skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
plus, mind the Honeymoon Effect

something new performs better cause its new

if you have a platform
with lots pf returning users this one will hit you again and again.

so even if you have a winner after the test and make the change permanent, revisit it 2 months later and see if you are now really better of.

all changes of a/b tests in sum has a high chance to just get an average platform in the sum of all changes.
Or just require a Reddit Gold sub to any user who wants to use another app.
OK but i am 100% positive at least half, speaking super conservatively, of those 5 million, have come and gone years ago. 5 million subscribers does not mean that 5 million people have even visited Reddit in the last 10 years.
Can we please keep the responses relevant to OP’s request? It’s pretty clear that OP is looking for a curated list of newsletters to check out but some people are seeing this as an invitation to get on a soapbox about how they don’t like email/newsletters/whatever.
My prediction is that pre-2022 data in machine learning will be like pre-WW2 steel in the medical industry (no radiation contamination from nuclear tests, cannot be replicated). An irreplaceable resource with a limited supply. As much as I hate to say it, Reddit may be sitting in an actual gold mine.
I didn’t see any actual examples of a high paying bullshit job cited. I don’t think they are common.

I have known one fellow who was given a job as a sort of fake project manager. He was perplexed over why he would be given work and then told not to do much of it, while the real decisions and administration remained with others.

Then he realized it was because this was a consulting company that made its profit from every billable hour he worked.

So, yeah, it happens, but it’s not some grand phenomenon.
How would this ever be acceptable, given that rockets have a failure rate that’s not zero?
Neural Networks Need Data to Learn. Even If It’s Fake
iCloud unlocking goes mainstream, Apple turns a blind eye
I honestly can't imagine taking more covid vaccines. I haven't even thought about covid for a year now.
Yeah I'm slightly dumbfounded that we are so much at loss on where to go next, I can't really take calls to boicot reddit but go to Discord seriously. Where are the lightweight newsletters or lightweight forums as an alternative.
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> Even if we accept the CEO’s lie that running the API is costly

compute isn't free man. it probably costs millions of dollars a year just to pay the cloud providers to support those apps. i doubt that's a lie...
lol what a horrible customer acquisition strategy.
There are much more obvious causes and they are also explained in the article. While studies have yet to establish a real link between e.g. microplastics and cancer, diets rich in sugar and red meat, sedentary lifestyles as well as diabetes have been known to increase cancer risk for a long time. Since obesity-related cancers have seen the most dramatic rise, it is not hard to see the connection here. Especially young people have been exposed to these unhealthy diets and lifestyles from very early on in their lives.
I wonder what metrics can be used to detect the emergence of "model collapse" as described by Ross Anderson's group in this paper:

https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2023/06/06/will-gpt-mode...
At this point I'm baffled that the entire world doesn't know that if somebody is asking you to buy them gift cards, you're being ripped off.

Do we need to legislate having big "FRAUD WARNING" signs on every gift card display, just like we need "do not use in bathtub" labels on hair dryers?
You're not disagreeing with me. You've agreed that a glitch that leads to complete data loss is possible. If you still don't backup then you're gambling the operability of the hospital that such a glitch will never happen and that a ransomware attack will never happen.
why does everyone hate them
I still save non-sh compatible bash scripts as .bash and my colleagues have no idea why, because they don't know Bourne shell is a thing.
Now it's all neatly summarized in a single paragraph!
>predisposition

Honestly, I didn't have any strong opinions and just did what everyone else did. Moreover, it was inconvenient that I could not enter to a grocery store without proof of vaccination so there is that. I am 26. I do not and never smoked, do not drink alcohol, maintain a healthy diet (do not eat sweets (except for dark chocolate sometimes) or anything that has lots of sugar, avoid highly processed foods, eat a decent amount of fruits, vegetables, nuts, fish, whatever), exercise regularly and never had any notable health problems prior to vaccine, I am not overweight not underweight. To the best of my knowledge, I never had Covid either.

Sure, I do not disagree that predisposition does not exist in such cases as you described, but I just feel bitter and miserable.
Not without doing that work yourself, no.

I take a more classic web approach to LiveView which is to say I persist any important state right away. Like any multiple-step forms I would never store in server state, I'd persist each step. Of course that doesn't help if someone is halfway through filling out a form. If the socket disconnects then re-connects then you don't lose your work but not if you do a restart. I do wish there was a built-in way to store state on the client until it's submitted, we may get there, though!

