skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s an interesting argument, but I don’t think users provide their content for altruistic purposes.
Some do it to benefit from a sense of participating in community, some to build reputation and some to prove their expertise. In all cases, they get something from the site that’s hosting their content.

So why should the site that’s hosting content not be allowed to have a business model that pays the bills?

Given a choice between the following, which would you rather?

* insidious adverts that compromise the impartiality of the platform (because thou shalt not offend the advertiser)

* charging for API access, which affects a tiny proportion of users, and would not in any way prevent you accessing your own content (subject access and data portability is guaranteed by data protection law)
Is free, perhaps. But that could be for many reasons, including that you haven't yet convinced Substack to monetize your offerings. Isn't that how it always is when publishing on platforms you don't own? That you must prove your worth to get the paying gig?
Oh so it is content marketing from Porter.

I'm not interested in litigating Porter (which I imagine is awesome) vs. other systems, but it does seem like your target market are dev teams which are light on DevOps skillsets, because you can run these systems for free with a modicum of DevOps chops on the team.

That doesn't make this story any less puzzling from a technical decision-making standpoint.
It's a protection racket. Total scam.

If you have 20 minutes I did a show about it 2 years ago https://youtube.com/watch?v=e9rmh8O_ksM.

I guess you can 2.0 speed that and get it done in 10.
I can't imagine it's a mutual notice period?? that's the only type of notice req. that I'm aware of.
How Amazon acted in this case is ridiculous.
Wut? No Hamburglar?!
I have a similar setup and decided to use Tailscale. It's been working seamlessly so far.
You forgot storage costs and especially bandwidth costs and lockin costs and probably range-queries costs.
Semantic search. The current search feels like it is barely doing something smarter than substring matching / basic regex. The search should be more like Google and less like matching substrings
The point being that he's in favor of theft of service and cheating people?
"a program which is not written as concurrent can never be executed as parallel"

Unless of course you're running multiple independent instances of it, each with different parameters, which I gather is a pretty common way of running long running CPU- intensive operations on large data sets. Presumably there's often some final separate step that may be needed to combine the results once they're all finished, which if run manually obviates any concurrency concerns at the software level.
Moderation Bots and Tooling
Reddit probably was a pretty big part of LLM training data. It has a vast trove of conversation on niche topics, and pairings of "what is said in response to input X". Probably the monetisation of the API is an attempt to capitalize on those users.
On automorphism criteria for comparing amounts of mathematical structure
Yup, that's the bug. If it does away after reverting the commit, that would be interesting too. I don't have any other suggestions.
The system and incentives the US voters have set up says "we want you to sell to the vampires, and will give you a huge financial bonus if you do".

Maybe if voters didn't want such system, they might vote different people into power, or vote to change the system.

POSIWID. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
So… finally what lots of people were claiming but got censored on social media as well as mainstream media during the pandemic is being acknowledged and verified by the government.

Follow up. Given statements to congress by government officials to Congress, under oath, that would contradict this conclusion, will there be repercussions for misleading the public, lawmakers and the scientific community?

PS: It was never a credible bio-weapon attack (people are now trying to conflate this to instill FUD in people's memories --go do a google search with date ranges). Bio-weapons are terrible weapons of war. They are likely to affect the target as well as the deployer.

For the nonbelievers of Censorship, read up on Matt Taibbi's reporting or read some other media than usual: https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-covid-censorship-ma...
Scientists find phosphorus in an ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus
I've had major issues with the couple USB hubs I have purchased from them.I've totally written off their hubs at this point.

It's been disappointing since their cables, chargers, etc have been pretty good.
Damn, that filing doesn't mince words:

> Led by Musk and the cadres of sycophants

> Musk proceeded in line with the principle on which he generally operates: that keeping his contractual promises is optional.

and that's just in the first couple of pages, many more.
> Particularly if I have to render it in yet a third system to juggle and manually keep in sync.

I'm not sure you know what a docstring is if this is your response.
It was good, thanks!
https://youtu.be/llGvsgN17CQ
>Ninja edit: am I missing something?

ya the lease agreement
It's certainly not a dupe. It looks like a follow-up though. No?
Between the Words: Exploring the punctuation in literary classics
Whether they truly got it wrong depends on exactly what their (publicly unstated) goals really are. It's possible that this is driven by incompetence and ego as has been seen elsewhere in social media in the past year, but it's also possible that apps weren't a target and were just a bystander. A LOT of this depends on the question 'who are they wanting to have paying?'

Personally, I think they got focused on one particular thing (AI firms and any other content vacuums) and lost sight of other options for making money. In that context, trying to do volume-based charging to the third party apps makes sense, because in a lot of ways you're just treating them like all the new customers you're targeting.

