skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It absolutely amazes me how badly reddit has handled this whole situation. From the years of broken promises to moderators, the complete lack of accessibility in their own apps, and then on top of their for their CEO to not only get caught in a major lie but for him to then double down on it. As much as reddit wants to make these developers into the bad guys, every move they've made in this mess has hurt their reputation while making the third party developers look amazingly reasonable.

Even spez complaining about Christian recording the calls seems hollow when those recordings are what proved that spez was lying to the community. Frankly, anyone who does business with any of these execs should see now that they can and will happily lie and mislead. I don't know how you come back from that.
If you have dyslexia use a dyslexia font.

Comic Sans is not a bad font, but people make fun of it because it is used where it shouldn't be. (I blame WordArt and its attitudes for most typography atrocities)
I don't know if it's the case in the USA but in Canada it's generally considered within IT that you are underpaid but in return have decent benefits, a pension, and a lot more job security than private sector. Especially as Canada has had multiple large IT companies that collapsed.
Google challenges OpenAI’s calls for government A.I. czar
people get on here and say things all the time that are wrong though.
The assertion that "subreddits are communities" evolved from the whole Trump debacle is inaccurate and makes no sense.

A lot of the subreddits that I've been in for a while have always been their own communities with their own topics and guidelines. Smaller subreddits, like /r/NintendoSwitch, /r/AccessibleGaming, /r/DND, and so on didn't become their own communities and their own moderation guidelines because of Trump, they became that way because they wanted a focused space to discuss a slice of their own topics and interests.
I couldn't disagree more!

Vice, for one, has basically commodified HST-style journalism. They have a whole show where a guy just tries different drugs [1]

And you can find all sorts of heterodox political and cultural takes in both mainstream news and the blogosphere, as well as the huge continuum of media between them.

The problem isn't that these writers don't exist anymore (or that they're being somehow silenced by congress). The problem is there's no mainstream culture anymore, and therefore there's no place for counterculture to consolidate. Instead we have a bunch of people shouting different things into voids of various sizes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%27s_Pharmacopeia
> Also, the Washington Naval Treaty was a complete failure? It set the stage for japan to build more resentment which led to ww2.

1. Attributing the whole of Japan's imperial ambition to the Washington Naval Treaty is farcical.

2. This chart of battleship displacement by date of construction plainly reveals that the Washington Navy Treaty was a massive success. Yes, treaty-breaking ships were constructed, but you cannot look at this graph and conclude that the treaty did not succeed in substantially disrupting the arms escalation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Treaty#/media...

FWIW, I agree with you that the development and research into chemical and biological weapons never stopped. However it is likely that most countries no longer maintain up-to-date stockpiles of these weapons. Research continues for game theory reasons, but the treaties (and moreover the general public sentiment against such weapons, particularly the sentiment that use of those weapons would constitute the use of "WMDs" to which a nuclear response would be warranted) had the effect of greatly reducing the risk that such weapons would be used en masse. To this point; these sort of weapons have not yet been used in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, despite most late-cold war analysts believing that the Soviet Union would use chemical weapons during their anticipated war with NATO.
Am I supposed to hate this? Because I really really don't.
Is there a whole Mastodon like movement with Reddit that users seem to be moving to?
IMO, he’s doing a pretty good job negotiating this as well. I know there’s a lot of words right now about broken promises and everyone not wanting to do business with anyone else, but from the outside to this uninformed observer it looks to me like this is a high stakes showdown that’s inching toward a commercial resolution.

There’s some dollar amount (representing either an exchange of value or avoided losses) where a compromise is going to make sense for everyone, and I think we’re going to see that before 6/30. My naive guess is that reddit acquires Apollo and runs that as a standalone business, but otherwise maintains the eye-wateringly high pricing on API usage.
I found it more readable for coding even though I don’t have dyslexia. Surprised me when I found that out.
> I think maybe the distribution channels messed things up for the smaller big box company.