The true value of LiveView for me is the simplicity of not having to write yourself a web API to interact with your own backend as well as the dead simple real-time features. If you don't need the latter, that's fine, but having worked on collaborative apps that was a giant pain is what led me to LiveView.
We're not "all going to die", but "A lot of your coastal historical cities are going be be underwater and parts of your country will become uninhabitable, meaning you and everyone else will need to move elsewhere" is absolutely horrific.

Add that to housing being increasingly out of reach for most people and it's hard to not feel disillusioned. In some sense, you could argue that "Work all your life to be able to buy a house on land that will be destroyed" is worse for morale than the Cold War's version of "We'll probably all just die from nuclear war at some point all at the same time".
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What? Googling "asymptomatic covid" seems to disagree with this assertion? Even the wikipedia page for it claims: "At least a third of the people who are infected with the virus do not develop noticeable symptoms at any point in time."

Has terminology moved on?
None of this is new information to me or contradicts anything in my post. Yes, Elixir has a lot of features that are nice and save framework developers time. That's why I've been using Elixir for the last 10 years.

But most of us reading this article do not develop frameworks, we develop applications. And when we choose a framework to use for that, we look at the features it provides, not the features it leverages from lower-level frameworks.
Subreddits may be nearly infinite, but good, descriptive subreddit names are not. r/videos is going to get more natural traffic than r/ReallyCoolNewVideos, which is going to get more natural traffic than r/asdlkajflaksjf.
These are fantastic!
also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiichi_Goto
> Well Today they do zero surgeries because their financial trouble shut them down

You are ignoring all the lives they saved in the intervening two years.

> So again, distinction without difference

Nonsense.
The answer is obvious: do the absolute minimum you need to do to not get fired while you find meaning outside of work, look for something else, or both.
yeah, chompie rules
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Keeping people in prison forever is also a very “law and order” position which plays well with certain groups, and is very easy to sell: you don’t need any sort of nuance, you don’t face empathetic conflicts, etc…
Driving schools will give in-car lessons to adults, and let you use their car for the test, for a fee; that's the form of "renting a car" that's useful for this case. In my state the requirements are looser for adults than for teenagers, under the assumption that adults are generally more responsible or have driven before.
Calculus is unfortunate because I knew it had “practical uses” I just didn’t think those practical uses were for me and couldn’t describe what they were outside of vague references to “engineering”.

Fast forwards during Covid, I was doing a lot of work on the side with retro telecom projects and for the first time in my life I wished I had paid much attention to calculus or at the very least anything before it.
And then possession of such an object would be a chargable offense.

We gave away all our electronics manufacturing to a government dedicated towards making computers as we understood them back in the 80's and 90's _useless_.
That's even more based and walkabilitypilled.
Good names that pull traffic by themselves are what is finite. /r/startrek is much more valuable than /r/startrek1234 or any other forked variation.
Leaving aide the software and abilities side of things, I wish devices with this form factor were still available.

I used to own a Philips Velo, Psion 5mx and a Nokia Communicator. The keyboards were good enough be useful, great for typing something up whilst on the train or as a pocket-able computer to take with you on trips.

There are some mini laptops on the market which are certainly a lot more versatile and powerful, but they don't have the narrow rectangle form factor of all those 90s devices. They are small, but not really suitable for throwing in your pocket.

Yes, I know you can get Bluetooth keyboards for modern smartphones, but they just aren't as convenient as a single device you could fold up and put in your pocket.
They were happy to trade crypto and provide market making facilities throughout the ordeal.

They only decided to “step back” now that regulators are bringing the hammer down

This wasn’t an innocent bystander firm. They were complicit, either directly or indirectly
I am bookmarking this website for when my kid is old enough. So please don't shut this down. Host it on cloud flare or something which has a good free plan.
Seems like it should be relatively clear that when I say "owned" here, I mean "strongly subject to the whims of a possibly capricious owner."

Like, sure, university libraries are "owned" by the school, but one can generally reliably treat them as "public."
It’s overstating the case to call this a “struggle” between factions; it’s an important discussion with a lot of ramifications (and while it is unresolved a lot of work is stalled).

https://discuss.python.org/t/a-fast-free-threading-python/27...
3 that I always watch for:

- Lenny's newsletter. While lately it's become mostly about how to succeed as a PM in Big Tech, he occasionally covers juicy startup tactics. For example, "What is good retention?" was solid gold.

- Casey Newton's Platformer. Balanced and insightful coverage of breaking industry news

- Data Analysis Journal. Goes deep on many growth topics, with tons of real SQL code from an experienced practitioner, which is extremely hard to find.

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/
https://www.platformer.news/
https://dataanalysis.substack.com/
Comparing an iPhone to a Mac is a false comparison.

Mac is a development machine for some and I want to do things on it that I do NOT want to do on my phone.

