skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> …and that is the way it should be.

I don’t know, it’s looking like most people prefer businesses that eschew profits.

Yea my business-101 textbook says businesses should run a profit, but my sociology-101 textbook says we should do things that are good for people.

Maybe Reddit (et al) should be recreated as non profits dedicated to community building… before Facebook becomes the sole source of internet social interaction.
That sounds like a maintenance and stability nightmare, if it's even possible. You are effectively red/blue splitting the entire codebase. PyObject and the GIL touch everything in the codebase.
>This feels insane to me.

Maybe. But there seems to be a reasonable investment case. Especially if the EU is making stupid laws, being the "European AI" company seems quite valuable.
Moderation is a maddening and thankless job but there’s always someone else who wants the privilege.
Bigger teams have more custom tools, but the tools are also hastily bodged together and never updated unless it's also the product.

The only people that get to enjoy their tooling, I think, are the niche specialist developers who can reuse their own tools across multiple gigs.
Notably, next year CA is slated to cut the volume-based pricing for residential electricity by 1/3 (and add a potentially hefty fixed-charge) which will accelerate this a lot.
Ask HN: How to Hire for Sales?
TLDR I was a developer for basically 4-5 years but I started my solutions firm and we have enough clients and revenue to hire for sales to keep it growing. Tried to find people to hire but most of them are scammy or unprofessional looking to sell you a course or copywriting services. I need someone (then start a team of course) to handle the whole process from lead generation, to funneling and finally closing. We are B2B so I expect 2-3 new clients per quarter. I already do cold emails and lead generation myself but I am sure a professional would be able to do it better.

Any thoughts?
They have Copilot: https://zed.dev/blog/copilot
Ask HN: Reddit API vs. Browser Requests
I have been following the Reddit API saga quite closely, and I understand how/why Reddit as a company has incentive to effectively take 3rd Party Apps off the market.

My question is, what is stopping someone from simply writing a web scraper that acts as if its a web browser and scrapes the actual subreddit(via reddit.com not api.reddit.com) and stores them in a local cache? I'm picturing an app that runs on a popular NAS software such as TrueNas, Synology, etc. So storage is not an issue.

Is there a way for Reddit to detect that this isn't authentic traffic from an actual user? If the web scraper authenticates as a normal user, and respects the request throttling, wouldn't it just fly under the radar as a particularly addicted user?
How good is the tool at reporting missing cuda functionally?
I agree with this but I feel that the simulator analogy is much, much better at accounting for GPT-centric applications like AutoGPT, albeit a long read:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vJFdjigzmcXMhNTsx/simulators
+1 this is that my understanding as well regarding Rc. I can’t recall where I read but it is advised against using Rc for “not being the Rust way”. Do you have any references in doc or code that have Rc usage I can read?
Reddit told the Apollo developer the API pricing was more opportunity cost than actual cost. And many people suggested Reddit could make 3rd party access a subscription feature.
Or folks could learn how to do this stuff. Centralization due to "ease of use" is what got us into this mess, and keeps getting us into more walled gardens. At some point folks need to take some responsibility and learn how to setup and maintain their own shit.
> means "if the host matches news.ycombinator.com inject the following CSS"

Well I wouldn't word it like that.

youtube.com##.ytp-cards-teaser

Hides elements with the selector ".ytp-cards-teaser", so ## doesn't represent "inject the followong CSS".

This is a helpful link: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Introduction-to-basic...

## represents a cosmetic filter. Though I can't seem to figure out what #$# is still but I know that's also possible to use
> For your particular usecase, yes.

The use case they are describing is a standard web server or web application. That's a pretty important and widely applicable use case to dismiss out of hand as "your particular usecase".
CommonCrawl / Open PageRank ?

https://www.domcop.com/top-10-million-websites
Much higher probability of birth defects and fertility problems at that point, even if you're still menstruating.
I've been recently reading up on multithreading and multiprocessing in python. You mention that you've taken a multi threaded approach since the processes are i/o bound. Is this the same as running the script with asyncio as async/await?
I parsed this title as "lightning bug gun" and wondered why I didn't recall a bioluminescent insect powered weapon in that game.
As well as pure dextroamphetamine, which I take.

Hell, even meth can be prescribed by a doctor; I believe the brand for it's called Desoxyn and it's usually prescribed for severe overeating disorders, not usually ADHD.
An analogy I heard is of a slow motion train crash - our carriages somewhere in the middle of the train are so far seemingly unaffected, but already the first carriages are crushing, and people/animals/life is beginning to flee backwards on the train as best they can. For us in those middle carriages that will be the first first-hand indication of the catastrophe. Following this analogy, it is too late to stop the train crashing, though maybe we can slow it down and save as many of a carriages as we can.
Where you assume malice, I would assume a combination of garden variety greed and short sightedness. Sometimes people do dumb things, it's pretty common really, even for 'people in charge of big things'.
I just want to say thank you both for the back and forth, this is one of the most thought-provoking things I've seen in a while.

