skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not denegrating French innovation here at all, I just don't think the rigid ENA/Ecole Polytechnique elites are practical or competent in understanding how to exploit and build on great ideas by their countrymen.
I don't disagree that these schools still need to evolve a bit, but you'd be surprised at how much they've already moved in that area. I know multiple people from Polytechnique are heavily involved in entrepreneurship and/or AI.
> The only reason people are protesting api pricing is because they want to protest. The actual concern here isn't what they are protesting.

No...? It's a decision that impacts millions of people that rely solely on third-party apps to have any decent experience on Reddit at all. The "official" app is a hot dumpster fire and lacks incredibly basic accessibility features, among other shortcomings. The official app is a joke but instead of making it better to entice more users onto it (and thus see more ads), they just exploded the entire community.
I sometimes miss the good old days of visual basic and delphi when I could create a gui that just worked in seconds, help pages via F1 and quick access to all events possible through simple gui clicks.

A few days ago I tried getting a simple PyQtWebengine example working using pyqt6 and failed miserably. It was a frustrating experience for sure
Apart from the fact that I felt the definitions of “intelligence”, “consciousness” and “sentience” fell short, I found this to be a thought-provoking read.
Right, my point is kagi finds me useful content not just “searches reddit better”
Why the divergence between India and other countries, where 10 years is the norm [1]? (Climate makes sense.)

[1] https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/powerwall/Pow...
To replace front camera you have to buy the whole cooling apparatus with heatpipes. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/replacement-front-camera-k...
Bud Light Loses Title as Top-Selling U.S. Beer
I get that you are saying that Bengio and Hinton are not like Einstein and Openheimer. Your problem with the "appeal to authority" is a cultural and psychological problem and not real so I cannot have a counter argument. It's simply science denial. Check one by one the names. It's the top science community. Ilya invented backpropagation and Paul Christiano RFLH the backbone of how current models work.
Plus Windows 8 with Sinofskys .NET hate, decided to go back to the original plan of improving COM, which could have been a good idea, if the execution hasn't been so tragically performed.
I think there‘s a confusion of cause and effect going on. If I don’t want to or can’t get stuff done (usually because I‘m too tired), I procrastinate with things that are low friction. OTOH, if I‘m well (enough sleep etc), I find it easy to take on more demanding tasks.
Can someone explain to me why Reddit can't have different price tiers for their API service? Why can't they charge people who want to scrape en masse (LLM trainers) 10-100x more than mobile app API users?
Paywall removed: https://archive.ph/RPMqG
1) Compared to what? It's really important to compare those reddit results to elsewhere and not the hypothetical "best" answer. Yeah, reddit answers are often not great, but in my experience, the rest of google search has, over the past 10 years, gone to complete and utter shit. If I don't already know where to look (and just want google to get me there faster), 99% of my results are going to be useless blogspam.

2) It's even more important to have an understanding of the _kinds_ of things reddit is good at answering, and which communities provide good answers to those questions. Reddit is so big that there are good and bad versions of almost everything.
Highlights how hands off Reddit generally was until now that while we say “Twitter” vs “on Twitter” or “YouTube” vs “YouTuber”, until now we rarely distinguished between “Reddit” and “on Reddit”. Reddit was an invisible benefactor until it wasn’t…
In hindsight it's easy to say, but I bet they would be extremely profitable if they had taken less VC funding and kept self-hosting of content to the minimum. Serve a few ads here and there, let companies do their guerilla marketing for a "small donation" and have people pay for their Reddit gold.

But that probably wouldn't put them on track for a few billion dollar IPO, so of course you can't do it.
Awful, but strangely appropriate. Considering all the "I don't care about quality; just dump a pile of text" uses we're seeing.
Since I'm in NixOS, I can at least emphatically confirm it is JUST the kernel.

