skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What broke Digg is exactly what will break Reddit. The 90:9:1 rule applies just as heavily to Reddit as it does to everything that came before it, including Digg. If you made a Venn diagram of Reddit power users to those affected by the shuttering of popular apps, the overlap would be immense, and I'd be willing to put money on it being the case too.

If you drive the power users away, nobody is sharing content or engaging in the comments regularly enough for the 9% of casual commenters to stay engaged and they leave - then the 90% goes because there's nothing at all for them to lurk around.
The fact that which timezone is used in the announcement is a sign of progress... AWS announced it pretty quickly, gave nice updates, and seems to have fixed the problem quickly enough. I'm interested to see the postmortem...
The study can not be accessed without payment, but if they did not correctly control for kids, it is useless.
CLI tool to insert spacers when command output stops
I have one of Davids, it’s a nice keyboard. I also have one of the Memotech keyboards from back in the day - but in 1981 I was “enjoying” the membrane keyboard.

David’s whole website is a ZX81 adventure!
https://www.zx81keyboardadventure.com/p/zx-key-support.html
https://www.zx81keyboardadventure.com/

Memotech Keyboard:
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/36275/Memotech-ZX81-...
This one looks well-cited though.
I’d recommend using a template engine like Pug / EJS with a bootstrap like CSS framework.

More generally, try to think of your sever as sending a static HTML document for each web request and much of the UI complexity automatically shifts to the backend.
I can tell you that math people also learn from the concrete.
You do not learn math by reading it, but by fighting it.
"They aren’t looking for “status” they are looking for someone who is emotionally intelligent."

False. A lowly educated low earner male that is emotionally intelligent will not get selected. Every dating/marriage statistic confirms that women refuse to marry down. So they want both status/wealth and emotional intelligence.
Apollo's backend just handles push notifications, the app talks directly to Reddit for 99.9% of its functionality.
I wonder if they will still make the AI sign an NDA so it can’t talk about the PTSD it has from work.

Because they make all their content mods sign one that also absolves them of all responsibility.
Exactly, I see merit in your comment. They are making it some kind of "David vs Goliath" situation where spez is the Goliath but judging by the ease with which these mods were able to close shops and killed traffic to their subs all of a sudden, this now seems more of a "elves vs dwarves" situation where both sides have somewhat roughly balanced powers.
That definitely sounds sensible. I had the same question and figured I ask AI. It gave a pretty good answer. So I shared it.

I didn’t think it would get a backlash. But agreed, the answers are too verbose and polite for an HN comment and do not fit with the culture here.
The probability of player A being up a rook over player B is higher when player A is better than player B, even if their Elo is the same. So the author has picked scenarios where player A is already more likely to be better than player B but assumed they were of equal skill, which will cause the results to be biased.

If I have time later I'll try to whip up a small coin-tossing demo in Python that demonstrates what I mean, I'm definitely not the best explainer!
You may also want to take a look at “Deletion: The curse of the red-black tree” (Germane and Might 2014), which presents functional deletion for red-black trees.

https://matt.might.net/papers/germane2014deletion.pdf
Agreed, although in this case it was a mix of Reddit itself and individual mods. The mods in /r/coronavirus for example got media attention and it was clear that it went right to their heads. They stopped making the mod log public, transparency went out the window, and AutoModerator basically went nuts.

It was so obvious that they wanted to portray a specific narrative and silent any dissent. Absolutely disgusting behavior.
Yeah demoscene has a few hacks to get around the checks.
I have, after reading various historical recipes for the mint julep, this fine letter, reviewing the poem recited by higher-end bartenders upon the making of a drink, and so on, settled on my own recipe. I can drink but rarely, so when I do, I try to make an occasion out of it.

The "ice" as fine as snow is particularly difficult. You'll want a triple-stitched bag, one that can take heavy pounding. You will also want dry ice. First, because it makes the water ice more brittle, and the second because it keeps your snow crisp, rather than dissolving into a slush. I suspect that there is a machine better suited to the task but I've not gone that far.

