skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised to keep hearing that charging for API is lazy and bad for a business. They can do whatever they want with their API and price their services as they see fit. Reddit isn't going anywhere because it's a good product for the end user. It's expensive to run and unfeathered access to their content was part of their acquisition strategy. Now they want to go public and want to be a real business.

I'm with Reddit on this decision. OpenAI is a multi-billion dollar company because of them. Does charging for API calls hurt small app developers? Absolutely. Nothing is free forever.
Indeed, there are many examples of this (“woke” and “DevOps” are two I’ve encountered just this morning), and we should push back on all of them rather than accepting a continuously escalating stairmaster of bullshit.
Lots of scientists disagree strongly with your statement.

"The conclusion that disposal is needed and that deep geologic disposal is the scientifically preferred approach has been reached by every expert panel that has looked at the issue and by every other country that is pursuing a nuclear waste management program."

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/blue-ribbon-commission-am...

One thing that drives me craziest of all is when people simultaneously claim that nuclear waste is among the most hazardous things out there while also blocking any progress to get it safely out of the biosphere.
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

Downvotes and more are unofficially documented here.

Mostly I agree with your take, my assumption is that the karma requirement for downvoting is to help prevent downvote spam, but that's just me making crap up.
> I VITELLI DEI ROMANI SONO BELLI

This is hilarious, thanks for sharing.
You're ignoring that the vast majority of /r/minecraft's 5 million subscribers are not active daily. Over the last six months, they've received roughly 2,500 comments per day and around 600-700 posts per day. Even if all of those were unique users, that's still just a fraction of the people who voted to close which is just a fraction of the total subscriber count.

Anecdotally, I have 3 accounts subscribed to that sub and I've made just one comment there in the last 3 months. I open the actual sub maybe once a week and that is generally through Relay, a third party app.

There are likely millions of subscribers who have not visited that sub in the last year.
/u/spez was just on NPR claiming that the protest is having no impact on the business.
> Climate crisis that could kill 100% of humans

This wording is just a bait for clicks and taps and does nothing to improve anything. That's why people get tired and call it the new normal.

Let them get emotional. It's part of the process of finding real solutions. Real solutions must work in the real world, globally in this case. It's not an easy problem to fix.
> I do not believe that anybody who keeps having a smartphone can really quit a social media.

I just quit Facebook, not all social media. On my phone, I have three Telegram groups (one tracks the war, the other is my family, the other is my extended family), a Twitter account I look at every 3-4 days (and that may go away because Twitter just isn't interesting other than a few friends telling jokes), LinkedIn because my company sells software to recruiters and HR (and that's where they all are), and SMS. I run with notifications only on for emails for business from customers and employees, SMS and telegram from family.
My explanation went something like this (M is me, H is him, and yes, he was male) and this was many years ago:

M: you know the COBOL MOVE statement?

H:Yup.

M: So when I say 'MOVE "hello world" INTO greet' what is happening?

H: The sequence of characters gets moved into the variable greet.

M: Nearly right. The characters get copied - MOVE should really be called COPY. And where do you think those characters get copied from?

H: I don't know.

M: Well, they are copied from one area of memory to another. When your compiled program is run, things like "hello world" are loaded along with the actual executable code, and given an address in memory.

[at this point i drew a diagram, but cannot be arsed doing so now]

H: OK so far

M: So when we do the COPY of "hello world" we need to have some memory to copy it into. Now, in COBOL the compiler takes care of generating code to do this, but (for a variety of reasons) the C compiler does not. So we have to do it ourselves using functions like malloc. Anyway, don't worry - you've been doing well on the course so far, and we can go through this again tomorrow, if you would like.
I think you have a valid point, but what you want to buy doesn’t exist because it’s too complex to be made.

Every company has a very different culture and set of tools/skill sets.

It can be done for simple web apps — that’s sort of what heroku did and I loved heroku.