Plus, a book recommendations is always good :).
There is no easy way to economically produce a synthetic fuel at scale as you suggest. It is irrelevant whether breeder reactors work or not, I can point to dozens of countries with a significant impact of nuclear in their mix, but you cannot provide a single country that uses synthetic fuels or any other type of storage at scale (>0.1% would probably still be challenging).

My logic is that we are currently shutting down or creating regulatory hurdles for the cleanest base load technology, which is proven safe and reliable, in favor of pipe dreams such as that renewables plus storage is all we need.
Let's Encrypt's Production Acme API Experiencing an Active Incident
Like any transportation projects it won't make economic sense if you ignore wider societal impacts. Highway expansion or airport expansion would neither ever make any economic sense at all if you'd apply the same narrow model. Now if you include climate impacts and the true cost of the climate catastrophe HSR is really the only transit project on this corridor that does make sense.
It's not all about rich people switching their portfolios around. When rates rise, operating expenses for companies go up, and so they pass that cost down. This is a bigger deal for companies perennially in debt than startups.
Moderators are more than guilty of abusing their powers. Reddit should remove powers from them instead of enabling. They can easily find replacements
As it happens, another big server, Beehaw, just defederated lemmy.world today. So drama has already begun.
https://beehaw.org/post/567170
I like the arrow semantics: Dashed with line tip is „depends on“. Straight with triangle tip is „inherits from“. Standardizing them is useful.
their business model is waiting until you're locked into Enterprise and then forcing you into ridiculous pricing. One account on business has a bill of $150 for Cloudflare Workers. On our Enterprise account they're quoting us $3,800 for the same thing.
> libraries have become daytime homeless shelters

My library looks nothing like this. You're painting all libraries with a broad brush, generalizing from a very small number of libraries in the downtown core of a handful of cities.

But yeah. Our view of homelessness as a personal failure of the homeless person, rather than a societal failure to care for its people, is not working. More punishment and less services only exacerbates the problem.
Netflix grew 4.9% YoY in Q1. They have introduced an ad-supporter tier, so it’s now advertisers that foot some of the bill for content in addition to subscribers and investors.

To your point about paying full price —- it would be interesting to have a breakdown of the number of “evergreen subscribers” vs “fair weather subscribers,” but I’m not sure Netflix would be willing to share such a breakdown. This would tell us whether a majority of its subscribers think of the basic value of the service.
Oops, I meant to ask the author but realised that the author is not the same as the op. Hah!
It’s wild. Especially for someone who doesn’t speak German. It’s a full page takeover on mobile with a scroll bar for fine print. Absolutely bonkers.
also social media saturation. With the coming AI personas and deepfakes next year, it will be impossible for humans to compete
America has been at perpetual war for decades. Other counties are hated for much less than this.
The red/blue splitting happens behind the scenes, so it's different. Not really a color problem, because the user doesn't have to know about it.

But yeah, you will basically have two versions of Python running at the same time, with some (hopefully invisible) translation between them.
This seems to be what I've observed as well.

Across many subreddits, the announcements to participate in the blackout were highly upvoted (>90%), while announcements against participation were heavily downvoted.

Examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/146xzgk/meta...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/145s613/rgames_and_t...
What's the reason? US culture war stuff?
I tried this and the results were abysmal (inaccurate for each of my dermatological conditions). Even though they launched it as not intended for diagnosis, I can't really see the point of the product then because people will use it for diagnosis (to decide whether to go to the doctor) and both the high false positive and negative rates will kill trust in the product.
I was thinking if you’re leaning toward restricting how people dress, what they call themselves, how they congregate, what entertainment they enjoy, those leanings stand in conflict with “free market”. For example the political war on gaming in the 90s — effectively seeking to restrict the gaming market due to ideological social restrictions. Now I see a similar trend with being anti-“woke” and therefore anti-“woke business”. A company selling drag accessories and drag entertainment will not find many friends in the GOP. The DeSantis conflict with Disney due to its “woke policies” etc. Not to mention tech. Josh Hawley wrote a book called “The Tyranny of Big Tech” claiming tech is dangerous because it’s woke and anti-conservative. Pretty out of band for a “free market” proponent.
Well unless it’s lack of engagement from the most valuable users.
The Perils of Open-Source AI
https://archive.is/jqBJH
The epic of Gilgamesh starts out talking about the distant past.
A Token Efficient Language for LLMs
> I've worked in a number of projects where they decided to move to microservices for reasons they wish they had

I've advised engineers to rewrite code before, mostly for resume building to help jumping ship to somewhere better. Basically, use the current job as a way to train on the stack the company you really want to work for is using.