The mint is more subtle than suspected. Many "muddle" the mint, which is to say crush it with a muddler. This does release the mint oils, but it also releases the more vegetable tastes, particularly the chlorophyll, which alters the flavor profile. No, what is better is to slap the mint across the palm of your hand. This, apparently opens the pores of the mint leaves and allows the oils out while keeping the rest in. I also "round" the mint flavor by adding both spearmint and wintergreen.

My other changes are perhaps a little archaic, personal, even radical, but the first two ought ought to improve any julep.
The off-by-one error occurs when you announce an event in Standard time but really mean Daylight time, or vice versa. While those local to the time zone will often automatically correct this mistake either consciously on unconsciously, those in other time zones (especially where Daylight time isn't used or is on a different schedule) will tend to rely on time conversion tools which will take a literal interpretation of the scheduled time and result in the person being an hour early or an hour late.
`xdg-utils` has been around. But we're talking about the `open` symlink specifically. Here's the Debian 11 changelog: https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes...
And it's what, 50% higher than 3 years ago? Anecdotal data points are useless.
Don't forget the legend of the lost Mcdonand's Training DS Game: https://kotaku.com/we-can-all-finally-learn-how-to-make-big-...
Back in college (now 15 years ago) I did an analysis of fast food menus for a nutrition class.

McDonalds turned out to be the easiest to get a healthy meal from at the time. They had things like salads, apple slices, and a much wider variety of items than other fast food restaurants meaning that if you were to eat there every day it was much easier to make different healthy meals than it was at the others but like an order of magnitude.

Basically just skip the soft drink and only occasionally order the fries and you'll be fine.
From my reading and working in editing movies:

The point of the book is not at all the visual, most of it is very subtle. One commentary that I heard that was very astute pointed out that many parts of the book are specifically not detailed, one big example being that we rarely if ever witness the Kid killing or partaking in the murder/general viciousness of the gang.

This means that a large part of the book is emulated in your brain while reading - did you infer that the kid is doing all this, and is just as bad as them? Is he an observer, like you, and doesn't leave because he doesn't know better? Does he actively try to avoid unnecessary violence?

Your reading of these things will affect your reading of further parts - like the accusations of Holden, saying that the Kid was always a traitor to the spirit of the gang, which are not specific enough to be factual, but you absolutely know what he means while reading (depending on how you characterised the Kid).

All this means that any one expression of the story would betray the oeuvre (in my mind), which aims to get you in the boots of these horrible men and understand that they are part of you (between other things).

The stark writing and purposeful lack of factual descriptions of some key points make Blood Meridian a very evocative work, rather than descriptive. Half of it is and remains in your mind, and that's simply not what movies do.

All this to say - you can do a movie showing what happens in the book, and it would be good! But it would contain very little of why the book is so beloved and respected.
When I got my first big corp job at a FAANG company, in the first week a senior dev gave me the worst work advice I've ever received: "Always write code as if you expect it to be around for at least 10 years."

I think that's how that dept was doing things, and it was paralyzing. This was business logic that needed flexibility, not something like an OS kernel. Not only did new features not get shipped, but the pedantic approach actually caused tech debt because better solutions were seen as too hard. Code really did sit around for 10 years, and not because it was good code (it wasn't).
This makes me wonder if Karl Marx‘ analysis of Capitalism is all wrong and not because of economic reasons but rather because men feel compelled to climb the hierarchy, even if it means turning into "exploitative capitalists", to impress women.
Even if they were paying Dan a million a year to moderate, it’d be worth it considering trailing YC returns generated by the talent HN pulls in for YC portfolio companies.
I made a Ruby LSP because of this problem. It's not perfect but incase it's helpful for you. It can parse a large project with all of its gems in a few minutes. That data is indexed in an in-memory db with Tantivy. https://github.com/pheen/fuzzy_ruby_server
To offer a counter datapoint: I moved from engineer to manager while tracking my hours fairly accurately.
I can pull off 50 hours of development, including late night emergencies, some client pressure, etc., and still feel energized the weekend, while after 40 hours of management, meetings and firefighting, I become mostly useless and have to take some serious breaks. I enjoy both.

