skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted this a few days ago, and in-line with your thoughts ;

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I use OLD+RES for MY consumption and data density - if you dont know how to configure these together to create a much faster, and more aesthetically pleasing (to me) UX - then that sucks.

https://i.imgur.com/gdDawWz.png

https://i.imgur.com/jlTJGaT.png

So much more pleasant and quicker - especially with hover - I dont even need to click links

https://i.imgur.com/jDvjQwM.jpg

Which of the following do you find pleasing, its personal opinion, so choose what you like - I prefer old.

These are the same page, the only diff is old. vs www.

https://i.imgur.com/mnl5pCb.png <-- www

https://i.imgur.com/JfFZMQX.png <-- old

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So I just tested this again ; This is just btwn www.reddit and old.reddit, just now - notice the difference in content placement?

https://i.imgur.com/HtJhXqQ.png <-- www (notice the first story [ad])

https://i.imgur.com/xm6DAP3.png <-- old (ads more subtle - but still there) none of that click-puke in the UI though.
OpenAI are already attempting, they have a free classifier you can try, but results aren't all that great:

"Our classifier is not fully reliable. In our evaluations on a “challenge set” of English texts, our classifier correctly identifies 26% of AI-written text (true positives) as “likely AI-written,” while incorrectly labeling human-written text as AI-written 9% of the time (false positives). Our classifier’s reliability typically improves as the length of the input text increases."

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-...
Posted on April 1st :)
Minimum Wages and Homelessness
I've seen some IRC channels archive their chat as search-able HTML pages that are also indexed by search engines. Wish Discord servers would do something similar.
I'm fine with Reddit AND Google disappearing. I'd much rather be on old forums that actually provided useful information.

Reddit is just an echo chamber for people to complain for the most part. I rarely find useful info there. I quite using Google search quite awhile ago and don't miss it at all.
Speaking as someone that blocks javascript by default, the page doesn't look too bad!
> People get upset about title editing on HN because they only notice the cases they dislike. Any practice will seem obnoxious if you only count the things it gets wrong.

I don't like or dislike any particular title or headline. I dislike the policy of selectively altering an author or publisher's chosen headline in general.

> I can tell you after over a decade doing this job that the title moderation on HN is probably the single most beneficial thing we do. Without that, the front page would consist of linkbait, sensationalism, and rage.

I appreciate the insight. Is the plan to keep this policy in place indefinitely in order to protect us from ourselves? I find it very depressing that a community like HN cannot be trusted to look at an unedited list of headlines. Do you think there is any hope of eventually developing something like a collective immunity (or even resistance) to clickbait? If it can't happen here, what does that say about the prospects for media literacy more broadly?
It is not letting me reply to your reply to my comment, so I am going to reply here instead.

>What? Now you are just desperately grasping at straws.

Explain. Am I incorrect?

>And? So what? The kid also says so, not that it matters.

Because he has not seen any. Just because they didn't see any kids doesn't mean they don't exist. The fact that the kid himself exists suggests that this is not entirely correct.

>That's right. Before the internet and IT, nobody saw any children. This comment is the dumbest thing I've read in a long while.

I would appreciate it if you could make a point without resorting to insults. For one suggesting that others are childish for their interpretations, you are resorting to childish actions.

As for my point, perhaps I was not clear in my meaning. I meant that there was no way to verify that there are no kids...no newspapers saying that "all kids are dead," or any other way for him to verify that information. He is just saying what he has seen, which is no kids.

>There has to be clues within the story to imply that he is unreliable ( psychologically, memorywise, etc ). Not that he doesn't have access to a smartphone.

Again, you misinterpret my point. The father is not omniscient. He does not know for certain.

>Yes. Not only that, I as six year old once. Long before I was 6 years old, my parents stopped carrying me around. And you are being intentionally sneaky here. Who said anything about picking up a 6 year old. I said carry a 6 year old how many miles they had to go.

At this point, I am starting to think you are not actually reading my comments. A well fed cannibal with a stomach full of people is not going to have trouble carrying a six year old the same way a starving father on the brink of death would be.

>Let me guess, you are the type of person who watched the movie No Country for Old Men and believe that chigurh didn't kill the wife. Or that the girl in the red dress in schindler's list wasn't dead but playing dead because she was saved by some magical good nazis. At this point I hope you at pretend to be trolling to save yourself some embarrassment.

Now you are resorting to ad hominem and assuming things about my character. No, I am sure Chigurh killed the wife. I have not seen Shindler's List so I cannot say one way or the other.