Though, given the way the LCD panel wonks out, I'm actually concerned it's power management related. It looks like what happens to an LCD panel when the voltage goes too low. (Or at least, I think that's what that effect is, based on what I've seen with other weird devices with low battery.) Since MicroPC is x86, though, I doubt the kernel is driving any of the voltages too directly, so who knows.
We actually don't have a 5 meter global elevation for Mars. The imagery is 5 mpp but the elevation data used in the links is MOLA and is closer to 500 meters per pixel (with another merged product at 200 mpp). It is almost more weird/cool that we have hundreds (thousands?) of 1 mpp elevation models for small areas of Mars from HiRISE (available for free from the PDS) and larger swaths at ~20 meters per pixel from CTX imagery used in this global mosaic, but still not close to a global product.

various sources:
1. https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/details/Mars/GlobalSurv...
2. https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Mars/Topography/HRS...
3. https://www.uahirise.org/dtm/
4. https://stac.astrogeology.usgs.gov/docs/data/mars/ctxdtms/
> It's widely understood that NY won't enforce a non-compete if its not paid.

I’m sure the Walmart cashier with a non-compete hanging around their neck is much appeased by this.
Finance uniquely has little in the way of IP protection. There are strong incentives to keep a former team member out of the market for a year if they have your secret sauce.
This has been known for like 10 years now. I can't believe anyone actually still uses or trusts Yelp reviews.

There were lawsuits in the early 2010s over trying to reveal the identity of negative reviewers because so many restaurants were claiming they were fake/extortion.
I think that they do.

Third party apps need to do a lot of API calls, every time that the user sees content, upvote content, comment content. If you're just retrieving it though? We can simplify it to one API call = one comment.

With that in mind, $0.24 for every 1,000 API calls is damn cheap. It means just $2,400 for 10M comments. It's pocket money, and likely cheaper than to hire a codemonkey to sort web-crawled stuff.
It's true. I had a Nokia phone in 2003 that survived being thrown in the washer and the dryer before I noticed it was missing.
>APIs for content sites must be free

so..... whose tax money are we gonna use to pay content sites owners for this?
I don't see how you can pull enough fat out of the operation to reverse the terrible numbers that Doordash has had for years. Here is a link to their financials. They have had years of losses.

[1]:https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/dash/financials/
My father developed a bad rash approximately a year ago that won't go away. He also developed his first ever bloodclot. The rash could be from the eliquis, but his Dr thinks its from chemo. His lung cancer is successfully in remission for now, but the stage 4 COPD doesn't care. Anyhow, I learned recently that a rash is one of the more common side effects.

Good luck with your treatment.
I can't distinguish your comment from cognitive impairment either, but I do you the favour of assuming you're capable of evaluating and describing what's going in your head, and you'd do well to do the same for others.
> I hardly believe even more than 1% of email users even know about its federated nature

You're completely ignoring the corporate world, which may outweigh consumer email use (dunno, but it wouldn't surprise me.)

G Suite isn't even close to a monopoly, and I imagine there's large IT departments at anti-cloud corpos specifically for managing all their emails.

It's like, consumers don't know or care if they're using Linux, but they would definitely care if everything using it went away. Consumers aren't where Linux "won" either, it won on servers.

All this to say email is more centralized than it should be, but its decentralization is absolutely still important for its continued relevance.

If you take away the decentralization and Gmail were to become its own private messaging service, it would have the momentum to carry on for a while. But it would surely die. 5 years, maybe 10. But I have no doubt it would suffocate itself.

I know lawyers and founders who have Hotmail and AOL.com addresses, so I'd jump ship day one. One mass "Hey guys Gmail is bad here's my new email" to all my contacts (or as much as spam prevention allows...) and done.
Agreed. It's much harder to be a manager of people smarter than you doing stuff you don't understand, but also absolutely necessary.
Hi, CEO of Qovery here - the same business model for us as well - per active user using the product.
I’ve heard this story more than once from business owners.

Small biz across the world are subject to the reach of social media addicted primates with persecution complex. Few will take the risk of a review bomb or nobodies traveling to vandalize their business.

