way I can get the space freed up.

I don't want to use hard drives locally, I'd rather it be a cloud service.

Is Dropbox the best option ($10/mo for 2TB), or should I look at an S3 client like Cyberduck (though if I'm storing 1TB it'll be more expensive than Dropbox, it seems)?
Just this morning I wrote a JSON object. I told GPT to turn it into a schema. I tweaked that and then gave a list of terms for which I wanted GPT to populate the schema accordingly.

It worked pretty well without any functions, but I did feel like I was missing something because I was ready to be explicit and there wasn’t any way for me to tell that to GPT.

I look forward to trying this out.
A common cold that turns into bronchial pneumonia can be substantially worse than SARS-CoV-2 in any given person.

That doesn't make the common cold worse than SARS-CoV-2 on average.
I assume the "4D chess magical supergenius" people have rationalised that as... having been the plan all along or something?
The emails are generated server-side, so there is no native DOM here to work with. There probably are existing tools for this, so yeah it's odd they're running with basically proof-of-concept quality code here.