>At this point I hope you at pretend to be trolling to save yourself some embarrassment

The only person embarrassed here is you. You have shown great immaturity during this conversation, and immediately assume the worst in everyone. That says a lot more about you than me. I will not be continuing this conversation, because it is obvious any further discussion with you will be fruitless. Have a blessed day.
I was recently discussing something similar, and we came to the conclusion that the difference lies in Intention

Doing an overly complex method because that's the only way you know vs doing it because it has benefits

We came to it in a discussion about manners (My interlocutor usually does something considered rude, but does it in an over the top way that always get a chuckle) You need to know plenty about rules, before you know how to break them with good results
So far, the results aren’t great.

People claiming to be able to reliably detect LLM generated content have been found to be selling snake oil.
Being able to tie it specifically to the lab this concretely, by identifying the first patients by name, and having that (allegedly) from US government officials, is all new information, AFAIK.
All major imagining satellites provide stereo imaging suitable for 3d reconstruction. Airbus has whole suite of products around this, and probably the biggest reason why there isn't off-the-shelf products for WV3 is because its just so new.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7248834/

https://www.intelligence-airbusds.com/imagery/reference-laye...
> Has anyone ever actually had customers accept an outage because AWS was down...

Whether customers "accept" it or not just comes down to what's in your SLA, if you have one in the first place, and if they are on a contract tier that it applies to. [Many servies provide no SLA for hobby / low tiers, beta features, etc.]

Firebase Auth, for instance, offers no SLA at all [1].

I would be curious to see statistics across a range of SLAs for what % include a force majeure or similar clause which excludes responsibility for upstream outages. I would expect this to be more common with more technical products / more technical customers.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/60500860/149428
I think the main limitation of our docs is that it mostly explains what the pieces do, not how to use them to achieve a particular goal. For example, we have pretty good documentation of all the pieces to do HA, we just don't tell people how to assemble them together.

The reason is, I think, that flexibility is a pretty fundamental part of the project. We're great at providing building blocks (and documenting them), but we steer clear of describing a particular way to assemble them together.

For example, we might describe a particular HA approach, but then that would be perceived as "recommended / official" way, giving it preference over other (and equally valid) approaches and tooling. These "how to" docs are bound to be way more opinionated, so we just focus on documenting the pieces.

In other words, our docs are written by devs for devs, and we leave the higher level stuff to tutorials written by others etc.
It replaces most (but not all) of the javascript. So you can manipulate dom elements, draw to a canvas, etc.

There is still some javascript requirement as the wasm approach generally needs some JS setup bits in order to have things work. Languages that can compile to wasm should already have that pretty well figured out by this stage though. In theory. ;)
And yet for the last 5 years (recently confirmed it still happens) they have been calling themself "#1 Host Russia":-o

https://www.reddit.com/r/NameCheap/comments/7o0hid/transferr...
Parent comment is talking about how prices are increased artificially on delivery menus especially those listed on Doordash. If you order pickup from the restaurant (via their actual website or a phone order) you won't face this.

An example would be 5 Spice in Brooklyn: their menu (1) vs. the Doordash menu (2) have significant price differences.

(1) https://5ivespicebk.com/home-5ivespicebk#865c19de-ce54-43a2-...

(2) https://www.doordash.com/store/5ive-spice-brooklyn-132997/
That’s just your opinion, man. I checked the site on iPhone and would say that it’s better than 80% of the sites I see. No performance issues at all. The extra wide font I don’t like however.
Comparing one insufficient pile to another more insufficient pile is disingenuously framing the context.
more like a knowledge blackhole.
> Delivery companies will put strict limits on how many drivers can be online at once, crippling the narrative in their marketing that drivers can choose their own hours.

They already do this, if there are too many people online in an area the app will tell you to move to a different region before it will let you go online.
Is this not a centralizing measure? This is where things fundamentally break down for me.
In my defense, I am a strong proponent of refactoring to make all problems shallow. So there are classes of bug that I will see before anyone else because I move the related bits around and it becomes obvious that there are missing modes in the decision tree.

I tend to believe that discipline and tenacity are separate traits. Often appearing in the same people, but different skills with different exercises.
The opposite is true in the US. Parents treat soccer as a youth pastime and funnel kids towards basketball, football and baseball for high school and college.

Then the question becomes: Would LeBron or Patrick Mahomes be elite soccer players if they were raised in Europe?

My guess is yes. Their body composition would be different by following different fitness goals but I think there’s a combination of strength, balance, vision, endurance, leadership, decision making and determination that is highly translatable across team sports.
I haven’t given it much thought until just now but it really is surprising how terrible Googles image search is. There are so many images on the Internet yet the image search often fails to retrieve good examples even on straightforward searches. Never mind difficult searches, higher resolution images, or if you want to quickly download an image. It was never very good and it’s gotten perceptible worse.
Certainly coming soon, Companies like flocksafety are coming close to realtime crime prevention only a few steps away from your last example
Hopefully some of this is democratized away by humans voting on quality of output directly and/or indirectly?
If there is no dependency between your results, you do not need synchronization. Parallelizing it just means putting them into a seperate stream of execution. That can be a thread or an entirely different computer and the two different execution streams need to synchronization or communication between each other.