I think this completely misses the potential for monetizing their users beyond ad impressions, but maybe they did analysis and decided it just couldn't happen - or maybe they just dismissed it because they had different customers in mind.

It still seems to me that they could (now could have?) converted a significant percentage of mobile app users into paying customers - perhaps not at the Premium price point of $50+/year, but likely at a lower price point of $18/year (still way more than they were getting from ads) they'd have taken a ton of free users and turned them into paying customers, and they'd have done it while keeping the lion's share of the money themselves instead of having app devs and app stores thrown into the mix. In addition, once you've got them paying you have plenty of options to try to steer them to higher plans - someone wants to have multiple accounts for family or privacy reasons? That's only available with Premium, or with a Family plan. Want higher API limits? We can sell you that. Spending time moderating a popular subreddit? Thanks, would a free subscription make that easier for you?

But maybe potential investors don't actually care about having paying clients.
Silk Road Bitcoins worth $1B move to Coinbase, sell-off on the horizon?
Note that this is NOT the Wuhan CDC, which is the building across the river from the wet market. They did not do any research there. This building is ~10 miles south, well outside the main city.

https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Wuhan_Ins...

The fact that researchers were sick with flu-like symptoms has been openly stated by the US for a long time. This was put out in the state department Jan 2021, 2.5 years ago:
https://2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan...

> The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses.

Here's a good post that outlines the frankly huge amount of evidence against the WIV being involved: https://medium.com/microbial-instincts/the-case-against-the-...

> Based on number of visitors, Worobey estimated the odds at only 1 in 10,000 that the market would be the first superspreading event in Wuhan.

> Although it didn’t receive a lot of traffic, the market was one of only 4 places selling wild animals in Wuhan. It’s one of the most likely places for a wildlife spillover.

> As we’ll see later, there may actually have been two jumps from animals to people at the market. Now we’re talking about odds of 1 in 100 million, that the virus made it from the lab to the market twice but showed up nowhere else in Wuhan.
Whoops, forgot to eta expand.
That is completely normal. College hires are either returning interns from the previous summer or else mostly recruited in the fall to start after they graduate in the summer, so almost all new grad hiring takes place 6-12 months out anyway.
Another solid move by AMD. Due to their attitude towards open-source in the GPU department, I haven't used an Nvidia graphics card in years. Their APUs kill pretty much all the competition. Their CPUs are excellent for price/performance, efficiency, and core-count. And now this? If they can prioritize getting more AI/ML and 3D modeling capability into their cards, going all-red would become the new clear meta.
So because someone values their life and belongings, and has the proper training to wield a firearm, you are less likely to trust their assessment of danger? So then who do you trust?

And for the record, Mission has almost 4x the crime rate as California, which is already above the national average.[1] So it seems as though their “paranoia” was paying dividends.

[1] - https://www.areavibes.com/san+francisco-ca/mission/crime/
I remember the sudden freak out in the media about vaping in late 2019 because young people were being hospitalized with lung damage. Have to wonder if that was actually covid and the vapes were just coincidence, they'd been around for years at that point so them all of the sudden having media hysteria around them was weird to me at the time

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/10/health/vaping-outbreak-2019-e...
Ford Transmission Quality Study
Famous Ford Case study on the Batavia vs Mazda supplied Gearboxes, that discusses how meeting specifications/tolerances does not imply quality.
California emigrants often think they are the most important person in the room in other US states too, especially in the US South. "I'm from KAH-LEE-FOOOR-NEEA!"

God forbid something isn't done like in California, even if much easier/rational.
I personally prefer more objective signals like the menu, pictures of the food, and pictures of the interior. Maybe I’m a snob but foods that people describe as “delicious” and “amazing” to me look greasy, salty, or altogether not much better than I could cook myself with basic cooking skills.
Ask HN: The Reddit blackout hasn’t had “significant revenue impact”. What would?
Huffman says the blackout hasn’t had “significant revenue impact” and that the company anticipates that many of the subreddits will come back online by Wednesday. “There’s a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we’ve seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well,” the memo reads.[0]

What would cause or lead to significant revenue impact for Reddit?

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759559/reddit-internal-memo-api-pricing-changes-steve-huffman
The part I like about Coherence is that they aren't pretending to be more than the UI/DX layer around things that are free and open-source.

