skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having controls at the bottom isn't user hostile, it's the fact that it obstructs the space allotted for developers. This makes it much harder to develop mobile sites - in my experience a very large minority of sites fuck it up, and it makes the mobile browser feel like a worse experience.
The fact that this isn't on the landing page doesn't bode well for a 4 year old project.
> Basically every major and minor city in the USA has its own subreddit

And how many are actually run by the city government?
My theory is that the algorithm that produces the front page relies on the largest subreddits all being public. But if it can't draw on posts from the largest subs, it'll have to dip into a bunch of smaller subs, and the part of the algorithm where it delves deeper and deeper into less popular subreddits is terribly optimized and puts a huge strain on the servers.
> Asking for manually created image descriptions and/or transcribed text was too much to ask from the social web.

Mastodon at least has had a better culture about this in my experience. Possibly worth investigating, and it may have degraded over the last mass migrations.
Jeff Bezos just bought one share of Amazon
That's the strange thing of it all. I'm not necessarily in Los Angeles proper, but I'm in a suburb and am fine driving downtown. There theoretically shouldn't be a better place to find some 20's people interested in various geek/tech content. I'm sure the groups are there, but I'm not sure where to look.

The only better place in theory is up north in Silicon Valley. But I'm not sure if I want to move and drastically up my cost of living in the process.
They were given and working on Vision Pro for work. So it’s free vs $6500.
I mean, I guess use lynx if you’re that worried about it. Or use Firefox and spend 2 minutes customizing about:config.

My point was just that Firefox is a lot better than Brave. I’ll stand by that.
Text Editor Data Structures
They are purchasing information that is for sale. Worrying. What's more worrying is that we can assume this information is also available to every US adversary.

Tangentially, it's interesting that the US declassifies things and they become publicly available.
If I were a VC with investments in Reddit who saw it was going nowhere, and on top of that learned that my other investment OpenAI had been gobbling up all its data entirely free of charge for the purpose of fencing it without any significant legal consequences, I would:

1. Try to cut off any upstart rivals of my better performing bet from playing the same trick by sabotaging easy data extraction

2. Cut my losses and rid myself of future ones by somehow sizing Reddit down a notch, not so much that it dies though - I'm a sentimental guy, bite me

3. Ensure no one finds out I had anything to do with this by throwing someone else under the bus and buying them off if they ever figure it out (lucky for hypothetical VC me, Reddit's CEO seems arrogant, impulsive, and greedy enough that he probably wouldn't even realise having been played before its too late + easily convinced to take the fall for far less than that'd actually be worth)

Wouldn't it be something if I could have the subject of step 3 take care of step 1 and 2 for me, perhaps together in one single master-stroke of a go?

*evil laugh*
Non Paywall: http://archive.today/lSbnM
Golang is quite good in this regard:
- language itself is quite simple
- default coding style was defined at the very beginning
- usually there is one standard way to do something
- the language do not have so-called "syntactic sugar"
PFAS is used in the inside coating on "compostable" cardboard takeout boxes. Its also used in those compostable paper straws. The coating is to prevent moisture from damaging the container. I have no idea why someone would put it in pizza boxes.

I honestly think we should rethink some of these compostable things, PLA would work better for straws and packaging for cold food and beverages, and there have been wax coated cardboard containers for both hot and cold food for a while.
are there any examples of for-profit villages actually scaling up to cities successfully?
I’m sure I read something recently about there being a limited future for viewing the wreck of the Titanic before it degrades, and that’s under pretty deep water, over 2km down.
If you click the gear in the bottom right (at least of my screen) the menu that pops up will have an option called "Import or upload sites". That has an OPML upload option.

It's a cluttered user experience, though fairly configurable once you've started to find your way around. It's definitely a kitchen sink style tool, however.

EDIT: It's bottom left, sorry. I browse the web in a mirror.
We will see. I once worked in an Erlang codebase in which symbols can be introduced without first being declared. One particular bug I remember was that in one file "true" was written five times and "ture" one time. Pretty sure that a language model could both detect and commit a fix for that particular bug.
I just checked the enhance images thing and its switched off on multiple machines checked. I dont use Edge for much so this must be the default (Edge is annoying).

This may be a thing with Beta versions of Edge browser but not released versions. I think neowin.net is missleading people in to believing that its the default for the excitement.

Most likely everything is on by default in the beta versions because of beta testing scenarios.....
> So should Bill Nye be required to keep publishing the original version of his book "Undeniable"? [Between the publication of the hardcover and softcover editions, he changed his views on GMO foods, and updated the relevant chapter.]

Ideally, yes, but at a minimum he should provide a list of changes and their rationale(s) in the newer editions.
Read the twitter bio of that movement's page and tell me your definition of "everyone" here.