Also, my phone is more important than my Mac. It has most of my personal info and I can call emergency services and others can call me during an emergency.

So I really like Apple's thinking on this. Lock down the phone but give enough controls on the Mac to enable development.
Followup: useless, that is, except for the party.
Yes, but only if no one outside the organization has ever contributed code, or if everyone who did signed a CLA.
Burying things in the ground is not a solution. It's more an Ostrich policy.
Curtis Yarvin / Mencius Moldbug: https://graymirror.substack.com/

Not because I agree with or idolize the guy, but simply because what he says tends to veer on the provocative side. Provocative, by definition, is interesting.
He was literally just on NPR defending his position. Stated that there has been no impact to the business and that paying "tens of millions a year on infra to support third party apps is not sustainable" but that he wont be changing any policy changes because they need to find a sustainable balance on the UGC ad model.
> Would my wife do it?

I tried to switch my wife to Android once and there was a revolt in the house. And that's a system that should be equivalent to iOS.
There are plenty of unjust laws around the world that make otherwise good people into criminals!
I learned why efnet is called efnet from your comment. Very interesting, thanks!
To be fair the US already do a slavery, prison labour is a thing.
How does one become a CS teacher?

I used to be an active mentor in Big Brothers Big Sisters, and I really enjoy mentoring and seeing them evolve into better more confident versions of themselves. And I learned patience and understanding from them.

I have no interest in getting a teaching degree over a couple years.

Do I just apply to a school? It would be cool to go teach CS in middle America.

Imagine if folks like us who are competent swe take leaves of 3-5 years (we make a ton of money, so it’s not a huge hit) and over a decade or two we are able to build tech centers that elevate and boost the quality of life in places like the Midwest and South. These kids will learn how to think outside the box and have a creative outlet.
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> Isn't the job of the State the betterment of society?

We may have fundamentally opposing ideological views here, but I see what you're asking. I would actually say that the job of Society is the betterment of the state. Ultimately it is people in society that create and man their bureaucracies; the government is infused with the skills and morals of the people that form it, and will not exceed their abilities.

I don't think that you could ever form a wing of a government that was capable of rehabilitating people without that wing being fully made up of very intelligent people with good intentions; and if you were able to assemble that group of people, they'd do a better job as a private endeavor (maybe not for profit, perhaps as a non-profit that only pays their salaries, etc.) I do think you could make a form of a government that was capable of keeping prisons far safer than they are now, as that's a much more discrete and amoral task that ensuring that convicted citizens (often low-IQ, often sociopathic, often abused, often with PTSD) are rehabilitated.
This is a very dismissive reply. Some of the replies to this comment are better.
Thanks - I was going to chime in on this.

However - I was also an instructor (not high-school, but IT professionals) - and the biggest problem with "15-minute" bugs, or basic knowledge-gaps (like... how to open a command prompt and type correctly) is when you have multiple students who encounter different bugs simultaneously... Which will delay the entire class/session and frustrate those who are not having an issue. (Hopefully those who are not having an issue can proceed independently if there is a workbook/lab instructions)
The analogy breaks down here because the users made their own vending machines.

For example I made this comment, and I am allowed to edit it or even remove it.

Imagine now for a second if hacker news was allowed to manipulate or modify user comments directly for profit.
I don't have the numbers reversed. I'm talking about when a single atom actually undergoes fission, it releases 93% of its energy promptly as fission product kinetic energy, gamma rays, and neutron kinetic energy. An hour later, another 6% of the energy goes out as delayed betas and gammas. After that, only 1% remains to emerge as heat in the repository.

What you're referring to is the fact that some reactors (aka breeder reactors, fast or thermal) can fission a much higher percentage of the total atoms loaded into the reactor, including most of the majority isotope (U-238) in addition to the minority (U-235).

I wrote a bit about breeding and recycling here: https://whatisnuclear.com/recycling.html
20 years ago I would spend hours browsing the Amazon.com music section because there would be hundreds of real-people reviews of records.