I'm so not a fan of what YC has done in the last year by funding every "Heroku killer" under the sun without calling out the elephant in the room that Heroku was the accessible DX into AWS, and nothing more. That stuff all exists in the open source world.
You joke, but I found something like this in the wild. It was an old legacy sco system been around forever and I was asked to do some maintenance work on it. It used rsh to talk to other machines. But I was having a hell of a hard time finding the rsh command. After a lot of pouring over script sources I found it had been renamed to something else. when I asked their sysadmin WTF was going on with this system. he said it had been done for security. Which is still stupid but I have to admit it may work against your normal "script of the month" style attack. It certainly worked for me.
> was wxWidgets 3 not out when you were playing with it last?

I don't think so, I think 2 was the latest version I worked with.

> why not run the non-UI tasks in a separate thread and send events between the two to communicate?

Sure, you can do that, if you're willing to deal with all the extra complications involved with having multiple threads and coordinating between them. For some applications that's necessary, but in many cases none of the events, either GUI or network I/O, require CPU intensive responses, so you don't need separate threads for performance, and having them all in one event loop makes the code a lot simpler.
I'm not going to use VSCode just got github copilot x. I've tried it, but its not worth using vscode over intellij.

They already have a official copilot plugin for intellij. I really hope they add copilot x support because I'm not moving to vscode for that.
> new hardware architecture have to be stable enough that the new language can become popular

The reason why my mind is on this topic is an interview with Jim Keller where he mentioned that when he designed modern CPUs he was conceptually thinking of their front-end as a machine that processes C code (or, the kind of assembly that a compiler made to compile C would generate). Internally the CPU does all kinds of black magic that is provably correct to rewrite that machine code into a form that is performant on modern architectures (e.g. out-of-order processing, pre-fetching). So you end up with things like the Java JVM optimizing high-level languages while also trying to make itself look like a C program, and the hardware providing a front-end to make itself look like a C-processing machine. A bit funny when you think about it. But it all works since this implicit contract has been stable for decades.

But that contract doesn't exist for GPUs or other new kinds of hardware. A lot of modern silicon is "system-on-a-chip" kinda stuff, with multiple CPUS, some high performance and some not, AI accelerator/neural engines, dsps, media endocders/decoders, etc. That trend appears like it will continue.

Keller mentions that Nvidia got ahead of it with Cuda. They presented a C-like interface in front of their GPUs and then just threw insanely complex hardware in front of it and used that to hide the horror spread between the hardware and their drivers. But nowhere else does such a contract exist (and arguably, it doesn't exist even for Nvidia who seem to just barely be holding it together). Now that Keller is designing these SoC he is confronted with the new-normal of no pre-defined contract between software and hardware.

It is a daunting task to face this new reality. But I really wish I saw some evidence of people tackling it from first principles. To sit down, look at the new architectures and dream of new OS paradigms and the new languages that could support it. Because I strongly doubt that such a re-imagining would look anything like Rust.
I dislike this general mode of defining an ADT by first having to create multiple separate nominal types and then combining them using another free-floating statement (e.g. 3 dataclasses and then a Union in Python). An ADT is conceptually one thought, so its definition should syntactically be able to be one statement too.
Also... I mean, unless I've created a false memory, I specifically remember that the discussion at the time was about a the virus literally being a bio-weapon, and not actually the entirely plausible, accidental escape of a virus.

I've always had a completely open mind about it, even if experts have repeatedly suggested that it's plausible, but unlikely.

Those prattling on about how "people called us crazy" that it was a WIV lab leak seem to completely misremember what was actually being discussed in April-May of 2020, and also seem to be trying to score political points in American politics, when it seems very obvious that the CCP should take the lion's share of any blame regarding any lack of transparency.
> Does the host kernel matter?

Honestly I don't know! We've seen it appear with host kernel 6.2.15 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213346#c5) but I'm not aware of anyone either reproducing or not reproducing it with earlier host kernels. All your other config looks right.
Well, make it so I can make a longer title and I'd put that. I couldn't figure out how to phrase it in the length of title allowed.
Seems like a lot of work for a speculative theory, given all the stuff government has to do.
Making a GUI that is based on HTML and CSS and JS is also an... experience.

I have some (ancient) experience in RAD. Once per year I try picking up React/Vue/Angular or whatever is the current fashion, but I get stuck. It's just so _insane_.
Not to be confused w/ "pregnancy brain" that occurs during and up to 1 year after pregnancy in women.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.4458
As others have said, it's impossible to say because every person and every treatment is different.

I received treatment for testicular cancer in late 2012 through early 2013. I tried so hard to WFH during chemo because I hadn't been at my job long enough to take FMLA and I needed to keep the health insurance to, you know, get the chemo, and I couldn't afford both COBRA and rent at the time.

