skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using 3rd party apps for over 15 years -- I used Alien Blue on iOS when I had an iPhone and I bought Relay for Reddit on Android over 10 years ago. I use old.reddit.com and always have (back when it was just reddit.com).

How do I find and read that content that I like? It's a very different (and, for me, worse) experience in their official reddit app and on the non-old Reddit.com.

If I'm going to adjust to a different and worse way of browsing content, I might as well just go to a different site entirely. It's similar to how Microsoft keeps adding user-hostile features and degrading the UI on Windows every year. Most users will stay (I do) but a few more will move to Linux or Mac OS. I fully understand where you are coming from -- for you nothing has been lost. For me, it's a significant change for the worse.
> It's much easier to build an airplane to fly than a bird.

Not really. You could probably put together a flapping bird toy (can buy these mass manufactured too) in about a couple of months of trial and error. Not quite as sophisticated as feathers but the principles are the same. You probably couldn't build an airplane.
As someone with no interest in Reddit beyond typing "[my search terms] reddit" into a search bar, I'd be happy to see an end to the ability to make a subreddits private in the first place. If people want private spaces online there are plenty of better options.
All the Freebies on the Internet of the past 20 years be it email, search, chat, news/content, video, streaming, social etc have been funded by Ads.

The expectation has been there is no upper bound to what Ads can fund. But thanks to Covid and now Chat GPT et al, we know (or atleast all the freebie providers have learnt) there is an upper bound to the Ad/Attention Economy.

Theses changes, what's happening at twitter, the tech layoffs, govt regulations and fines, are all signs using Freebies for Attention Capture are not going to endlessly scale.
mostly because they have been banned tbh
There is still no trademark
Isn’t LBO the norm in industry? Where they charge from the acquired company and the acquired company takes on a huge loan?
N=1, but...

I'm a male who programs and have an avoidant attachment style. I haven't struggled to find a date since 11th grade or so.
I'd rate moderators more as "digital squatters" than "owners" of particular subreddits.

I'm sure every community with over 5,000 subscribers on Reddit has at least a dozen users who would be willing to step up into the moderator position to re-open the community.
True in theory, in practice people often get it wrong and use the incorrect one.
Huh! I’ve apparently been getting this wrong for years.
The Road is really good and a quick read. I read it in one sitting, and really loved it. Check out Sutree for something completely different but really well rendered. McCarthy is one of my favorite authors. He gave us so many gifts.
It loaded faster than a tweet, for me.
Most folks in the city just walk through the red light when there's no traffic - I've seen them fine folks in waves around Central and Town Hall.
I have a pet theory: there are managerially-minded university graduates who value prestige more than power or pay. In the post-War era, they became beige-suited company men. In my generation, they went corporate finance. Today, they work for private equity.

Banking was great. Everyone–from liberal arts to engineering majors–could putz around for years in a pre-defined and prestigious path with moderately above-market pay and the potential to become rich. (Most don't.) It was also a field that could absorb a lot of grunt work, because most of what these folks did was format PowerPoints and populate Excel templates.

After the GFC, bulge-bracket finance became less prestigious right when technology lowered the industry's hunger for grunts. Silicon Valley took up some slack, but at least until the pandemic hiring boom, there was a modicum of technical gating factors.

The entire time, corporate and industrial America needed administration. But working at a chemical plant in Baton Rouge isn't sexy. You know what is sexy? Working for KKR.

So KKR's partners buy the plant, hire the college grad, give them a few weeks' training and "deploy" them to Baton Rouge. That will be their "project" for years. There are perks: they get to fly in from a city, for instance. But overall, the partners can acquire this labor cheaper than their portolio companies. (Ask anyone who isn't a partner at a private equity firm what they do, and it's on a spectrum between administrative assistance and middle management in a random business.) It's what consulting did in another era, re-branded for what young people willing to take less pay and power predict their peers and parents find prestigious (and what they consider safe).
It's a copypasta. There are different versions floating around, but this one's my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnXgbMgfkYg
> For the Atari 2600, Game Boy, etc., the first cartridges were nothing more than a ROM chip on a printed circuit board.

We've actually come full circle on this one. If you ever disassemble a Nintendo Switch Game Card that has a black area above the metal contacts, it doesn't even have a PCB. It's just a ROM chip, with metal contacts on the bottom shaped differently than your standard BGA pattern, contained in plastic. If it has a green area above the metal contacts, it's a PCB with the chip on the other side.
At risk of sounding stupid in public, what does that epilogue mean? I've read it several times now, and aside from being surprised at how fluid it still reads despite the parsimonious use of punctuation, I really can't figure out what it's talking about.
Ask HN: Do you browse HN using the website or a third-party app?
Knowing about the Reddit blackout that's going on right now, I'm curious how you guys browse HN and what would happen if HN did the same thing as Reddit.
Yeah I guess my claim is that two people of the same Elo on lichess are likely to not be perfectly equal. If the average winrate of any random two players with the same Elo is something like 60/40 (random speculation) then you'd bias the results in the article enough to create the kind of graphs shown.

