skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend of mine had rather a crush on a Greek girl, so spent a couple of weeks learning Greek to impress her. When he put his plan into action she laughed at him, apologised and explained that the ancient Greek sound funny, and she has a boyfriend already. Later in the pub, he said to me mournfully "I wondered why everyone in the book was wearing a toga"
Private prisons comprising a much smaller percentage of inmates than people realize.[0]

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
Do we have a copy of the letter?

If this is based on law, the NHTSA doesn't have a choice. It has to enforce federal law, and federal law trumps state law. If it is based on a rule, the NHTSA has discretion and something screwy is going on.
On top of that we know that Toyota's EV strategy was heavily invested in R&D of Hydrogen fuel cells. They made some wrong bets and it continues to show.

If the article didn't specifically mention that their plans involved some new formulation of Lithium Iron Phosphate I'd have expected "solid state EVs" to just be fresh marketing hype of Hydrogen fuel cells, because of Toyota's recent history.
That would apply equally to using different usernames on each site, so not really relevant to the point being made here.
Are you a current employee?

How’s the mood internally? What was the internal take on the API price increase? Are there problems that you feel are more worrisome that are not being discussed? Is the CEO popular? Are you “marked as available for a conversation” on LinkedIn?
AI and Moore’s Law: It’s the Chips, Stupid
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clique_problem
The polls I have personally had a number of participants that was a single digit percent of the number of subscribers. Not exactly representative of the whole community.

If the participation rate in the US election was 3.5% because they announced it 3 days prior to the vote and only to a fraction of citizens, there would be good reason to be mad at the results
I thought it was obvious that "The New Normal" was sarcastic/ironic and the steady drumbeats of "New Normals" implied everything was getting worse via a ratchet effect.
A GitHub Action that audit dependencies license
GPT-4 Code Analysis in 300 lines of Go
Chronically doesn't mean extremely. It means long-term or inescapably.
If you haven't read it, check out the story "Lena" about MMAcevedo: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
"user trust" is a good one, abeit hard to measure

Rolled out some tests to streamline cancelling subscriptions in response to user feedback, with Marketing's begrudging approval.

Short term, predictably, we saw an increase in cancellations, then a decrease and eventual levelling out. Long term we continued to see an increase in subscriptions after rollout, and focused on more important questions like "how do we provide a good product that a user doesn't want to cancel?"
It's especially frustrating for food delivery apps. Other then messaging apps, there's no app I more want a push notification from than food delivery, but the sheer amount of spam forces me to turn off notifications.

Now my dinner is sitting on our porch getting cold because they "notified" me that my food was here, but didn't knock or ring the doorbell :-(
The goldmine has been archived and democratized the whole time: https://academictorrents.com/details/7c0645c94321311bb05bd87...
No, he can still be removed as CEO, and you actually mean >50% of voting shares, and you also have the board of directors etc. It’s more complicated than just having >50%, especially in things like fraud etc
Behind paywall :'(
I think you are really missing the forest for the trees.

Everything you say is completely correct. But useful? Or worthwhile? Or even efficient?

The goal is not to find out why some users are disoriented and some are not. Well, I guess indirectly it is. But getting there with rigor is a nightmare and to my mind not worthwhile in most cases. The hypothesis developed from the usability test would be “some users are disoriented during checkout”. That to me would be enough evidence to actually tackle that problem of disorientation, especially since to me 3/5 would indicate a relatively strong signal (not in terms of telling me the percentage of users affected by this problem, just that it’s likely the problem affects more than just a couple people).

The more mysterious question to me would actually be whether that disorientation also leads to people not ordering. Which is a plausible assumption – but not trivially answerable for sure. (Usability testing can provide some hints toward answering that question – but task based usability testing is always a bit artificial in its setup.)

Operationalizing “user is disoriented” is a nightmare and not something I would recommend at all (at least not as the first step) if you are reasonably sure that disorientation is a problem (because some users mention it during usability testing) and you can offer plausible solutions (a new design based on best practices and what users told you they think makes them feel disoriented).

Operationalizing something like disorientation is much more fraught with danger (and just operationalizing it in the completely wrong way without even knowing) than identifying a problem and based on reasonableness arguments implementing a potential solution and seeing whether the desired metric improves.

I agree that it would be an awesome research project to actually operationalize disorientation. But worthwhile when supporting actual product teams? Doubtful …
The problem is those engines exert force on their enclosure in one direction, and the same force on the air in the opposite direction. That air, i.e. wind, will eventually slow down through contact with the ground, returning the momentum to the Earth.
to answer the question in the headline frankly, it’s called the shotgun approach, if it doesn’t stick don’t keep shooting it against the wall
I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152012 may be a more fitting thread for what you're looking to accomplish.
GVR called it a fork two weeks ago in his justification for not accepting it [1]. If that surprises you, the backstory is summarized pretty well in the article [2] and FAQ [3].

