skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No statistical analysis at all applies if the relevant premises are false. People defend the statistical analysis using statistical metrics, rather than the premesis by which the stats are used (eg., the model type, the causal model, etc.).

Eg., if there is no causal connection between X, Y then any analysis of association between X, Y is not a causal one.

Entire fields of people have been taught that stats can justify science -- and hence the heaps of pseudoscience.

It is science which justifies the use of stats; not vice versa.
Embrace, Extend, DDoS
Your average django app running on one or two servers with four workers each (which use connection polling) does not need pgbouncer.
Reminds me of Saturday Night Live’s Celebrity Jeopardy where one contestant famously mispronounced “ThePenIsMightier” category. (Just lowercase the first “I”)
The reality distortion field worked for Jobs because he was weirdly charismatic while being a colossal asshole. spez just isn't charismatic.
Was it 2007? Ok. Anyway, you got my point I guess, don’t you?
Exactly. And at Carmack's status, he can afford to only work on things that give him pleasure.
Anybody have a tl;dr? I don't want to read about the seashell collection on the researcher's desk.
Well, those consultants sound very afFORDable.

"You can have any color car you like, as long as it's black."

- Henry Ford
That last point is, IMHO, the real problem. It's pretty reasonable to want to charge for the API, but saying "we just want a fair price" and setting a price that's clearly meant just to kill them off is dishonest. Just say you're turning off API access.

And then there's the lying about Christian (the Apollo guy), where Huffman/spez just straight-up lied. We know that because Christian posted a call recording.

Now he's lying about the RIF situation.

He goes in and edits _other users' comments_ when he feels like it seemingly for no reason.

The takeaway for me at least is that the guy is just a liar, and investing a lot of time and energy (either as a contributor, developer, or mod) into a company run by a flagrantly dishonest bad actor is a bad idea.
Probably worth linking the obit you submitted (thanks for that btw!):

Robert Gottlieb, editor of literary heavyweights, dies at 92 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36337975 - June 2023 (no comments)

(also, it would be better to share something interesting about Gottlieb than complain about Remnick/NYer - most people here have never heard any of the stories you're talking about or even know who he is. One of HN's functions is to offer a sort of basic education about this kind of stuff for readers over time)
I professionally help sites deal with these kinds of attacks, and it is often the case that the source machines are all from a single provider, country, or other group.

Typically we've found that this is due to some underlying app or service that they all use, an example would be a webhost that has all of their customers on an older vulnerable version of cPanel, or for something with more recency look at all the organizations that suffered a ransomware attack this week because they used the same vulnerable file transfer software.
It's a metaphor and doesn't need to be perfect. My point was merely "don't like it, then leave" is useless advice IMO. I didn't say reddit is critical exactly (though maybe it is for many who frequent https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/), only that it has value to many. Strikes and demonstrations and such are ALWAYS inconvenient by design. That doesn't mean they are pointless. BART strikes and BLM protests impacted me a lot more than reddit blackouts but I still supported them.

Ultimately we are ALL sharecropping where the majority of the web is "owned/gatekeeped" by a handful of big companies like google, meta, microsoft, amazon, twitter (?), visa, mastercard, paypal, yelp, cloudflare, comcast, cox, etc. You may agree or disagree with my list but hopefully you get my point.

It remains to be seen if it worked or not depending on what the fallout is. Will users, moderators and most importantly advertisers leave? Will reddit IPO? Will they be able to hire? Will spez survive this as CEO?
Much like our universe, this project will be ever-expanding too.
Give up. Assume your driver's license and SSN are compromised. Everyone's either is already or will be soon.
idk, someone (moderator?) changed it back ...
Thank you for explaining that much more clearly.

It boggles my mind that, given stories in the Bible like this, anyone would think worshiping such a cruel and vengeful god is a moral thing to do.

Granted, the New Testament tries to paint a much more compassionate picture. Just goes to show you that the church will do its best to change its marketing when the need arises.
Comments like this push people away from Erlang rather than draw them in.
Yeah, just ask r/maliciouscompliance
Ah that's not too bad. Though to be fair you also need the data size. That's only what one in a 1k chance (or is it 10k? Too lazy to count it out). If their dataset is small or they automated testing cofactors there's still a decent chance of false probability.
You are assuming the board is filled with intelligent people. That's probably a mistake.
Huffman's being a dillhole, as stipulated.

