skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I think it is true, that many are overestimating the impact, I'd like to correct your comment:

At least r/gaming, r/aww and r/pics are still restricted and do not allow new post or comments.

So the protest is still going with some really big subreddits supporting the cause.
Overhyped valuations in fintech are threatening London
They do are fairly extensive background check for Nexus (which provides Global Entry and TSA Pre as well). But it's not really signing away a right in my opinion. You are after all, literally consenting to the search. Which the CBP doesn't need anyway at the border (more of an issue).
I can guarantee you that there are reporters who would love to talk to you. You should seriously consider approaching one of those, and I hope that you do so.
As the potential buyer of the car used in a few years I want to know if it was ever run non stock, as most modifications trade how long the car will last for more power.
> the set of all integers still does not contain the concept of an orange.

Nor can any file system store the "concept of an orange".

File systems are really just pointers to numbers, if you think about it.
The takeaways from NNT’s books are summarized in the top Amazon review. The summary is actually pretty useful and relevant and highlights some of the pitfalls of applying common statistical concepts to fat tailed distributions and the change of mindset that is needed.

We tend to gloss over assumptions like finite variance or iid but they matter a lot for reasoning correctly on fat tailed distributions.

Also the law of large numbers only works if you don’t have a game over scenario or fat tails.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/1544508050/RMD3OUG0WQWWY
> Maybe consumers who don't want to register their cars will still buy, I don't know.

You know perfectly well that hardly anybody is going to do that.

> There are likely better ways to do that than shutting down the state's car business.

Like what? You have to do something that gets people to notice enough to put pressure on the captured regulators.
> People haven't liked this much when I've said it in the past, but I think there's more to this than just API pricing.

I'm sure that the majority of this is

WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ THIS IN THE APP? ITS BETTER

true, but i think the API is one of the worst parts now. But there is

WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ THIS IN THE APP? ITS BETTER

some functionality I use for old.reddit.com, that I'm pretty sure will be next on the chopping block...
Maybe for some subs but not the good ones like r/AskHistorians
1990s PC economics produced Visual Basic. Microsoft was able to write off the development cost of the Visual Studio suite as an investment in the further entrenchment of Windows -- something no third party devtools company could directly profit from. So VB was designed to be the lowest of the low friction paths to developing software that locked users and businesses into win32. The single platform focus (supporting other platforms would have defeated the purpose) also helped keep the IDE lean and speedy.

Former VB devs pine for the usability and speed they once enjoyed. But most tech ecosystems that are self-contained enough to benefit from focused/lightweight devtools can't support a player large enough to develop them. And the ecosystems that are big enough are managed by megacorps that are more interested in brokering consumer data than streamlining the developer experience. I too would love to see a renaissance of RAD but I can't figure out who would pay for it.
Nitpick about purchased

“It’s a transfer, so that means that the agencies don’t have to pay for this equipment. So because the government has already possessed it, paid for it, it’s the Department of Defense’s property.”

It seems technically it is still DoD property?

But alltogether it is indeed worrysome. Here in germany we have the same trend, even though quite light in comparison.

It is rare nowdays, that I see police without bulletproof wests and machine pistols are more and more common. It creates a very different impression ...

Speaking of it: my car broke down once and I parked it on the side of a rural road (not in the way). It was weekend and I put a big note in it, saying it will be towed away very soon.

Monday morning my wife with the baby were suprised by police on the door. And the first thing they see is the machine pistol and fighting gear.

Surely totally necessary to get the same information, they could have gotten from the note in the car (that this very day it will be moved away). I seriously don't know what they were thinking. Probably nothing at all and war gear becomes just standard for engaging with potentially dangerous civilians, who park their car next to the road.
Extremely vulnerable is a mischaracterization. Read up on how the CANBUS attack works, it’s actually quite sophisticated.

It’s the “evil maid” problem, and it’s extremely difficult to protect against, such that you pay huge premiums to get equipment hardened against these types of attacks.
I think r/IAMA got a lot worse since Victoria left.

I used to visit it often back when she was around, but I don't think I even remembered it exists anymore, until you happened to mention it. It just lost relevance.
Can we get a federal bill with the same prohibitions? It would be absurd if the right to be free from fear of automated death from the skies is left to a patchwork of state and local restrictions.

Irresponsible arguments that I would totally not be surprised to hear to push in the opposite direction:

- If law enforcement doesn't have armed drones, we live in a world where only the criminals have armed drones.

- Sometimes law enforcement must be able to use deadly force. Isn't it better if in those situations, officers aren't also putting their lives at risk?

- Currently, when law enforcement uses deadly force, one of the strongest defenses is that in the moment, an officer felt that their own life was at risk. A drone operator has no such fear and therefore no bias towards using weapons prematurely.
$300 million of that was raised against a $3 billion valuation, and another $700 million against a $10 billion valuation. All in all fairly little dilution for Conde Nast / Advance Publications.
Book Review: Njal’s Saga
This was my thought exactly.