However, there are so many parameters affecting this result that I wouldn't dare to make a call on which role is more tiring in general at a regular company.

- I'm less experienced as a manager, I have to continuously learn a lot and grow fast.

- This is in a young start-up context.

- This is with a very broad scope of responsibilities.

- I'm me.

- etc.

YMMV

The largest fatigue factor to me seems the amount of context switch I have to do as a manager.
RIP. One of the modern literary giants. The Road remains one of the most harrowing books I’ve ever read, and Blood Meridian, the most disturbingly beautiful.
> If you don't tip the employees, the prices will go up, and you'll pay the same price either way.

Right, which is preferable by far. At least that makes the whole thing noncoercive.

Businesses should pay their people a reasonable wage, not make the employees beg, or rely on guilt and coercion to get your customers to make up for what the business doesn't want to do.
way to gaslight yourself.
These numbers (from Nick Timiraos of the WSJ) highlights how sticky the core inflation is:

Core CPI for May 2023

3-month annualized rate: +5.0%
6-month annualized rate: +5.1%
12-month change: +5.3%

Core CPI for May 2022

3-month annualized rate: +5.8%
6-month annualized rate: +6.4%
12-month change: +6.0%

Fed fund rates has gone up over 4% since May 2022 yet core inflation barely dropped, the economy still going strong and not slowing down significantly (compared to historical labor data and jobs opening, consumer spending), yet this somehow supports the soft landing narrative. Assuming tomorrow FOMC is set to pause, and without any dramatic change in financial conditions due to lagging effect of FFR, I think it's at least equally likely that we'll see a (hopefully mini) repeat of the Burns-Volcker before core inflation drops to its 2% target.
Two out of three replies were talking about the assignment even mutation is the (obvious!) real issue.

> OK, how about

> x <- x + 1;

Better.

From such syntax you can at least guess that mutation is happening there.

Still nothing you would show a newcomer in a FP-programming introduction.

(I'm not sure why your comment got down-voted. I can only up-vote it, so I did; to battle stupid down-votes because "feels"…)
> the current uses of generative AI are already able to solve their respective problems

"solve" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here…
Not to mention that emotionally intelligent is somewhat of an insulting term. Men and women deal with and express emotions in radically different ways, that doesn't make one way more mature or intelligent.
Do you consider yourself “qualified to make any judgments at all” about Apollo’s efficiency?
Re. SCATS, I used to work at the RTA as a consultant for another company back in ~2000 when it was still based as Eveleigh. My understanding is and has always been that they were the ~first to put loops under the road to count traffic but the other elements of the system were not that amazing. They still had a PDP live, and also ran the Sydney portion of the emergency services radio network from the same data center. A control system would show real time traffic densities. We were adding a PTZ-capable remote video on demand component circa 2000 using a combination of 128K ISDN and fiber. I wrote some kind of last minute multiplexing PTZ data control bridge kludge in perl. The idea was that, after the traffic system detected an anomaly, the control system operators could "dial in" and "look around" to "determine" the cause of traffic issues and create an appropriate response using their bridgedeck mounted joysticks straight out of the 80s. We sold some to the Philippines and I got to go, as an 18 year old, and party hard with the locals after we signed a deal with the mayor of Manila. Fun times. Corrupt as knifespoon.

These days I assume most people/companies/governments source their traffic flow info from Google because it has more 'active' sensors in so far as every car has at least one mobile phone. Telcos could and should also sell this type of data in an anonymous format. Large toll roads track individual vehicles with a combination of wireless billing systems and numberplate ID so they are effectively able to provide a similar solution for those high value roads.
I've always felt the downvote option was a colossal mistake and just allowed controversial or unpopular points of view to disappear, strengthening the filter effect for everything else.

