skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but easier to navigate. It’s obviously the red queen hypothesis of a never ending game between marketers and users looking for unadulterated information.
I found it interesting that spez admitted in his call with the apollo dev that the actual hosting cost for the api calls were pennies compared to the 'opportunity cost' of not having users use the official app. He basically admitted that harvesting data via the app and selling it to advertisers was reddit's bread and butter now.
GB Studio 3 is the shit. Thanks for (unintentionally?) being apart of that!
Been a few years since I've worked with EEs, but isn't EAGLE the industry standard? Like, would this be similar to if Adobe shut down Photoshop?
Vulture capitalism is the consequence of regulatory capture, which is a nice way to say that politicians like Joe Manchin are taking bribes so the rich can freeload even more off of people who don't get billionaire tax breaks.
That's the neat part, you get to define it for yourself.
I agree with your point in general, a stock doubling or getting cut in half doesn’t necessarily have any obvious explanations. However, stocks aren’t a pure random walk, they are somewhat bound to the underlying business even if you don’t have enough information right now to understand what’s going on.

So, the kind of extreme stock shifts like dropping to 10% of a previous valuation are much more likely to have an understandable cause even if the trigger is random.
Writers write books and articles when they haven't got anything to write about.

Songwriters write songs when they haven't got anything to sing about.

Directors make movies when they haven't got anything to make a movie about.

Copies of copies of copies... It's no wonder people are tired. Where is the substance? Where is the risk?
Speaking of anonymity, I wish suicide hotlines would be upfront about the possibility of 'active rescue', that is, calling the police if they think you're about to kill yourself. It seems like a disclaimer they would run at the beginning of the call, but they'd probably lose callers that way.

Still, it feels like a violation of informed consent regarding a service that bills itself as anonymous.
Insurance exists to cover losses from unexpected events. Medical complications are unexpected events.

Your hungover surgeon is a bullshit strawman - most complications have nothing to do with provider malice or incompetence.
Again since that seems to be the angle you are starting with you clearly have no interest in a grown up discussion or too ignorant and also full of hubris to understand any of this (which fits in perfectly well on this site).

If you throw a massive clot after a surgery and stroke out who’s fault was that if all the standard protocols for clot prevention were followed. Maybe you’re a smoker (or not) and 5 years later that unknown cancer will finally declare itself.

> more or less exists for each procedure

This is extremely misleading as it does not exist in any meaningful level of risk across the entire patient population.
Yes, the performer would benefit from that attention. Maybe some of the people your presence brings around will tip them, etc.

The difference is that the existence of the performer is super obvious while in this case author and their work is hidden so author will not benefit in the same way.
Where do you put the bar of the legal vs morale argument? A few days ago, I discovered a government entity in Pakistan was using my AGPL software [1] to handle censoring of media through their "ministry of information and broadcasting". I did release my software under AGPL as I like the underlying ideology of free software with a large emphasis on the freedom and not the free of charge but would have never expect some regime would come to use it to handle censoring.

[1]: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
Depends on your bracket I suppose. According to this [0], an individual $180k salary in AUS is taxed at about $58k. In USD would be about $44k. But... I pay $12k in health insurance, so they're reasonably close.

I think AUD < USD though, so spending power is probably a lot different. Don't think you can do a real thorough comparison in an HN post.

[0] https://www.trendingaccounting.com/2022/06/comparing-tax-rat...
One thing we should do while we’re configuring oauth consent screens, verifying domains, and other 10% drudgery is tell ourselves we’re building reusable infrastructure or at least obtaining the knowhow to do so.
> With this capability also comes potential risks. We strongly recommend building in user confirmation flows before taking actions that impact the world on behalf of users (sending an email, posting something online, making a purchase, etc).

Yeah thanks for the heads up Sam.
As far as the US is concerned, nobody has good memories about the last time that was tried: https://www.cato.org/commentary/remembering-nixons-wage-pric...
A phenomenal artist. Thank you Cormac for bringing honest beauty to my life.

Some of my past HN comments re McCarthy:

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When I read both Melville and McCarthy, I'll often find myself mid-run-on-sentence and think to myself, "welp, he's gone too far this time" only to find, by golly, they pull it off in the end. What would otherwise be complete pretension and chaos is, when wrought by true literature artists, simply breathtaking. There are times when I'm reading McCarthy and I literally, out loud, utter "Lord have mercy" for the beauty/fullness/meaning that man can lay upon us.

—

This quote from Blood Meridian is one of my favorite in all of literature and I think capture McCarthy's magic. He has such great talent to describe simultaneously with vivid details yet inexact clarity/meaning.