The problem is that this doesn't really average out with more samples.
> "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." (47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(1))

While Reddit started as a link aggregator, the vast majority of useful content on the site is not external links. It is content generated for reddit, on reddit.
The PS2 was released as far from now, in 2000, as the Atari 2600 was to it, in 1977.
Looks cool but I'll only download this if it was on something like F Droid.
If they had made prudent allowances for uses of the API other than 3rd party frontends, this likely would have been a much smaller deal.

Moderators(who are doing tons of free work to make reddit a tolerable place) use API based tools to help them moderate. If reddit is going to make their (volunteer!) job harder, why shouldn't they just pack up and leave?

The official reddit app reportedly does not make adequate accommodations for some disabled users, but dedicated third party developers did. They later said that they would give exemptions for accessibility use cases, but stipulated that they could not charge for their service. Some people the perceived this as: "we won't make our app accessible, we'll give permission to do free labor for us if you want, but don't you dare try to get paid for it."

Then there is the disingenuous interactions with the Apollo developer.

All-in-all, people think that reddit is acting in bad faith.
Kane - aka Glenn Thomas Jacobs.

7'0, 330 lbs, light complexion, looks good hairless, has acting experience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_(wrestler)#/media/File:Th...
The original quote for reference:

> So one Unicode character can be up to 5 bytes long and take up the same canvas space as 3 characters.

FWIW, I didn't read that as suggesting an upper bound of 5 bytes, but rather as an example using arbitrary numbers: N bytes of code units could, depending on the font providing the glyph(s) for the respective grapheme(s), could be rendered at M times the size of, say, the letter A, where N != M -- despite the font otherwise being monospaced. Which is just another way of saying that you must consult the font for the character widths involved.

I think you're reading that quote as an assertion that:

For any grapheme G, G can be encoded in at most 5 bytes.

While what I think was being said was:

There exists a grapheme G, where G is encoded in 5 bytes, and the respective glyph happens to be displayed at 3 times a single character (e.g. the letter A), despite the font otherwise being monospaced. Therefore you *must* consult the font for each glyph to correctly determine character widths.
I've had lately a look at QEMUs internals and saw their thread safe implementation of a hash table, capable of concurrent reads: qht [0].

If the author sees this, you might want to take a look at it.

[0] https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/util/qht.c
oh that is my bad, i read your comment on why this IS a bad thing not isn't :(

sorry
Moog Music has been bought by inMusic, alongside brands like Alesis, Akai
Updated EU CSA Proposal Text Supports E2E Encryption
Their licensing is pretty confusing to me. Seems like you can now use the Enterprise edition under a custom license. I'm not a lawyer, but the new license lets you

> internally use the unmodified Programs for the purposes of developing, testing, prototyping and demonstrating your applications, and running the Program for Your own personal use or internal business operations

I would be pretty hesitant to use this without consulting a lawyer first. It's doesn't allow external usage, but the license doesn't clarify what's defined as internal vs external usage.
In the late 90's to early 2000's, I considered "retro" games to be anything from the beginning of time right up the the NES. So, roughly anything that fell out of popularity about 10 years in the past. It didn't seem weird because in the late 90's, we were calling everything in the '80's retro. All that funky synth music and hair was pretty weird and alien to those who grew up on either side of it, after all.

The most modern gaming system in our living room (if you don't count the Steam Deck) is a Wii which is legitimately a retro system these days and I get a little grumpy every time I am reminded of this.
> 2. Take a break every 45 minutes.

Breaks are good when you're having half-day or all-day meetings. For example, when someone has travelled to the office and you're meeting all day.

For regular meetings with your normal office mates, if they're so long that you need to insert breaks then they should probably have been separate meetings.

Having everyone leave the meeting and then slowly meander back in always takes longer than it should. That 5 minute break can turn into 10, 15, or even 20 minutes as you try to track down the last person who wandered off and then got pulled into something else.

