skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea I don’t think the poster is particularly interested in doing his own research, only defending his point of view while asking others for examples before finding a reason to pick at them.

Thank you for your comprehensive list of links though!
There are times when you think, plan and read code, and there are times when you just write. Getting fast and accurate at typing allows you to think more freely as you no longer have to think about the individual characters that make up the words you're typing
Vine is no more, Twitter is a punchline, and TikTok took Vine's idea and ran with it.
The official guide [0] is good, but a bit too detailed.
I started out with ruiqimao's mechanical keyboard PCB guide [1], which I think is good enough to get my feet wet. From then on it's just messing around and checking the doc along the way.

[0]:https://docs.kicad.org/7.0/en/getting_started_in_kicad/getti...
[1]:https://github.com/ruiqimao/keyboard-pcb-guide
Seems to be mac-only. Please just have the README state that someplace. Not apparent at all.
> To activate, push the s and d keys simultaneously and hold them down

That's a very inconvenient combo for such frequent an action. Why not some right thumb key instead?
Yeah, I agree. What do you think we can do to remove these whiny mods and open up these subreddits to get reddit back to the site I enjoy. Are you suggesting that we organize against them in some way?
Funny enough, in most cases it's the other way around.
If only there existed other factors besides speed that would make more convenient keyboard design better...
Weirdly, North Korea is hugely dependent upon external trade for their mafia-like economy to survive. Except, when I say "external trade", I'm not talking about trading widgets for widgets. The only way they can pay for energy imports is to maintain a huge overseas organized crime syndicate to produce, traffic, sell illegal drugs and launder money. They are also involved in counterfeit money printing -- see "superdollar" on Wiki. I am sure they are involved in crypto mining and as well as crypto ransom.
Reddit announced a 5% headcount reduction a week ago: https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-lay-off-about-5-wo...
Why does anyone think this will work? Everyone knows it's a bluff since communities are not moving to another platform.

Just burn it down.
> one guy.

Yes, because you asked for ‘an example’. As in you asked for ‘one’.

You’re determined to stick to your point of view, you’re entitled to do that of course. But why pretend you’re interested in a debate or discussion on the matter when you’re clearly not?
I thought the approach was interesting. It's being used here as an empathy engine: what might (other people) say?
> Variable renewable generation should be priced differently from non-variable fossile free generation.

Some of the largest costs in grid infrastructure comes from the requirements when nuclear reactors trip.
This whole model of social media in today's internet is unsustainable.

We will undoubtedly move towards a future internet with two main camps. The corporate social media where users have to either pay to play, or be locked into walled gardens without their consent, or sometimes even knowledge.

The other camp will be various decentralized platforms such as the fediverse and others.

We had a relatively quick (in historical terms) break from the user-driven internet after the early 2000s, but it's coming back in force. If you want freedom then it has to be user-driven, it can't be profit-driven.
Keep us posted about the lectures. I don't find a personal website of you. Then I would have bookmarked it.

There are so many awesome lectures from other CMU courses like Andy Pavlo's Database, Keenan Crane's Graphics courses.

I so hope CMU records their intro courses and put them out in public.
> I get an analysis that I like, but there isn't a good way to share it with others, so I end up just taking screenshots.

What would be your preferable way of sharing your analysis with others?

- You can turn jupyter notebooks into pdfs directly in the jupyter UI.

- You can upload them to Gitlab/Github and share the link to the rendered result.

- You can upload them to Colab/Binder/Kaggle and let people play with the code themselves.

- You can turn jupyter notebooks into beautiful websites/documents with:
https://quarto.org/docs/tools/jupyter-lab.html

- You can add jupyter notebooks to you docs using nbsphinx:
https://nbsphinx.readthedocs.io/en/0.9.1/

- You can turn jupyter notebooks into interactive web apps with voila:
https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila

- You can turn jupyter notebooks into presentations with rise:
https://github.com/voila-dashboards/voila
The app I use (joey) has a standout behaviour which is ideal for tablet and phone: long press on many inputs makes it do a pop out which vanishes when you let go. So you can see images full-size, expand headlines, even scroll comments, many ops work one handed.

