skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea why but HackerNews malformed the url I posted. It should have been https://twitter.com/search?q=rollbar&f=live
This is such a hackernews comment lmao, storing all your files inside the decimal representation of pi is obviously a joke project.
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> If there are mods here who are willing to work towards reopening this community, we are willing to work with you to process a Top Mod Removal request or reorder the mod team to achieve this goal if mods higher up the list are hindering reopening. We would handle this request and any retaliation attempts here in this modmail chain immediately.

> Our goal is to work with the existing mod team to find a path forward and make sure your subreddit is made available for the community which makes its home here. If you are not able or willing to reopen and maintain the community, please let us know.
There was an examination of this sort of thing in the webcomic Freefall --- shortest story is 6 words, 100,000 words for English vocabulary, order matters --- it worked out to a data storage unit the size of a small moon.
> In our search for fulfillment, we keep paying first prices, creating a correspondingly enormous debt of unpaid second prices.

Wow, at first I was about to stop reading and thought this article was drivel.

Then that line came up and it was like the breaking bad news scene in breaking bad. Tunnel vision and static as my mind was blown.
> I’ve always considered DevOps to be Developer/Operator - as in - you run the stuff you build

This is also exactly how i've always understood the term, and it makes perfect sense.

But the origin of the term is indeed in distinct dev and ops people working more closely together. The origin story is basically Patrick Debois watching this talk, and then turning the title into a noun:

https://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/10-deploys-per-day-dev-a...

I think the devs-do-ops idea was also floating around at the time (i was doing in in 2008!), somehow got swept up into the movement.
Astronomy Picture of the Day's 28th birthday
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28677950

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30211038
Illinois prohibits weapons, facial recognition on police drones
Here's Tom with the weather
Your old phone is closer to wearing out, though.
I've noticed that the I'm getting WAY more push notification from Reddit (mobile web) than I ever did before.
Nir Barzilai and a team of researchers are leading a large clinical trial to test the benefits of metformin in slowing the aging process, which is upstream of so many diseases that yeah, it could just be a cheap cure-all. Sadly requires a prescription in the US. But berberine is the off-the-shelf equivalent.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7347426/
The other side of that is that people who are willing to pay the cost (time, dollars, etc.) to run a forum are generally going to be more committed to that community.

It may be more fun to run a subreddit, but subreddits are also less coherent communities than forums.
Microsoft has office, Windows, games, and maybe OpenAI.
They were the original founders, he was given the title when he joined?
The official iOS Reddit app was already from a purchased third party client that people used to like (AlienBlue).

The issue is the popular apps will inherently be at odds with Reddit's goals, because popular apps are popular due to their user-friendly experiences, and Reddit doesn't want a nice app where users can get in and out without interference. They want dark patterns that get you mindlessly scrolling forever, showing you ads, and tracking every tap and fling you do.
Thank you. I was lost after they removed the cached version button on Google results. The link got progressively buried before it disappeared, I think.
Yeah exactly. I have issues with what social media does to people and some of what Mark has done.. but he is nowhere near my level of despise for Musk, Kanye or others in that circle.
Each independent script you import is another load blocker. You could have scripts A and B both import template C, but then you're slowing things down even more, and no "HTTP2 push!" is not the answer.
15a != Infinity
Not a single diagram to show the correlation in the earth.com description.
I was going to say the same thing, I think earlier this week there were 3 reddit posts on the front page at once, and they were all about reddit(api pricing and blow back from the community).
I think that is a reasonably analogy, but an important difference is that a startup has a strong incentive to be committed to their product. A startup may not stay in business for long, but we have an expectation that they'll support their product for as long as they can. After all, this product is a big bet for them and they really need it to succeed.

I don't see that those incentives even exist at Google. A well managed company would introduce new products that match the rest of the company's portfolio. When a product fails to gain interest, they would revise it and try to figure out how to provide customer value. There's nothing about Google's behavior in the past ten years that suggests that's what is going on there. From an outsider's perspective, there's nothing to indicate that Google is making any effort to follow through to make sure new products are successful.
>Is it that you are old, or that you are young enough that the transition from the slang of your peers to a newer one as the fashion of the day is recent and acutely felt?

Once you start to notice that, once pop culture starts to alienate you, you're old.

And there's no more obvious sign that you're old than complaining about modern slang.
The constant lying is making the PR disaster so much worse than it has to be.
I don’t care about that problem.

The cost of running something like Reddit is so cheap. I’ve run bbs servers and it’s not free, but it’s really cheap.

Reddit is just text if you stop hosting images and video.

It was profitable 10 years ago. It just want “unicorn” “profitable” for a huge VC investment and IPO. I don’t care about that.