However, the Washington Post should know that "the landed gentry" and the aristocracy are not synonymous. Even the dictionary definition they linked to in their own article (and, by the way, it's weird that a major newspaper just links to the dictionary) says it's just someone with money and land. For example, a CEO might have a lot of money and land, and an actual Baron might not have much. Yes, it's pedantic, and yes, it's splitting hairs, there is not a whole lot to say about a story that hasn't changed much since the last story about this, except maybe that newspapers should slow down and write better stories rather than just breathlessly covering everything as quickly as possible.
Don't forget that Steve Huffman legitimately expects all of society to collapse and makes plans to survive it, including getting as much money and as many resources as possible. (The part where he helps to bring it about doesn't seem to register).

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-...
Who knows? Myspace seemed unbeatable for a while.
A kid who could read my mind (2009)
How long before coordinated brigading of mod voting starts happening, so that the most popular subs can get taken over by people who want to monetize it?
It's unclear if model weights are protected by copyright in the US.
I'm willing to bet there are more people who could solve that problem working for yelp than you would fairly estimate there are, but the suits are actively preventing solving that problem because they know that shaking down businesses for Yelp support contracts is infinitely more profitable than being a reliable source of truth in the world will ever be.

Gold Plated Bugatti's do not buy themselves, after all.
I used to be a "back the blue" guy, but that's because I'm a pretty boring person who hasn't needed to deal with confronting the police before. After watching channels like Audit the Audit and LackLuster on YouTube (excellent channels btw), I have a newfound respect for the handful of cops that actually stick within the limits of their authority and remain respectful. I also have a newfound disdain for the other 90% of officers. Of course, since the channels focus mainly on police misconduct, it's easy to get a skewed perspective that almost all police are like that, which may also not be true. The fact that so many video examples of tyranny exist is frightening regardless, however.

One of the new "metas" in policing is getting people to open their front door to talk, and then putting their foot in the doorway to prevent it from being closed without being considered "assault on a peace officer." How that shit isn't struck down immediately by SCOTUS baffles me. It violates the 4th and 5th amendments simultaneously.

And also the incessent use of the "I smell marijuana" excuse to be able to freely search peoples' vehicles and persons. There's just so many shady tactics the police use to intentionally skirt the spirit of the law and our rights, while still passing the letter of the law.
You should have frozen your credit after the breeches of the credit agencies in years past.
Ah, but you need to live up to your name.
Superb Owls... Nice
> The Apollo app could generate significantly more requests (5x, 10x, 20x, ... ?) to serve the exact same content and still not justify the new pricing it is being charged.

my hypothesis is that apollo users generate more requests because they are some power users like mods, or more engaged and active users compared to reddit MAU, so they bothered researching and installing 3p app.

> Your argument revolves around comparing an active 3PA user with an inactive Reddit user, which is fundamentally flawed and easily refutable.

no, it is people who brought that $0.15 per MAU number do such comparison.

I would compare daily active users, which are about 12x times less for reddit, and you would come to number close to $2/user.
Out of its ashes, something new will take its place.

I was a former lead mod a year ago of a large subreddit. I saw the writing on the wall THEN, and took the sub private, and booted the other mods I brought in. I then started purging content.

Not a few hours later, the other 2 mods I invited in messaged the admins, and removed my moderatorship and then banned my account.

Those subreddits, no matter how many "mod kudos" you have, were never yours, are never yours, and will always be digital sharecropping.

Burn it to the ground. Power is the ONLY message the admins and C levels understand.
Sounds like the reason why there's a backlash against exposing kids to all of these controversial topics in the "culture wars" in the West.
Learning one will make learning the others easier. They have conceptual differences, of course, but there's also a lot of overlap.

Regardless, the "cross platform UI wars shaking out" will mean there are three or four options with high market share that each have plusses and minuses depending on the specifics of your project. There won't be a single winner.
Why so much negativity? 37signals (with Stimulus) are the OGs of this architecture. Livewire started at same time as LiveView and because of PHPs limitations it has to use different tactics/innovations (like using clientside JS more with Alpinejs) that then LiveView benefits from.

