skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could make a huge list of what Reddit design gets wrong, or at least outdated or suboptimal. But the land grab for names turned into one of its biggest, fixable weaknesses.

Reddit should boot up another letter, /d/ or something, and give the communities numbers or hex identifiers, (which they already sort of do with the short urls) and make the names irrelevant. Communities can choose to port over and redirect. Over time, the ones that don’t fade to disappearing from all and eventually go private.

Tying name to community url makes discoverability of replacement communities shitty for new users. Politics is easy to understand. Whatever people come up with as a substitute word for a forked community, will be less clear. Of forked communities, maybe only trees and rainbow came up with a better name.
I don't think your arguments accurately cover the OP's argument at all. The key distinction is literally the first sentence: "Social media businesses should not charge* for APIs."

If you have a community [whatever] service that would not be a business. If you have a blog, that's could potentially be a very business-adjacent, but I'd argue it doesn't cover the "social media" qualification, so that also doesn't apply.

If you run a business and much of your content is user-generated (because it's a social media site), the OP is arguing that API access should be free/at cost.
No worries there are enough customers inside the Great EU Wall, as proven by others.
I imagine there's ways to curtail that (like detecting non-human users).
> On the whole, no group is actually smarter than any other group.

This is the law of averages. Almost never true.
I have done all three, I'm currently 100% remote, and I am clamoring to get back into a situation where I can spend a couple days a week in the office. "best" and "worst" varies wildly case by case.
Yes, all the time, but quality varies heavily based on subreddit, and in my experience the more popular and/or less strictly moderated subreddits have lower quality.

The <no explanation> part isn't unique to reddit. See: XKCD 979
Thanks. This caret doesn't exist on mobile (at least for me). Hopefully it doesn't get removed elsewhere!
Yelp's stated policy is to remove reviews by people who didn't actually directly interact with the business, regardless of the content.
Ok, but your private key, session tokens and CLI access tokens (kube configs, gcloud etc;) are your password in those situations.

They tie to your identity, thus you must not treat them the same as company secrets, they are professional personal secrets which should not be disclosed or allowed to fall into anyone elses hands (less they be revoked and cycled).

It's not just good security posture it could affect your career quite badly or lead to legal issues.
Spanner is ridiculously expensive. Though I get your point, it’s not like an iPhone. An iPhone is not actually that expensive compared to top end android phones.

Spanner is very expensive even compared to hosted cockroach and RDS (Aurora). That being said I’m sure if you're enterprise it's substantially cheaper.

Spanner generally is about twice the cost as cockroach which seems cheap but the gap in nominal cost only grows with usage.

The other issue is that since there’s no source to self host you also have to pay, unlike cockroach.

Generally with cockroach I’d expect one to self host all instances except a staging/pre-pod and prod. With Spanner all your instances necessarily will be hosted, which means $$.

That being all said, Spanner is worth it if money isn’t an issue
Or you're wrong and there's an actual reason that 90% of the subreddits went on strike such that any new mods wouldn't accept these conditions either. Like you really think people are so power hungry they'd sign up to do this for free while being restricted to using only one finger to do all of the work or something absurd like that? No, there are limits.
> a completely gut feel of: does this sound reasonable, do the numbers look sensible, does the team look good.

That's really the only way you ever could do it. But the key words there are "reasonable" and "sensible". Reasonable and sensible things don't revolutionize the entire world. They're not brand new, unprecedented technologies. It's not sensible to claim you'll create a ten-billion-dollar+ market overnight. It's not reasonable to claim that a problem that 10,000 smart scientists have worked on for decades was just solved in an unexpected way by this twenty-something "wunderkind" upstart and no you can't see behind the curtain. And yet these people get hundreds of millions in investment anyway. That's the question: why the hell did that ever sound reasonable; why the hell did those numbers ever look sensible!?
> AI is an oracle just tells you what you're looking for.

LLMs are oracles that arrange words in a probabilistic order that are grammatically correct and may be factually correct. Unfortunately there's no way to evaluate the probability of confabulation with any of the LLM chat bots. The distribution of occurrences confabulation is also not regular or predictable nor is it fixed. So you can't ever say "ChatGPT is bad at X" because it can be bad today, good tomorrow, then bad the next day.
I'm protesting API pricing because it means my favourite app isn't sustainable. Sorry if it's not as profound as you want it to be.
You could say the same thing for most amphetamines.

I don't think caffeine is particularly harmful, but it is a huge stretch to paint it as purely beneficial and without side effects. As a point of fact most people getting their "morning jolt" are just treating the side effects of extended caffeine usage - they are physically addicted.