Again, I’ve literally run subs for over a decade and haven’t seen this problem. Thousands of happy people are chugging along. No “toxic” material so far.

I think the key ingredient may be some niche topic that doesn’t attract random people but some organizing interest.
@mhh__ Link 404's.
It's a funny way of putting forward a very true phenomena: there's less effort and risk involved with saying what you want to say in a book or pamphlet, leading to people who pick up those ideas and take them further. Ideas can spread like wildfire, easily, with no social or physical threats to curb them.

There would be a great deal less of that, if it weren't for the printing press.
Prison forced labour might not be a good idea. Prison labour as an optional thing is definitely a good idea, and most prisons give prisoners the option to contribute, at least to the running of the prison, in exchange for certain privileges. The jobs include working in the laundry room or serving food. These are not intensely engaging occupations, but they are an improvement over the monotony of prison life, and give people the opportunity to excercise certain skills useful in the real world like teamwork, diligence, etc.
What sort of effort do you think this takes? I did a quick search for 'buy android reviews' and there are tons of sites that seem perfectly legitimate. The prices are also extremely reasonable, the reviews are guaranteed, and it's not illegal.

The only thing you have to risk is if you somehow get discovered and your reputation takes a dive, but Reddit's already made it extremely clear that they take their current users for granted, so from their perspective there is probably 0 perceived risk and a reasonable potential upside if they believe their review score can help drive more signups tomorrow. So basically you're looking at a low effort, low cost, low risk, mid+ reward type task.
The thing with painting--at least interior/trim/etc.--is that it'd 1.) Not that hard; 2.) You do it repeatedly so it's not the usual: Do it once poorly and never do it again; and 3.) If you're touching up something already painted, you can probably take some shortcuts a professional won't.
Seems like the author's problem is that he thinks "CS" is "programming." It isn't, and that's sometimes a harsh reality CS students realize a couple years into their studies when the difficult math starts coming at you hard and fast.
Come on, what you were suggesting was ridiculous and not a serious alternative. Buying and maintaining a truck is way more expensive than even multiple portable air conditioners and generators.

Furthermore, only expensive late model trucks even have high capacity inverters built in that are capable of running a separate air conditioner. The little portable inverters that plug into a 12V vehicle outlet can only do about 150W.
I wonder if Apollo could return as Apollo Premium, with only paid accounts. What fraction of old Apollo users would be willing to subscribe to keep that functionality?
Terrorists?

I must have missed something.
So the court's decision is basically that you have a right to free speech even on other people's private property, against the owner's wishes? How is this decision compatible with Big Tech being allowed to censor people?
I'm sorry. Do you think HN is unmoderated?

Unless you're in a very free speech leaning place, which are unfortunately and increasingly harder to find, every forum is modded and the mods hold varying degrees of influence.

And the site wide admins, when there's such a thing, hold more.
Because he wasn't a co-founder, he came in later and got a co-founder title retroactively for reasons. You can tell the story either way and there's nothing nefarious about failing to mention Swartz, who is not at high risk of being forgotten.
404.

9 upvotes for the post currently, though, which I have a hard time seeing with a bad URL. Maybe they removed it when traffic spiked?
Besides complexity, a price you pay with multi-armed bandits is that you learn less about the non-optimal options (because as your confidence grows that an option is not the best, you run fewer samples through it). It turns out the people running these experiments are often not satisfied to learn "A is better than B." They want to know "A is 7% better than B," but a MAB system will only run enough B samples to make the first statement.
Go to the popular third-party apps that are getting killed and scroll past the RIP messages for latest reviews and you will see a lot of one word 5-star reviews. Are those suspicious as well? No, that's just what people do.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu....

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.laurenceda...

I think it's frivolous that people in that thread (and here) take this at face value.
But this is the terrorism part: you're hurting random innocent people to terrorize the leadership into doing things your way.
How long until the adults at Conde Nast step in and stop the madness? This whole thing is:

1. Doing long term damage to search position for Reddit content. Results, short and long term reduction in SEO generated traffic, fewer ad clicks, lower revenue, and a loss in valuation. Also, paying to get traffic will cut into margin, further reducing valuation.

2. Causing users to delete their accounts, lowering active user counts, and cutting Reddit's valuation.

3. Forcing people doing work for free to stop, meaning that Reddit will have to spend money to either hire or recruit and train more free moderators, resulting in increased operating costs, thus reducing profit margins, resulting in a lower valuation.

4. If it is true that management at Reddit is undeleting deleted users and accounts, they may be creating a situation where they claim they have more users than they do. Because this is the result of management's actions, it could be viewed negatively by regulators and law enforcement.

What is going on needs to be stopped. It's insane.
It sounds like that would become a game of chicken.