Gamestop is not a "smaller" company. They should have more volume than Target with regards to video games. I would expect Target to be the smaller between the two, because Target's video game section is kind of sad most of the time.

It is Gamestop who is messing up here, they don't want to stock the goods because Gamestop clearly doesn't have the money to keep their inventory count high.

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The Gamestop in question was in a busy mall. I was there for other reasons (food / hangout with family), but realized that an impromptu-buy could help out my nieces. I assume that most foot traffic is like this, I wasn't "planning" on buying anything (If I were planning, I'd have bought it from online). It was a spur-of-the-moment thing.

And then they failed to have the stock, so I didn't buy anything. And I don't think "Advance Wars: Reboot Camp 1+2" is that obscure of a game. It was clearly 3x stocked at Target.
But it don't tho?

https://chat.openai.com/share/3172fff1-db33-425e-8553-9bad0e...
Oh, yeah. Now that's a project I like. Even supposing I had a broken, ~30-35 year old Mac and a BeagleBone hanging around, I'm not sure I could have gotten too much past "program the BB to be a video card" lol :)

I just love the creativity that's out there in the world sometimes, you know?
Apple bought the AR company behind the lenses in Nintendo’s ‘Mario Kart’ ride
I think the thing that people Miss in the conversation is that Prestige and dominance don't have a single definition what are subjective to the individual perceiving them. The perception being subjective doesn't mean that it doesn't exist as a phenomenon and assessment metric.
I've gotta say, Christian comes across as really naive in this piece.

> Well, it’s weird because prior to this, I almost always understood that Reddit as a company understood that they’re very community-focused, and they kind of didn’t do the bullshit corporate speak. And it was weird to kind of see this week, where they engaged in a lot more of that than I have historically ever seen them do. And it just went over… about as well as I thought it would.

I can't imagine anyone seeing this as a surprise given the way that reddit has been operating since at least before the redesign. They always make some corporate-PR-language post announcing unpopular changes, pretend to listen to everyone, then make the change anyway.
Friendly reminder that critical thinking is dangerous. Just trust your betters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/fake-news-media-a...
I didn't enjoy it as much as I expected to, since everyone I know loves it. Made me doubt myself.
this is the most gorgeous dev tool design/website i have seen in a long time. and you JUST graduated from YC? amazing

my real question is - how do you ship so fast and well? what do you trade off to be able to do this?

for email - my main wish is that it be integrated well with an auth and analytics system. the emails i send out should be aware of what the user has done, and if you've given me your email i should already have created an account for you, etc. seems all like one and the same - have a total representation of the user.

i am guessing i'm far from the first to talk about this. so the smaller, second idea, is just a good/gorgeous "contact center" like experience with multiple channels and levels of email engagement that people can opt in/out of. so eg you can choose to get emails from me every day/week/month/quarter/year, or based on specific topics. one can of course build this with resend, but it wouldnt be GREAT. people/developers/startups need help making this usually overlooked experience GREAT.
have you reread your comment back to yourself this morning and seen the irony?
Not trying to be facetious, but what's the point of this?
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it does cause problems sometimes when there are embedded scrollable panels (that may not even scroll) where the scrollbars get in the way.
Just Use jQuery
Then why did the NSA tap Google [1]?

Is Snowden some kind of 4d chess false flag? lol ....

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/30/5046958/nsa-secretly-tap...
Sure, but she just asked how it differs. I didn't read the question as value-loaded.
I am sure there are somewhat reasonable people on the other side.
But it doesn't make it a sane process :)

Making your own stuff up is not a solution for other people making stuff up or underselling things.
The fact that this indistinguishable from satire is an incredible feat. Very well done.
I like it too. Somehow more suitable for coding than Comic Sans ever was for text.
Ok great. They are blocking this one because Microsoft, but its perfectly ok that all of broadcast media is owned by four companies, all of food is owned by four, and all of computing is owned by five. And we sit here and wonder why most of inflation is actually just profit-taking.
Fantasque Sans Mono is similar in spirit and works great for coding too IMHO: https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans/ Don't knock it until you try it, it really looks nice for clean languages without a lot of symbols, operators or noise.
> Virtual envs are actually quite simple

You have never trashed your system from virtualenv?