Calling them poor imitations is disingenuous and spitting on open work of many people.
I built a GraphQL API to cache the responses and dataload them like 2 years ago on top of HN API so it can give nicer responses and don't hit the endpoint as much through batching. It can load entire HN thread in one request.

https://github.com/searchableguy/hackernews_graphql

It is still incomplete though because I remember you said I could not scrape the site beyond robot.txt limits which would be too less for the use case because I wanted to provide write functionality so I gave up.

Maybe people can host a caching relay and a layer like graphql on top as an unofficial way to lessen the burden on the firebase API (it's a pain to use anyway).
"Giving up" is not really an option until it is illegal with substantial penalties to use these trivially discoverable reference numbers for anything.
I've been really happy with GoPro's TimeWarp feature as a hyperlapse alternative. I've used it on bike rides and car road trips and it's been awesome. It doesn't do the exact same thing as hyperlapse and does crop the frame, but with the GoPro's wide angle lens, the FOV is still really good. I'm even using a Hero7, but the newer models have much better TimeWarp features.
> as it allows them to use profits from good seasons to hedge against bad seasons

It allows corn farmers to grow wheat instead, because he is selling it right now and wheat is more profitable right now.

The main reason why it doesn't go astray and make people hungry is because people that isn't involved in any way can go, study the factors that make wheat more profitable to corn, do their predictions of what will be the case at the point of delivery, and if they predict correctly that the price is wrong they can go and adjust it making a lot of money on the process.
In the relevant timescale the Soviets were far less of a strategic threat to the US than they would later become. However, they did have lots of weapons pointed at Western Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap

In many respect the Soviet leadership was terrified of the West and a first strike - later it was Reagan who was eventually persuaded of what a risk that fear was and de-escalated.
> Rule 4: When we move out of a variable, we can't use it anymore.

> C++ doesn't have rule 4, in C++ the compiler lets us accidentally use the variable after we move out of it.

Why is it so? Moving is not a legacy operation, why did they allow to use moved-out variable?
(Or maybe the questions were too tricky and he wasn't able to answer, heh)
The funny thing is, reddit had a really good crisis communication consultant when they had their outage earlier this year. (Everybody knows now that the wokerati made the servers gay, instead that reddits IT needs to be fired.) So why don't they just pay that guy.
Agreed, I do the same.

But in an IDE, that motion is "Cmd-F, <type>, Enter". Vim's not inherently superior there.
I think he really didn't see this level of pushback coming, and he's put himself in an impossible position.

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1669800835843235845

Then he goes and says nonsense like that, and I have to wonder about his intelligence. Twitter has lost more than half of its advertising money, all from totally unforced errors; that is SO not the pattern to imitate.
What’s the benefit of this? I don’t understand what problem it solves.
Not the most complex software, but definitely the most needlessly complex software.

I worked for a company where IT owned customer onboarding for historical reasons. Each customer had their own DB in the same server so that each site would be isolated. So onboarding was basically cloning a “gold DB” and templating some values.

The script that cloned the DB was over 50k lines of Batch files (Windows .bat). There were so many includes, GOTOs, random black holes, passwords in plain text, reliance on special IP whitelisting in the AD server… it had been grown organically by someone who didn’t know how to program and it was a major mess.

It took me three weeks to figure out what was happening, and another to make sure the details were correct.

I replaced the whole thing with <10 lines of an actual scripting language. Proved it worked. But the management at the time didn’t want to change the process…

My Facebook rant at the time got me invited to speak to an upcoming class at my Alma Mater about software quality.
> "Reddit doesn't want it's power users"

I keep hearing people say this, but why would that be?

By "power users" it seems like people are broadly referring to people who submit lots of original content-heavy posts and comments. Why would Reddit not want that?
I don’t think backups were used, likely all comments are just soft deleted and versioned.

So I think they just toggled off soft deleted comments, and reverted to older comment versions. That might show up as comments missing their added “edit:”s.

Another commenter here said they think this was an accident, I’m inclined to agree
>gravity wave

LIGO, the gravity wave detecting interferometer, has arms 4 kilometers long. Along that distance, it can detect a change in length one ten thousandth the diameter of a proton. With an instrument that sensitive, it can just barely detect a handful of gravity waves a year, out of the thousands? that occur in the observable universe. Gravity waves are subtle things.
Thanks, nice lead!
Do you have any advice on making the repairing process less painful?

I’ve learned to repair things here and there: home, auto, woodwork, sewing, etc. and so I’ll make a repair purely out of the sense of obligation not to create waste.