I mean even 4chan doesn't have downvote functionality, if people disagree with you they'll just call you a f* or n* which, while nasty, doesn't actually change visibility of your post, plus only the admins can ban you or delete a post, not jumped-up mods, and frankly you'd have to be pretty extreme on there to earn that.
Ray Dalio talks about this succinctly.

When you issue too much debt and don't have the income to pay it back (you're running a deficit) you either pay the borrowers back less money than they are due (default) or you pay them back the same amount of money but that money is worth less (you 'inflate the debt away').
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> yet every other story online is about them doing exactly that.

That's because this strategy is only normally utilized by the biggest PE firms (Apollo, KKR, etc.) who acquire large businesses (Toys R Us, Instant Brands, etc.) and those sell headlines. Net on net returns, it's much harder to turn a $1B biz into a $2B, versus a $10M business into a $20M business. So the large funds typically do a ton of creative financing to achieve returns and hence how they essentially bankrupt the companies. Sub $1B acquisitions usually this strategy doesn't make much sense.
It's not even the hiding that pisses me off. It's the manipulation.
Unless one person is getting one million severances, they'll outlive it.
I had proposed this reply to someone else's similar question.

I don't think the current app's design is an accident (i.e. it's not pure incompetence). It meets several objectives:

* Minimizes the user-generated content shown on each page (a couple of threads or a couple of comments), so it reduces the amount of traffic to the server and DB as the user browses around.

* Oh, and it leaves a ton of space for ads, which (bonus) can be served from a separate ad server, further lightening their load.

* Plus, there are Bob Ross-like "happy accidents" like pages jumping back to the top when you go a level up from a thread - going back to your spot can trigger more ads to be shown.

The 3rd-party apps subvert all this, and bypass the ads, to boot.
Let me know if my math is wrong: it means that 5 people are on the moderation team of 18.4 subs. The 500 top subs often have mod teams from 20 to 50 people.

Bringing up that stat doesn't seem really relevant.
That's a very dicey prediction to make. It might be dead in the long run but for now, the pent up traffic will all start flowing back to those subs. And who knows, who is to say if the newly installed mods are better or worse than the present ones? Maybe they will just be the same.
> it was developed using GB Studio

yeah a lot of people in this thread seem to be completely unaware of GB Studio's existence, which is funny because a lot of people learn to make games in GB Studio nowadays. The GB Studio scene is pretty active.
Nope. I was born in 1987, and Chinese NES clones were sold well up to 1997 until everyone in ~1999 got a Play Station at home as the prices went down. So, to US, retro was NES and the older GB games such as Mario Land 1.
I’ll bite, what’s unethical here?
Related: I'd love an app or web site that lets me type in a medical procedure needed by someone close to me. After an AI chat conversation where I clarify the procedure and list any possible complications I'm aware of, the app would use databases (such as the database linked to this thread) to give me a list of estimated pricing nearby (and far away, if the prices are high.) All estimates would give a range (for example, $3500 +/- $1500.)

Does such a thing exist? It seems possible with 2023 tech, although it probably needs to know health insurance details to do its job well. I think millions of US citizens would subscribe.
Hacker news is more a place that uses its property as a nerd watering hole to occasionally feature job ads for Y combinator funded companies. For this goal, it needs to be as nerd-friendly as possible. Reddit on the other hand targets a different demographic. So I'd say at the current point, it's unlikely. But this can always change. Reddit also once didn't have the redesign and once had free API access (still has for a few days). In the end, the cloud is someone else's computer.
I think it is response to 2008 crash, where consumers were blamed for buying houses.
"those stupid consumers, why did they buy houses with the home loans we gave them, it's their fault".