Also, there is a problem when wheels assume they can have everything like tensorflow from years ago -- I don't know about now, since tf used to be tied to cuda versions you could get into trouble installing tf versions, even with venv, conda, etc.
AI-hints.json: how the ecosystem will help the bots
We have built out some of the things you said were missing for our email system at SmartSurvey. The biggest annoyance is random blacklisting from email providers. Mimecast almost always greylists us, which is annoying because it creates an artificial baclog on our mail servers, others work fine and then all of a sudden they block you - sometimes you can contact them, sometimes you can't.

We also have a big problem with automated tools like mimecast or Office365 because customers don't receive emails that were blocked by some rule or heuristic or other but they just contact us because they can't see what their receiving system has done. Even when we show them the logs.

Our sysem sends out about 50 different types of email and some are easy to handle when they bounce, others are not so easy so it will be interesting to see whether your use of webhooks will make things that much better than e.g. MailJet (who we use for some emails) since all of email failures arrive via webhook.

Other problem is to do with IP ranges of the sending servers. Using SES probably mitigates some of that (I assume most providers whitelist SES) but if you ever wanted to move to your own hosts, without a /16 subnet, you can easily get blacklisted (again for unknown reasons) and without enough servers to move to, your deliverability suffers.

I think the one thing that would help us if we were using a third-party system would be failure messages with specific links to solutions that could be displayed to the end user. e.g. MimeCast 5.7.2 could link to an article about giving permissions to access a Mimecast mailing list. That would save a lot of explaining since we would just show that message to the customer.
> Rural America is emptying out.

Rural America, in the sense that the OP meant it - "It is just a lot of physical work and being in the sun" - effectively no longer exists. "Rural America" is largely a term used by people who live in cities for people who don't live in cities, but the latter are by and large not "rural" by historical standards.

If you fly over the midwest, what you will see in terms of land use is a large amount of farmland broken up by enormous neighborhood networks and mid-size cities. People who live here are largely not working on farms. They are commuting to office jobs, service work, or gig economy positions. They don't walk anywhere, so they're not "in the sun"; even getting to the grocery store or a friend who lives nearby is practically untenable without a car. They certainly aren't living off the land. "Rural" America is basically the leftovers of farmland, and in many locations it's actively being partitioned into subdivisions.

I lived more than half my life to this point in a "rural" area, but for me this meant ~5 unfarmable acres. Virtually everyone else I knew lived in a neighborhood (isolated from other neighborhoods by miles of driving). This lifestyle isn't the idyllic thing it's made out to be.

> Religious fundamentalism, racism, homophobia, and outright Nazism

I don't think I'd point to rural areas specifically as the source of this problem. Instead, I'd point to the "Orange-County-ification" of the US. The heat centers for the problems you're talking about are relatively wealthy subdivisions full of people who can afford F150s that they don't need and keep small arsenals in their basements. Think people like the McCloskeys in suburban St. Louis: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53481537

As for racism - part of the truth of the "crime problem" in cities is the fact that huge segments of their populations are effectively a permanent underclass living in poverty or near-poverty.
> These guys have no idea what consciousness is (nobody does) ...

On that, there is a great "In Our Time" episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5oln4RwbhsKwjlZuxPuYYB?si=5...