Just make the meetings concise enough to handle without a break. If you have more material, schedule a separate meeting for it.
Aren't the boomers supposed to be selling up and moving into condos downtown now?
My "hack" is to release work early (while you're still embarrassed by it), and iterate ruthlessly: https://onlineornot.com/unreasonable-effectiveness-shipping-....
It does but it's a different sensor and doesn't pulse as frequently (I think it has a weekly pulse to clean it... SENS54 is the sensor if you want to look it up)
I was getting tired of being pestered with "Install Our App" or the new slower javascript interface, so I started using RedReader

It's a whole different interface
There are only 2 .yahoo Internet domains
It is a good question, I have read mixed reports about the effectiveness as well. Besides specific typefaces, there are also techniques like bionic reading.

https://www.indwes.edu/adult-graduate/ng-blog/stories/what-i...

https://bionic-reading.com/

Sorry again, I thought I remembered the designer talking about this in the video I referenced. I should have watched it again before referencing it.
It struck me as “Capitalist Realism Lite”.
Easier to find, but probably harder to talk to. I think it's not a coincidence that several of the subcultures you list above involve dressing in costumes. I'm sure part of that is immersing oneself in the culture, but there's also an element of anonymity that people value. At least some of this is a result of Thompson's influence on the culture.
I only started reading his books within the last year, but McCarthy quickly became one of my favorite authors. Suttree in particular I think is quite wonderful. I also immensely enjoyed the Passenger and have been thinking about it for months. Allow me to quote some of the late critic Roger Ebert's remarks about him, which had an influence on me to pick up a McCarthy book:

At first when I could not speak, I could not read easily, because sedation had undermined my attention span. I was depressed. I could turn on the TV, but why? My wife brought a wonderful DVD player to my hospital room, but I could not make myself watch movies. My life was stale and profitless. I would spend hours in a murky stupor. Knowing I had always been reading a book, my concerned wife began reading to me: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens.

Curiously, my love of reading finally returned after I picked up Cormac McCarthy's Suttree, a book I had already read not long before my first surgery. Now I read it two more times. I was not "reading the same book." I was reentering the same experience, the same occult and visionary prose, the life of Suttree so urgently evoked. As rarely before, a book became tactile to me. When Suttree on his houseboat pulled a cord and brought up a bottle of orange soda pop from the cool river, I savored it. I could no longer taste. I tasted it more sharply than any soda I've ever really had. When Suttree stopped at the bus station for a grilled cheese, I ate it, and the pickle, and drank the black coffee. I began to live through this desperate man's sad life.
https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/i-think-im-musing-my-...

McCarthy, the heir of Faulkner, who mines the Southwest and Mexico for the way they can break your heart before they kill you. McCarthy is best known for his Border Trilogy, about men, horses, pain and loyalty; All the Pretty Horses was directed by Billy Bob Thornton. McCarthy's best book is said to be Blood Meridian, which Harold Bloom said he hated so much for its violence he threw it across the room twice, and then read it, declared it a masterpiece, and wrote the introduction for the Modern Library edition. My own favorite is Suttree, with its closely-woven mosaic of unusual and unknown words and its heartbreaking story. It's about a man fallen from grace who lives in a houseboat, catches catfish for a living, has hallucinatory alcoholic adventures and episodes of sentiment, pity and loyalty.
https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/coen-country

As McCarthy does with the Judge, the hairless exterminator in his "Blood Meridian", and as in his "Suttree," especially in the scene where [...], the movie demonstrates how pitiful ordinary human feelings are in the face of implacable injustice.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/no-country-for-old-men-20...
This is why I always write ET instead of EDT/EST.

I encourage everyone at my company to do the same. Easy way to eliminate errors while typing 1 less key stroke!
I spent a summer at the Santa Fe Institute in 2010 and can say that McCarthy certainly spent a lot of time there. I'm not sure he was a copyeditor, exactly, but SFI is a nice place to hang out for any sort of creative work -- beautiful building and landscape, and very open and collaborative atmosphere.

The institute is on the top of a big hill and I'll always remember how he gave me a lift one day as I was walking up.
One of the saddest pieces of code I ever wrote was to treat "MST" as always meaning America/Denver. I'm sorry.
I was wondering how a newly made Game Boy Color game would be distributed today:

> But today, twenty five years after the Game Boy Color was released, we can play Grimace’s Birthday for free on our web browser.

> It is unclear if McDonald’s hoped to keep the game locked on their website or if there’s any particular reason they wouldn’t want us to have a ROM. (I would assume something something emulator, something something copyright infringement.)

> But needless to say, the internet was very quick to rip the file and share it online.

Now I want to track it down so I can tell what's different when I play the inevitable rom hacks.
Dupe from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36290721
Lol this does not surprise me one bit. Reddit is all about power tripping. Usually it is the mod who is the one tripping and any disagreeing with them is a permanent bad from the sub. I really hope this is true just so I can think of mods being stripped of their power the same way they do to anyone who disagrees with them.
An Atlas for the Blind (2012)
This particular one (the level where business logic lives) isn't that sort of "poor experience", in my view. (The other example you pulled out about long names, yeah I don't much care either way about that one.)