For it to work, I'm guessing that additional states would need to join Massachusetts.

Unfortunately, as we've seen with New York, that would probably be opposed by significant back-room sleaze.
Yeah, I think they sold out to some private equity firm that tore it down, but I guess finds it profitable to repost stuff. I think it sold for $30M so I’m sure the current owners would give it up for pretty cheap.

I wonder who uses it. Maybe it’s just a google seo farm or something (although I’ve never seen it in my results).
I don't understand this argument at all.

> There is nothing wrong with developing software and selling it. It used to be the norm and it is still quite common.

Yes, agreed.

> These days "open source" is virtue signaling and expected "to be cool".

Yes, agreed.

> That people then grump about not being paid shows that they are not particularly interested in the concept of open source.

Well, yes, they got pulled in by the hype and then realized that they needed some kinds of cashflows to make it sustainable.

> I do nitpick on people who see open source as a way to get paid and they are angry if they dont get it.

Why? Because they made one mistake up front and picked the wrong model and didn't realize until they were several years into their project that open source was wrong for them? So you decide to crucify them for that, even though if they'd made that decision right from the start you would have 100% fully supported them?

I didn't realize that open sourcing something was a perpetual indefinite infinite-year long contract that requires endless toil and slavery to the cause. Perhaps we should be a bit more clear about that up front.
This is hardly a new problem though. Thieves used to be able to pull the wires from under the steering column and start a car.

For the more serious attacks mentioned, the automakers are essentially saying that they build extremely vulnerable systems and are afraid to disclose that fact.

I suspect we're in violent agreement though, that the correct outcome is to fix the vulnerabilities AND to document the repair methods.
Makes me want to build a WOPR Raspberry pi case.
How am I reading so many comments not realising this repo is tongue-in-cheek?
Part of the problem with Old English is it isn't just the usual linguistic evolution over time like in most languages. English changed dramatically after 1066 and the Norman Conquest. In modern English there are more words of Romance origin than of the original Germanic origin. Hence people like Poul Anderson and his famous "Uncleftish Beholding".
Chapter 6 of The Psychology of Money is called Tails, You Win. Just happen to be reading it. The summary is a variant of "lots of small bets" - some will fail, some will do OK, but it's the very few that do exceptional that will matter to your overall success.

Google is no special snowflake in this regard, but they hit it big early, and they still have the resources to keep trying things (and hoping for another big win). Lots of consumer-facing useful things that sometimes get popular, but rarely give Google whatever is it they want. And unless it really matters to their bottom line, they probably aren't going to stand behind it long-term.

That being said, it's more than fair as a consumer not to trust their (little) bets.
Yeah, that's what I meant. Sorry for the confusion.
The hurdle isn’t in finding Power Delete Suite. It’s in knowing what a Bookmarklet is, or what a bookmark is, or what a favorites bar is.

Many people go to Reddit 20 times a day by typing “Reddit” (or some variation like “redit”) into Google 20 times a day and clicking the first search result.
I clicked it without noticing, seems like a lack of information. Divisive topic.
Has that been a problem for NHTSA? I honestly don't know.
Have you noticed the downward trend in topics and discussions in the last 2 weeks? And that nearly every day another topic is about Reddit/spez? There's your answer.
What is RTO in this context?
> The more mysterious question to me would actually be whether that disorientation also leads to people not ordering.

This is actually the crucial question. The disorientation is an indication for a fundamental mismatch between the internal model established by the user and the presentation. It may be an issue of the flow of information (users are hesitant, because they realize at this point that this is not about what they thought it may be) or on the usability/design side of things (user has established an operational model, but this is not how it operates). Either way, there's a considerable dissonance, which will probably hurt the product: your presentation does not work for the user, you're not communicating on the same level, and this will be probably perceived as an issue of quality or even fitness for the purpose, maybe even intrigue. (Shouting at the user may provide a superficial fix, but will not address the potential damage.) – Which leads to the question: what is the actual problem and what caused it in the first place? (I'd argue, any serious attempt to operationalize this variable will inevitable lead you towards this much more serious issue. Operationalization is difficult for a reason. If you want tho have a controlled experiment, you must control all your variables – and the attempt to do so may hint you at deeper issues.)

