skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt the likes of Google and Microsoft care in the slightest about the API.

Both already run search engines that index all of Reddit. They don't need any API. And Reddit can't block their crawler if it wants to remain relevant.

And OpenAI is a company with $10B investment and 375 employees. I'm sure they can figure out web scraping.
Their software, their workflow. "Bend to it or pick something else" seems entirely fine to me.
No, not at the moment. How does your current app know the schema of feeds, in general, for the purpose of setting those alerts? i.e. how do you set an alert on price, when other feeds might have nothing to do with currency?

I'm not saying it's impossible, but it seems complex.
It is at many HFT firms, including mine. You will be paid your base salary for some number of months to not work at a competitor, even if you don't have a signed offer for a competitor and just want to sit around
Hey folks - I am the founder of argonaut.dev (YC S21).

We're building a similar service with the aim of being a comprehensive platform across managing cloud infra across stable envs like staging and prod (rds, s3, elasticache, opensearch etc. on aws and cloudsql, gcs, gke, memorystore on GCP) and app deployments onto kubernetes on those environments.

Some things we have heard from talking to customers are that they prefer a single tool to manage their cloud infra, setting up (stable) environments, CI/CD (push to deploy from github/gitlab), kubernetes runtime (EKS, GKE) and app deployments.

I understand that kubernetes is a divisive topic on HN because kubernetes is overkill for a lot of companies and can become complex. That said, there are companies which have a genuine need for something like kubernetes and find working with aws/gcp a chore. We might be restricting our market but adding value to such teams is what we are betting on at the moment.

What would be the most valuable to you if you are in the market for a tool such as Argonaut? I'd love to shape our product to be genuinely useful for folks here.
I agree the intial onboarding is a bit confusing.

The appeal is for small private and semi-public communities. You are right that it is more like IRC than a web forum, but it serves much the same purpose for many people with its server channels and channel threads.

I'm a member of a small community about 25-30 people that know it each from either university or work. We chat about games, politics, software development, organising IRL events, and lots of other interests. The advantage of discord over IRC is we get better message persistence, video streaming and voice calls, sharing media (pictures and video). It lets us organise this content in a way that say a group whatsapp could not. Right now three people are in a voice and video chat room talking about and playing Street Fighter 6. I could just jump right into that conversation with a single click and might do so in a moment. They are also sharing videos and twitter links in a channel dedicated to fighting games.

I'm also a member of a larger programming community with a few thousand members and we have automated help systems allocating space to get help, evaluating programming expressions to aide conversations, moderation tools, url shorteners for programming playground - much of which is powered by custom bots using discord apis.

The thing it is closest to is MS Teams or Slack, but the difference being that its more focused on soical interactions and gaming intergrations than it intergrations for work tools. Its also just frankly a better product than Slack or Teams - it just doesn't have the business intergrations that make it viable for business and doesn't offer business plans.
You can want whatever you want. It’s not a failure of apple that they don’t serve your specific need, however. They just built a product for different people.
What if I don't want the government to know I'm a user of Yahoo Answers?
Huh. Wonder if it's a regional thing?

I don't recall ever seeing that and I just checked about 25 places in my city and none of them had TripAdvisor.
It's really in poor taste to shill for your own project without disclosing affiliation.

https://dev.to/artsarescis is listed on the dev team at https://dev.to/courier
Most companies do not pay for the period of time that a non-compete is in effect. What you're describing is somewhat different. Typically that's known as garden leave, and essentially you're treated as a current employee for the period of time, but you're not allowed to work. Which means that you'll likely have the 6 months of free pay. I'd definitely review your contract and the terms.
AI services are the new tupperware, and this is the party.
> A student living at home

A student living at home is explicitly not supporting themselves. Their parents shouldn't be subsidizing your food deliveries.
> better engineered "iphone/ipod" products existed that got destroyed by apple

Do you mean Nokia's phones?
As far as I've read noncompetes have become very common, even some supermarkets have them for normal store workers.
Ask HN: Is federated / de-centralised ever going to make sense?
With the obvious backdrop of The Reddit Thing going on, I've been poking properly into lemmy, kbin, mastodon, pixelfed, etc. I then had a quick look at nostr too.

What strikes me quite forcibly is that although federation is obviously A Good Thing for content / control, and also A Good Thing for nerds who like the elegance of the protocols - it really, really isn't A Good Thing from a user point of view.

Straw poll amongst my (non-nerd) friends reveals absolutely zero understanding of what federated might mean - but more importantly a total confusion when faced with a paradigm which is completely at odds with anything that has come before. Searching Site1 for content that happens to be on SiteN makes no sense to people who spend their time on Insta / Reddit / Twitter.