That is an entirely different set of problems than having to deal with a computation that has close dependencies and now you need synchronization and communication to progress the compuation. You don't only have to think about how to synchronize your computation, you also have to think about how to distribute your data to begin with to minimize the need for synchronization. An entire set of problems that just don't exist in the former case.

To pick up a word you used: In one case you have many independent tasks and you want to run them as quickly as possible. In the other case you have a single task and you think about how to split that up to make it faster.
Related, here's a pretty impressive attempt to detect bad words, to allow a talking banana on a Twitch live stream, without being banned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ5ppf0po3k
Habsburg AI – a system that is so heavily trained on the outputs of other generative AI's that it becomes an inbred mutant, likely with exaggerated, grotesque features

from https://twitter.com/jathansadowski/status/162524580321127219...
It's much better than what he would have made under the old medallion system Uber disrupted.

Pre-Uber/Lyft, either the driver rented the car from a middleman who rented the medallion from a rich owner, or said owner was selling and financing (most banks won't touch these medallions!) a medallion at a ridiculous interest rate to a driver that planned to use it as his retirement savings (an extremely volatile asset and not very liquid). Sure back then the dispatch only took a 15-20% cut, but medallion payments took at least a 50% cut on every ride. That money didn't get re-invested or re-distributed as incentives to drivers, no. It went straight to the pockets of the local rent-seeker.

The more I spoke to cab drivers the more it seemed their industry was a pyramid scheme aimed at helping established rent-seeker take advantage of often poor new immigrants. Uber/Lyft brought a breeze of fresh air: Someone could simply buy a car, calculate the depreciation and it's value on the market (since unlike medallions cars are relatively liquid assets!) do rideshare and calculate their profits or loss. They can get out of the game at anytime, and they know exactly how much they are going to get for the car they have should they sell it.

And I'm not even touching the usual pain points and often discriminatory practices of medallion drivers (refusing card payments, refusing rides to non-white passengers and to non-white neighborhoods...).
No review site depending on users is perfect but I've found it's the best option for a quick "what's a good restaurant for x cuisine" in America.

I've found Google Maps or Tripadvisor to be too hit-or-miss especially when traveling abroad where Yelp isn't as prevalent.
Good product. Used it for a multi tenant implementation. Pretty easy to get started with, can get hairy before reaching operational excellence but when running, it’s pretty solid. I like it because it’s Postgres under the hood. Even extensions work. Happy self-hosting “customer”.
they can do whatever every other company does when it overhires or has too many people working during a dead shift. this is a solved problem.
I don’t use the reviews, just the listings. One of my favorite local restaurants purposefully asks for one star reviews on yelp, as they were listed there without their consent.
Thanks for this detailed explanation!
> A concept is a sensory-motor technique abstracted into a pattern of thought developed by an animal, in a spatio-temporal environment, for a purpose.

Hi, since human linguistics is the sole repository of linguistic conceptualism, can you please show me which of the neurons is the "doggie" neuron, or the "doggie" cluster of neurons? I want to know which part of the brain represents the thing that goes wag-wag.

If you can't mechanically identify the exact locality of the mechanism within the system, it doesn't really exist, right? It's just a stochastic, probabilistic model, humans don't understand the wag-wag concept, they just have some neurons that are weighted to fire when other neurons give them certain input stimuli tokens, right?

This is the fundamental problem: you are conflating the glue language with the implementation language in humans too. Human concepts are a glue-language thing, it's an emergent property of the C-language structure of the neurons. But there is no "doggie" neuron in a human just like there is no "doggie" neuron in a neural net. We are just stochastic machines too, if you look at the C-lang level and not the glue-language level.
Good luck lobbying YouTube to make their API free. I'd love to have a version of the YouTube app that didn't cost me any money and also didn't have ads.
Linked to at Marginal Revolution https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/06/we..., where Tyler Cowen says "the results on this question are swinging back in the neoclassical direction." Quoting the paper,

"Municipalities that increased minimum wages by up to $2.50 per hour from 2013 to
2018 saw an average increase of 14 percent in homeless counts in the years 2014 to 2019 relative to municipalities with no nominal change in the minimum wage (real decline) or with changes pegged to inflation (real no change). Municipalities that increased minimum wages by more than $2.50 per hour from 2013 to 2018 saw an average increase of 23 percent in homeless counts in the years 2014 to 2019 relative to municipalities with no change. A dynamic version of this analysis suggests the increase in homeless counts increases as time passes."
Maybe for not so long.