For a whole company integration that is a bit more complex ? I don’t think so .. maybe one day we will have a tool like sales force and platform engineers will be customizing it instead
I actually disagree. Well, sort of.

We can almost always say "it can't possibly take less than X". In fact, that X is often what gets given as the estimate, which is... not good, when you think about it.

We can also often say "it is very unlikely to take more than Y". Between X and Y is the range of possible values for a real estimate.

The problem comes when X and Y aren't just far apart, they're orders of magnitude apart. If you go back to your stakeholders with that range, what you should be able to hope for is a reasoned discussion not about how Y is too big (which it almost certainly will be) but on how to reduce the size of the range.

That involves having more information about either the problem or the solution, so you (or they) are either off into more analysis, or you're into solution design. When you have a design in terms of subparts similar to things that have been built before, you've got something that's less Sydney Opera House and more Sydney Opera House LEGO Creator Expert Set 10234.

So yes, at the specific point in time where someone asks you "how long to do this thing that's never been done before" there's almost certainly not enough information to give a response that bears relation to reality, but that should be the start of the conversation, not the end.
For me the disdain comes from the fact that in my time in the classroom, I was constantly given advice on how to do my job from people who either had never done my job themselves, or like the OP had done it briefly before bailing out of the classroom to become consultants or administrators. There is a whole industry of education consultants who couldn't hack it as educators. All of the other educators commenting on this post are echoing that 2 years is not enough to understand the job while the OP is happily tearing down Chesterton's Fence.
I don’t know munch about business but it sounds from all parties concerned like they could easily (i) introduce API pricing at 20% of what they want to charge now, (ii) give a three-month runway so app developers could turn up prices and generate revenue flow ahead of sudden outlays, and if they really wanted to milk it (iii) serve ads alongside content in the API. That has the benefit of generating revenue higher than the cost of running Reddit, reduce the opportunity cost of not having people on their own platform but still generate a neat profit. People would complain a little about the cost and a little about the ads but it would be fine.
I have been called "a god."
Microsoft kills products that were dead anyway. Google hypes you up, cuddles you, tells you that you're the best and then pushes you off the cliff when you're not looking because you farted in bed the other night.
Pikchr: Pikchr Generates the SQLite Syntax DiagramsLogin
Maybe, but I'm glad I can get top-notch LSD delivered in 2 days using crypto.
Yep. Given that this is HN, try looking at /r/California. It's basically a person fief for a single user (granted, he's not nearly as obnoxious as many Reddit mods.) Yet simply because this user owns the obvious name, there is no real alternate sub for California-level news.
I mean we could treat it like a coal power plant and just dilute the radioactive material into the air instead.
"The Gang Ruins Reddit"
Burying things securely until a better solution can be found is a better than letting them sit onsite in storage pools...
> use JaneStreet’s brand name to build up credibility

How is that different from bragging that you finished MIT, Harvard, Oxford, you worked at Google or that your startup is in YC.
What is the alternative? How do you possibly have some sort of searching and ranking system that cannot in some way be gamed like this? Actually serious, not rhetorical. I'm curious if there is some way to prevent this mess or if it is an inevitable end-state.
The best part about Livewire is that it was appealing enough to try out but bad enough that I left PHP/Laravel and moved to Elixir/Phoenix for the real deal.
> It's a hard lesson that's been learned over and over. If you don't control your platform, ultimately you're at the mercy of the people who do.

The lesson hasn't been learned at all - most of us depend on systems we do not control, and show no solidarity when one of us is debased with an arbitrary and capricious decision.
So if everyone is a bot online, I’m just gonna go outside lol. That would be a good future. AI systems can handle all the “quality of life” things, and we can enjoy being in person with each other. Maybe?
As Ostrich policy is ignoring the problem -- specifically not looking at the problem. Burying the Geiger counters would be an Ostrich policy
Generative music from data.
There is an easy solution to this: allow machine learning models to interact with the real world. Have them participate in companies like other employees, for example.
These are great. Reminds me of some of the puzzles from hackthissite.org.