But I haaaaaate it. Every minute that I’m performing a repair, I’m bored to death. My brain is screaming at me to find any alternative occupation. I wind up spending the whole repair time drinking and/or distracting myself with podcasts to make the experience suck less, but then my results take a hit.

You would think that the gradual accumulation of skills is something I would find satisfying, but I can’t see the process as anything but a chore. Does anybody have advice on how to cope with this in a healthier manner?
Interesting. What kind of state of mind are we talking about here? Threshold, above threshold, etc? I've never played a tournament game on a threshold or above dose before. I did play a casual game on a very large dose(probably 50 or 75mg) of 2c-b once, but I could barely discern the board at that point, and the results were... as expected.
So you are convinced the real benefits lie in macro and not micro?
When HyperCard returns in some fashion. You can run the version 2.4 on an old mac (MacOS9 or early 10) or an via an emulator. http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/macos9osx.html

This person pointed me to it.
https://blog.alexseifert.com/2020/06/09/emulating-mac-os-9-o...

The solution is a pre-made instance of SheepShaver running Mac OS 9.0.4 that includes a number of utilities and other pieces of software. The ROM is also included and the whole bundle is packaged into a simple, runnable application for macOS 10.10 and above. That means, all you have to do is download it, unzip it, move it to your Application folder and run it. Mac OS 9 boots right up and you don’t have to do a thing otherwise.

You can find and download this brilliant solution for free on http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/macos9osx.html.

Apple (SJ) apparently didn't know how many in-house applications people built with HyperCard. Some were classified. Others were just proprietary. I wrote XCMDs with CompileIt and HYPERBasic (try finding that one ) that did fun things like plotting, and converting graphics to PDF (as text files). It was fun and rewarding.

Discussions can be found below and elsewhere.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30138533#30146989
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/01/03/30/0312203/trying-to-...

I haven't found a clone of HyperCard that suits my needs.
Would be nice.
For Reddit to crash there needs to be a viable alternative that the community can jump to quickly before collective amnesia sets in.

Also, lazyness is always a huge factor. It's will always be easier to just stay and so most will.
That's more or less what I've been thinking. They are looking for short term profits to get those pay bonuses. That's how the CEO is compensated, and those investors want to pull their money and make them profits.

Its a major gamble, but knowing compensation packages, they'll land on a cushy golden parachute, meanwhile the workers of reddit and the community will massively suffer.
The front page of https://gmplib.org/ has two other undated updates that the current server is too slow because of meltdown and they're going to replace with it with an epyc server in mid April.
Given the url of a reddit thread that turned up in search results but is now blacked out due to the protests, how would you use this to go read that thread?
Reading that bug report it looks like Django hasn't been isolated as the source of the problem? Looks like Carlton Gibson closed it until it is reproducible. Problem could be in uvicorn, psycopg2, etc
Who's HN aristocracy?
To that end, its not that, in a perfect world, law enforcement shouldn't ever have any of these tools, just that our entire justice system is not set up to adequately police the police.

I'd be in favor of immediately banning armed drones, and immediately banning facial recognition from drone surveillance. At a national level. Don't even give it to federal police forces. Then let the congress come up with a sensible path for qualifying their use. Drones over a sporting event, looking for faces of any known terrorists is a non-starter. Drones over a specific sporting event, looking for a particular suspect, because the officers were able to get a warrant for their use during that event? Ok, sure, if we could find a constitutional path to get there.

Likewise, I have no particular objection to e.g. armed robots, if the police who use it can show that there was no other way to resolve that situation. But there can be no qualified immunity if you lose that case. Whoever signs off on the robot goes to jail for murder if a jury can be convinced there were other realistic options.

Basically, a lot of issues with police abuse of power, to my mind, come down to a total absence of accountability. The tools are not, of themselves, dangerous. Its just that we keep putting them in the hands of people who will never use them responsibly. To be clear, it may well be the case that no people exist who can use them responsibly, but the narrative around removing the tools needs to center on the accountability question, not the "tools are scary" angle.
Reddit just became much less cool, and lost the last vestiges of its 'open' and 'free' image.

This is actually a huge problem for them - the general discourse on Reddit reflects values that the company clearly no longer holds. They're not as entrenched as they seem to think they are. Reddit produces zero content.

Reddit is just a forum host who's pissing off its users.