> It was the judge and the imbecile. They were both of them naked and they neared through the desert dawn like beings of a mode little more than tangential to the world at large, their figures now quick with clarity and now fugitive in the strangeness of that same light. Like things so charged with meaning that their forms are dimmed.
Or give a waiver for the current main apps...
Should be finish your project*

Sometimes there's just more interesting stuff to do, or the easy project turned out to be a near impossible slog. Letting go and moving on is a valuable decision instead of digging a deeper hole. That is sunk cost fallacy.

Ie, I tried making a instagram + discord fusion. Instagram image feeds, but to a server of people instead. Turns out it's a ton of work and is worthless unless others adopt it. So it got scrapped after month+ of work.
Batteries have reasonably high round trip efficiency ~80%, where many proposed long term storage options are much much lower.

If your storing nearly free power for 9 months then having 40% round trip efficiency may not actually be a problem. But it’s terrible for daily storage as you would need roughly twice as many solar panels etc.
Exact duplicates are already automatically removed by bots.
We remove request posts that lack detail or when there have been several similar active posts within the year. This strikes a balance between allowing every post only once and swamping the subreddit with nearly identical requests. We removed about 75% of the posts reported for this category last month, the remaining 25% either didn't have previous similar requests or had enough to detail to stay up. Many cases are ambiguous and resolved by majority vote.

AMAs don't happen spontaneously in major subs. As with everything else, there's a lot of admin work that goes on behind the scenes. We mostly invite people for AMAs; under 10% of this year's 10+ AMAs were requested by the participant. Someone has to email them, answer their questions, schedule a time, explain how to post, join them in a chat channel, etc.

Deceptive promotion is rarely flagged on our sub. We got ~450 reports last month and none of them were for promotion. Promotion posts are quite rare; they're against our rules and most people don't even try. What we regularly see are comments from users recommending their own products. Some cases are obvious, e.g. new accounts frequently recommending a book without ratings that was released yesterday. Many are much harder to identify; we regularly search user profiles and the Internet to confirm an identity. One person we banned last year had been covertly recommending their book for months. It took numerous searches and several weeks to remove all their promotion comments.
Show HN: ChatGPT with Access to the Internet
This is a client for the OpenAI's GPT API (requires you to have an API key).

Features:

- Can look things up for you over the internet

- End-to-end encrypted chat history

- No login or personal data required
Gamification, life, and the pursuit of a gold badge (2021)
It seems like quite a few are judging by online comments alone. I'd love to get a hold of the real numbers.
Mexican Matrix
All of the corporate profits from the post-pandemic bonanza, the ones that were the single biggest contributor to the ongoing inflation, are now free to crash other markets because that cash has to be invested somewhere.
I moderated a subreddit once. It sucked all the joy out of Reddit for me. Every time I visited the site, I got stressed as to what new nonsense happened.

Fun stuff I had to deal with include: The admin's "Anti-Evil Operations" frequently deleting user comments with no explanation. A persistent pedophile who just wouldn't go away. Getting guilt tripped by a severely mentally ill guy whenever we had to ban him (and his many alts) for breaking the rules. Doxx. Gore. Brigading. White supremacists. Racists with their "racial crime statistics". An impossible to moderate Reddit Chat (there were no chat moderation logs at all). And much more.

I completely checked out of moderation when I remembered that I wasn't getting paid to deal with any of the above. And since then, I've had much more appreciation for all the moderators who were willing to put in time and effort into maintaining a community for free.
buying stock makes little sense when an avg user is many times less valuable than IG or tiktok.

they're already struggling with worse service on the way.

at least Google and meta have world-class programmers. what's reddit's moat?
More like Li'l Abner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo
What gets me is if all the third party apps had banded together and said 'july 1st, we all pivoting to support a new platform', that would have been enough of a network effect to effectively cold start the network effect on whatever they targeted. It would have been dig all over again, and this time reddit would have been in the dust bin.
Network effect. The mods don't really offer anything. People won't leave for another platform because there's no content/community. It's even hard for an individual subreddit to leave because a single subreddit isn't enough to be self-sustaining.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36270427

> [The judge overseeing the case has permitted the plaintiffs to remain anonymous in court filings because of credible threats of violence [PDF] directed at their attorney. The Register understands that the plaintiffs are known to the defendants.]

> https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40...
> From Willie Brown to Gavin Newsom to Ed Lee, and now London Breed

Don't forget Leland Yee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Yee#Arrest_and_convicti...
We have been talking a lot about digg recently actually. Mostly by comparison to reddit.
Not saying monopolies aren't a problem, but I'm not able to connect the dots on how monopolies are responsible for the inflation since 2021 unless monopolies have gained power since then.

Otherwise shouldn't we expect the inflation to have started before covid?
docx, because it will only be opened in word so there’s no point.

Ideally I’d write everything in markdown or LaTeX or Typst, but if I’m working with people who use Google Docs or Word, I use Google Docs or Word
I've thought about this a lot in the context of our org. What you're describing is taking modeling -> production (minus the screen shot one).