I'm really not trying to be secretive. We can debate whatever you want, but we have to at least acknowledge CPython's stated position.

[1] https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues/188#issuec...

[2] https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=214235

[3] https://docs.python.org/3/faq/library.html#can-t-we-get-rid-...
There’s a number of scripts and tools on GitHub, findable by search engines. “Power Delete Suite” is the one I used.
platinum underpants > steel underpants > bronze underpants > cloth underpants
removing telematics is of course unthinkable.
Comments about 'Private prisons reaping incredible profits and determined to make people continue to re-offend to keep them occupied' should look at this[0], as the actual count of inmates in private prisons is rather low.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
> Does FreeBSD have anything similar to io_uring?

No. (Not for security reasons, but for lack of an army of motivated and talented developers like Jens Axboe et al.)

> My understanding is its incorrect to compare to kqueue.

Right. kqueue is more like an extended version of epoll.
The very idea underlying statistics (that we can learn something useful from a class of events by ignoring specifically that which makes them different from each other) is a very recent invention -- only a few hundred years old -- and it's still counter-intuitive to a lot of people.

Ask people to predict whether the Jones' have a dog and they'll start asking questions about the specifics of the Jones', like do they have children, do they live in the suburbs, have they always wanted a dog, etc. Then they try to construct a narrative based on "logical" conclusions.

When the right approach might be to ask "what's the background rate of dog ownership in the Jones' country of residence?" But that takes ignoring the specifics, and that doesn't come easily to people. It took several millennia for anyone to realise it could be useful.
IIRC custom "are you enjoying this app? please review!" popups are against guidelines. Apple has an API to prompt for reviews which it enforces a limit of three prompts per year, and you can (supposedly, i've never seen the option) disable it system wide. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/storekit/requestin...
> This is a boring legacy tech company who’s best selling point is being a discussion forum for the chronically mid.

I've been a redditor since day one and I can't figure out what this sentence is supposed to mean. Can you flesh this out some more?

What is chronically mid?

Is this a new feature i'm unaware of?
That's the same defeatest advice people always give when you don't like the direction of your country/state/municipality/etc. you should leave/move/etc. I say absolutely not and if you have invested time and energy into something (I've had my reddit account a bit longer than my HN one) then you can and should fight for it. I don't have a vision disability and so am not very impacted by the killing of 3rd party acts but this is an act of solidarity to support those who are (However minor most of our sacrifice is). The least I can do is not complain that my daily quota of cat pictures is unfairly impacted.
I'd like to know also, the community manager returns stuff with like 5 comments.
Life has been nicer without Reddit. The last few days opened my eyes. I could actually just enjoy SF without having /r/sanfrancisco convince me that I don't live in the pleasant place I see out my window, but rather a mad max style dystopian hell hole that is worse than most war torn nations.

The detox has been nice. I think many others may feel the same.
Not working. Camping in a national park Friday night, spending the day there on Saturday and running a half marathon on Sunday, and chores/errands around the house on Monday to relax.
On one hand, I find the phrase "mid" to be pretty fucking awful, but on the other I'm old (30s) so who knows.
According to https://math.stackexchange.com/a/216578, “𝜋 is not known to have this property, but it is expected to be true.”
$.12 is MAU, which visit sites few times a week.

Apollo devs claim his users make 250 reqs/d, which is very different users and there is likely huge gap in costs numbers between cohorts.
The dictionary agrees with both options, so I would guess this mostly comes down to local slang, or perhaps British vs American English?
I went to one of his talks at an NZGDC ages ago and it was super great.

Not only did he cover that they wrote the whole damn thing in assembly, but also exactly as you say: everyone else there thought that making it real-time instead of turn-based was a great idea, but David wasn't convinced.

So he instead spent a weekend (I think it was less than one day even) changing it so that it ran a "turn" per "tick" of time to experiment and I remember him saying something along the lines of "after I finished making the change, that first time I clicked on a skeleton and my character just walked over and smashed his sword into the skeleton I was convinced".
wish r/programming was still up, one of the last top posts was someone going through the post of a anti-protest account. one of the accounts recent posts was something along the lines of "Im sorry Im not allowed to generate content like that" in an advice post
Very exciting to see Giskard coming around to bring trust to LLMs!
For live streaming, I meant live video streams. They were pushing it hard for a while. It was a lot of musicians taking requests and a therapy frog (?!). It was fun for a minute but the novelty wore off quickly and I doubt it was worth whatever they paid to build it.