Do you mind me asking what you did after you left teaching?
I skimmed through a few videos and my impression is that it was incredibly well-behaved for a USA highschool (though I believe Eddie Woo teaches in Australia). My classroom in the USA was regularly far worse than these videos, which felt (at least to me) pretty normal amongst highschoolers.
Ten Years of Kidtech with SuperAwesome
Awesome!! Exactly what I was looking for!
You mean to think twice rather
One compensatory effect is that the noise will be more coherent than it used to be. Imagine how much entropy old SEO copy or spam could introduce to a model.
Full disclosure, I use the main Reddit app. I don't think that I've ever installed a different app. That being said, I think it's actually pretty crazy that Apollo is #10 (in News). It's not clear that being 8 spots higher is that much of an accomplishment considering the site itself is constantly pestering you to install it, and the Reddit app can be used completely for free vs. the Apollo app requiring you to pay (which may by itself explain the .1 difference in reviews). Actually, I just went to the AppStore to read the bad reviews, and sorted by "Most Critical", and from a very short cursory glance it seems that most of the new bad reviews are from people who are angry that they bought a lifetime subscription and the app is now shutting down. It's kind of impressive that it is still at 4.7, honestly. But more importantly, I think this also means that the 4.8 vs. 4.7 comparison isn't necessarily representative of the sentiment a month ago.

I am in basic agreement with everyone that the core app sucks. It just means that I use Reddit less in general instead of going out of my way to fix their problem for them by finding an app that works. That is another failure case that isn't really considered: there's a bunch of opportunity cost just in people who have a bad experience and then switch to YouTube or whatever.
So the most powerful tool ever built for generating human-like content has the same problem as humans: it needs to be able to reliably discern between human and human-like content.

This feels about as clever as a tautology, and just about as meaningless. But there is something that tickles my interest about it. Can't quite put my finger on it, though.
Winner. Two misunderstood ideas.
That is a terrible conclusion to draw. BMI is a horrible indicator of health and to say that this study has no merit to "normal" people is idiotic. Also the jab against people in the US doesn't have any place in a scientific discussion of this study. Keep your prejudices to yourself next time.
Sourcehut is a bit of an oddball though - it's mostly profitable because it's not a free service. As in, if you want to host your product at sourcehut, Drew expects (but doesn't force) you to pay for it[0]. Contributing is free though.

Also helping sourcehut is that it's actual deployment process is uh... Interesting? It's expecting to run on Alpine (and not dockerized Alpine) and you need to be able to supply an email server. The latter especially means that the usual problem of "FOSS hosting with a price label" doesn't really pop up; nobody is going to bother cloning sourcehuts deployment setup without the fees attached because very few people want to selfhost email for a personal instance of FOSS software. (Since self-hosting email is rather annoying for maintenance since your server IP can end up in random blacklists and you won't know until the setup stops working, and sourcehut relies a lot on email.)

[0]: https://man.sr.ht/billing-faq.md - seems to mostly be on a "were not gonna be jerks about it" - "if you're so poor you can't pay for sourcehut on the price given, send me an email and we'll work something out" basis - the goal doesn't seem to be to extract profit from every user and "fuck poor people", which is quite respectable if you ask me.
I agree, I was just surfacing a sometimes missed piece of context.
I've also heard tell of some human professors having learned their academic knowledge and skills from other human professors, and then for some reason surpassed them.
Ideally yes. But I got the impression the Apollo guy asked for an absolute minimum of three months’ notice
From what I understand from reading this thread - that is the whole point of “nothing wrong with making and selling software” - it does not and most likely should not be open source or called open source. Where only reasons for slapping open source on project is free marketing and “being cool”.
At this point I can only assume you are gaslighting. You keep accusing me of claiming a falsehood, even when I quote your very own words, and you make no attempt to actually explain your own words.

