skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol. Unlikely to cause the world to end, but interesting to see that these scribes treat the actual work of transcribing scripture as a spiritual practice, in the tradition of thousands of years or scribes before them.

With the notable distinction that the vast majority of those past generations or scribes were working before the advent of the printing press.
I agree with your sentiment and that banning stuff is stupid. Lights in general are more dangerous because they abdicate responsibility, and people who drive in north america often seem to do so on auto-pilot, only following the signals without observing anything around them and assuming the lights will do the job for them.

In places with fewer traffic lights and more rules or customs about priority, you actually have to pay attention while driving, so people drive better and more safely.
A levy of 45 cents per $1000, which according to the seattle times:

> The bulk of money raised from the new levy, $707 million, would go toward the construction of new subsidized rental homes and improvements to aging affordable apartments. Those programs are focused on housing for people making 60% of area median income or less, about $74,000 a year for a family of three. Nearly two-thirds of the funding would fund housing for those making even less, 30% of area median income or $37,000 for a family of three.

The current levy (passed in 2016) is 25 cents per $1000. A tax of a few hundred dollars per year on a million dollar home isn't making an impact on housing affordability. Expanding the availability of affordable housing might. I'm skeptical that $707M is enough to make a dent.
Flipper Zero “Smoking” a Smart Meter Is a Bad Look for Hardware Hackers
I would've explored alternative servers.

The issue with Synapse is the same as I currently have with Lemmy - lack of HA. One particular machine goes down and the system is 100% unavailable. And most of my machines are hardware I own, located at homes (mine, parents, etc) in different countries, so they're slightly more prone to random power or uplink outages than AWS' us-east-1. Hobbyist-grade geo-distributed cluster, hah :)

I've solved this for my email (two mailhosts on different continents, Dovecot dsync replication for mailboxes) and my storage (Minio works, and I'm slowly experimenting with Tahoe-LAFS), but I haven't solved it for Matrix.

Dendrite supports distributed deployments and reportedly works with CockroachDB (albeit not officially supported). Not sure what Conduit supports (last time I've checked it was all about embedded databases like sqlite, rocksdb, sled and persy), but it has pluggable database backend architecture so when I'll finally decide I want to fix my stuff, I'd certainly check it out as well.
Been on Reddit for about 14 years. Never knew of the guy until a couple months ago.
The amount of idiotic things I've heard quoted is ridiculous. Good for laughs though.
A new threat to financial stability lurks in the cloud
Something I don't hear about very much is the potential for these implants to get covered in biofilms.

We learned in microbiology that all implants eventually get colonized by bacteria - it's only a matter of time.

Oftentimes (such as with urinary catheters), host-derived factors like fibrinogen are deposited on the foreign surfaces and bacteria then latch on to these deposits. Other times, the bacteria attach directly to the foreign surface.

There are even cancers associated with particular textures of breast implants which get covered with particular microbes. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26890506/

This seems to be a huge hurdle towards brain implants..

In breast implants, there is actually a form of lymphoma which you are much more likely to get
> Kidults are people who preserve their teenage likings (from video games, anime and fantasy, to a responsibility-free lifestyle) until they are 30-35 and older.

It seems like this is painting with an extremely broad brush… is liking video games (or, I don’t know, the Offspring) really that similar to putting off employment or parenthood?
I think most advertising is a net negative for society. I'm all for legalizing the things you mentioned, but every one of them needs to be heavily regulated and a part of that should mean limits on ads along with where/when those products can be bought and enjoyed.
Or eat them. Or both.
In truth it depends on the software. For web or phone or desktop apps which can be upgraded on the fly, short cycles are ok.

On the other hand, Boeing's crappy software practices resulting in the 737-MAX crashes are an area where short-cuts killed people.
I wonder if it could be Homo Naledi counting something.
Yes, have you never read a math paper before? Bold = vector is a common convention, for example.
Thats exactly what this is, a gaslighting press release from a child of a ceo
Reddit only needs to win in the short term. It seems pretty clear spez is cashing in all his chips for an IPO.
As long as they're willing to pay moderators above minimum wage for that jurisdiction. (And just wait until people are complaining about moderators who have no knowledge of the topic and do not interact with the communities.)
presumably if you vote for something spez doesn't like he'll just bring up psql in production and issue a few UPDATE commands until he's happy

like he did before
Got any sources for that claim?
It would be nice if we didn't feature such rage bait headlines here on HN.
One again, it looks like Steve Huffman is ignoring his own company’s history and trying to pretend third-party apps weren’t a major part of Reddit’s initial success.