There was no way I could actually concentrate on anything when I hurt so much that I couldn't sleep, let alone actually do my job. I ended up going so deep into negative PTO that for the following two years that I was at that place I was never able to take another day off.
Zagat was a decently good restaurant directory but Google bought it, didn’t do much with it, and then sold it to some shitty app maker.
VCs differ wildly. A small VC will certainly not earn enough in fees to employ multiple dedicated statisticians. They will likely have a CFO/other analysts who can check the data but there's no guarantee they will catch cleverly manipulated data. Obviously this is a much later stage investment so different diligence is expected but there are many ways to deceive. Certainly some VCs saw red flags while others did not.
Very, very, very few commercial leases have such a clause and local tenant laws generally do not apply to commercial leases.

If you're lucky, you can negotiate an "out" clause, where, given sufficient notice, you can terminate the lease early, but commercial landlords are very hesitant to do it.

There's a reason Start-ups love month-to-month co-working spaces.
Credit Suisse, Wirecard, WV emissions scandal? I don’t think corporate fraud/failure is unique to US.
Guys everyone in your office getting kicked out by the cops is a normal part of the negotiation process. You dumb people just don't know how businesses work.

/s just in case
in which case that program is being executed N times, so none of this applies

("a program [as executed]" is a single instance (process) of a binary)
I am not sure where you get this information. Parallelization is everything in this space, hence why we have highly interconnected supercomputers to model the most difficult engineering problems. Typical runs use 30k+ cores for a single problem for weeks on end [0]. There are some special cases, such as Boltzmann/dvm [1] where invididual partitions of cells have millions of degrees of freedom, where memory bandwidth is the primary concerns. Even then, doing domain decomposition to a larger number of cores takes care of the issue.

[0] https://www.nas.nasa.gov/SC22/research/project12.html

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00219...
Same, I wish we could contribute content (posts, comments, votes, etc) in a redistributable way.

I'd like to a P2P-backed service to exist, where people can own all the data. I guess that abuse would be a challenge, but there's probably enough good ideas around bittorrent and cryptocurrency to make sharing and trust/voting possible.

My dream is that people could have a ~raspberry at home helping host the internet in a sparse way. Would it be more inefficient than a centralized service? sure, but decentralization is inherently more expensive, yet better thanks to true shared ownership.
IN the Dark: Pentagon’s Limited Supplier Visibility Risks U.S. National Security
Trump was trying to play that “blame China” card. And was disclosing classified reports left and right. Fauci was not exactly on Trump’s side. And not playing the blame game was a good option back then.

But, it’s not a good idea to reward Wuhan’s Institute type of research. And there should be some accountability in the end.
Due diligence and 100% complete due diligence that accounts for every single thing are drastically different.
Discussed at the time:

Doas mastery - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12429050 - Sept 2016 (15 comments)
Very. This was put out in the state department Jan 2021, 2.5 years ago: https://2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan...

> The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses.
This author's tone of overwhelming certainty leaves me feeling more skeptical than convinced.
100 requests per minute will be free. Can someone explain to me why this isn't enough?
No, it's not a bucket to pay your rent.
So the plot of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six comes true, release a virus at the Olympics closing ceremonies and it will spread globally almost immediately.
People reading HN are not the average American.
Isn’t this how multi-armed bandits work?
>You've hidden a subtle semantic shift here. This discussion is centered around personal use, yet you're drawing a line outside commercial use as if they were the same thing.

Claiming this is about personal use is the semantic shift not what I said. You are trying to shift back to that because you know if you have a good faith discussion you have no legs to stand on. The reddit changes target commercial use plain and simple.

If you create an app that loads reddit content from its APIs for only you to use, these changes are going to have very little no effect on you. That app would be personal use and if you incurred charges for your API use they would be very small (or you are abusing or spamming the API which both are against its terms of use).

The most public part of this has probably been the Apollo dev vs reddit. Apollo is commercial. Using Apollo to browse reddit used the Apollo API key not your accounts API key. The crazy charges the Apollo dev listed are due to tens (hundreds) of thousands of reddit users using the Apollo API key to access reddit. That is not personal use. That is a commercial entity using its own API key to access reddit's API.
I'm a software developer, but I've thought about taking up electronics / small appliance repair as a sustainable 'hands on' skill. It's one of the few 'trades' that I could do even with my disability.

I'm well aware that if you air dropped me into a third world village I wouldn't have very much to offer the locals as a dev, but I'd imagine even a small town would appreciate a tinkerer that can fix things, and there's something deeply rewarding in fixing broken things.
Web 2.0 may finally be democratized
VoIP is voice. It's a realtime low latency point to point protocol. There are options to use intermediate servers, but there's a ton of room for information to leak.