BTW, there's also a potential danger in just taking the articulations of user dislike at face value: a classic trope in TV media research was audiences critizising the outfit of the presenter, while the real issue was a dissonance/mismatch in audio and visual presentation. Not that users could pinpoint this, hence, they would rather blame how the anchor was dressed…
The whole Meta thing frankly seemed like a suspicious PR move. At the time the remaking was announced Facebook was being dragged into Congress. Suddenly the headlines switched from Facebook this and Facebook that to Meta this and Meta that. Even today reporters are constantly getting themselves into tongue twisters about it.
Show HN: Free running back end server for you on publicly accessible IP
I have automated the process for anyone who wants to set up a free server and experiment with a live environment on the cloud and everything to those of whom are studying and looking to dive into some fairly simply but educating code. The server that is set up doesn't cost money (there is a charge of one euro and a half per month at some point) but the machine itself is a powerful machine, and apart from the euro and a half, it doesn't cost money and you can keep it up as long as you want. Credit card details are required to register for the cloud environment. In order to use the script, you will need a Mac (not necessarily a new one or something that will make you risk data on it - the tutorial inside the repository also explains how to run everything within a virtual machine of Mac on a Mac). The environment that is set up is for Node.js, which runs a server on an IP that is publicly available from the Internet. The license is free for everyone, and if it helps you to learn, you can also merchandise it (save, make changes, and sell under any license you want). It's super cool in terms of the comprehensive knowledge gain and extremely lightweight for those who are interested in having some starting project to play with (which is simple yet interesting enough). From a size perspective, something like this took me less than 24 hours to write from A to Z. For those specifically interested in the front-end, UI, and graphics - I recommend not touching this. In terms of cloud, Amazon's CDN is much more relevant for Front End porpuses.

Link: https://github.com/VitaliPom/portfolioorchstra
People only put up with so much bullshit. If you allow the annoying and loud trolls in your subreddit you alienate the more reasonable users that bring in quality content and worse case those quality content moves elsewhere.

What I learned in the last years is that it's misleading that the down- and upvote button is enough. Especially as so many users use the downvote button as "I don't agree with this comment" instead of the intended "this does not belong on this subreddit" and no amount of educating the users help.
I would recommend reading this thread before choosing them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506581
> In a couple weeks, the main way many people use Reddit is going to literally be blocked forever.

This is false. Stats showed 3rd party app users were an extreme minority of users.

It's more like mods are a disproportionate number of 3rd party users due to wanting to mod from their phones, and are making the blackout decision for everybody.
Puppeteer, Cypress, (once upon a time Selenium), etc are end to end or e2e
Same. HN has been my replacement for now. I'll look into Lemmy, but it's nice here.
Praying something like this comes to iOS soon.
Posted by another person here in this thread:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23846284/nhtsa-letter...

The letter only calls out one very specific part of the law around allowing open-access to send commands, which the letter states is an unacceptable security risk and would qualify as a "manufacturer defect", which manufacturers cannot knowingly include in their cars by federal law.

> The open remote access to vehicle telematics effectively required by this law specifically entails “the ability to send commands.” Open access to vehicle manufacturers’ telematics offerings with the ability to remotely send commands allows for manipulation of systems on a vehicle, including safety-critical functions such as steering, acceleration, or braking, as well as equipment required by Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) such as air bags and electronic stability control. A malicious actor here or abroad could utilize such open access to remotely command vehicles to operate dangerously, including attacking multiple vehicles concurrently. Vehicle crashes, injuries, or deaths are foreseeable outcomes of such a situation.

Hopefully, the response to the letter by manufacturers is to say "Okay, we won't include that clear and obvious security flaw, but we will comply with the rest of the Massachusetts law and allow free access to other telematics such that they're available AND secure."

I wouldn't put money on that being their response though.
Breaking Down China’s Manufacturing
To me, the weirdest part of Rick Rubin as a producer is that he has no distinctive sound. As best I can tell, there's no way to listen to an album and know he produced it.

I've watched a lot of interviews with Rick and about Rick, and his role seems to be entirely limited to being a muse for artists. He's not technical, he's not a musician, he doesn't really do anything beyond taking naps in the recording studio while the musicians record, occasionally opening his eyes to ask them how they feel.

To be honest, it would almost be possible to argue that Rick Rubin doesn't do anything worthwhile if he didn't have an outrageously long and unimpeachable resume to back up his contributions.
It's really not a hard question.
Oh please. They're the ones who are entitled. They literally think they can sell our attention to advertisers. It's not theirs to sell.

They chose to have a free site. Don't want to give things away for free? Charge for access then.
Then why do you post comments in the first place?

It would be easier to write them and then close the tab before hitting the button to post them. If you truly only derive value from writing them and none from anybody reading them.

And then it still "costs" you to delete them, by your logic. What is the value you get from that? If it's not from a desire to remove value for others, which you claim it isn't?
Return to office. Ending work from home.
I mean—like 97% of users just post comments that are a single emoji anyway, so I'd say the level of discourse on Instagram is barely a step above that "Yo" app that was a thing a while ago, if anyone remembers that.