As a skim mode view its unbeatable. Since the mainstream app does not do this, I will personally lose functionality I use significantly.
Because they have gone on public record with those numbers and as of yet, no one has refuted them.

Do you have an alternate source of user level data that breaks down average vs. outliers and that ratio that you feel is more accurate?

The free tier is 100 queries per minute for an OAuth logged in client per the public statement, and that number has also been stated by a few 3rd party app developers.

That is a lot for the average user, especially for a well optimized app.
https://www.gandi.net/en-US/domain/tld has the old pricing, so a few comparison points.

.com $17.75 → $23.99 (AWS: $13)

.org $17.96 → $24.99 (AWS: $12)

.info $30.77 → $39.99 (AWS: $23)

.it $16.96 → $24.99 (AWS: $15)

.expert $74.86 → $99.99 (AWS: $49)

.training $17.75 → $59.99 (AWS: $27)
Thanks for mentioning this, has been fixed!
If they want this to be effective they should provide an alternative. Because people still want to "reddit".
It's important though if you don't want to stay at the current company forever. With the right title it's much easier to get a well paying job. Otherwise you'll have to convince future employers why you didn't have that title despite your qualifications and work.
The biggest problem with Reddit is that their only source of revenue basically demands you to create a completely new ad for ONLY that platform. For everything else you can just make an iframe, drop whatever malicious blinking crap you want, send it to the wild and let ad networks sell and resell space and sometimes drop your ad in it, pay pennies for clicks and even less pennies for each time it's been served.

They haven't tried to enter any ad ecosystem, haven't tried to monetize the massive amount of creativity or anything on the platform. Granted, it's really hard to say "Hey, we've shown your news article to 10 million people, pls pay us" when the news site itself is struggling to get any revenue from those millions of clicks. Not to mention the site might have a question reddit reeeeallly doesn't want to answer "So, was it in a neo-nazi subforum or a porn subforum?"

Yeah, there's just been nothing in ten years. An IPO at this point is nothing but a cash grab awaiting the death of the platform.
They'd be overrun by spam, bots and worse within hours without the moderators. That's the real leverage here.
Yeah, that's what they were doing, and it was working well enough. Dark patterns are evil but quite effective.

My guess is that investors are banging on the door wanting their payout, and the people on the other side of that door are panicking. Reddit Inc was probably a money furnace, like a dot-com of old. But it turns out a bunch of nerds and aficionados piping text through your servers does not equate to a hundred-billion-dollar business.
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Yup, they even risk losing customers in the process.
The study dosing was 1mg/day, compared to the standard dose as a laxative of 2mg.

"In this study, we used a low dose of prucalopride (1 mg as opposed to the licenced dose of 2 mg) to reduce the risk of side effects. At this time, we currently lack information about the optimal dose of prucalopride needed for occupancy of brain 5-HT4 receptors, although data from our previous reports indicate that 1mg is sufficient to demonstrate pro-cognitive potential."
Kind of happens already with auto moderator.
It really depends what the stats look like. If people hop to other subreddits, it'll fail. If traffic is down more than 50% for a week or two, the board will remove Spez.
I say that if they -DO- remove the moderators, we should go back and be human spambots.
>> If they charged like $2/month/user for 3d party API access they'd be profitable

But then the leadership would only be wealthy and not famous.

It feels like the focus on ad sales by so many platforms is due to their executives' personal preference in having broad ranging social influence (by playing gateway to the masses) instead of a predictable revenue stream.
Nah, GPT's output can be very valuable and insightful. But you don't get it with a low effort "please summarize the key points of the text below\n\n{paste some text here}".