Unless it is able to feel pain it remains a stochastic parrot and I wouldn't call it conscious or alive in any philosophical sense nor can one say it is capable of "feeling".
The long-term impact of this paper has confused me from a technical lens, although I get it from a political lens. I'm glad it brings up the risks from LLMs but makes technical/philosophical claims which seemed poorly supported and empirically have not held up -- imo because they chose not to engage with RLHF at all (which was deployed through GPT-3 at the time; and enables grounding + getting around 'parrotness'), and uses over-the-top language ("stochastic parrot") which seems very poorly to capture what it feels like to meaningfully engage with e.g. models like GPT-4.
like this? https://lichess.org/training
There's kbin and lemmy, which are both fediverse software.
Being young and slender confers social status to men, they just don't like to admit it. Look at how much money and effort wealthy men put into keeping up appearances (plastic surgery, hair transplants, exercise regimens, etc). Women face a lot more pressure, and the standards are far more absurd, but please look at a current picture of Elon Musk and tell me he isn't just as preening as some boogeywoman you could come up with. If wealth was enough he of all people wouldn't bother. But it isn't. It's just another trait men project onto women while denying when they have it themselves: vanity.
The attack claims to recover the private key of an already known compromised make and model of smart card that is known to have side channel leaking mechanisms. The models of which are known susceptible are in the low single digits. It is not an all purpose attack as the clickbait headline would have you believe.
They buried the lede. The article suggests the shutdown was because of free API to paid API. Anyone uninformed who just click off at that point. Even when they ask about costs, it was just saying it’s “<$1 vs $2.50”.

But the issue is two fold. (1) all the devs support a paid API, but the rate is absurd according to basic math. It would charge devs over 20x what a user actually cost/were worth. Devs were willing to take on a higher cost (2-3x) but over 20x is impossible. (2) That basic math was very conservative. The actually multiplier is much higher if you look at the calculations. It’s wild but it seems Christian is even willing to accept a 10x bump (albeit with a higher subscription cost).

Not really mentioned was all this was changed out the blue with less than 30 days to comply. The interview touches on it but it’s insanity that a tech company think it’s reasonable for indie devs to operate under that constraint.
I've been meaning to time the traffic lights where I am, most are really good for pedestrians, but there are some here and there that take an age to change. I even changed my walk to work as the shortest path has a couple of particularly slow crossings, making a slightly longer route quicker as it only has zebra crossings.
Ask HN: Recommend good-faith representatives for $opinion
who/what do you turn to for consuming good-faith argumentation/discussion?

what i've always wanted is a community where people are able to coalesce on strong arguments for any given topic - steelmanning both Y, Y', Y'', and so on. but that is an abstraction of the underlying problem

specific examples are fine, but preferably this would just be
high-quality representatives, or more generally, just good-faith actors in society

examples:
- (a)theism
- political ideology
- gain of function research
- racism/anti-racism
etc.

discerning right from wrong is a valuable skill, but in my experience, i find it easy to settle into an echo chamber. i want to expand my thinking
I have been using JD for a while now, to the point that I built a CLI for it (using Deno).

But I just enjoy the speed of feeling like I can cd to any directory at any time in like... 8 keypresses (`jd 20.21` is an alias I use to cd).

https://github.com/bpevs/johnny_decimal

https://johnny.bpev.me/

Edit: I had a separate hierarchy I used on my work machine when I was still working at a larger company, but this is the one from my personal machine (with some redacted)...

10-19 Notes
10 Quick [Daily-life kind of stuff]
10.01 Daily Notes
10.02 Cooking
10.03 Listening Notes
...
11 Research
11.00 Device Setup
11.01 Project Name 1
11.02 Project Name 2
12 Reference [Basically categorizing random notes]
12.00 Unsorted
12.05 History and Current Events
...
12.28 Spatial Audio
12.29 Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound
13 Travel
13.01 中文
...
13.10 Maps
18 bpev.me
19 Documents
[Various documents here]
20-29 Projects [Active Projects]
20 Code
20.00 gists
20.01 bpev.me
[insert projects I am committing to often]
21 Media
21.01 Music
[insert Music album work here]
30-39 Archives
30 Code
30.03 favioli
30.04 johnny_decimal
.....
basically, maintanence-mode projects.
If I start committing on a more regular cadence, I move to `20 Code`
31 Media
I have a separate, date-based hierarchy within these...
31.01 Music
31.02 Photos
31.03 Videos
31.04 Memes
31.05 Screenshots
39 Backups
39.01 Contacts
39.03 bpev.me
39.04 Savefiles
39.05 Applications
No ligatures yet?