About once a year I spend a month doing no caffeine. Every single year it is quite illuminating to do through first withdrawal and then to experience the first cup of coffee. I recommend it, and you might change some of your thoughts on caffeine if you do this.
I worked on a start-up that was basically a Yelp competitor with a less-bad business model. Unfortunately, all the incentives in the business are about boosting the performance of your paying customers relative to free businesses on the platform. While we never went as far as faking reviews or helping businesses eliminate bad reviews and we at least were clear to customers about our search lists being curated rather than complete, there were clear pressures towards all the things that lead to Yelp being the shit-show that it is.
> You can't combine two indexes to filter on two cols; you need one composite index

Can you expand on how you perceive traditional RDMSs to be different for this case?
Check out this license for example: https://github.com/tinacms/tinacms/blob/main/LICENSE

It's an Apache 2.0 license, but with addendums.

Would it be reasonable to say that I could fork their repo for own purposes, and argue in court that I was only familar with Apache 2.0, and not their modified terms?
Building a platform that open sources itself
IMO the new title with a question mark is better.
DNS, it’s always DNS.
Google's new generative AI lets you preview clothes on different models
What is the appeal of discord? I've tried to multiple times and to me it's just ephemeral... something closer to irc then a web forum. The onboarding and UX is horrid (or I'm just an old dude... which is true :)
I only need to name 1 for myself: i travel a lot and work from a laptop often. AVP feels like an obvious choice for development if it delivers on the vision (heh). Working without a dedicated desk space, laptop stand, separate monitor, etc, laptop work just pales in productivity and comfort to my multi-monitor desk setup at home.

A wearable that acts as if i have floating monitors anywhere sounds like a massive win, in a device that appears to be far more portable than actually bringing the aforementioned accoutrements with me everywhere i go.
It's been kind of interesting to see this play out in real time: it's clearly a board level reaction at these companies to OpenAI essentially scraping these companies, running a model over their content, and then essentially disintermediating them.

And when you ask ChatGPT you're (marginally) less likely to be chided by someone telling you you're an idiot for asking the question in the first place.
Is "family owned" a sign of an easy anti-trust win? Because plenty of "cuddly" concepts basically irrelevant to the consumer are used in advertising.
Oh, I completely agree that some moderation is needed, make no mistake about that. Just agreeing mainly with the point that most modding on Reddit is a power play, not altruism.
ChatGTP has a number of topics it will refuse to discuss so any writing on those topics will be more often than not human generated.
Is it possible that computer tech was just weirdly susceptible to startup funding, and it is a really poor fit for biotech?

Computers mostly are

* well understood at every step (well, at least it was all designed by humans and the bits and bobs do what they say on the tin).

* mostly involve producing some kind of output for everyday normal people to use, in the end.

So they are easy to understand and evaluate. Even some investors can manage it.

Biotech stuff seems to mostly involve making tools for other technicians and scientists. And the process by which is works is some ridiculous, quirk-laden byzantine madness that evolution happened to throw together. At least from an outsider point of view it seems like an absolute nightmare.
Yelp is a cesspool of garbage at this point. I ignore it whenever it’s in my search results after they started forcing me to their app.
"What I would suggest is to start taking the extra time to optimize your resume for every job you apply for. There are tools online to help you find out how these softwares scan and pick out pieces of your resume."

Is there one tool to rule them all, or a host for each specialty?
Good point. I was thinking about this through the lens of how Google looks when doing an acquisition and under-valuing the fact that these spin-offs would be already-constructed Google-shaped offerings.

Still, it sets up a monoculture of service fabrics those products can run on where the division between orgs is, at best, paper-thin; at worst, search or ads dies and takes services with it (or vice-versa) because without several eng-decades neither of those sub-companies are kitted to act as an independent company.
If you actually read the article, it's not exactly the same.
2 * 2 * 191 * 383

Which is mildly interesting.
We call that reinforcement.

It’s like actors in movies copy real world people who copy actors in movies.
I've never heard Napoleon, but I'm pretty sure that it's usually attributed to a different German military officer. Quote Investigation is not definitive in who said it. But this seems to be the oldest recorded version?
Yeah, if pay incentives are there, and we're talking sales... They're not necessarily people of the highest esteem. And if the hiring party puts a little pressure on the candidate, I could definitely imagine a tight ship.

A scrupulous person wouldn't join the Gestapo, y'know?
"Reddit has an admirable record when it comes to defending an open and free internet."

Had*. Ever since Aaron died, it's become a censorious bubble.
https://archive.ph/VdisN
> You saw the "look at your Mac and the screen appears" bit, right ?

I did but all I saw was a virtual mirror of the Mac's screen. Not apps. The mirror is the app, more like running a remote desktop app on the 3D world.

I didn't see VS Code running on its own virtual window. I didn't see iTerm running on its own window, separate to VS Code's. I didn't see a Mac's Firefox running on its own window, separate to the other 2. Sure, you can run visionOS's Safari, and probably even visionOS's Firefox in the future, or their iPad counterparts, but they're not nearly as powerful as the desktop's.