Reddit did not have an official, first-party app until 2016. Prior to that, it depended on third-parties to create apps, with the most notable example being Alien Blue, an iOS app that Reddit themselves acquired in 2014 and then discontinued at the same time they launched their official app.[1]

It’s also bizarre that he’s now saying that the Reddit API was never supposed to allow third-party apps, when he’s supposedly trying to convince app developers to pay Reddit to continue operating. In fact, in previous announcements, Reddit specifically said that this was not supposed to kill third-patty apps, and that if they wanted to do so, they would just turn off the API entirely.

Honestly, this is what’s making me dislike Reddit the most in this entire situation. If they just came out and said “we’re killing third-party apps to make more money”, I’d at least respect the honesty. But this constant barrage of excuses, starting with “it’s too much of a load on our servers” then “the regulatory environment has changed too much” then “the Apollo dev threatened us” then “third-party developers aren’t contributing to the community” and now finally “the API was never intended for third-party apps.”

The good news is that we’re starting to see signs of a financial impact to Reddit. Apparently, they redirected all of the ad impressions targeted at subreddits that were closed to the home page, resulting in substantially fewer click-throughs due to the lack of targeting.[2] Indications are that if the blackout continues for longer than a week or two, there’s going to be a mass withdrawal of ad dollars. The mods participating in the blackout are also discussing reaching out to advertisers directly to discuss the likely impact to content quality and (implicitly) encourage them to pull their ads unless Reddit changes their minds.[3]

I’m hoping that the board at Reddit sees the impact this is having to overall site trust and thus advertising quality, and forces Steve Huffman to walk things back.

Remember, most third-party apps have stated that they’re perfectly willing to start paying Reddit, it’s just that none of them can afford to do so at Elon Musk prices and with only 30 days notice to get payment infrastructure in place. Most have also stated that they would be open to adding Reddit’s own ads to their apps, or requiring users to have Reddit Premium subscriptions. Reddit has yet to respond to any of those options and/or explain why a compromise plan like those listed isn’t feasible.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#Mobile_apps

[2]: https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/ripples-through-redd...

[3]: https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14aafs0/indefinit...
Today, java has much better dependency management than python. Nearly all popular languages do.
Even if true, that would be subject to a pretty enormous sampling bias. The users most strongly in favor of the blackout aren't visiting to know that those polls are even occurring.
After a 15 year status quo and 3 months since Reddit stated there would be no major changes to the API in 2023, the costs for Apollo suddenly went from $0 to tens of millions of dollars a year with 1 month notice. Reddit could have done this years earlier, or not lied about their plans, or given a reasonable notice period, not set ridiculous prices, anything. I don't see how any of this is the fault of third party devs.
Somebody has got to help Steve get a grip. He's doing serious damage to Reddit and his own credibility. I can totally understand his disdain for people who he perceives are trying to ruin "his baby." But he's got to be smarter than this as a CEO. This is a matter of public opinion, and his defiance is just imprudent.
Couple corrections:

- They absolutely do have to serialize, usually via pickle. I'm pretty sure objects are not sharable between subinterpreters and there is not a plan for that. The main reason people think subinterpreters are good ("you can just share the memory!") is not actually true.

- They don't require any changes to the C interface because those changes were already made, and a fair amount of cost was paid by C library maintainers. So it's true, subinterpreters are at an advantage in this regard, but that's more of a political question than a technical one
I've done some sysadmin work with an iPad, a Magic Keyboard and a Logitech MX Master 3. Works really well.
I don't think any mods care about making money off this, and that's fine. They do it because they love a tv show, hobby or (in my case) city.

All he needs to do is... not despise the people who his company is built on.
The 1950's had no computer,
no cellphone, but the electric washing machine was first patented in 1937, so we'll give them that. Part of that dream included sending the kids to college, so in terms of sheer dollar amounts, a tv and a cellphones is a pittance. Supporting a family of four on a single person's $20/hr job, living simply, isn't actually possible today, and that's not because of luxuries like a cellphone. Inflation came in unequally and wrecked everything.
"Natural compulsion" is a reason. A bad reason, born out of a failure of self-awareness and reflection, but a reason nonetheless.
The Ocean Cleanup; Interceptor Barricade is now operational
Yep. They could also have kept the api free but insisted that 3rd party apps show ads. The developer of Apollo also agrees that would have been reasonable. But no.
Custom grammars are a cool idea. They are terrible in practice and one of the biggest reasons why Lisp failed to take off, why it's almost noone's first choice of language for building something big.

The reason is that new grammar creates a new language, and the divergence of the new language from the base language creates a cultural barrier that inhibits communication. It's harder for new engineers to be productive, and it's harder to collaborate.