Typically a data engineer will be the one who helps bridge that gap, but that has a problem of does data engineer's output == scientist output, which can be time consuming to handle.

To shrink the gap from dev->prod - we have 2 notebooks, one for model development and one model deployment in production. We use papermill[0] to execute directly notebooks in production.

Shared functions between the dev/prod that are built by the scientist are put into a separate notebook and then imported via `run`. If I'm honest, our scientist don't do this and simply copy/paste the functions if we don't yell at them to fix it.

This basically allows us to stay within the jupyter environment entirely so that dependancies are isolated.

So, it's far from perfect, but it's allowed us to shrink the dev->prod life cycle time. Love to hear what others have done towards the same end.
I noticed amount of spam doubled as soon as i woke up - this explains me.
> Judge Hegarty admitted that these are serious concerns. However, since the defendants in these cases can request a protective order to proceed anonymously, it is no reason to quash the subpoena and end the case before it even gets started.

Can't they just proceed with this?
> Nazis are very fringe, they don't outnumber anybody else and can't outvote people either

Respectfully, Twitter is kind of living proof of the opposite -- clearly they can overwhelm/outvote people (and even out-spend regular folks, if you throw an $8 price tag barrier up), despite being a small number of the total population.
Agreed, although I'd say KiCad was pretty rough 4 years ago but it got good in 2021 with version 6. It used to be good enough for a saint, but now it's good enough for a whiny picky person such as myself.
Medicaid and disability are not as golden as you make them out to be. It’s actually quite difficult to get treatment.
Google. The quality of communication on forum sites is extremely low, and if Reddit wasn’t my only access point to a handful of niche communities I’d just never use it again anyway.
How do you monetize what's more than ad impression counts?
Also apart from various types of nerds it appears to be mostly outrage echo chambers.
Seems like it's nostalgia based on what the ZX81.

Sure, having the space button be on the bottom right seems silly, because you'd have to use your pinky finger instead of your thumb; and the thumb is much stronger than the pinky finger.

Typical keyboards these days have spacebars that are 5-7x the size of usual keys. This faces a similar problem: Instead of your thumbs being able to press useful keys, the thumb can only really press spacebar (without moving from home row); and the pinky fingers get used for all the other stuff.
For Apollo specifically, about $5/month is what he decided would be sustainable to support Reddit's increased prices, but since there were existing users with yearly subscriptions, it would cost a lot to break even while still providing those users with service.

As for why he couldn't simply shift those users to monthly, it's due to the notice being a month. If Reddit had given a 6-month warning, that would've given everyone time to content with the issue and update their own apps (billing system changes are hard).

> Going from a free API for 8 years to suddenly incurring massive costs is not something I can feasibly make work with only 30 days. That's a lot of users to migrate, plans to create, things to test, and to get through app review, and it's just not economically feasible. It's much cheaper for me to simply shut down.

"Why not just increase the price of Apollo?" on https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...
This is me too. My first projects were in Eagle, primarily because it was the de facto standard for EDA for hobbyists for a while. KiCAD used to be awful and very challenging.

In the last several years, it’s really improved and I enjoy using it. If you haven’t picked it up in a while, give it a shot.
Source? I don't believe the specific situation you described is true (unconscious and legally required to pay the bill).
I do this, but it isn't well supported. Most Jupyterlab extensions expect you to `pip install` and that will handle both the frontend and backend components. The docs make basically no mention of the frontend/backend split. I end up having to install a bunch of frontend stuff in my project envs just to make sure my notebooks work.
I'm not an aggrieved moderator, but I am someone who has moderated in the past and used the third-party tools and bots that allowed a subreddit to remain focused on a specific topic. I don't think you recognize how much random spam and troll submissions are caught by filters and cleaned up automatically in even small subreddits.

Having given up moderation ages ago, I have no dog in this fight. I'm sitting on the sidelines watching the drama with a bowl of popcorn, just like everyone else.
How is charging for an API which costs them money "fucking people over"?
> It used to be good enough for a saint, but now it's good enough for a whiny picky person such as myself.

I really like your description of patience in software. I think I'll borrow this for future things I want others to try.
More antitrust regulation - have to increase competition. Of course this won’t happen immediately. If I were the president I’d have direly warned the deployment of the defense production act to commandeer basic supply companies and curb their profits. Just a warning would have set them straight.
The web is not stable at all. Everything about it except TCP/IP change rapidly.

Emails are still sent, received, and rendered similarly to the way they were 5-10 years ago.
I took a quick glance at the paper. It sounds like initial efforts on a type system focused on trying to capture the whole space of programs that could be expressed? Whereas later efforts have focused more on how modern functional languages are meant to be used? (e.g. there’s an exhaustivity checker)

This seems like really good news. It’s exciting to see where this goes.
So I am confused - especially combining with https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/17/health-industry-dat...