It ultimately won't matter if a user doesn't actually know that their content is federated to/from a number of other platforms - but the UI, the words, the descriptions of what "federated" is are terribly, terribly confusing. Per the words of someone on Reddit: "If you need me to read a 10 page document explaining how to use this new type of Reddit, I'm out".

I think there's a blindspot here, and until someone figures out a nicer interface and way of talking about all this stuff, it's going to scupper any possibility of serious migration of users onto these platforms.

Thoughts?
What went wrong is that after being divested from Condé Nast, reddit went and raised a huge round that ensured they would have to go down the route of synthetic growth tactics.

This whole operation could be wildly profitable with a team of 50-100 people and no major investors to appease.

Instead they read the room wrong, or just didn't care, and now we're here.
There was a particularly high profile case of a high-level Microsoft engineer who left for Google, and Ballmer literally threw chairs across the room and had the guy sued.

Microsoft lost.

Nobody hears about these stories when they stakes are lower.
Short, simple and working code is the hardest thing in the world. It takes a lot of both intellect and experience.
They are wielded as a weapon in an asymmetric power dynamic, hence the need to strike their use down.

https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-no...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/01/...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/01/...

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/22/jimmy-johns-drops-non-compet...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/upshot/when-the-guy-making... | https://archive.is/I8wmH

Previous on the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34260577

(disclosure: I submitted comments to the FTC advocating for their rule making against non competes; personal opinion: its important this is codified at both federal and state levels to inhibit rollbacks in the future based on SCOTUS decisions around executive branch authority, consider them lines of defense and policy ratchets)
Part of the complexity of moderating on Reddit vs. moderating on Facebook is Reddit's open-by-default nature and limited control provided to moderators.

For example: Optionally requiring a questionnaire before being able to post to a Facebook group significantly cuts down on spam. Reddit doesn't really have an equivalent. If a Reddit mod wants to implement similar? They could use the API to write something that blackholes new members' comments until they respond to an automated message. Not a great user experience and what happens if Reddit pricing changes now make that integration prohibitively expensive?

Some mods certainly power-trip but ultimately the role isn't a glamorous one: You're a volunteer customer success agent. Most of the work isn't hard or controversial, but at the scale of Reddit there's a _lot_ of it. The hardest part of recruiting new moderators is finding people who'll remain even minimally engaged. Replacing them certainly isn't impossible but the process of replacing proven-engaged moderators with newcomers that need to be vetted can be a ton of work in itself.
I’ve used Lightcast (prev EMSI) data before to look at skills in demand / job posting trends. you have to request access, but they have a free API and the data was impressively clean in my experience, although it was a few years ago.

They definitely cover Go in Canada (here’s a preview page):
https://lightcast.io/open-skills/skills/ESA5839C44D0970CF79F

Less sure on Poland. That would cover demand, and then maybe you could look at average job posting age/time to fill as a proxy for supply and ease of hiring?
Yes. Apple won’t use GPLv3.

Some things have good replacements with other licenses, like zsh. Others, AFAIK, don’t, like rsync.
Enhanced olfactory sensitivity in autism spectrum conditions
There is in this instance, because the "fees" we're talking about here are intrinsically non-transparent --- they're not fees, they're taxes, and local governments force Comcast to call them fees in their franchise contracts. Comcast probably shouldn't play along here, because those taxes harm their users.

I'm betting that if I surveyed my town, not one resident in 50 knows they're being charged a Comcast Tax by the local government; they just assume these fees are all Comcast soaking them. That's a problem, not because Comcast is good (they're odious), but because it establishes a precedent that municipalities can raise money from residents without going through the actual transparent levy process that everyone pays attention to. Fuck that! Municipal governments should get in front of their residents and tell them they're doing this, and not sneak it onto Comcast's price label as if it were a decision Comcast had made.
> Because other viral infections can cause brain inflammation, the researchers studied brain changes in mice after mild respiratory infection with H1N1 influenza, the viral strain that caused the 2009 “swine flu” and 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemics. The goal was to compare cognition-linked molecular changes after H1N1 to those seen after COVID-19. One week after infection, the H1N1 flu and SARS-CoV-2 infections caused similar patterns of cytokine elevation in the central nervous system, microglial reactivity and loss of oligodendrocytes in white matter. But seven weeks after infection, although the cytokine profiles had some overlap, including increased inflammatory chemokine CCL11, they differed. Effects on the hippocampus were similar in the two types of infections, but microglial reactivity and oligodendrocyte loss in white matter were not present after seven weeks following H1N1 infection.

So it's not just a flu.
If companies actually paid employees not to compete they would be able to keep them. Correct me if I'm wrong, but--at least where I live--non-competes lack legal authority (even before they were outlawed) because most companies don't provide compensation for limiting an ex-employee's ability to make a living in their field in the future.