But the phenomenon you're highlighting is also real. Sometimes rules / guidelines / "best practices" are arbitrary and useless. Other times they're extremely helpful. There isn't any hard and fast rule to differentiate between the two cases. The best we can do is have humans run projects using their judgment.

Again, using this "should we separate domain logic from routing / controller logic" example: It's true that some projects are never successful enough for this to matter. But what I look for are opportunities to do things that have very little cost, which also scale well if the project is successful and grows. I think this is one of those things. It is trivial to separate concerns. I would even say it makes it easier to write the code that way; I don't want to be thinking about routing and wen service related cruft when I'm trying to implement some business logic correctly. It makes it harder to test and harder to write, in my view. And I think it also scaling into a large project better is also a big bonus.

But I certainly don't think my experiences are the only ones that anyone has. I think I'm right about this, but there are also lots of people I respect who disagree with me and they think they're right about the opposite view. Unfortunately there isn't some divine referee to tell us who is actually right :)
does this mean future self driving will require hw4 for full capability?
> She said right up to the last day store traffic was as strong as ever... People really underestimate how well TRU was thriving as a brick-and-mortar store.

To be fair, that doesn't mean thriving at all. It's easy to have tons of customers but be making zero profit because all your revenue is eaten up by costs. It's common for stores to be busy up to the moment they go bankrupt -- because the problem is they're stuck where they can't raise prices (shoppers will evaporate) and they can't lower costs.

> contrary to what the article says about not figuring out online shopping and logistics, she said associates spent a majority of their time pulling online orders for same-day in-store pickup

That sounds like not figuring it out to me. Store employees pulling orders for in-store pickup is generally a losing proposition and has never been sustainable. Big warehouses handle online orders efficiently. Retail stores don't at all, generally speaking.
Enhance.dev
The article implies it runs on GBC hardware and a few comments on HN here confirm it.
Why are people here continuously surprised by this and keep asking the same redundant questions: "Why does Nvidia charge so much?" I just don't get it.

Thinking that Nvidia is some evil villain doing it to consumer out of spite, when they're just doing what any other company in their dominant position would do: charge as much as the market will bear.

Apple also doesn't have to charge you $200 for configuring the 512GB SSD over the 256 SSD which only costs them an extra $5 NAND chip, but they do it because they can. So does Nvidia and any other company in a dominant position with virtually no competition.
I think it’s more that reddit can’t respect a community’s wishes.
>And therefore anyone who would potentially do the job of mod likely to also be upset by the changes?

Not if they get a chance to be in charge. Also many don't actually care about the changes despite what the mod blackout is asking people.

>If was working for Reddit I wouldn't take the assumption that these people can be easily replaced for granted.

Well this posts article tone makes it sound like they expect the mods to get bored. Which most will. And like I said, they are replaceable.
The 'President' is a temporary elected office, during which there is plenty of necessary access to all manner of secure materials. When no longer in that elected position there is zero need for continued access to those materials.

Likewise, those secure materials have some very specific handling protocols for access. ALL of which were completely ignored by Trump.

The notion of the 'deep state' is a boogeyman used to scare weak minds.
Or don't automate it and enjoy the extra slack time
But to your point, why would anyone put their own content on a site they don’t own?

> "if you don't own the content, it can be taken from you at any point, for any reason, and you have no recourse"

Fully embracing this idea means one shouldn’t participate in any community where one isn’t an admin.
This happens time and time again for any of us native in another language/country.

Some foreign media comments on a thing internal to our country, which no "local" news has ever written about, and no local sources say exist
Bananas shouldn't be used as a baseline. USA supermarkets explicitly use them as a loss leader because they've discovered that nobody comes in to buy just bananas when they want bananas.
To be fair, I think there are also some PE firms that simply aren't that good at their job.
Wouldn’t the wordcels be the Chomsky generative grammar supporters and the shape rotators the neuroscientists who support a statistical approach?
Not stupid at all! There's a long tradition of figuring out what it means (just google "Blood Meridian epilogue"), but the short answer is that McCarthy was probably playing around with ideas, having a bit of fun, waxing poetic. But there's some elements in the passage about determinism, causality, exploitation, the man with the instrument being a "pioneer" of the American West, the holes being railroad tracks, or fence posts, or mine stake poles (referencing the imminent gold rush), etc.

Like like with all poetry, it's a joy to think about and dissect.
VSCode Jupyter notebooks + Github Copilot is my favorite way to interact with notebooks. The autocomplete is super helpful for assisting with discovery of matplotlib or numpy operations.