You can already mirror your Mac to an iPad. In fact, you can use the iPad as an extra screen for your Mac. In that sense, AVP is in fact not much more than an iPad with a spatial interface.
They did not, Microsoft made the bet that there would be some application in the future that would require distribution to all developers. Turns out that application was Github Copilot.
I used to frequently add vbulletin onto searches about 10 years ago.
To add this to python I feel like you would have it has an external package and or write a pep about it and judge by how prevalent it becomes due to the fact that it says it will replace other features…
It's okay for the general user.
Indeed, the fact that Apollo can use the API for free then turn around and charge users for a premium version all while giving nothing back to Reddit is simply insane, you would never see Facebook, Instagram or other services allowing the same thing. And before one says that third party app users drive user driven content, what kind of content do you think Facebook and Instagram have?
> and anyway would people be lining up like this if it wasn't good?

That’s why new restaurants hire people to line up outside.
Simple fix, if you use a third party app you need to have Reddit Gold. Problem solved.
I agree. I don't think I've said anything counter to that (or perhaps I wasn't being clear?)

> thus you must not treat them the same as company secrets, they are professional personal secrets

They are company secrets that are tied to my identity. The company owns those secrets, not me. Just like my keycard to get into the building.
> Before Fake Review Watch and all her research, Dean used review sites often, she said. But now she tells everyone she knows to stick with good old word-of-mouth — especially with recent additional hits to the online system, like the surge of reviews spurred by COVID-19 policies and new reports of AI chatbot-written Amazon reviews.

Kind of sick of reading this advice. If I knew someone I trusted to recommend me a contractor why would I be on Yelp looking in the first place? Hello.
This speaks very well to something that's been bugging me about these discussions. marginalia_nu posted a blog about community yesterday that got linked here and you're hitting on a topic related to that. When the value is in the community itself, not the location they happen to be gathering in, how should ownership and funding of that location work?

In reality, we've got several options. People have house parties. One or several members of the community volunteer property they already own and maintain for another purpose to be temporarily used as a gathering place. The web analogy would be if we all had our own private blogs that we ran on self-hosted servers and we moved from the comments section of one to another and had our discussions there. Classically, Usenet was basically this but without the web.

Commons exist. These would be something like a park. That can be funded via taxes, or if you're militantly anti-government, via some more voluntary form of communal funding, like an HOA or a non-profit that accepts donations. The web equivalent of the latter would be something like Wikipedia, which could easily host threaded discussions if they wanted to. It's arguably a problem that nothing like the former really exists. A lot of people in the past several years have been saying platforms like Twitter deserve to be treated as equivalent to government-provided commons, so why not just have them actually owned and funded by the government? Ironically, the US government does own and operate a classified Twitter clone called eChirp, but nobody from the web can access it unless they have a JWICS account, workstation access, a security clearance, and IC PKI identity.

When thought about this way, do private for-profit parks exist? I know amusement parks exist, but they are clearly different. The value there isn't in going to see the other park guests who you know and would gather with anyway. The park itself is the attraction, filled with entertaining rides, shows, and restaurants that play off of brand loyalty and nostalgia. It feel like places like Facebook and Reddit want to make the same or even money compared to Disney, but without putting in the century of work to build a brand and back-catalog of high-quality entertainment franchises. So they rely on users to generate content instead and it's at best a shitty, ephemeral attention grab that nobody will look back on in 2120 and cherish.

What many of us want are parks, public parks with funding models, not amusement parks with business models, let alone shitty copycats of amusement parks where all the rides suck, but we go anyway because our friends are there and we have no regular parks to hang out at.

The parent commenter you're replying to here is effectively proposing I should get paid to hang out with my friends. I don't want to get paid to hang out with my friends. As soon as that happens, they're not friends. They're customers and I just became a business. I don't want to be a business. I'm just trying to talk, not generate monetizable content.
Lemme tell you bout a place called the fediverse, friend.
If you don't mind some feedback, I'll share some thoughts: My professional and personal experience tells me that markdown and a static site generators are the best workflow for technical writing. I can automate quite a lot, and do proper version control. A GUI CRUD and all the related requirements such as databases, would get on the way to keep the documentation in sync with the actual codebase.
There have been cases on exactly this, and the basic summary of the result is Yelp can do what it wants on it's own platform:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=336153126478324...

which ended with:
The case was dismissed on appeal on the grounds that the complainants had not adequately proven (1) Yelp had wrongfully threatened economic loss by manipulating user reviews, (2) it was unlawful for Yelp to post and sequence both positive and negative reviews, (3) Yelp authored negative reviews, and (4) Yelp’s conduct amounted to a violation of antitrust laws by threatening or harming competition.