On mobile you need to close 3 banners and sometimes even log-in to see the content.
Dog breakfasting
Would it be better then to have a decentralized reddit clone where each subreddit is its own instance?
What’s interesting is that when you charge for api access calls suddenly you have an incentive to make each api call as inefficient as possible. Everyone has always complained about how terrible reddit’s api is, now they have no incentive to improve it as each call is generating profit.
This looks really interesting.

I was looking into implementing custom and conditional content blocks in Vrite editor but wasn't sure about the output format. MarkDoc seems like a great, standardized extension of Markdown that would be perfect for this use-case.

Will try to work on that.
I mean, we knew about the eternal September of Reddit. That was just part of the experience.

The oldtimers would drift slightly more and more out of sync with all of the newbies, the newbies would gradually become the oldtimers, that's just the way it goes.

Circle of internet life, you know?

They're probably looking at this attack as ripping off the bandaid. No need to have generated so much ill will, but the owners of Reddit, (not the users) have decided they want to go forcefully in a certain direction and they do not care who they have to trample to go that way.

To that I say, "Godspeed, and go die in a fire", but whatever. I'm enjoying the comedown from my Reddit addiction. I find myself reaching for my phone when I'm bored and realizing I deleted the app and have no instant dopamine buttons available.

Change is good, and if you can't change with it then change in another way, right?
A lot of these sites are probably already breaking FTC rules.

If one runs an affiliate link blog they're supposed to disclose that relationship when they show the links (and in a way that the reader won't easily miss it). [1]

It was a big thing in video game streaming that even stuff like free game codes given to content creators can require something like #ad or #sponsored put in the stream title.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/ftcs-endorse...
This is the way I think personally. I recently changed my mail server host, had to unblock the IP from MS and all that but since, it has been smooth sailing... for now.
I don't think so. Door dash is complaining that this will result in a $33/hour pay rate for trip time. The law seems to be that you may pay however you like, but it must average out to $18/hour (overall? per person??). So even if you're paying for trip time only, if 10 people are active and doing no trips it would imply the average pay rate for the one guy doing trips must rise to accommodate the non-workers.

So the scheme above doesn't work too well for those folks but the economics for door dash remain the same. It also kind of implies you can create surge pricing for workers by having an overabundance of supply, which is a nightmare scenario for them.
Don't spill the hacker secrets!
And this is how Uber somehow is taking the upper hand while Lyft is in a downward trend. Nobody was expecting this a few years ago during the boycott Uber scandal.

Food delivery is way more lucrative than taxi business
> Agreed. I have a small home server setup that draws 40W idle and I toyed with the idea of replacing the UPS with a small 1-2kW battery inverter plugged into the wall.

No idea if this would work in practice, but you might be able to backfeed your battery with a regulated 11.9V onto the 12V lines and backfeed at 4.9V on the 5V lines, so when the power supply shuts off and puts 0V on the 5V and 12V lines, the battery will start back feeding, but when the grids power supply puts out 5V and 12V, no current will move.

(Will need blocking diodes to avoid back-feeding the battery that’s kept topped off by its mains charger)

Saves you some DC->AC->DC conversions. You might need a 3.3V leg as well. And maybe negative voltages if those are used for anything anymore?
> San Fran and not generally in the US

SF attracts homeless from all over the US, given its mild weather (great for living outside) and generous social services. It has been like that forever also, you can watch old movies from the 1920s about hobos jumping trains to get to SF (or LA, or Seattle, or Portland, or even Vancouver BC, choose any of the west coast cities, all for similar reasons).

People have freedom of movement in the USA, and they mostly take advantage of it.

> Maybe it’s not capitalism at fault here but a government that is unwilling or unable to supply standard social safety nets like homeless shelters and addiction therapy.

The issue is then how do you prevent one locality from having their resources swamped fixing what is really a national problem. SF can't fix the nations problems, so its voters/tax payers get jaded really quickly.
> And consumers can cheaply add some phase change materials for a boost in thermal banking (like really salty water bottles).

What does this do?
Make a completely free API but change data structure every week or so.

App makers will get angry and stop at some point
How much does it cost for a low to moderate traffic (annually) "your own domain" server?
fighting games for example.

it used to be that you could find a wiki with all the frame data, bnb combos and character specific tips/guidelines, and move analysis.

now it's spread on character specific discords, where data is in google docs.
The article calls out access to features of SQL data stores — not writing SQL itself. In practice, that means developers need to learn how to use an ORM; most common operations are pretty well abstracted.
Author is not even arguing that, though I agree with you. Horrible title.
At least in New York, it is. It’s less prone to the cost noise that infects the other rating services—where a 3 star could be due to bad food or someone being surprised by New York prices. (There is also a scourge of paid top ten articles that makes a simple search useless.)