So, it's conceivable that an ex-employee could receive 6 months severance in trade for a non-compete of that length, but I doubt it's very popular.
One of the best I’ve seen is for manufacturing and inspection. Eg, it highlights the next set of holes to place bolts into, then gives tightening order, etc. It eliminates the need to think about each step.
If this is sufficiently widespread, seems like there's an opportunity for a honeypot operation.

I.e.:

(1) Guess at what information triggers this kind of shakedown by Yelp for a new business. E.g., credit-card sales data for new restaurants.

(2) Set up a fake business that pushes all of those buttons. E.g., register a new restaurant business in the state; temporarily rent a space and maybe put up signage; generate realistic credit-card purchase data and/or cell-location data for fake customers.

(3) Wait for the Yelp reviews to come in. [Possibly legal offence #1]

(4) Wait for the Yelp sales call. [Possibly legal offence #2]

(5) Turn down the sales offer.

(6) Wait for the negative reviews. [Possibly legal offence #3]

(7) Ask prosecutors to pursue criminal charges, and/or file a civil suit. Either way, get to the point of legally compelled discovery.

I wonder if this would be a fun first project for a newly minted government prosecutor.
Sorry, by reader I actually wanted to say comenters. I guess I'm more like ChatGPT than I'd like to admit!
That future sounds like one where Reddit is just micro TV with professional channels (subreddits) and professional content producers (posters).

It sounds terrible and the opposite of what made Reddit great, and therefore I think your prediction is correct.
It does not have to be a desert, it could be Manteca[1]. lots of people live and work in Manteca and call it home. If there would be people eligible who are productive (taking classes, working, providing care for someone) then we could keep them in SF, else, we need to be able to provide them affordable (to the city/taxpayers) shelter and recovery services in facilities set up for that and there is no reason Manteca could not be such a place.

[1]Manteca, Stockton, Modesto, Fresno, etc.
I get value out of clarifying my thoughts amongst people capable of refining them -- the membership fee is "something to say" and the reward is "something to read".

I'm quite capitalist myself, but for my own passions, an elite socialist -- that is, of course the value to me ought be non-financial; and likewise, to you.

A kind of "collective elite" is very intuitive for one's owns passions --- but it wont get you an economy.

But I dont wish to turn my thoughts into an economy. My words pay their own way.
Judges in small claims court are much more lenient with petitioners (and defendants) than they are in "big real court".

And it could have been a default judgement.
I gotta admit, Vercel (Zeit) is some of the best marketers within this industry!
You're thinking of a legal contract. A social contract is what two sides do in practice in order to not piss the other off.
It's worth taking a moment to note how many of the (co)sponsors are Working Families members.
>motivated members to consolidate and publish some of the good ideas for posterity

I think there were some sensitive documents dumped from Discord (where noone noticed them for a good while) to the public internet. So I'd say there is some truth to it being semi-private. The "Discord Leaks".

https://wapo.st/3NvrkFk

Discord has its place, but its not generally great as a information sharing place.
Just a heads up, we were using the bitnami charts in our first attempt at an HA postgres instance in our k8s cluster, and we're currently figuring out how to move away from them because they had so many issues.

Granted, we might've messed something up and there are lots of factors, but you should manually check your individual nodes every so often to make sure none of them are going out of sync. Need to connect to each one directly, can't rely on what the bouncer/pgpool/loadbalancer is showing you to check the data is the same. It happened repeatedly to us, and wasn't obvious from any of our monitoring. In the end we had to scale down to 1 node while we sort out moving to a different operator.
That's exactly what they are doing with the API lol, but people still got outraged at that. The Apollo dev said that he would have to charge every user $2.50 a month to cover costs of the API, so even if the Apollo dev is exaggerating, $2.50 is not that high if people really want to user third party apps.
I’m sorry to be a spoilsport, but is there any evidence that deliberate practice rather than ordinary practice is any good? I happily believe that one can easily convince how good you are doing—really killing that practicing—-but how do I know it is any better than dumb practise. It all sounds like a cargo cult to me. What is really happening is that some people have talent, but rather than accepting that genetic reality we are telling ourselves this fairy tale that they must do something different.

I just saw the schwarzenegger documentary on netflix. n-time world champion in body building. Do you want to know his secret? 3 sets per day, of 7 hours total, for years on end. Nothing deliberate about it.
My take on both of them is that there’s a lot of research supporting positive health outcomes which they oddly tend to neglect, and I suspect they have strong biases. I should preface this with admitting I know nothing at all about this stuff.