The front page politics of even my local subreddit are completely divorced from the concerns of my neighbors and other millenials I know.
Huh, that explains why I haven’t looked at a Reddit AMA in the last ~5-10 years or so. I’m guess it was actually 8 years and I never realized what happened.
Yeah, the people saying “defund the police” have generally had near-zero success in affecting policy, with policy makers at all levels rejecting their advocacy and increasing police budgets, often at the expense of other local services and functions.

If bad things are happening in crime, and it is an indictment of current policy, it is more defensibly an indictment of the reaction against “defund the police” than of “defund the police”.
Holding them hostage? The reddits I’ve been a part of voted to be closed.
The fact they need a law to stop the police using UCAVs against civilians is terrifying.
Musk melding on turkey elections and other countries isn’t too far off
Yea I hear of scams nowadays where people get a phone call and it's someone posing as a cop or ambulance worker and they know the name of one of your family members and try to scare you into thinking that something happened to them. I forget all the details but it's been happening, now just imagine you get a phone call from an AI carbon copy of your grandkids voice or something.
Ars Technica still puts this blurb at the end of their Reddit-related articles:

> "Advance Publications, which owns Ars Technica parent Condé Nast, is the largest shareholder in Reddit."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/the-reddit-protests-...

(That article is a day old now, and I still don't think it includes everything that's happened late this week.)
The state reps seem to be better.

But our federal senators are pretty awful tankies. (Durban and Duckworth.. they'll full on send you a tone death letter about why encryption is awful after you send them your concerns)
You have my comment backwards. Partially my own fault I'm sure. But what I'm referring to is the mods bringing their own beliefs into the community and making it part of the topic, not the other way around.
No. Augmented reality is great for engineering, security and many other workplace settings. employers will be knowing Exactly how stoned employees are. apple made a design for designs to be built on and no it isnt a waste. Just boring
> This Act does not prohibit the use of a drone by a law enforcement agency [...] to forestall [...] the destruction of evidence

So, essentially nothing is prohibited. "Destruction of evidence" can be flushing drugs down the toilet or throwing them out a car window. The war on drugs greatly increases how many "crimes" are being committed at any given time and what is considered evidence of those crimes.
It's also a weird project, since it's had an almost absurdly positive reaction. For example, many people develop a search engine and get almost lynched on HN for not working exactly like Google or not dealing with some query as expected.

I don't know you personally, but you come across as an earnest lone developer doing something for the passion of it. I think that goes a long way on here, versus someone giving off "portfolio project", "hire me" or "seeking investment" vibes. I've not really found a use case for your engine yet but I am really enjoying seeing your progress.
When I "own" music, I interpret that as being able to listen to it whenever I want, forever, with no restriction. My digital music library (225GB of mostly FLAC files ripped from CDs and bought from Qobuz/Bandcamp) is close enough to ownership for me, even though I can't use most of it for commercial purposes or redistribute it or anything.
Thanks for posting this. It’s to the point and easy to understand. And much needed- most companies seem to do testing without teaching the intricacies involved.
The biggest problem I see so far is discovery and UX. UX is going to be fixed by the devs with time so I'm not worried about that but discovery isn't getting the same attention yet. Right now on Mastodon we have like github repos with lists of people of certain types and then the presentation of user lists by the instances themsleves but these are both primitive. We need to figure something else out. Being able to follow hashtags was a great step forward but we'll have to do better. I think even cultural changes could help, like make it normal to introduce people to eachother. Maybe add a suggest protocol for people to recommend people/communities to other people.
That is a great story. Thanks for writing it up.
> And this is why I always say that "but but but the mods aren't getting paid" argument makes no sense. Clearly the mods are getting _something_ out of modding, and that's their reward.

That cuts both ways, however. If moderators get compensated with a sense of satisfaction rather than money, then site changes that affect their "quality of life" carry extra weight.

In plain English: if you do this for fun, then you stop doing it once it's no longer fun.

The API changes are the proximate cause of the protest, but the widespread participation suggests that many moderators were already near the breaking point. (ed: was capitulation)
It seems like everytime I sort by new there's a different version of this story posted, for the last 5 days or something.
Reread the comment you are replying to.
Reddit management is delusional. The IPO money is blinding them.

I really hope a mass migration to lemmy instances really sticks.
Ergonomics matter.

Because outside of Go (and maybe Rust) it will be very difficult to actually do what Elixir does, with the same level of concurrency and fault tolerance, etc, with the same ergonomics.

Ruby/Rails/StimulusReflex does something very similar, but kind of falls over unless you replace ActionCable with AnyCable which is written in Go.