If a company doesn't have a stock-based comp and sticks to prevailing wages/CoL there's no incentive to help the company succeed. Especially with non-technical management, the best thing to do for ICs is often to aggressively rewrite (in the language that's trendy right now and that better companies use) and get promoted by showing off a significant output. Then jump to a better company having spent a year training on their stack at the previous company's expenses.
Cities of Software
> You are committing the perfect solution fallacy.

Rust is also not a perfect solution. You have to prove that the benefits of solving for the bugs Rust can prevent outweighs the downsides of asking a bunch of C experts who are currently developing kernel subsystems in C to stop what they are doing and rewrite millions of lines in C in a language that has very low marketshare in the space and is far, far more complex in terms of abstracting over assembly. People write systems software in C not because they have a fetish for bugs, but because we do in fact still have to stay close to the hardware and not get lost in a minefield of abstractions.
Why not just stop moderating and let the subs go to shit and naturally let people move? Why take away valuable information from everyone? Most of us don't care about your fight with Reddit.
I have a GitHub account under my real name, but recently I've started using GitHub under a couple of other names instead. There's so much stuff you do in public on GitHub that I want to avoid people doing exactly this kind of analysis on.

I wish using multiple identities was at least some level of foolproof though. I have to be careful to configure my local copies of repos to use the correct username, masked email, and PGP signing key. It would be super handy if git had a global config of multiple identities and if I could have it prompt me to select one either when I clone a repo or the first time I push to it.
I think we can be more charitable than this: it's possible to be both immensely popular and to have a sub-par packaging experience that users put up with. That's where Python is.
Packaging is a big topic right now, and a lot is happening - that includes a lot of good tool improvements. I think that's one reason for these comments, because it's close to top of mind
We understand them, we just think the pledges are ridiculous and not rooted in anything factual.

https://www.wired.com/story/screens-might-be-as-bad-for-ment...

But it's a free country.
It is usually also a social indicator that you have specific friends.

It only means something if the school holds you to specifically high standards, which of course varies drastically.
I’d be curious to see if the optimizer couldn’t detect in this instance that that code is, in fact, unreachable. It seems to me like it should detect it with ease.

I will concede that the “you should never get here” type errors are tempting to panic on. But I have seen so many instances where the “you should never get here” code does execute. Memory corruption, access by other processors, etc., could make this check (which should never happen!) actually fail at runtime. If one of those happens in code I wrote, I would rather be alerted to the error, without crashing, if possible.

A lot of the appeal to “panic on error” IMO is to reduce developer cognitive load. As a developer, it’s inconvenient to consider all the errors that can actually happen when programming. Allocations, array accesses, I/O, and other errors programmers want to ignore, do happen. It’s annoying to think about them every time we write code, but I’d rather have something that forces me to consider them, rather than be bit by something that I designed out of my consideration.

This preference might change depending on what I’m writing. For a one-off script that I need to spin up quickly, I don’t really care. For code running on a device I may not get to service for 5 years, my opinion would be different.
For the first time, I find myself wanting the equivalent of a :thumbs-up: reaction emoji on hn.
Read "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton Malkiel

It's the best non-biased primer I've found on finance.
Also, old reddit has to remain mostly unchanged for it to fulfill its purpose, which means marketing can't incessantly twiddle things with A/B tests and push crap like NFT avatars.
I'm speaking from experience. Many years ago I did install a couple random convenience extensions like this on my work computer - including a very nice JSON pretty printer, back before such things were included by default. It took me couple of months before something in my head clicked, and I realized with horror what attack vector I've been enabling at work. Fortunately, this was also before buying off extensions for malicious purposes became a thing, and as far as I could verify, I got lucky and all those extensions were legit and did not exfiltrare anything.
Agreed. I'd argue most don't even know what an API is. Eventually super moderators will end this standoff and reddit subreddits will be restored, the masses wont even care like they don't now.
genuine question, why don't these protections apply to emulators? How could emulators get away with emulating x86 but chip manufacturers cannot use x86 for their chips without a license?
The New Language Model Stack
This is like the mirror opposite of how VCs burn money to create new behaviors. Eventually the protest (wasteful burning) creates new behaviors that shape the world into one's desired image.
I'm still waiting intently for debugging tools to be able to create * object * diagrams of an running app. Debuggers are excellent, but I keep forgetting, if the object in question is @Hdj637 or @HU83NS
> I think it’s fine that used cars (for now) are ICE

I hope that I'll be able to buy used ICE cars for the remainder of my life, at least.

I've soured on all modern cars, and especially electric cars, because of their data connections. That's a dealbreaker for me.
What? My town has three libraries alone, all of which are large, spacious, extremely clean, super quiet, full of great material, and are constantly full of well behaved citizens. You're not describing a feature of modern libraries. You're describing a local problem.
Calling mods privileged is hilarious. It’s basically glorified janitor. You end up dealing with a bunch of crazy people and drama for zero compensation…and then get shat on because well someone is always upset regardless of what you decide.