I don’t take kindly to gaslighting. This conversation is finished.
I started "programming" by taking a game server script (template) and building my way around:

> Let's spawn a car there!
> Let's make a multidimensional array of car types & location to spawn!
> Let's load the data from another file!
> What is this "database" thing I just heard of?

And down the rabbit hole they go.
The core of "Dev Ops" ought to be social incentives. You should eat where you sh*t.

If you deploy something, it breaks, you need to be on call to handle it. If you're on call, handling incidents, you need to be also building stuff.
I wouldn't really trust the numbers twitter is putting out.

They have no obligation to any shareholders not to lie.

Can you, in good conscience, accept that 1 in 8 people saw this tweet [1]?

http://web.archive.org/web/20230616134055/https://twitter.co...
MaterialX
Classic corporate leader mentality, thinking they have absolute control over everything, just because their employees must do as they're told.
What is the difference with DigitalOcean Droplets?
I've read a lot about golden paths. And therefore I guess: The UI of the internal platform might not look as polished as AWS, but maybe it is much more focused on the features that the developers in the organization actually need?
SSB was horribly unusable last time I gave it a try.

Nostr is great of course and everyone should just build on that.
Yes, a prophylactic treatment. I think my point stands, semantics aside.
Reddit is restoring deleted posts.
This is very common in the US, even though it is not typically mandated. Technically you can just go take the test if you're up to it, and some people do exactly that with no more training than they got from mom & dad. But a lot of kids take the classroom route. Not every parent wants to teach.
Lol we all knew this would happen
The existing power moderators are terrible. Bardfinn is a classic example.

This is good. Move it to paid people offshore
I wonder of spammers are just mass-creating Gmail accounts, getting hit with their own spam and flagging it as "non-spam" to confuse the filters...

(If you are in a position to build spamming infrastructure, you are certainly capable of setting automating email accounts for the purpose of unflagging spam.)
There is interest from the Erlang community. Etylizer is a set-theoretic type checker developed for Erlang. We have different objectives, though, as we try to remain backwards compatible with the existing type specs. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.12783.pdf
Not substacks, but I start my mornings reading the TLDR and the TLDR AI newsletters. Lots of overlap with the sort of tech that HN covers. TLDR AI is very useful to keep your finger on the rapidly changing pulse in the world of ML.
Not sure the Pentagon (either the building or the organization) is capable of "freaking out".
Your basic approach is sound. Problem is the existence of unknown unknowns, those that only appear when you reach a later stage where these unknown unknowns decide to present themselves. Often causing an unknown amount of unknown effort requires from an unknown team member or third party. This invalidates earlier timeframes, and in worst case even the entire strategy.

How does one put a proper estimate on this? Any answer is but a wild guess.

(This is where PMs provide added value by realigning business and product teams around the new situation.)
It also speaks to the fact that "rational agents" don't fully exist in making economic decisions. These are purchases that are largely driven by emotion not logical, I imagine
But... the assertion was "every phone" before the iPhone was festooned with bloatware and the iPhone was the first phone not to have it.

This is nonsense. Downloading ringtones isn't bloatware. Charging users to transfer pictures isn't bloatware.

The Nokia 3390 was not burdened with bloatware. Neither was the Treo 180 or the Nokia 9500i. And my G1 didn't have bloatware.

It's ridiculous to say the iPhone was the first phone without bloatware.

But if your point is Verizon was trying to monetize their customer base after the first sale, then I would heartily agree.
> In some sense, you could argue that "Work all your life to be able to buy a house on land that will be destroyed" is worse for morale than the Cold War's version of "We'll probably all just die from nuclear war at some point all at the same time".