Is it violation of hippa or other privacy laws or anything to use fbook pixel, google analytics and the like when you build a site for a drug rehab or other healthcare type of a site?

The privacy concerned consumer in me wants all these things to be blocked.

As a consultant and site updater I had given up trying to push privacy to tons of stakeholders who are all used to using g-analytics and other services to determine direction of content and business and the like.

Yet this and that politico article make me worry as a site builder but happy as a consumer that thinks maybe all this is about to have sweeping changes. Or not.
Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella: All-In on AI for Future Success
Yeah, I have no love for Autodesk as a begrudging Fusion360 user, but on the surface it seems that 10 years before sunsetting an acquired product as well as integrating it into an existing platform in that same timeframe is pretty good as far as a product acquisition goes from an end user perspective.
I honestly can’t figure out how to engage with the fediverse. I keep asking but it just doesn’t make sense. This from a person who had no problem with IRC.
The problem is the vampiric, worker-hostile corporate ownership model. We need an ability to create and manage worker-owned co-ops more easily, maybe an "SAP for Co-ops". Not just to run them, but to collaborate on shared resources and infrastructure to federate smaller concerns as larger entities to the outside, be it a platform or a co-op network.
I almost never rely on activating environments anymore. If it's in my project, I refer to it by its path relative to the project top level. If it's meant to be "global", I use Pipx, and if for some reason I can't, I use a script in ~/bin that uses the absolute path.
Creating an alternative to Reddit would be pretty easy, but the challenge is the critical mass of users necessary for anyone to ever replace it. (We are even using a clone right now.) Another challenge would be scalability, but this is not as difficult as it was in 2005(?) when Reddit came to life. They are playing a dangerous game disrespecting their users.
Our taxes are certainly lower but I think a comparison of taxes + typical insurance premiums wouldn't look quite so stark.
A mixed bag? Is there anywhere in the history of humanity with more extreme and unaccountable behavior than the Internet?
Confusing terminology. Is inflation at a 2 year low, or did it rise the least in the last 2 years?

Neither is particularly comforting, but one is worse than the other, and I imagine the wording is tricky on purpose
There’s already a fair amount of discussion about this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36313348
not enough to cause an entire blackout
The coordination required for such would be quite intense. Also fragile, as the third party apps would quickly abandon any roadmap agreed upon if Reddit changed its mind.

Maybe it can happen now among the apps that have put their foot down about a complete end, but certainly loses a lot of momentum from those who might have already uninstalled them.
Judging by the footprints/models I come across (from real companies doing 10M+ part volumes annually), there appears to be an entire society built around Altium Designer 2009 and educational licenses of Solidworks.
It will never have the one thing that people come to Reddit for right? NSFW. Not porn precisely, but a range of freedom of expression that goes beyond the narrow band of expression allowed on Zuck’s platforms.

Reddit has always tried to thread the needle of having 4chan-like freedom without 4chan-like anarchy. That’s the secret to its success.
No people are insane.

Remember no man's sky fallout?
Or cyberpunk one?
This is really tangential to the core issue of charging for API access, as it’s essentially just an implementation detail. Losing moderation functionality is a valid complaint, but Reddit doesn’t need a free API for that to exist. There’s no reason to think that the required functionality won’t be implemented into the service. Your complaint here is also, rather obviously, massively overblown. The free API never enabled a moderation tool that automatically detected and removed gore or child porn, so there’s really no reason to think your claims about that content have any credibility.
It can also decently serve as a way to output structured data, which wasn't extremely hard before but had its failure modes. This is a much more typical and understandable use-case for many apps
When writing C code, which for me is rare these days, the language doesn't give me enough guardrails in the type system (e.g. unique_ptr) and at compile time that I'd prefer to write straightforward and dumb code. And that means code that does a lot of malloc()s with no surprises. If I have a char* that cannot be free()d, such as pointing to the middle of a longer string, I don't even let that escape the scope of a single function. Leave the memory management trickeries to more modern languages like C++, or, better yet, Rust.
>4chan

It is remarkable how well moderated that site is.

Illegal posts tend to get removed immediately, while antisocial types get quickly dealt with (banned).

Site is oddly infamous, but certainly does not deserve the hate.
The big problem is that 1) the potential cost is essentially unbounded and can end up being ruinous even for someone relatively well-to-do 2) there is an unfortunately high likelihood of losing the job and insurance coming on the heels of getting a diagnosis where you really need care.
I gladly quit using Reddit over this. The site and its CEO are a mess anyway.
And their hosting is REALLY bad. Videos have NEVER worked right for me on Firefox and it's been years with no progress.

The redesign is basically unusable for me. And it's astounding how much data it has to pull down compared to old.reddit.com even with ads blocked just to load a page.

Like, it's just really shoddy work from the ground up. If hosting really was the problem, there's a LOT of lower lying fruit for them to clean up.