It’s like they want to be every social media app at once instead of focusing on their strengths.
Some people really like to teach others, so I can understand how teachers would find joy in this.

I think it has to be especially hard to maintain that in K-12 where all the children have to be, but most of them don't want to be.

At least college is optional, so there is a higher percentage that actually desire to learn. I think that would make it easier for a teacher to keep their passion for the job.
>This is a fallacy.

It is not, since the readme considers it an (unproven) working assumption.

>This will get large very quickly.

What? I can not believe that this joke repo, which even explains that saving a few hundred bytes takes minutes, is not in fact practical.
It’s more like the users are the vending machines, and the cans, and the soda.

When your whole value is provided by the unpaid labor of the users, you don’t get to say, “How dare they!”, when you’re the leach.
Spark – A micro framework for creating web applications in Kotlin and Java
> So for them it might be able more than simply showing ads.

Yeah, and this is them being unreasonable. The insistence on all the large platforms on doing that even when all of their users revolt is childish and killed a lot of platforms already.
Fool me once, ...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...
My Samsung phone doesn't look particularly bloated. And for any system app I can't uninstall, there is adb

adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 name.of.the.packet

Just be careful not to disable the ui, adb or something else that is essential. I haven't found anything that can't be disabled, yet. Always backup your important data in case you have to reset to factory defaults.
There's something else odd going on. I think the easiest answer is the company is just poorly run but considering everything we've seen from both sides of the issue:

- Reddit believes costs to maintain their API are on the level of charging 3rd party apps upwards of $20MM each. A small handful of 3rd party apps between iOS/Android would be netting them $100MM annually? Does it really cost them that much to run the API? There's a lot of questions regarding those figures by themselves

- Reluctance to come up with alternative offerings. If this is about 3rd party apps not serving ads, why is the most obvious solution not just "3rd party app usage must be through premium accounts"?

- An absolute refusal to recognize how their site operates and the value of the free labour given to them through moderation and content generation. This one is where I'm most in the dark. They must've run the metrics to see that even if losing a sizable portion of the 3rd party users they won't be in a bad place. I'm assuming they're prepared to rework their moderation structure in its entirety? But at the same time, they seem unable to devlop/publish meaningful features that have been requested by those who know the site best

My gut reaction is the IPO is coming. They want short term numbers bump to justify these actions and damn the long term. A mindset of solve the immediate problem, ignore the rest and figure it out later. Most people see this as a bad strategy, they seem to believe in it...but have they had a good track record to date showing they're capable of making these measured decisions? I think not.

It's interesting to watch & experience at least.
> Sea level has risen like a half a foot in the last 70 years. That's not all that fast.

The pace of ice melting is still an unpredictable process due to its non-linearity, but the current imbalance between ice melting and new snow in the Greenland ice sheet commits a 27cm rise, according to [1]. This with current temperatures (not temperature rises).

From my layman understanding, antarctic runoff is less understood, but also its effect is potentially much larger. Article : [2]

Finally people with more knowledge than me, IPCC AR6, have estimates based on paleoclimates that depend on climate trajectory. [3], box TS4 pp. 77-78. Their optimistic story is 28-55cm by 2100. Their pessimistic assessment is "Under the higher CO2 emissions scenarios, there is deep uncertainty in sea level projections for 2100 and beyond". Also note that even in the best scenario, sea doesn't stop rising after 2100. Sea level rise is likely locked in for centuries.

A last word on "mean sea level": it's just a mean, impact may be worse for some areas.

> Meanwhile, places like Netherlands are increasing their land area over that time.

That's, like, a tiny confetti of wealthy people. Not sure this kind of anecdotal information is relevant to rising sea levels.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01441-2
[2] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...
[3] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...
> Why do you deserve to have no ads?

Because my attention belongs to me. Exclusively. It's not yours. It's not reddit's. It's not Google's. It doesn't belong to anyone other than I, certainly not a corporation. It's not a currency that can be used to pay for services. They do not have the right to sell it off to the highest bidder.

I deserve not to be advertised to for the same reasons women deserve not to be raped: basic human dignity. I don't consent to it. I don't consent to their forcible injection of their silly little brands and taglines into my mind. As far as I'm concerned it's mind rape and anything I do to kill ads is legitimate justified self defense. I couldn't care less how much money they lose either, find another business model or disappear.
When an organization has many people, I think that many of these are a continuum from accidental to intentional.
Show HN: Meg-4, the Open Source PICO-8 alternative
Hi fellow hackers,

I've created a GPL licensed alternative to the proprietary PICO-8. It also addresses most of its shortcomings:

- multilanguage support

- uses UTF-8 encoding (BMP only)

- sophisticated user input methods (direct codepoint, composition, Hiragana and Katakana etc.)