If you don't support Stolzmonat's agenda, then you are probably not welcome - pretty much the same as with Pride. What's the difference then?
Heh!

I wasn't saying you were ambiguous; I meant that "XML" can mean the system of nodes that is an XML document; a string that is a representation of that document; and the specific string that was parsed to create the document.

An infinite number of strings can describe the same document, because there is the concept of ignorable whitespace when parsing XML. So "XML" is ambigous because the acronym could mean any of several things; and ambiguous the other way, because XML allows multiple string representations of the same object.

[Edit] So I don't know how you can sign an "XML document"; the only thing I know how to make a signature for is a specific serialization of that document. May be someone's invented a way of signing the abstract document object, but I haven't heard of it.
What's unclear? Most Americans are fine in Russia; the exceptions are unpleasant. I wouldn't worry too much as a nobody, but if I had any sort of high profile, Russia has plenty of motivations to play the tit-for-tat game right now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittney_Griner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Gershkovich
Ask HN: If you are building OpenAI apps, how do you store user's API key?
This question has been around my mind lately.

The context is, if you are building a web application that allows user to use their own OpenAI API key to interact with OpenAI, how would you store their API key?

1. Local storage, let them send your API key through your server

2. Local storage, and the API key is called right from the user's browser

3. On your server??? How to store it securely? Using a vault manager?

#2 seems like a good choice, but in case you need to secure your prompt, then this is not feasible.

I've been struggling to find a good way to handle this situation.

Anyone have any idea or best practice on how to go about this scenario?
I'd say micropayments are the only real way to get content to the point that it can stave off enshittification as it becomes popular.

But, again, that requires the micropayments not to be enshittified as they'd have the same type of enshittification business purpose.
>> My impression was, that the younger generation seemed to more conservative regarding arranged marriages then their parents.

Don't think this is true. Arranged marriages have gone down since I was a kid in India, though it is still true for majority.

>> about how us Europeans have a probpem with arranged marriages in the Muslim world, but upheld, at the time, India as this huge, free democracy.

India is a free democracy, but life revolves around family. Which is good if things work out, and utterly suffocating when not.
It might go somewhere to pick up a package.
> Where is reddit going to find enough people to work for free on such short notice?

Enter: an army of scab accounts ending in _GPT.
Makes sense to me. I remember several lunch conversations at FB about whether or not we even could restart the site with totally cold caches. I’m sure it was possible but it wouldn’t have been clean or pretty.
I think corporate involvement is part of the problem, not part of the answer. Corporations have very different, and sometimes very opposed, goals to those of community.
good ol' nasty jupyter notebooks support this:

%pip install foo~=1.5
%pip install bar~=1.7

import foo
import bar
Or, more reasonably, CNN is just a garbage news source.
I'm not even sure what the point of a giant Discord server is. Like, I use Discord for organizing (online) activities, asking a question and getting it answered by a real expert, hanging out with friends, etc.

None of this scales, it's totally unworkable if you have 100+ people actively chatting, let alone thousands.
This reminds me of Coil subscriptions that was built on a similar micropayments concept for paying out creators. Sadly they shut down. Worth looking into their efforts, what went wrong...
What i'm saying is that just 2 years ago someone who signed up at the mega plan was spending 6,000 less for the same service. apollo has been using that api for a lot longer than 2 years... unfortunately the wayback doesn't go further back than 2 years. it's entirely possible that he's getting 50m req at 160 bucks because he's grandfathered in a deal is a deal generally and if they do increase their pricing you have a long time to either find an alternative or agree to it.

aside from that i don't think the $0.001/request thing is for anyone operating at a scale much larger than 150m per month. just the initial $4000 makes it $1333/50m requests... to go from that to 50k/50m is asinine as it would be 37x more expensive; you are doing a custom deal at that point.

His initial api access at the highest tier may well have been $500/150m requests based on how much the api has shot up in price for new users in just two years.
Agreed, on whole.

Humans need heroes, we need people to believe in, to aspire to - but we should never forget that our heroes are humans - and imperfect humans at that.

One of my biggest issues with the new puritanism, is we dont let people evolve either - once you've done one bad thing - no matter what redemption or evolution you have later in life - you're just the guy who did the bad thing.

Generally also, I think its bad to judge historical figures by current norms too.

Like on TR - TR's views on... well pretty much everything evolved over time too (he notably became more progressive and more radical in that progressivism with age).

His views on race evolved too as far as I know too (though I dont have sources handy to talk about it).
And in this case, use it as an opportunity to learn more about the system. Treat it as an experiment.
> Firstly, HFTs do not generate "massive profits". Not sure where that myth comes from

From places like the Tabb Group? "According to research conducted by the Tabb Group, the top 5 High Frequency Trading (HFT) firms make an average of $2 billion a year in profits."