EDIT:

Trying it out now, it's actually a lot nicer than I initially thought. I had to bump the text size up which was already larger than 14.
> GP wants the element to be scrollable with a hidden scrollbar.

If HN allowed emojis, I would reply with just the vomiting emoji.
It’s also difficult to actually get people on board with the idea of supplying a user-specific signing key instead of relying on a global one.

Instead they’ll end up persisted in a data store, making them stateful, because there’s no reliable way to invalidate such a token simply by rotating the signing key. Or using a cookie-backed session.
> The real tension in the US, rural vs urban (not red vs blue)

As usual, it depends.

For example, out west the tension is with water rights. All other political issues are like molehills to the mountain that is water.

To be clear, the western US states aren't running out of water, they are running out of cheap water.

Usually, this pit the mountains against the farmers/ranchers, but it affects the whole population of a state in changing and varied ways. Divides are formed and forgotten every 20 years or so.

So, no, the real tensions aren't in the US's population centering methods, it's in dozens of different ways at dozens of different times and places. Thinking that ~350M people can be divided in any black-white manner for any length of time is a failure of imagination.
Maybe my eyes are just too old, but the kerning was killing them.
I would like a breakdown of Reddit's actual costs vs their proposed fees. Why isn't Reddit profitable? Is there a way to make Reddit profitable without charging for API access?
this really ought to be a vercel default. idk why so many platforms (like netlify too) require/default to www subdomains. defeats the purpose of acquiring a short domain
Mainly more referring to https://github.com/shannpersand/comic-shanns, but the capital forms seem to very quickly leave a blocky feel, e.g. IT visually combining, NE visually combining. I do wonder if it would be possible to systematically adjust the kerning, la using openCV or similar to detect such things.
For people who see parsing as model checking, ambiguity means something vastly different (inferior) to leniency.

Fast parsers that use a schema are also doing model checking.
I don't think they are claiming that Liberation comes without cost or repercussions.
makes me think of the apocryphal "Henry Ford Salt Test"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36176588
I think that's a good comment on Nushell. I agree that it's doing lots of things right and is at the very least an excellent proof-of-principle regarding how our shells _should_ behave, but at a very high cost of lost interopability.

> the developers of Nushell need to re-implement coreutils to expose the genius of their shell.

Yes, or if Nushell is going to try not to be interoperable with existing POSIX commands, then the project needs to focus much more on perfecting the design of its exposed library of builtins.
Secure and defensive forms of national identity and support for climate policies
100%! My uncle lives in Wisconsin, and all I ask for Christmas from them is their homemade fudge and a pack of New Glarus. Always an amazing gift!
There is a ton of discussion on here about it, which is why I am not getting into the details in this post. You can find it by putting "three body problem ycombinator" into a search engine.

In short, you are far from alone - it's vastly overrated by one group and always advertised (more than ANY other book on here), and another group (including myself) thinks the characters are flat, the science is weak, and the overall "solution" in the book is far too contrived.
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I can't say I've missed Reddit too much after I stopped using it. Twitter was a bit harder, but Mastodon filled that niche quite nicely. However, I don't even feel like checking out Lemmy or Kbin as a Reddit replacement, making me question how useful Reddit is for me personally. I wonder if anyone else is feeling the same during the blackout.
This is a quickstart sample for constructing ChatGPT Plugin utilizing GitHub Codespaces, VS Code, and Azure. The example provides Azure Developer CLI templates for plugin deployment to Azure Container Apps.