So now, you have to support Go and Ruby runtimes. Some developer who decided that the above was a nightmare to work with, __might__ start a new project in Elixir, to get something that actually does what Elixir does instead of just mimicking it.

I'm not sure I buy this, personally, but I can understand the argument.
Landlordism is a parasitical economic strategy.
There's been no "make the cut". There's been first-come-first-served, followed by obtaining the favor of the first-come.
Using the existence of regulation as proof that the regulation is needed is circular reasoning.
This idea is not that crazy. Obviously, the Earth is finite, so all resources are finite too. But nobody ever complained that we are running out of copper, let's say, or sodium, or water, or any number of other useful things. Not because we have an infinite amount of copper inside the finite volume of the Earth, but because it is unlikely for the copper to become the bottleneck, compared to other resources.

How about oil, or natural gas? You can go to wikipedia and find the estimate of total recoverable reserves, divide by the annual consumption, and voila, we have oil only for the next 20 years, or 15, or 30, or some other number that's not very high, and certainly not expressed in hundreds or thousands of years.

Yet, this type of prediction, that we'll run out of oil in 20 years has been done for more than one hundred years. Why didn't we run out of oil?

Because proving reserves is a technical term. Oil companies are known in the industry as "oil and gas exploration and production companies". There is a whole area of banking dedicated to financing these companies. The main collateral for the loans banks advance to these companies is the reserves. The more "proven" the reserves, the more one can borrow against them.

But companies have a limited need for loans. As long as they can borrow what they need at whatever interest is economical for them, they don't have an incentive to go out of their way and prospect for all the reserves that might be on the planet. Their exploration budget is limited. So, each year they extract some oil and natural gas, and they prospect a bit more and prove more reserves. They need to have a certain ratio of probable reserves vs productive wells.

As the economy grows, the oil companies allocate accordingly more money to elevate more reserves and replenish their portfolio, so in times the proven oil reserves increase, rather than decrease.

How much longer can they keep doing this? It's not very clear, but we will not run out of oil anytime soon. Not in one century. If we stop using oil, that will be out of the concerns of climate change, not because there will be no oil left in the ground.
That matches my perspective. I personally don't get the impression that Illumos, et. al., have the critical mass for a robust long-term future, but I surely don't see all the places it's being used. Fortunately, I guess, a lot of the nifty things Solaris brought to the table (ZFS, dtrace, etc.) have been pulled up into the BSDs and Linux with varying degrees of success.
Yeah I'm not a huge fan of how the magic the gathering layout has turned out. Been experimenting with something more list-like, e.g. https://twitter.com/MarginaliaNu/status/1644058334440443916

I don't like the basic old school google style list though. It makes very poor use of the screen space. This is primarily a service for desktop users finding desktop content, but I still want something that's accessible to other screen sizes. Really hard to find a good design that works well.
I think people would pick up the change of ownership and flee for greener pastures. Think MySQL.

Actually, to be honest... can anyone think of an example where a company bought a competitor with a large user base, and then just outright, or even gradually destroyed their acquisition? Mismanaged, sure. But destroyed? Nothing comes to mind immediately. Like was Vine destroyed or mismanaged?

Maybe this distinction doesn't matter. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Apparently using your iphone without a protective cover is a status symbol, too.
I wonder if that falls under mistake #4 from the article, or if there's another category of mistake: "Actually test what you think you're testing." Seems simple but with a big project I could see that being the hardest part.
Improving use of LLMs in production over time
Admin has been particularly horrible lately. Mods complaining is the tip of the iceberg. Today's Reddit is a far cry from what it used to be. Honestly I do have this sort of feeling that I could care less if it dies.
Rights afforded by Illinois law, I suppose.
The Oxford English dictionary gives the following description, in addition to the above:

> to a very great extent; extremely: chronically stupid drivers, she was chronically indecisive.

Whether it makes sense or not, the dictionary agrees with both options.
Well, we could always not do your bad idea, then we wouldn't have to go into this loop of getting in new power-hungry mods just to throw them out and replace them with the next ones.
> which GP is arguing will ignore a silent majority of the subreddit's actual MAU.

...while also claiming they're clairvoyant and know about what silent majority wants.

Also arguably silent majority doesn't matter here because they are not the ones that *produce* any content to watch in the first place.

The whole point of blackouts is for them to put pressure on Reddit, whether actively (complaining) or passively (not giving traffic)
Not OP, but i could see hypothetically laws that prevent recording user data unknowingly. The same logic could say that just because i'm running your process does not mean you can monitor all my other processes/keystrokes/network-traffic/etc; could be used (hypothetically!) to say that if it's not obvious the user has submitted data, that you can't record it.

Obviously it gets into the weeds, but where does it stop? Clearly there's some boundaries. If i have an app actively open/selected, what does it have access to?