Today those types of honest reviews are long gone. I have to use all my spidey senses to figure out if a review was paid for, or even written by a human.
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blackbird spyplane mostly for the incredible prose.

luke o'neil's welcome to hell world also for the very good prose in a totally different style.

small bow is the best recovery-focused one I know of.

alec karakatsanis for justice system stuff; that thread about prison chess this morning made me wish y'all read this.

used to read ed zitron and he's still very good but honestly I already hate bosses & owners enough and the bullshit they're getting up to is rarely novel or surprising, just odious, so I've been dropping off.
No they aren't (or at least that's not what your link says). They are banning sales of new gas-powered passenger vehicles but for the foreseeable future you will still be able to buy gas for your old beater, '67 Mustang, or red Barchetta.
> a minor bug or incorrect instruction step doesn’t seem like a big issue, but when those fifteen minutes represent some of the first minutes a student is programming,

As an experienced programmer nothing kills me more than getting interested in a new language, setting up your environment, diving into the documentation to get your very first "Hello World!" spun up, and it doesn't fucking compile! And that is me, a patient adult. I can imagine the frustration of a green, teenager not understanding the errors the compiler is spitting when you've done everything correct.
"chasing itself around in search of a drain" - beautiful metaphor!
Signal's Meredith Whittaker has doubts about AI
Better in the ground that the air.
It will probably just lead to a bunch underused API contracts, she says
The author had two years of experience, during which he saw things that surprised him. He didn't say he was a know-it-all or that others taught badly. He wasn't very satisfied with his own results. He decided to try something different. I have not seen arrogance.
>We can do it gradually

Good news, we already are. Most countries now are below population replacement level. Many countries like Japan are near panic because the population is going to drop very quickly in the next 20 to 40 years.
One of my dreams has been to create a sort of tech prison where criminals would have a computer screen and keyboard built into the wall of their cell, and from here they could access resources to teach them computer science and writing code. And these prisons would have their own version of the internet that is like a “prison wide web” that is only accessible to other prisoners, and can connect to other prisons around the country and even the world, so they can create their own websites like it’s 1999.

With time, prisoners who gain a lot of skill could contribute to open source projects or create entirely new libraries and use their contributions as a way to reduce their prison sentences.

I can imagine a custom Linux based OS designed to run on these prison computers, that could have special features that allow prisoners to see how much prison time they have remaining and run processes based on what access levels and security requirements they have attributed to them. And of course all communication on this OS would be surveilled by some centralized security system.
I used to get knots in my hair about these distinctions, but in retrospect, I was just being pedantic. It's a headline— not a synopsis or formal tagging system. Context makes it perfectly clear to most in a web-focused software industry crowd which "engineers" might be doing a/b testing. Also, my last three jobs haven't included a lot of stuff I read about here; why should that affect the headline?
This happens to literally everything we touch. New mind blowing paradigm? It is almost always completely misconstrued, misapplied, and thousands of teams roll it out before understanding it and publish endless reinforcing blog posts about how to keep doing it wrong.

If you don't want to do it wrong also, prepare to be persecuted and insulted.
Wherein lies the value of seeing that others read your work?

As the saying goes, work is done for those who pay for it. When I, like you, write comments on sites like these I am the one paying for it. I derive entertainment value for the cost I am sinking, so I find it to be an acceptable trade, but beyond that small window the entertainment is over and the value of what was produced is gone. To keep it around beyond that is just hoarding data.

I can appreciate that one might find value in feeling like they are helping out a greater community by allowing others to read their work. I commend those who see that value. But even that seems fleeting. If your work disappeared without you noticing, the value derived from that would not be lost. It is not the perpetual existence of the data that provides that value.

Although, I think the greater question here is: What value is there in allowing a for-profit company like Reddit to get rich selling the work you paid for?
And this isn’t a novel problem.

I spent time working around the space industry. Almost a decade of my life.

The big contractors in aerospace have a _really_ difficult time finding people who know enough about the hardware and the software to be competent engineers. They’re basically unicorns.

Not that they don’t exist, but if you’re looking for someone who is demonstrably good and has a validated educational background in both, you don’t have a huge pool of talent to go with.

So they hire them when they find them, but they also just tend to hire experts in each field and let them collaborate. They didn’t try to reinvent the wheel with some new “paradigm shift”.
Bit of a straw man argument. We should be telling kids not to think twice about buying properties in any zone with high flood risk, high wildfire risk, high hurricane risk, high coastal erosion risk, etc. and that they should expect greater frequencies of extreme weather events (heat waves etc.) and this should be taken into account in their own personal planning for the future.

It's rather like teaching kids why signing onto an adjustable-rate mortgage is a bad idea. It just makes them better prepared for the future.

However, the fossil fuel sector and its financiers don't even want to admit there's a problem, as that increases the pressure to stop using fossil fuels and switch to renewables, which is probably what motivates articles like this.
Reddit is also undeleting deleted user content. Now I need to burn my account again.

I am not pleased.
Related: is this question marketing for substack hosted stuff? I mean, every article you click on is trying to cram a newsletter down your throat. Why mention substack specifically?
[2009] and Ig-nobel prize for management 2010:

https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2010

http://www.pluchino.it/peter_principle_sup_material.html