There was one episode where Huberman had a guy on talking about how young men should drink milk to maximize free testosterone and thus maximize “health” outcomes like height. There is a fairly substantial amount of research suggesting this isn’t actually a great idea more generally speaking because maximizing body size doesn’t have inherent benefits and could even have long term disadvantages for health outcomes. Further, drinking a lot of milk appears to be correlated with increased likelihood of developing cancer. And worse still, there are other foods which deliver the benefits of milk without the same disadvantages. Yet this odd little bit was accepted freely and without any criticality. Finally, maximizing height is kind of a culturally motivated desire in my mind. If you’re happy and healthy, who cares if you didn’t milk your growth spurts to the utmost degree? Is being 5’10” a shameful thing? Or even 5’6”? It struck me as so bizarre to hear someone in health still bent on growing kids larger. We’re not cattle. If we eat enough, we’ll grow enough. Let it be.

Attia has been slowly shifting over, but he’s been very pro animal-based foods in a field of research where the greater body of work indicates that these foods should be more limited or emphasized quite a bit less than he has. Or maybe this has changed quite recently. I know in the last few years he has begun to mention more often that eating plants appears to be critical to health and performance, but when I’ve listened in, he still heavily encourages eating more meat than seems necessary. It seems weird given he has a book about longevity now (I’m only half way through so maybe he’ll surprise me still) yet he doesn’t seem to be on the cutting edge of this research in regards to diet.

They’re very smart (smarter than I am by a wide margin) and probably very current in their research but I suppose it seems like they ignore certain areas of research. They seem a little “old fashioned” at times when it comes to diet in particular.

I’m not saying people should never eat meat. It’s about moderation. Attia also emphasizes consuming protein in ways that a lot of research doesn’t support, but I’m not in the field so what the hell. I don’t know who’s more correct.
I often use it to write simple code but also give me ideas for new projects. It built the structure of this website for me: https://artsy.sh

Since it uses logic, its answers are more likely to be right than the subjectiveness of essays and things like that. Can't go wrong with logic! ;)
It's because the traditional teaching focus is OOP and not data-driven design.
>the opinions i run into real life can be very different then with people in the real world.

I think you messed that sentence up, but I get what you're trying to say....

And I think it's this. The opinions you get from people 'IRL' are not apt to be as strong as the ones online, and or will run into the regency bias.

For example, it's very unlikely you'll actually meet someone that has used 10 different coffee makers because they wanted to see which one was best. Online on some subreddit, you're very likely to meet someone who has done exactly that. Of course those people with strong opinions are the ones that are apt to post most online.

So who's option is wrong? Neither. That's why they are opinions.
I’m sure there are other great examples, but WeWork doesn’t really seem like one; they were a real estate company, right? Cryptocurrency stuff maybe could be a better example though.
It can be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave
Reddit not long ago announced a plan to delete all comments from a submission whenever an OP deleted their submission (ordinarily only the OP's post would be deleted).

There was quite a lot of pushback since the consensus was many comments aren't just for the benefit of the OP but everyone (in fact sometimes the OP doesn't even appreciate the comments they receive but are nevertheless useful to others).

So Reddit walked it back but it does show many of the site's users are conscious of the broader utility of comments outside of just the smaller contextual interactions.
The whole problem was due to the abuse towards “low skill” workers. Stuff like if you get a job at Subway, you can’t go and work at another deli shop within a certain radius of the former employer.

The point of this change is to protect these people, which is totally sensible
Garden leave is a different beast and seems fair, you and the employer each get something, non competes on the other hand do not usually offer anything to the employee.
Viber is still big in certain places like the Philippines.
I'd always borrow that from the library, I assume it was the same book although I remember the cover being red. They also had tons of magazines that had basic programs you could copy.
Training is becoming multi-modal anyway and will need grounding in physical reality so human-generated text will most likely become a smaller fraction of the data.
I would've gotten reddit gold for sure to use Sync.
The 1 in a million are either screwed over worse than you were, or are recognized early and perennially challenged to further their development.

> In the US, you don't get sorted like that until about age 18 when you're already having a lot of defining experiences.

Programs for regular and exceptionally gifted students do exist in the US, but this varies state-to-state and district-to-district.

The best "reform" I've thought of to address almost everything you've mentioned is to teach kids, early on, about failure. That it isn't the end of the world, what they can do to try to identify it happening, and how they can recover from it. Though like anything else this has to be done in moderation, as people who keep failing eventually give up entirely.
Yeah exactly. I don't want to stream my Mac's screen. I want to stream individual apps.

Better yet, I just want to run those apps on the device and be free of the Mac. Add to that the ability to connect to an actual display, and this device could in fact finally replace a MacBook.
I called this exact playbook and was flagged and downvoted into oblivion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36313927

The mods have no power here, they compete to work for free for Reddit. Reddit will win, there's always another scab.
from what I understand some forms of anesthesia just make you forget it ever happened. There are some procedures, colonoscopy is one i think, where the doctor needs you awake and able to follow commands or give feedback. The anesthesia just makes you forget it ever happened. It's really strange and kind of scary if true.
Another shill for the service without disclosing affiliation. https://github.com/mikemilla