- provides a large and efficient API library for your scripts

- supports C, BASIC, Assembly and Lua scripts (more to come)

- supports wide variety of file formats (Amiga MOD, MIDI, Tiled TMX, PNG, etc.)

- capable of importing PICO-8 and TIC-80 cartridges

- runs in your browser: https://bztsrc.gitlab.io/meg4/

It might not look like much at first glance, but it surely shows its strengths when you start using it (for example automatic API help as you type in the code editor, or invoking the built-in debugger if your script crashes, things like that which makes development easy and fun).

Also check out its well-structured and comprehensive documentation:

https://bztsrc.gitlab.io/meg4/manual_en.html

Binaries are provided for emscripten (web), Windows, Linux (statically linked SDL and GLFW3+portaudio, dynamically linked deb package for Ubuntu and RaspiOS).

It is still in early in development, but almost feature complete. At this stage, expect minor bugs here and there, but should work most of the time. The interface is already translated to 25 languages, but the built-in help and the user manual is only available in English for now.

Let me know what you think!
> Fact: When the Macintosh came out in 1984 it came with no programming environment

The programming environment for the Mac was a total shitshow in 1984, and continued to be so for a couple of versions after. You needed a 128k Mac, a Lisa, *and* an Apple II to make it work *at all*.
On the flip side, one of the more exciting new LLM releases (ORCA) by Microsoft uses huge amounts of synthetic data from GPT4 and in which Orca outperforms almost every other LLM on the market.

"Orca learns from rich signals from GPT-4 including explanation traces; step-by-step thought processes; and other complex instructions, guided by teacher assistance from ChatGPT"
The repo takes it as a working assumption that this property is indeed true.
You think the average reddit user cannot (or will not) google "reddit delete all comments"? Googling is the first resort for most people.
How much money do these institutions make again...?

You could basically say the spirit of everything you're saying about banks.
If you were looking at the product and that number reasonably, you would realize that it doesn't take wild speculation.
They faked in the beginning, so maybe now too.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/reddi...
He is calling you a plebe.
I wanted to delete my old posts so that Reddit doesn't get any value out of them.

That's exactly why they put in dirty hacks to defend against this.

Reddit depends on all the old content because it's indexed by search engines. People add "Reddit" when they search and then they navigate to the site. Old content brings in visitors.
> And you know this with certainty.... how? With enough branches in a truly infinite timeline, the likelihood of there being a combination which produces a specific outcome is quite high.

It is not. It is quite low. The number of possible states grows at a faster rate than the rate necessary to maintain “infinity.” It’s only true if you assert that all possible states at a branch are added to the set, which is a tautology.

A fun puzzle. Let’s say you have an empty set whose members are sets. You add a set to it of infinite size (like the set of all positive integers). Next, you add another set to it whose size is also infinite but whose members are not contained in the first set. Now you repeat this process an infinite number of times.

You have an infinite set of infinite sets. The question is: is such a set possible and, if so, does your infinite set of infinite sets necessarily contain all possible infinite sets?
Only Facebook has a more obviously concentrated revenue stream - but Google is a close second. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-tech-giants-make-billio... is enlightening.
It's very much Mossad's style - I don't know which US agency outsources the job to them, but if someone pisses of the US spook community enough, it does get ordered. I don't think they get pissed over what happens to a hospital in any country in the world, however.
I was looking at it through the browser, specifically on Bromite through the anonymized view through startpage.com.
Is there an in-browser version or an analogue?
Anthropic Trust Portal
Given that Steve (the CEO) has, now or in the past:

* edited the content of user comments without acknowledgment,

* threatened to or has removed or installed moderators into communities to circumvent the blackout

* threatened to "un-private" communities

Why are you so sure that he wouldn't authorize un-deletion of comments?
How exactly does lemmy work with federation? (I'm assuming lemmy outwardly presents itself as esentaially reddit.)

I 'host' a community on my lemmy instance? People can submit 'stories' for my community if it's problematic I can essentially refuse that story? If someone comments on one of those stories, do I as a community admin/owner can remove that comment? If there is a shithead user who's account belongs to another lemmy instance I assume I can ban them from interacting with any content hosted in my community, same with another lemmy server out there if there is a whole server of shitheads?
Strange that /r/programming has been in lockdown all week. Last I remember, ketralnis and spez were the top two mods on it. Seems like it would be pretty easy to pop it back out of private if they wanted to.
Marche – open-source Forum Software written in Rust
With the Reddit blackout in full effect, I was reminded of a project I worked on last summer that I never got around to promote or release in any way. Hopefully someone can use this project to create their own community.