It’s not a new meme by any means: https://fortune.com/2015/04/07/yelp-reviews-controversy/
I use Discord to talk privately with my friends. Sometimes I get answers there on specific communities faster, but I agree that the non-searchability is horrendous.
Not to mention the disparities in cycling infrastructure. Riding in typical North American suburbia, on stroads with maybe some paint to protect you from fast driving SUVs is completely different from riding in a physically separated cycle lane in a speed controled city.
> sure the Walmart cashier with a non-compete hanging around their neck is much appeased by this

You describe an enforcement, not legal issue. Even with this legislation, the manager can still verbally threaten the employee.
from the article:

> While a premium VR headset built over iOS apps is a step in the right direction, we worry it could seriously hinder the device's ability to serve as a true laptop replacement. This is because the iPhone/iPad iOS is more driven towards the passive consumption of information than it is maximally productive work.

I was just agreeing with and rehashing the article
The thing is, there is nothing else like Spanner, unless you want to trust a startup with your database, which opens up Cockroach, Yuga, and TiDB. Databases like RDS don't compare because they don't offer the same guarantees. Nothing even in AWS' and Azure's portfolios is like Spanner.

Back of napkin math I did a couple of months ago: Spanner costs about $1/month for 2 writes/second and 10 reads/second. The minimum is $88 which is 176wps and 880rps. If your startup gets more traffic than that, you have good problems. The simplified guarantee model (fully linearizable and serializable everything; automagic sharding, replication and failover) could save you costs elsewhere.

Low-value high-volume data like logs and search queries can be sent to a cheaper self-hosted timeseries/fts database.
Apparently “dogshit easy to deploy to your K8s cluster” but not as easy to scale. XD
> It's still okay to block the use of secret information or professional contacts from your former company.

Indeed, and trade secrets are already protected federally by the Uniform Trade Secrets Act
I’m not trying to come across as a hater or anything, but I’m very curious what “next generation AI apps” will look like.

The killer app I can see is a “personal copilot” where you train a model on some set of documents or code or both and it can give you a ChatGPT-like interface to your domain. But as far as I know, that’s going to be insanely expensive or time consuming if done at a personal level. The UX of selecting the code and documents doesn’t seem straightforward either and seems like something that would need to be done at the enterprise level.

But after that, my imagination sort of dries up.
Or you could just add "cache:" right before a link.
Very interesting, I really should give Dragonfly a try.
Once you cross the extremely small karma barrier needed to get your comments allowed/not be rate limited...whats the point? I use reddit for a lot of recommendations/research and I have _never_ checked the karma of a user after reading their comment.
Avoid tesla at all costs.

Thanks to NEM 3, you will want batteries. Find an installer that has been around for 5-10 years, and that has a good reputation. Even the best equipment can be installed improperly, and the installs are complicated. (You wouldn’t rewire a house by first choosing the brand of circuit breakers and outlets; instead, you’d pick a good electrician, then follow their advice).

Different equipment brands specialize in different types of installations, so I won’t recommend anything without more information.
This kind of discourse has been par for the course for as long as "mental illness" has existed. I don't know a single chronically ill person who hasn't gone through being undermined and treated this way.
Why can’t you?

“Sent from my iPhone.”
Broadly speaking, if your employee lives in New York you have a nexus to New York law in their respect.
> Like any true modern application it also consists of significantly more JSON/YAML than code.

Do we even need code anymore? I'm pretty sure that Ansible + YAML is turing complete, right?
/s
Given Google's terrible track record of shutting down products and services that don't meet their expectations:

https://killedbygoogle.com/

I'd be very, very worried for Reddit's future if they bought it. It's already a service that isn't making the type of money the VCs hoped it would, and which is resorting to desperate measures before its IPO. Google would probably swing the axe down on it in the first 5 years if they acquired.