> However, it'll quickly become an attractive business if you're doing millions of trades per day

Attractive as in profitable? Honestly I don't know what you're trying to get at here. Yeah, their margin is small, and they make massive profits by replacing that with volume. Why is that a controversial claim?

> this drives trading costs down for everyone else

It really feels like you didn't even read my last comment. Okay, let's grant that they lower trading costs, while extracting many, many billions of dollars from the market.

I have a great idea for a business. I'll lower the door charge at vegas casinos, in exchange for bumping the house edge up by a fraction of a percent. There you go, I have made it a lot cheaper for everyone to get in and participate in the craps market. I have offered a valuable service and am in no way a parasite.

What's the difference between my business plan, and what you're describing?
FTC files to block Microsoft-Activision Blizzard deal
According to Similarweb, HN traffic is about 21M a month, so roughly 0.7M a day. Could be off though since Similarweb gives an estimate.
> Long essay that doesn't really say much.

Not long, but yes. He starts out as if he has something to say, but doesn't, except to plug something at "I recommend ..." So it's clickbait.

His argument seems headed in the direction of declaring that advertising is bad, but he quits before he gets there. One can make a strong argument that advertising and finance, once rather small industries in terms of employment, have become much too large. They're supposed to be service functions for manufacturing and distribution. For many products, advertising is a significant portion of product cost. When promotional cost becomes a significant fraction of retail price, a company is in the self-promotion industry rather than offering a product. Perhaps tax policy should make this unprofitable. Arguably, it's a driver of unnecessary inflation.

"Advertising", viewed broadly, includes Google and Facebook. We should be thinking of the advertising industry rather than the "tech" industry.
http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2016/index.html is also a good read.
Yes. But you can also point your camera in directions other than straight up and get different paths.

For example if you point it towards the horizon the camera will rotate 360 degrees and it will record a full view of all the land around the camera.

If you're on the equator and you point the camera "up" towards the azimuth, then after 6 hours it will be pointed towards the horizon on the west. After 6 hours the camera will be pointing straight down to the ground etc.

But if you're in the equator and point the camera to the horizon towards the north, then the camera will roll and you'll see the ground rotate around similar to this video
I keep a lot of lab notes. When I cannot think of what I need to do to move forward, I write out some lab notes of what I have done and ideas for what needs to be done.

They usually aren't complex, and and often just a single line about something.

I keep lab notes for whatever personal project I am currently engaged with, lab notes for the household (repairs, updates, documented procedures on how to start the furnace, etc), lab notes for work, lab notes for the RV, lab notes for the workshop, lab notes for the home network.

Keeping informal notes on what has been done, what needs to be done, and thoughts about the doings has helped me immensely. An example of some of my project notes https://github.com/JustinLloyd/retro-chores

I've got lab notes going back to at least the 1970's, https://justinlloyd.li/blog/word-search-game/ (1978) and https://justinlloyd.li/blog/word-search-game-part-two/ and https://justinlloyd.li/blog/better-date-format/ (1979) are some samples, though I didn't call them lab notes back then.
The internet forgets too quickly. And so long as Reddit can present a "everything's awesome" front, their IPO will likely take off.

Having /r/Pics down permanently because of a protest would be a problem, but a poorly moderated /r/Pics would not. The quality would just go down, and Reddit would get a good justification for locking it down.

"No, /r/Pics wasn't shut down because of the protest, it was shut down because there were too many law-breaking posts. And you know how tough we have to be on those kinds of posts."

At least, that's my take on how most investors would look at it. Investors love companies who focus on profitability, regardless of their long term perspective.
Can Movie Reviews Predict Box Office Success?
I think you can expect some more detailed insights from David once he starts testing out things in the emulator.
You will never find a more self-loathing bunch, in fact! However, there are several recurring threads, some older than Reddit, dedicated to self improvement and escaping neetdom. There are also threads openly embracing it.
Depends what you mean by "fully switch". I think it's good enough to replace a few monitors but at the same time there are use cases for monitors that it can't replace, like showing something on your screen to someone next to you.

I'm sure some developers will switch over on the first generation, some will wait until it gets lighter/cheaper/more immersive (disclosure: I have no clue what's coming in the future), and some might never switch if they just plain don't like having something on their head.
> With this disclosure, China may be attempting to counteract Microsoft’s chokehold on the smartphone market

This is a very strange statement!

But thanks - appreciate the link. Not sure how the "media player in the taskbar" got in there, but that's patents for you.
We've always had metabolic changes, and palatable is relative (Korean comfort food is my nightmare.) I think the answer (at least subjectively) is that discomfort from hunger is also relative. People who have never allowed themselves to be hungry for a moment experience far more discomfort at the same level of hunger than someone accustomed to being hungry. That causes a cycle of panic, and of fixing that panic with food.