I propose the rule to be what it is already: put some effort into your comment, make it add something instead of just taking space and attention. This works for human and GPT and human/GPT ensemble commentary. And the prescription for low-effort spam? Downvote and flag.
This will be short lived since I see moderation tooling being pretty key in handling content at the scale Reddit does. The API changes will nuke those and not just the user apps. It is also important to know that third party applications have yet to be shut down completely, most say they will be closing shop end of this month. Reddit is still benefiting and riding some of the "quality" it had before the shutdowns (think bots, automods, etc). I expect that will soon go away since the subreddits that aren't protesting are most likely still using third party tools to make moderation less arduous. Anyone who is intenting to exploit this does not yet have the opportunity.

Reddit is claiming they will reconcile the current issues with their moderation tooling, but if the app is any reflection of their ability to provide quality software, I wouldn't hold my breath.

So much to say: The true death of Reddit will be a slow one. The protest is just the first wave of their complications.
At SendGrid a number of years ago (way pre-ipo), our top plan before custom pricing was about $80/mo. A large customer was integrating with us and their usage fit for $80/mo to start. Client told us we needed to at least add a zero on that otherwise it was too little to seek approval and the project would likely not proceed. We upped the price, secured the client, and last I heard, they were paying tens of thousands per month after fully ramping up.
Didn’t you just have a bridge collapse on a major highway?
There was a company I interviewed at which had a particular way of hiring. Although I did not end up working for them, it was something I tried doing when I was involved in hiring for people with ops experience.

And that is, being able to troubleshoot complex systems when you have no idea what is going on, under time pressure.

Every site is a unique combination of side effects that no one on the internet — or even within the company — have any idea on. Yet there is generally a way to start approaching how to figure out what is going on. Though experience with the components of the system helps a lot.
The South is fast becoming America’s industrial heartland
Yep, I have everything set to Poland, but still, getting info about the US.
I just opened my subs back up.

I mod a few subs for a niche hobby -- there's probably a few tens of thousands of us in the US. The majority of us are not especially technically inclined, and the only other place where the community regularly gathers online is Facebook Groups, which many of us want nothing to do with anymore.

I long ago largely stopped using reddit outside of the subs I mod, except browsing the front page briefly, or getting an answer from an internet search.

Tbc, reddit as a platform means nothing to me, and I'll happily move to another site. But, for the time being, this is where the community is, and this is where we're able to share information, some of which is safety-critical. I see the time I spend trying to keep the subs I mod welcoming and mostly free from hostility as a way to give back to the community.

I'm in the process of setting up a Lemmy server and plan to host similar forums there, but I intend to continue using reddit for at least as long as it's a primary gathering place for our community.
I use LibreOffice. I'm the only person I know who does, but it works great. People are incensed when I send them ods files. "You expect me to install a program on my computer to view this file?" "No, you can use any spreadsheet program." "I don't want to do that. Why don't you just use Google sheets?"
The only thing I am happy about Autodesk is that they do at least attempt maintaining a Mac version. Wish this was more common on other CAD developers.
Interesting. But I'd say it still fits with the narrative. 5% is a good "we practice fiscal constraint" message. To get back to a reasonable cost basis, they need to lay off 50%, which would send a totally different message.
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he changed season, sun exposure and lockdown :)
Sorry for your loss. The grieving process is painful but eventually it resolves, takes time. However, comfort you’d get from having your loved one immortalized by AI may interfere with the grieving process, e.g. may develop denial and other beliefs.
https://archive.is/rXaFH
I do. Sometimes.
Replying to comments with new comments is such a functional way to do things.

Would it not have been simpler to write the new text over the top of the old comment?
For me it is listening music without any words. I have one special track that enables "productivity mode" for me. If there any lyrics I can't concentrate and listen to words instead,
Yes, adding Reddit to search queries was a good way to make search engines less awful. Yesterday I used the search engine cache of the Reddit results a lot.
Adding reddit.com to uBlock's "My Filters" is an easy option, too.