Outside of that, Google is no stranger to making their services worse too, as everything from Google Search to Gmail and YouTube has shown in the last few years or so. So they're not that much less likely to run it into the ground if they do keep it open either.
"In-editor chat" is mentioned as an example (the only example in the post, as far as I can tell) of a restricted API feature. Since the post insinuates that the restricted APIs are done out of malice/with anticompetitive intent, I think we'd need to see an example of the vscode devs being asked for access to this "in-editor chat" API and know how they reply. Is there an example of this?

Otherwise, it seems to me that assigning malice isn't justified. It's surely a fast-moving/evolving feature which was added recently, and stabilizing the API for general use means they have to support it in that form ad infinitum. Sure, it would be ideal if they committed to that from the beginning, but I can understand the schedule pressure and priorities.
They won't last in Discord. Too messy, to sync for anything that Reddit used to be good for.

They'll be either in some random alt or back to Reddit.
IIRC Walmart makes every employee sign nccs as a matter of course.
it's a fairly common and incredible experience for me to see people on reddit assert the most inane drivel that collect hundreds or thousands of upvotes and enthusiastic agreement.

It makes me feel some combination of

1. Reddit is flooded with bots or brigades that seem to have cryptic agendas

2. My own reality is really far afield and the internet is bursting that bubble OR

3. The present young adult generation exists in a seriously orthogonal reality and absolutely sweeping societal changes are on the horizon (as may already be becoming evident)

I still find a lot of pleasant discourse on the smaller subreddits. But it's an absolute shock to visit some of the larger communities sometimes.
>5.0 m/px

How does that compare to , e.g. aerial photography resolution or some familiar standard ?

Edit: ChatGPT gave me:

.28 cm/px for a studio portrait photo (factor 2000x)
8.3 cm/px for a landscape photo (factor 60x)
30-200 cm/px for aerial photos (factor 2-20x)
Could use a class, but access the value without ever instantiating it? Not sure if this fits the bill for what you want, or if the fact that it could theoretically be instantiated renders the approach non-suitable.

class Config:
root_directory: str = "/tmp"
should_frobnicate: bool = False

if __name__=="__main__":
print(f"{Config.root_directory=}\n{Config.should_frobnicate=}")
Hydrogen Fuel Cells Find Their Groove
I fail to follow your chain of reasoning. How can the claim both be "clearly false" and unclear in its statement?

The use of "should" as the very first line of the body text actually makes the argument extremely clear, which is that there is a non-legal, non-technical imperative for API access [leaving only a moral/social imperative, as you determine]. I think you are probably smarter than the very low reading comprehension bar in order to understand what is being said, so I'm not sure what value you are deriving from pretending not to.
I haven't tested it but if as a user you were to ask for your days to be deleted they'd have to comply, at least in EU. So if there was a mass walkout a lot of comments and post would disappear.
I know of one long-running message board site which is free of advertising and free for users. A number of users make regular donations and occasionally when funds are low they make an announcement and some other users make a one-off donation.

I am very doubtful their model would scale to Reddit's size, and certain they don't have any wish to.
Richard Dreyfus came up with a Five-Stage Model of Adult Skills Acquisition.

1 Novice. Follows simple rules. Performance is poor.

2 Advanced beginner. Rules modified by context & situation.

3 Competence. Able to recognize more contextual elements than can be used. Ability to chose a perspective for analysis and prioritize features of the context. However, does poorly at choosing the right perspective.

4 Proficient. If detached rule-following is replaced by intentional learning, learns to use judgment and emotion in choosing perspectives. However, that judgement and emotion informs a decision still based on rules and maxims.

5 Expertise. Applies refined discriminatory perceptions to determine what must be done and what must happen to get there. Analysis and calculation are not necessary.

It's stage 3, "does poorly at choosing the right perspective" and 4, "decision still based on rules and maxims" where problems arise. In Dreyfus' original paper, he considered learning in the context with feedback.

BTW the paper is worth reading for Dreyfus' comments on feedforward simulated neural networks.
Twitter is being evicted from its Boulder office over unpaid rent
It already is indexed, though. Any member of a server can run a search over the messages. Granted, it's not a particularly great search, but it's there.
> I often get the feeling that in these circumstances people derive first principles from specific desired outcomes.