> they’re completely replaceable

Not really. The pool of people both willing to do the above and are any good at keeping the peace is pretty finite

Above is why I stopped being a mod. It’s a pretty thankless task
Panics have a place in systems programming — all operating systems panic when fundamental guarantees are violated.
Single Ownership and Memory Safety Without Borrow Checking, RC, or GC
Yeah sure, but most of those caching layers (including possibly on the ISP level) aren't really configured for the DNS flood a crawling operation may result in.

If you're going to do way more DNS lookups than are expected from your connection, it's a good custom to provide your own caching layer that's scaled accordingly.

Not doing so probably won't break anything, but it risks degrading the DNS performance of other people using the same resolvers.
> But apparently personnel from the crash retrieval teams have come forward and testified to congress. Crazy, I know.

Who? Do you have an article for this? Because all I see are claims that people say the retrieval accounting could be possibly credible, but absolutely no first hand accounts.

> That said having discerningly followed this topic for years, I believe what we're seeing is a momentous shift in the status quo and that the revelations from these proceedings will be paradigm shifting.

It's also possible that leadership is becoming less discerning and more than happy to follow whatever makes the biggest headlines.
"It is too big and we can't deal with that many users".
Same, but thanks to some of the replies to your post it makes sense to me now.

Thing is I _still_ closed the tab and will likely forget about it. Turns out that thousands of people posting nothing but complaints about "REDDIT EVIL", isn't that interesting to read.
Python is dynamic AF and Rust's whole shtick is compile-time safety. Python was built from the ground up to be dynamic and "easy", Rust was meticulously designed to be strict and use types to enforce constraints.

It's hard to convey how difficult it would be to retrofit python to be able to truly "enclose multithreading in a safe abstraction".
Indeed. So the only reasonable conclusion so far is that we haven't found the reservoir host yet. This may take a while and it may even never happen. If and when we do we will finally be able to make another step in this whole saga.
Hey Dad, can you help me return the Picasso I stole?
I 100% expect visionOS to have native apps. I never said anything in contrary.
Or they're just doing something that's actually original and doesn't appear in the training data a million times already.
What?

1: You didn't quote what I said, you quoted what you felt like I said.
2: Your wording is ambiguous. It could read as either reddit has already won and there is no use fighting it (which is some malarkey) or that wherever the people gather to have the conversations that they used to have on reddit.com will become reddit (which is weird but ok)

Which one do you mean? Malarkey or Weird?
To state the obvious, total revenue does not tell you if a company is actually making money. If operating costs exceed revenue you lose money. It doesn't matter how much revenue you're making. Given the costs required to run twitch, they are likely still losing money, not making it. Losing money is not a viable business strategy.
> entering data into Gmail, Google Sheets, Google Cloud...?

Yes I think this ongoing thread about AI in corporate environments logically casts a light on re-evaluating how much we trust cloud services (Gmail, Google Sheets, etc).

Perhaps the "meta" is the pendulum is swinging back to self hosted/managed email? sysadmins rejoice!
I'm pretty sure the bulk of reddit's costs are the ~1800 employees building things nobody wants, uses, or asked for.

Live streaming, chat, avatars and NFTs are all features that should never have been built.
Vercel AI SDK: Build AI-Powered Applications with React and Svelte
Jason Cammisa: The Tesla Roadster Tricked Enthusiasts into Loving EVs
I just referenced the concept of multiplicity in the values of pytest fixtures a single fixture may return just yesterday and I referenced it in the context of UML to make my point. Numerical distinctions in instance counts and collections and what not is a valuable articulation I think UML encapsulates. Maybe there’s other ways to communicate this concept but if someone talks of multiplicity in software design UML is directly where my mind goes.
I wouldn't believe him either, but this isn't mental illness. This is someone trying to beat a propaganda machine at its own game (the government doesn't sue for defamation).

Say enough random shit over time (pretexting) and some of it will resonate with the crazies and the ignorant.

The truth doesn't even matter these days; it's entirely about influencing public perception.
You'd be able to strap something together with a Pimoroni Hyperpixel and a raspberry pi with a lipo hat, if that was a direction you wanted to go in. It's a very nice little screen. No idea about how power efficient it is, though.
This seems to be great advice. Is this your own principal or is there any source/further reading on this approach?
I logged out, plan on never logging back in.

Already, life changes, new places, people, appear interesting. Won't be long and it will be just like before I used Reddit.
Except that it’s cities which prioritize services that have this problem — eg, Seattle.
lemmy.world's fast growth is working against it. The site has been flooded with low effort content, leading others to start defederating them.

The instance I use hasn't defederated them yet, but I've already had to block most of lemmy.world's communities from appearing in my feed.
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A few weeks later.. is CrabLang dead?