Even better is adding it to Pi-hole so you get everything at once (including blackout-oblivious house guests!).
The data created by people should be owned by people. They should have right to decide if it can be distributed free or with charge through APIs, archrivals etc. I absolutely don't understand how Reddit, Twitter, Yelp etc think that they own the data and be the gatekeeper for the content they didn't create.
Why doesn't apollo implement the reddit api and be done with it?
> The fact that you cannot interact with the real world without wrapping side effects

That has nothing to do with FP.

That's mostly a Haskell (and the-like) thing.

"Hello world" looks in for example in OCaml like this: `print_string "Hello world!\n"`. You can interact with the outside world just fine without any "side-effect wrapping".
Hi, author here! Haha, yes, you’ve summed it up pretty well.

I was unsure whether to write this post as, in one sense, it’s detective work in which I’m the investigator, and a slightly younger and more sloppy version of myself is the culprit. As you said, though, there's also more to it: the system takes on a life of its own, with different parts of the stack interacting in unexpected and complex ways, in an environment that doesn’t give me much help to write things correctly (and occasionally presents footguns on a silver platter).

It’s really gratifying to see people reading and identifying with it, and I’m also extending my thanks to the user who posted this to HN!
They do not want 3rd party clients to exist which is why they are not doing what would logically make sense: limiting it to Premium.
Normally I'm defending tech company size, but in this case it does seem bizarre, given how bad their official apps are, and the mobile site, and the new reddit desktop site.

Those are the primary user interfaces for their platform, and they're bad. Enthusiast users in particular seem to overwhelmingly prefer third party apps and old reddit, and those third party apps seem to be made by small teams or even solo devs.
Yeah it’s now “oh and maybe we’ll do ‘touch grass tuesdays’ in perpetuity”. That’s an incredibly unsympathetic message imo.

Get real. If anyone thinks a business is going to tolerate a clique of powermods choosing to randomly shut things down according to their own schedule… they’re gonna be disappointed.

Let alone I’ve seen some people thinking they can demand a hand in the corporate governance? Yeah fuck no powermods are not ever getting a seat on the board, lol, lmao. No company in the world would ever agree to that. Especially not after all of this.

Yeah, they’re gonna pry the mods off and reopen things, sooner or later. Unless something changes mods are going to leave things permanently closed after the 30th and walk away, and Reddit is absolutely not going to tolerate that. But there’s no reason to wait that long really.

The 5 mods running an average of 18 top-100 subs each are not going to be as tough to replace as people think they are, the reality is at that scale you’re not managing anything operationally on a day to day level, you’re setting up a script.

It’s the lower-level jannies that will be the trouble, because they’re the ones doing the actual work, not the person claiming to mod 200 million subscribers worth of content. And at the end of the day you can find some people willing to click “delete” on spam while they’re scrolling. That’s plausible if they can get over the bump gracefully. And truth is there’s always people willing to do it for the prestige, even as pitiful as that is.

The Reddit play here is obviously to pry the powermods off, get the frontpage subs back open, and get moderation back to some kind of a semi functional level (automated or otherwise) until it blows over and organic moderation can resume. And that’s a reasonably achievable goal.

But the powermod squad needs to consider what their own exit strategy is too… nobody is going to let powermods randomly shut things down on an ongoing basis. If they’re disruptive then they put Reddit in a position of being forced to remove them, it is what it is, Reddit can’t operate with a cabal of a half dozen users able to shut down the front page at will either. If Reddit doesn’t have a fundamental belief in the powermods being good-faith players they are gone regardless of the consequences, because the alternative is unacceptable. They will deal with the consequences and move forward, most likely successfully.