Once you learn about motivated reasoning, you start to see it everywhere.
These aren't read receipts, they're delivery reports from the network (not your device) that you can't control. From the paper:

It works by leveraging SMS Delivery Reports, which are transmitted back to the sender when the network delivers the SMS to the recipient. The sender can request these reports, and there is no way for the recipient to prevent them.
> That's a good point but I don't see what about this would magically make profits rise 5x or 10x.

Because right now everyone is using third-party clients, or at least old.reddit, and that means they're not viewing the ads. Even worse, they might be (shudders) commenting instead of scrolling.

new.reddit and the native app are what your tiktok drip-feed looks like, and it's way easier to insert ads into that. In fact, it's actually exceptionally hard to insert ads into comment trees, whereas you can just throw the mcdonald's ad into the list of frontpage posts or whatever. So comments are being deprecated in favor of posts overall, because they're easier to monetize, and the new.reddit and native client are how you monetize them.

It's not a coincidence that comments/etc are de-emphasized in the new-reddit interface, they don't want you commenting, they want you scrolling, just like tiktok.

> Like what's the value proposition here? TikTok and the like already exist

Tiktok is at risk of being banned in a lot of places, and is at minimum going to come under a lot of regulatory scrutiny and oversight. Because it has the strong potential to be, instead of your "AI girlfriend", your "AI best-friend with ties to extremism" that slowly algorithmically radicalizes you in whatever ways feel best for you personally according to your own interest.

You're left-leaning? Fine here's some bernie videos and protesters getting beaten. Right leaning? OANN, and videos of protesters burning down a store. They can tune the engagement for each user, and push certain topics and stories while it not only feels organic, but is actually extremely engaging and compelling for each particular user. Just like Google controlling search means they control what surfaces in that medium. But Tiktok's not gonna blow it on adwords, that's way too powerful a propaganda tool.

Reddit wants to position themselves as the alternative if/when the hammer starts to come down for Tiktok. And yes, there's instagram and snapchat and other things I would think of first instead of Reddit... but Reddit would say that the comment-based site hasn't been commercially successful for them.

> I think an unpleasant truth some ignore is that tantrums have a purpose -- they're extremely unpleasant to be on the end of, that's why they're a thing at all, because they often do have power.

Yeah, probably true.
He was even open to doing that. Just not in 30 days.
There would be no benefit to providing it, then.
My bad; I was thinking of the greater of the two NY bills:

> Bill No. S3100A, proposes a ban on all non-compete agreements,
Absolutely nothing.

I don't understand why they don't just support OAuth and then the api usage would be by user, not by the app itself.

Otherwise apps like apollo technically would be some of the biggest "users" of the api.

What's wild to me isn't just the amount, it's the lack of time. In theory APollo might have enough users will to pay enough for them to profit (albiet with a fraction of the users). But because there's no time, and because people bought year long subscriptions, he's stuck with his subscribers paying less then their operating cost.
rootusrootus:

> It does always devolve into the same discussion, I agree. All of the evidence says it doesn't work well. One guy says "but it does for me!"

ajross:

It works on my machine!
> Why doesn't Reddit outright tell its users its values? Why is it always lying? Why does it put a CEO to disdain the community, with a "we snoos" (something redditors never use)?

The real answer is that everyone asking this question is just revving up for a fight. It's like apologizing for something that you said as a teenager that was found on social media: the only people asking for the apology don't really care whether or not you apologize.

The right approach in this situation is always to walk the path where no one can tell what's up. Do not define the situation. You're going to get raked over the coals anyway, so get the best you can out of it.
I flip between Flask and Django depending on what I'm doing.

If I want to make something "from scratch" I do it with Flask, if I've got an existing database (or something that can be wrangled into a database) I do it in Django.
If they're running on top of the system WebKit yes, otherwise vector rendering will need to be implemented in Chromium/Blink.
So when these models start learning from more and more AI generated content, can we assume they'll get worse again and eventually make themselves useless?