Customizing your grammar works best if you're a lone wolf, a one man band. You can lever up your productivity by custom-designing something perfectly suited to both you and your preferred problem domain. But nobody else will understand it.
Why couldnt it be you though, so we wouldnt have to read such stupid comments.
Imagine you could have $1 now or x 1 year from now. How big would x have to be in order for you to prefer it?

Well, if you were planning on buying a $1 savings bond at a 2% interest rate than x would have to be 1.02 or bigger. If the interest rate increased then x would need to increase as well. In other words, an increase in the interest rate is a decrease in the future value of money - it takes more future dollars to be worth the same amount of present dollars.

When interest rates are low, companies prefer earning money in the future. They prefer growth. When interest rates are high then companies shift their preference to present dollars. What we are seeing is companies choosing to pursue money now rather than money in the future because of what interest rates are doing.
The reason I have the iPhone is that they make better choices for a lot of things, not specifically that it is a walled garden. I still wish I could take a system with that design, then sideload, or root, at my own discretion, without every update being a risk that the root will be broken. It's a rather expensive computer and I wish I could use it as a more general purpose computer for certain things.
Knowing fully what happened to Rome, if it’s even possible, would have been limited to the educated class. Stories would still have come out of the peasant class, whose folk memory of Rome couldn’t match what the clergy had.

Eventually we did remake the Pax Romana, but it took two utterly ruinous wars, humanism, and a working knowledge of free trade to recreate the system that Rome had managed to create almost by accident.
The moment he was caught editing people's posts and not summarily fired is the exact moment he invalidated every data point that website gathered.
I do not understand your question. If I do not deviate from convention but omit unimportant details, is it a sketch for you?

If you have a project document template from PMBoK, do you feel obliged to fill all the sections or you document only information relevant to your project? With UML it’s the same: it offers a lot, but you do not have to use everything to produce a conforming diagram.
Anyone knows how domain name pricing works? Why some domains are cheaper in first year and then 10 times expensive the next year?
Can a domain registrar exploit the situation where they know you have a good business around that domain so now the domain price per year is let's say 5,000 dollars?
Of course he does. Parent comment means the socioeconomic conditions of the refugee place of origin.
I think the lumping there is certainly sloppy, but there is something there. There seem to be a large number of adults who like comic books, young adult fiction, or other entertainment primarily intended for children… which I think is fine… but also have no interest in anything else, or have some sort of expectation that these media will start to include decidedly adult themes without significantly changing in style. That’s strange and a bit unsettling to me.
Yes the changed pricing but then grandfathered people in later so didn't end up screwing people over.
I'm a long-term, several domains user of Google Domains and disappointed to learn of this sale.

Several others have suggested porkbun and I'm interested to see that it provides an API (https://porkbun.com/api/json/v3/documentation).

Do folks have experience with this API?

I have a hacky a solution to update Google Domains Dynamic DNS record but would value a more functional API to update DNS records. Had I known about this before today, I may have migrated my domains to porkbun for this reason alone.
There is a large population of online users looking for an alternative. Where is the market competition? Where is the startup (or other company) leaping into the action to gain this ready-made audience?
>> only once people see both entities as bad a proper thesis about a better more just world can be made.

You're putting a loser mentality on full display. As much as cynical smartass Russians like to mock "fat stupid Americans", in the end of the day it comes down to what kind of life do governments provide for their citizens. Americans live far longer, healthier, happier, more peaceful and more prosperous lives than you do. They have allies all over the world who willingly engage in commerce, cultural exchange, political and military cooperation, and many other things without coersion because of the mutual benefits it brings.

Russia is a cargo cult version of this. Tries to imitate American influence in the world, but fails, because Russians bring very little of any value to the this world. Mostly things that are in the ground anyway, and not products of their ingenuity and determined work.

No, you are not equals. America is a vast incredibly rich empire, but you're just a gas station with nukes. No amount of whataboutism changes the simple fact that everyone envies the Americans and sees you as losers.
> the vast majority of Reddit's userbase is on new Reddit on desktop and the official app on mobile

I think this is probably true, but has Reddit published any metrics to confirm this?

I'd be especially interested to see the usage patterns segmented by contributors vs. lurkers. I'm sure it's true that the majority of Reddit users use the official app and new reddit. But I'm far less certain that's true for the majority of users who post content to reddit, or who moderate large communities.
Something can be a good choice and still have room for improvement. This is how we think about how things can be better.
Lorem, lorem
They'll call first.
That's nice for people (like you, apparently) who don't have a problem with the direction reddit chose with their website and app, but for those who enjoyed old.reddit and Apollo it's too bad.

This whole situation reminds me of a policy that happens around my city where they turn industrial areas into residential ones by renting out the old factory buildings for cheap to artists and once the neighbourhood is made popular (by these artists) rent goes up enormously (pricing out the artists) and yuppies move in.