People act like Spez is somehow out of line and they can just get him tossed out, like the board is going to sign off on letting a bunch of agitators disrupt operations on an ongoing and indefinite basis.
I'm glad you asked, because you made me think about why. Initially, I guess I just thought it was kinda neat and stuck with it, but on reflection this is what I personally feel I get out of it:

- Same interface for analysis, scripting, and building more complex multi-file pipelines. I can also use the #%% notation to break up and debug scripts, which is probably teaching me all sorts of bad habits but it's something I find helpful.

- Similarly, as another commenter in this thread notes, .ipynbs just don't play as nicely with the other dev tools (e.g., Git, Black) and generally feel like second-class citizens in VSCode.

- I much prefer having the VSCode interactive window on the right, as opposed to having my output dumped out below my code block. I now find using the classic notebook style makes the document much longer and harder to navigate, particularly as I work with text a lot and I'm often outputting large chunks of text for inspection.

This noted, I think this is all possible because I'm rarely producing my final products in notebook format. Neither my boss nor the stakeholders I typically present to can (or have any inclination to) read code, so I don't really need a format others can execute or inspect. I just take the charts and figures and dump to presentations and other normie-friendly documents.
Do you ever go to sit down in front of the tele to watch a movie, and right as you get comfortable, you realise "Bollocks, I forgot to turn that light off"? So you get up, turn off the light, sit back down, and then remember "ah I left my nice warm beverage out of reach". If you are like me, each one of those moments is like a little mental kick in the groin, and that's kind of what it feels like when I reach for the mouse to move a window or click a button I can't just activate with the KB, or when I have to spam Ctrl+RArrow to move across a line. I like to minimise those mental kicks to my groin. I'm not so fussed on speed, I just don't like feeling inefficient in that way.
I think data harvesting for AI is the real reason Twitter and Reddit want to limit access. Even I was thinking how easy it would be to mine both sites. It sucks because that’s the end of the (quasi) open web.
thanks, great!
That's the thing I'm looking forward to with the evolution of the "Fediverse" and other efforts toward federation/decentralization. The problem with traditional forums was that they were all little silos disconnected from one another; now those forums can talk to each other via ActivityPub or what have you, offering a nicer balance between "isolated but tight-knit community" v. "expansive but highly-impersonal masses".
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It does talk about Intellectual Property. But, apparently their chips are multiple cores on a fabric that talk over ethernet:

https://youtu.be/32CRYenTcdw?t=1560

They do this at the chip level apparently? Pretty nifty!
I assume this was said sarcastically because of the wider conspiracy stuff, but I do think this is a problem.

Overconcentration of ownership doesn't benefit society. Not only the extremes of monopolies or oligopolies, but generally shifting away from a single person being able to own and run a business. It feels we are regressing from last centuries significant gains here. Its particularly bad in downstream areas like abattoirs where 4 companies control most of the industry.

Bill Gates might only own 300,000 odd acres now, which is huge but hardly taking over the industry, but its growing and the historical norm is for this to concentrate over time and something we should actively avoid so we dont end up like Scotland or other places where a handful own the majority, which I think will happen if its not actively worked against.
> We absolutely must ship what we said we would. The only long term solution is improving our product, and in the short term we have a few upcoming critical mod tool launches we need to nail.

Maybe they should have shipped better apps and mod tools so they wouldn't be in this mess.
Oracle is on course to make Larry Ellison the world’s third-richest man
I think this might be a future pattern for a certain group of startups. Company X creates something useful and then gets a acquired but because of natural bureaucracy of large companies Company X slows innovation.

In comes...Company Y who can rapidly innovate for a few years until inevitably they also get acquired, then comes Company Z who has the same logic for starting as Company Y and on it goes.

This isn't necessarily a bad pattern for either the founders (they get an exit) or the consumers (they get a brief period of innovation). Give it a couple of years and I imagine we'll be getting Resend's successor.

As for Resend themselves, I think they're absolutely right - the email APIs today for non-enterprise businesses are ugly and opaque and if they can solve this, all the best to them and if I prefer them to current providers I'd be happy to be a customer.