Since 2008, this has become a more common refrain from the right, that consumers are to blame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-Jw-5Kx8k
https://www.cnbc.com/2014/02/24/5-years-later-rick-santelli-...
Have you tried GitHub Copilot Chat? You just select the code you want to edit in your IDE and tell it what you want (the chat is in an integrated window next to your code). It will see what code is selected and use the rest of your codebase to edit it. The code it responds with even has has a "Insert at Cursor", which will replace the selected code with the new.
Having just seen someone mention Phillip Seymour Hoffman, I am drooling imagining what that would have looked like.
Invidious (alt. Frontend), NewPipe (android), FreeTube (PC). I use those since long ago. There's LibRedirect web extension for your web browser to find good invidious instances too. Cheers!
If you like that kind of writing, you would enjoy “Autumn of the Patriarch”. Probably Marquez’s best prose work.
I'm not sure how Apple/Google 30% relates? Those companies do a lot to support businesses on their platform. If you don't want to change anything, you get free hosting. For payments, they provide the entire infrastructure to support developers. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement even if the fees are quite high.

If Reddit does want to kill all third party apps complaining about how they haven't done a single thing to actually support 3rd party developers is kind of moot. But the point of the protest is how underhanded that is; they would be manipulating users and developers by lying about the whole thing. And if they actually didn't want to kill all third party apps then they still lied and are also incompetent.
Kinda makes me think of those tobacco advertisements of yesteryear. It's like "oh hey, Winston cigarettes sponsored the Flintstones, I'll never stop smoking Winstons."

Who knows, perhaps one day we'll look back on modern day fast food ads and consider them equivalent to cigarette ads.
What damages would who experience?
Yay; now I have one fewer thing to remember when I'm hand-writing HTML! =)
That's true. I equate Growth PE with "minority interest, positive profitability", VC as "minority interest, growth at all costs" and PE is simply "majority acquisition, typically profitable".
Explains the recent slew of "long form" articles.
Yeah but you see, we have been here before. "This time we are serious about ML/AI..." And if you went and bought an AMD card then, you'd have been wrong.

My example about LLMs was just to show that AMD is simply not part of the conversation. Three month before you could have made the same point about another approach.

And still, if you'd actually have to risk money, you and me both know you'd never invest in AMD hardware for AI or start developing on it something high stakes.

I mean, look at geohot he tried and just gave up entirely and AMD.
It also demonstrates to Reddit management that the moderators are capable of a coordinated action.
How on earth did you get readme.com?

I'm assuming someone else owned it, whenever I see that and all the "make an offer" links I move on and ignore it. Was the process easy?
It’s a scam. Recognize that most of the Big Tech firms freely share data with the feds. Further Bezos owns the US version of Pravda. That EFF calls it a victory is disappointing to say the least.
No, you have to carry the fire
Except that tips won't even count as those "fees", because they're technically a gift from the customer directly to the employee.

That's a big part of why I get so angry about this. This practice has subverted a good and very nice human act into a something demanded. It strips out all of the value of tipping.
seems to be popular to believe that offering consumers a choice that might not be great for them is immoral and should be banned.
13k vs 35k for a defib implantation, yikes.
Maybe it’s just me… but I never have been able to immediately fluidly intuitively grasp any understanding when someone has made “in a vacuum” statements. I just think of vacuuming carpet.
This is very, very true. There is a huge proliferation of PE firms now too and many who are very unsophisticated, especially when dealing with smaller, family run businesses.
Blasjs – Pure Javascript (TypeScript) rewrite of BLAS
batteries are extremely toxic. You can't just bury them and call it a resource for future generations like you could with plastic.
If you're building your SaaS startup on AWS, take a look at what programs are available to help you grow your business with AWS.
I think they meant more that you don't get some magic pass for years of service, kind of thing. If you have built up a paying customer base, odds are high that you can leverage that to another owner, no? No need for PE to get involved. Unless you are trying to maximize every penny you can get on that sale alone.