I could see an argument where if the user didn't think they were sending it, then the user has not acknowledged to transferring "ownership" of data. As nebulous as ownership is in this context, i'm simplifying.

I'm not making any statement here. Just posing a hypothetical to attempt to illustrate where privacy arguments could be made.
Self-moderating is an enormous effort. People want to leverage each other's work: if this guy says it's bad, it's probably bad.

You see a similar effect in spam. It would be a vast waste of your time to roll your own spam engine. Killfiles aren't sufficient; they spawn new accounts instantly. Spam used to dominate email, until big email hosts developed ways to shunt it off. And that requires constant management as the spammers find ways around those filters.

I'm glad for dang's moderation here on HN. I wouldn't come here if I had to roll my own killfile. It doesn't just keep the worst offenders away. It also keeps the conversations on topic, rather than degenerating into flame wars.

Moderation is of course imperfect, just as spam filters are. But without it, I find any open communications medium unusable. The loudest and most obnoxious voices dominate, effectively creating a different kind of censorship that keeps out the things I actually want.
Slightly OT: I noticed Colorado, Connecticut, New Mexico, and New York City either ended or limited qualified immunity in recent years. (In other states similar efforts faltered, apparently thanks to police unions and politicians in their pocket [0])

Via the article:

> Fifteen months after the Colorado bill was signed into law, there is so far little evidence to support any widespread negative effects on police retention or recruitment.

Now that it's been more time I've been curious to measure how curtailing QI has affected 1) police misconduct 2) police hiring and 3) insurance rates (e.g. indemnity) municipalities/townships/states pay.

If anyone has insight on ways to measure, places to find data, etc would be appreciated.

Meanwhile for those curious about Chicago police misconduct, TIL about [1]

[0] https://archive.ph/evcEG

[1] https://cpdp.co
Random innocent people are not entitled to the content I chose to freely create (however valuable said content is, or not).
And thus, Reddit holds all the power. If the mods are so attached to their community, that Reddit can dictate whatever terms they want, then the mods have no leverage.
Sounds to me like you just don't like change. If you actually valued privacy this would not be your answer.
Slightly tangential.

Just like "alignment" of LLMs, the ideology this hypothetical book teaches will have huge controversy.

When Hackworth in the book tells the Judge/Dr. X that he will tweak the book so that it teaches them ideology more aligned towards the Celestial Kingdom's values, I immediately thought the things the American Conservatives, Leftists, and the C_CP will try to put in this.
5th sentence in my comment:

> I’ve even seen code in production that has these bugs, because they’re sometimes dumb performance enhancements, rather than bugs, unless you happen to use a Python interpreter without a GIL, especially one that that doesn’t exist yet.
> “voluntarily” sign away your rights to this app/“trusted” traveller program and get access to the front of the line

State's mobile passport doesn't sign away anything, to my knowledge.
Greedflation AKA inflation of greed
I think SomethingAwful actuslly solves this problem eloquently, people are kes slikely to behave poorly when they pay for an account and have their name with site administration.

Alternatively i think building an invite only community by way of "web of trust" would also mitigate a lot of these issues.
If anyone from posthog is reading this, please fix your RSS feed. The link actually points back to the blog homepage.
I wish Discords were discoverable.

Why do I need so many members to show up when search for servers? That means I need to have a community somewhere else.
I'd guess that to get enough access to repair the vehicle you might have to be able to send certain commands to turn off alerts or update part information. Now that would probably only be a problem if the current set up for most car manufactures is a binary is dealer then be able to do anything setup.
You can pick company where you have decision authority and/or you see they are picking long term strategy.
This is scarily relatable.
Most of us are in software and so are well aware how hard making things work againt future attacks are. Either there is no remote connection at all, or security is hard. Given that I trust Ford more than random mechanic, even if the majority if mechanics are more honest than Ford, there is at least one bad actor mechanic who will abuse telematics to do something ththey shouldn't.
People want power, why wouldn't you want to be a mod of a popular subreddit?
> It’s not a great situation to be in

I'll give it a shot!
an rss feed of quantum-related rss feeds: https://entangled.cloud
> *The first isn’t in dispute*
It also doesn't help that most sites broke their RSS feeds.
Already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36312938
someone was probably floating the idea of dropping tear gas down a chimney using a drone and they wanted to nip it in the bud.
Yes but if I recall correctly, whatever you are subscribed to you still see in your feed, even if it’s blocked by the instance. I may be incorrect and if so please correct me.
To your point here:
> I'd also love to be able to use my GPG keys via NFC, something an iPhone definitely has the hardware to do, but Apple has decided to not allow it.

This is possible since iOS13 I think. I use my GPG keys in a YubiKey to unlock my Pass for iOS app.
Don't forget the beautiful illustrations in the book.

We can use Stable Diffusion. Huggingface's Diffusers library do a good job in running some versions locally really well.