Yelp was also sued for false advertising (essentially saying they were a trusted, unbiased review source) which they somehow also won:

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2020/03/yelp-finally-d...

anyway, I actively avoid Yelp reviews because of this chicanery.
Apparently it’s the same for the word “cheat” https://mastodon.online/@macdonst/110492821135085935
It's worse than that. What used to be blogs and forums now is Discord, which is not indexed at all!
> It's amazing to me how many people have conspiracy theories about Yelp reviews, when in reality it's just really hard to determine good vs bad actors in review systems and it's possible to do a bad job as an engineer.

When cards are cloned, it's exceptionally easy for a bank to determine which merchant is compromised by looking for common denominators.

Take three actors.

What are the odds that two of them have reviewed one business, and only that business? Pretty high. All good. Same for all three.

Now, what are the odds that two of them have only reviewed two businesses, and both businesses are the same, on both accounts? Still decent, sure. All three actors, same two businesses reviewed, and only them? Getting a little dicier.

Two actors, seemingly independent, have each reviewed three businesses only. And they've reviewed the same three businesses, in the same order. And perhaps they each reviewed the first business, then two weeks later, the second business, and then the third. Odds? Getting pretty slim now. A third actor, doing the same? You're stretching the bounds of credulity for sincere reviews.

This stuff is basic probability theory. Looking across reviews for sets and unions of reviews and reviewers, and increasing the number of reviews, but still seeing commonality between them points to SOME malfeasance worthy of review.
It can have a slightly larger effective resolution, and requires slightly less movement to navigate.
I don’t see beg buttons in Sydney that turn green mid-phase — where are these? You always have to wait for a complete phase (which can be shortened, with no traffic and no area phasing) before the pedestrian signal is allowed to turn green again.

The only partial exception is pedestrian-only crossings and then only if you are in the part of the phase where enough time still is available to return cars to green.
Not much given neither are press or developers, which are basically the only two groups that are usually invited.

Neither really do product reviews as their main gig either.
Also most old forums I know were ran by some guy on their spare hardware that could break at any moment or be shut down on their whim, as most eventually got. Reddit is at least bulletproof in that sense, even if the mods go full regard they still can't destroy any actual data and it can all be reverted by admins.

Nobody wants to host anything, because it costs money. Even reddit no longer wants to be the internet's free data dumping ground. Lemmy and Mastodon won't succeed because of this fundamental problem. Everyone hosting their own server? Literally the opposite of what 99.999% of people want.
That sounds a little bit like "If I can tell this company is defrauding investors, how can I get in on the fraud?" Whoever you borrow that stock from is now your mark that you are defrauding -- indirectly, of course, since you're not forging fake results or something. It still feels icky.
Yeah users on Reddit are worth on average around 30 cents each. But this is also why they're pushing the official Reddit app, to increase their ARPU.
According to https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7730893-data-controls-fa... if you turn off history the conversation will be permanently deleted after 30 days.
> drones batteries, some of them are 6kg each

Holy crap your drone could be a drug mule
They're not incalculable, but:

(1) They vary from municipality to municipality

(2) Customers don't make purchasing decisions exclusively in their own municipality

(3) They aren't Comcast's fees to begin with.
Most tech companies leak like sieves and the incentive isn’t there after you’re no longer being paid. It seems hard to believe it could be that airtight to me.
Good to know, I initially tought that name was for the Nobel laurate writer Gabriela Mistral.
Ask HN: Any info on Go adoption in industry?
I am being asked to provide some info about Go adoption/availability of devs/ease of hiring training. Standard upper management CYA stuff. So far I have:

- It's one of the most popular languages according to Stack Overflow survey: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022#technology-most-popular-technologies

- Near Kotlin and Rust in the upper right quadrant of the RedMonk rankings: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-23/

What I'm not familiar with, is data on hiring/availability of devs. I know this is a vague question, but given my company's engineering teams, data for Canada or Poland would probably work.

Would appreciate any pointers!
your comment had me sit quietly for 10 minutes or so to reflect upon it. my thoughts kept passing and pushing around sci-fi story moments where i have seen and read that play out.

i am sorry for this loss that you are going through. thresholds are rarely painless, and i hope that some compassion reaches you from us.
What could the original iPad do that an iPhone couldn't? Basically zero, other than have a larger screen. Different screen size ends up making a significant difference in how you use a product.

Vision Pro presents theoretically unlimited size and number of screens to do categorically the same kind of things you'd do on an iPad/iPhone/Mac. As someone who likes to work with multiple monitors, at the least I see this enabling me to take my work on the go (coffee shop, library, plane) without significantly compromising my screen real estate.
Do you mean people answer the questions under propofol but afterwards have no recollection of the experience? If so that's exactly the type of thing I was thinking of
> laws only apply to large players, e.g. >1M users.

What if I don't want to share my user list with the government?