In some sense, sure, I guess - maybe mostly for those who bought a house on land like this a long time ago. But if you're choosing to buy a house on land in an area like this now, or in the future, or even the relatively recent past, when we all know the risk and/or inevitability of it's eventual destruction, then I don't know what to tell you...
I think that's a fair description of things. Taken things with your vocabulary, the reputation that existed was exploited for profit until the reputation was not more.
If you keep doing the Google account recovery, eventually you’ll get in.
It can't handle modern ext4 though. Last time I tried it, it completely corrupted my drive.
From the point of view of the consumer, if a government passes a law saying you can't buy abroad from Company X, sure feels like jurisdiction over it.
This is something I would also like to find alternative to.
We shouldn't be spewing bullshit like this...

It's going to get worse, but trying to spin climate change as some apocalyptic event where we all die is just silly.
Of course they're sitting on a goldmine. If they weren't, they'd be absolutely mortified by what they're doing to their own website. I think by June 30th, it's going to prove to be a solid win for Reddit: they still have all of the data they ever had, and they'll have better ad revenue than ever. Unless the community can get a lot more creative, Reddit is about to be absolutely fucking rich (even though the communities will all be hallowed out.)
It really isn't plausible at all. The students are teenagers so the biggest hurdle is always going to be social, not tools.

It just can't be solved by tech, unless it's a complete paradigm shift such as sentient AI teachers with emotions having productive 1on1s with students in a full-dive style VR style environment.
Strongly disagree with this take and especially the tone.

"Is two years enough experience to create a curriculum?" is a good discussion prompt but it's hardly a silver bullet for dismissing the project. A counter argument is that being new to the field gives the OP a fresh perspective.

OP never claimed to be an expert and there is nothing disrespectful in this post. It's too bad it's the top comment. Best of luck to OP on pursuing a new way of engaging students.
I would argue that it's just okay. You're right about being safe, tho. Man, the US is violent.
Lots of good suggestions here. One that's missing is I Might Be Wrong by Jeff Mauer[0]. All the content is free.

He's a former speechwriter at the EPA who did stand up comedy on the side, was discovered by one of the The Daily Show producers and got hired to write on John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight".

He's super-smart, super-funny, and walks just the right political line, at least for me. I.e. he finds things to criticize about both the left and the right.

He releases audio versions of his essays which are not to be skipped, even if you've already read the print piece, because he riffs on the material as he speaks.

[0]https://imightbewrong.substack.com/
> spent the last few years

This is key I think. I moved abroad for 5-ish months and I only started to have people I could call on to do something (sometimes) towards the very end.
so i was getting well-paid to be busy, but this is wrong???
I love this:

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/

Truly high quality writing.

Also, Matt Levine.
But your assertion was every phone before the iPhone had bloatware.

The Nokia 3390 was a phone.

Please tell me what bloatware was on the 3390.
What makes statistics seems so daunting to the average student over, say, discrete mathematics? I feel like statistics has so many immediately obvious real world use cases and useful analogies to help frame it (die rolls, etc).
are there any scraped copies of reddit data anywhere?
It’s not that we’re all going to die. What has died is the myth of progress- the idea that every generation will have it better than the one before. It’s hard to be forward thinking if you believe that your country is going to be worse off in 50 years than it is now, no matter what you do. I don’t think people really understand the degree to which any country is held together by belief. Progress is our national religion, and it’s dying right in front of us. Some will find scapegoats, some will lash out in anger, some will respond with denial, some will blame generations that came before. But how can you hold a nation together when they no longer believe in its foundational mythos? That’s what is being lost, and you can’t just gaslight us into believing it again as it becomes more and more clear that it’s really dead.
pandia has a nice ring to it, wikipedia:

In Greek mythology, the goddess Pandia or Pandeia was a daughter of Zeus and the goddess Selene, the Greek personification of the moon.
Heh, I've been on all PoE crafting simulators and learned about the optimized paths.

The only difference is you don't use the relatively common chaos orbs but the much less common <whatever orbs>. Time spent grinding is the same.

Still a nope.
Reddit is pretty good at creating fake content too