I jumped on intermittent fasting very early on because it worked, but after doing it off and on for a few years (on: getting smaller, off: getting fatter), I simply started finding it easier to control portions or to wait a little longer for my next meal. I blame it entirely on learning to live with hunger on fast days.
No bicycling lanes? No bus lanes? No pedestrian zones? No electric vehicles? No solar cells on the roofs? No windfarms? No public transport? No subways? And of course no simulation of the traffic noise caused by cars and factories for inhabitants...

It seems like in this game you can only repeat all the city building problems of the past. If you want to build a city of the future, this unfortunately is not your game.
They could ditch all the moderators by choosing to ditch them. But what would they replace them with?

Mods do useful work that needs to be done, and anything Reddit could do to replace them is going to cost so, so much more. The alternative is a site overrun with trash.
Roald Dahl himself didn’t agree with you. He didn’t try to pass off a censored Cinderella as the original version. He wrote his own and published it under his own name.

And you know what? His Cinderella was fucking terrible and I’ve been waiting decades to have a platform to point that out. His original IPs are way better than his retellings. Glad to get that off my chest.
The difference between a well run subreddit in a niche topic or with a smaller community vs. a huge default sub can be huge. Both can have their problems, and moderation is always an issue with online communities; but I think people are less insistent that Reddit is a "good" place and moreso that as it currently exists, warts and all, Reddit is useful and provides an enormous amount of utility to the internet, for better or worse. For some people using Reddit is "going on the internet" and they'll go to very few other websites --- the two are linked.

The recent changes to Reddit, to a certain extent, highlight a trend in the internet where the things that people find extremely useful end up transitioning in a way that seems actively user hostile.
This has been my frustration as well.

I purchased it for Switch. I enjoy the game, but find it very hard to lay out a city since everything needed a street.
Still need to solve the problem of how to fund these public services. Not really plausible to expect their devs and admins to live like the desert fathers.
Interesting. Maybe they will say that the flat Earth is doing a barrel roll?
Reddit hasn't replaced them for 10+ years. Free labour is not easy to find these days
I'm sure those 5 major companies called out in PRISM are all selling the data

Um, "selling"?

That's an, uh, interesting, characterization of what's likely going on.

I'm not sure companies have a lot of choice in what's going to happen to their data here in the US despite what they tell us. (In fact, I'd bet they don't have much of a choice what happens to their data in any country they do business in.) Maybe a few of the hardcore companies take it to court. But, OH! That's right! In the US we've got FISA courts for this kind of thing, so it's illegal for us to know anything about any of that either.

Oh well. Pity that I guess. Carry on citizens. Nothing to see here.

On a serious note, never put anything on the digital record that you would be unwilling to have entered as evidence against you in open court. Full stop. I don't care what assurances you get from companies about security, or privacy, or end to end encryption. You just shouldn't do it.

It helps to think of it this way, if it touches your phone or the internet in any way, it's part of the public record. No matter what app you were using. So be cognizant of that, it can come back to bite you 10 years later in ways you never would have imagined.
That's really your user agent's fault, not the site. I can right click on the video and click "Save As" without issue.
> I remember several lunch conversations at FB about whether or not we even could restart the site with totally cold caches

so you're saying, we just have to knock it out once, and it'll be gone forever? that makes things easier ...
I didn't understand the use case. I had chatgpt try to find one, maybe dependency management(eh, I got conda for that) and parallel processing(eh, I got pool for that).

Seems like a no-brainer to go with python for the long term. Why would anyone take the time to use this?
> villages scale up to cities successfully, however.

This is true, however "community" is typically lost when that happens.
Yes exactly, we’re adding features specifically to the language to accommodate vendors who aren’t respecting the spec. Feels very backwards.
How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project (1996)
> and maybe once they're old enough it could make sense to buy a 20th century edition ...

Always supposing you _can_ still buy a 20th century version. Maybe I wouldn't feel so ambivalent about this editorialising if the editors committed to keeping both versions current
Is Reddit a village? I’m part on some of the “smaller” (maybe less large?) communities like the Blood Bowl subreddit, but it’s still mostly just a bunch of strangers talking with each other for a while. It’s frankly similar to this place isn’t it? Chances are you’ll read this post of mine, and then never see another of my posts again.

That’s not really what I’d consider a village, or even a real community. I think a lot of the things a lot of people miss about the “old web” is really just things being smaller. You’d go into an IRC channel and it would be the same people that was there every day. This made it possible to actually create a community, where people knew each other.

Sure it’s fun to be on HN or Reddit or similar and sometimes bump into someone “famous”, but it’s not like it’s really “social” when you’re just talking to a new bunch of people every time you post. That is, if what you post is even read by anyone.
The lack of notifications and even something as small as no app icon with a red circle on it make a huge difference
Death Outlives War [pdf]