Reddit is now kicking out the people that made it.
> should be ashamed for publishing Reddit’s press release for them.

I have a sinking feeling I'm going to be seeing this phrase posted thousands of times.
Hello fellow I-was-once-11-and-fascinated-by-.plan! I wasn't sure if I was the only one. St Louis in 2000 made it seem like there were only a handful of people interested in programming at all.

Hmm... 11 would put me at 19999, so I must've been more like 12 or 13. I remember that's when I started taking gamedev seriously.
Those studies are horribly misinterpreted. Look at the original data, it includes using a credit card as not having the money...
OK. It might help to keep in mind a couple things:

- Python started as a simple language, but it's grown over the decades, and professional programmers learned the new complications along the way. They don't naturally appreciate what it's like if you get hit with them all together, as sometimes happens -- it all seems simple to them. So to understand OO I would try to screen out the fancier bits like the class variables you mentioned -- you can come back to them later.

- The original central idea of objects (from Smalltalk) is, an object is a thing that can receive different commands ('methods' in Python), and update its own variables and call on other objects. The way Python gives you to define objects (by defining a class and then creating an instance of the class) is not the most direct possible way it could've been designed to do this -- if it feels more complicated than necessary, it kind of is. But it's not too bad, you can get used to how it works for the most central stuff as I mentioned, and learn more from there.
The situation we're discussing already involves taking the machine apart to short the security eeprom during boot. Once you've accepted physical attacks as part of your threat model it seems reasonable to say that any mitigations you're designing should be resilient to physical attacks as well.
How to build an fast analytical database -Part3
Taking a closer look from the perspective of query data stream processing, let’s discuss how to build an ultra-fast database. As shown in the diagram, when a database receives an SQL query, it goes through four major modules for processing: query optimizer, query scheduler, query executor, and storage layer. Each module addresses a specific aspect:

Query Optimizer: This module converts the SQL text into an optimized distributed physical execution plan. It aims to find the “best” execution plan by considering factors like query cost, data distribution, available indexes, and join strategies.
Query Scheduler: The execution plan is scheduled and distributed across the compute nodes. The query scheduler assigns tasks to the available resources, considering factors like load balancing, data locality, and resource availability.
Query Executor: The compute nodes execute the specific physical execution plan assigned to them. They perform operations like filtering, joining, aggregating, and applying functions based on the execution plan. The query executor efficiently processes the data in parallel and minimizes data movement across nodes.
Storage Layer: The compute nodes retrieve data from the storage layer. This involves reading data from disk or memory, applying any necessary data transformations, and providing the queried data to the query executor for processing.
The amount of time configuring a OSX vs Windows work computer was huge.

Both of which can run any software of your choice, which demonstrates that walled gardens aren't necessary for usability.
Trackerless torrents are very old now, they use the DHT network to find peers. I believe it needs to be seeded when you first start a newly installed client, but that's completely transparent to the user.
There seems to be a pattern emerging here, and I've seen something similar in my contracting experience: Once the cheap money dries up, the social network figureheads show you who they really are. Believe them when they tell you.
Are you me? :)

I teach IT at a university, undergrads and grads. All of this is exactly correct. The oddest thing is explaining to people my age (I'm 46) how many of my IT students are likely less knowledgable about those kinds of basics (despite having other, to me odd, skills, like fake instagram accounts and such)
> Huffman said negotiations have broken down with two of the most popular apps, Apollo and Reddit is Fun, but he said Reddit is willing to negotiate with most third-party developers.

Given the lack of contrary evidence in this "article," it's abundantly clear that absolutely no journalism was done here. The Apollo guy clearly made significantly more than a reasonable effort to come to terms with Reddit (and has receipts to show it), and it was Reddit who ghosted him.

This is a Reddit puff piece.
I can tell you have some experience with old bronze/copper. Most people do not even know what "bronze disease" is.
It kind of makes sense that their strategy would involve cold, manipulative tactics, given the goal is to successfully trick each person they talk with into thinking they actually are interested in them as a person.

I find it disgusting and terrifying, but not all that surprising.
That's cool. At some point, he was an awkward nerd who wouldn't stop talking about his dissertation. And no matter how many Turing Awards you win, your parents will still never understand what you do.
The fun of tabletop games is social. It's getting together with your friends and interacting directly with them.

I'd have less than zero interest in playing tabletop games if everyone at the table were wearing headsets of any sort. We might as well just play online.
I was wondering about that too...

It appears that they have two boards: a flat board where the images are limited to the reflective area, and a bent board (which has a flap that lifts up at an angle) so that you can get an actual 3d visual...for 3 out of 4 players (the image is still limited to the reflective area, but the reflective area is now 3d instead of just a flat plane).