skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bold claim that there are people involved. We can see in the parallel thread taking place signs of an LLM-style hallucination, inventing a narrative about money where there was none before.

There very well could be people involved, but that is just an implementation detail hidden from the user. These services only present arbitrary characters of faceless and unknown origin. What lies beneath is a mystery. Which, in fairness, is a lot of the appeal. Going outside will always provide a better experience for when you want to involve other people! We come here because we want to spend some time away from other people to collect our own thoughts just for ourselves.

The foul stench is the continued silliness that persists after the entertainment is over. The design of HN is not so bad for this, but Reddit will put it right in your face if it has more to output. Once the entertainment is over, it's too much. I don't care. Silly is only entertaining for a short period of time and needs to end when that time has elapsed.
Just broadly, let me just echo my full throated support for regulation in this space. Forget the vast majority of the goofy "innovation" arguments I hear, the fact that 3 family cell phones, 2 laptops, Steam Deck, Nintendo Switch, and Oculus can all use the same charger makes insanely more sense that what we were doing before.
Well, when I shower I shower, I'm not distracted by a phone, and few drops of water under the rain have never done anything to any of my phones.

Might be a top-tier feature for you, but it never made any difference to me.
Looks like the original article is here[0], but it's behind a paywall

[0]: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-wants-companies...
The present bastardized version of capitalism is broken. Everything is wacky and out of sync.

The only people for whom money is still "real" are the ones who can't afford it. The rest are living in a world where money is unlimited and there are no penalties for abusing it.
ASRockRack make a deep MicroATX Genoa and EATX/EEB boards too, which can take up to the 128 core Bergamo EPYC, or the high-frequency "F"-SKUs : https://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=G...
There's a quite simple non-malicious reason to become an unpaid mod - to make a community that you use better. I'm sure a substantial percent of mods joined for this reason. I've been a part of poorly moderated communities and thought: "wish I could just take down this non-compliant story or abusive comment".

Then there's a lot of negative reasons to join. For power, to gain a sphere of influence, possible to sell this as a product.
Weird. Check out downdetector, all their sites have a huge surge in reported issues. Must be a DNS and carrier issue?
(Unrelated to this topic, but as I need a place to post this I'll post it here)

It looks like your account is using HN primarily for politics. Can you please not do that? This is one line at which we ban accounts, regardless of what they're for or against. Past explanations about that: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

A certain amount of political overlap is ok but it shouldn't dominate. The intended spirit here is intellectual curiosity, and political battle (or ideological or national battle) is destructive to that.

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Reddit has value no just through it's "new/live" content. Plenty of people search for "$topic Reddit" and fond some old threads with useful information. If the content is deleted, Reddit usefulness goes way down.
The idea of sending an email to team@ which then automatically, without any further input, blasts a newsletter with the aforementioned email's content seems... badly designed?

That was ripe for accidental or deliberate misuse.
I never buy over $300 phones, and anyway it never happened to me in 22+ years to ever drop a phone in a pool/lake/toilet.

I'm not discussing it being useful, I merely said that it doesn't feel _really_ needed by me.

If I had to choose between interchangeable batteries and waterproof I would choose the first one hands down.
I think the big question is how "easily" replaceable are the batteries. I doubt were going back to external, swappable batteries since those add extra bulk. And that isn't needed since batteries are much better and power banks and chargers are everywhere.

What is needed is a way to easily replace the battery when it gets old. Now, need to take it to repair shop or take chances with DIY. It sounds like proposal includes internal batteries, easily removing back cover, and replacing the battery with connector.

I'm about to replace the swollen battery on 5 year old phone. It wasn't worth paying someone to do it. I'm worried cause I broke a previous phone doing the same repair.
My argument is that the regulator itself is useless and will stonewall you.

Not to mention, even in a hypothetical world where the regulator actually did their job, Reddit can still ignore them as they have no EU-based presence to be fined.
Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33657947

FWIW, my answer is still mostly the same as it was then:

- Mediawiki

- Apache Roller

- Apache HTTPD

- eJabberd

- SuiteCRM (a fork of SugarCRM)

- Bugzilla

- Mosquitto

- Jenkins

- Artifactory
> One thing that troubles me in the paper is that the researchers appear to have gone looking for precursor patterns in an ad hoc way ... just trying different binning techniques and delays until they got a signal.

That's just p-hacking.
Please feel free to DM me should you need any tips with this. Email - me[at]rudimk.com.
I have to agree. Also I feel like those complaining about dart just have a bad taste in their mouth from dart 1.0. Dart has named parameters (so better than java) and null saftey. It's a pretty standard GCed OOP language. I also don't understand when people complain about the dart ecosystem. Seems fine to me.
Yeah, just skimmed it and it comes down to:

Psychadelics seem to have the ability to leave the user (after the actual 'trip' has worn off) in a state of heightened receptiveness for a long duration (length is different dependent on the drug, but counts weeks in some cases). This state is called a 'critical period' and is usually experienced in childhood.

This state might allow for easier digestion of new material, forming new habits or skills or allow the user to be taken advantage of (Charles Manson, and his LSD fueled cult, is mentioned in this regard).
> sure, you can incorporate your view on difference into you calculations of how you could arrive to 5x estimation.

??

Regardless, Reddit wouldn’t prioritize a singular monthly active user (MAU) mentioned in this context. It’s more valuable for Reddit to have users who consistently visit, whether through Apollo or the official Reddit app. As long as advertising is effective and API pricing is appropriate, Reddit can generate profit.

From this perspective, what matters is the ratio of calls per view between different clients, not the type of user. It’s absurd to compare an inactive user on the official app with an active user on a third-party app. The issue at hand is unrelated to the cost of serving views or the potential revenue loss associated with those views.

In my opinion, the motivation behind these actions is 70% in response to low-effort low-value moderators (LLMs) and 30% due to the convenient timing to remove third-party apps (3PAs).
> I wouldn't mind to work long hours if that would mean purely coding. But no, employers prefer to throw bunch of non-coding tasks at engineers

You can’t have it both ways. If you want to just code, call yourself a coder or programmer.

An “engineer” is of a profession devoted to “the application of science and mathematics by which the properties of matter and the sources of energy in nature are made useful to people.”

Making your work useful to people involves communication and research beyond coding. Maybe it ain’t jira tickets but it also ain’t “purely coding.”
It will also cure your opponents insomnia.
"and we go straight to the FBI"

Because they are so much better, right?
r/NewOrleans and r/SaltLakeCity voted to end it. There has also been rampant brigading from the pro-blackout side (see r/magicTCG, in addition to a Twitch stream brigade users on r/freemagic talked about voting in the poll despite being banned from r/magicTCG). I’m curious how r/FanFiction will go since they’re doing much more robust polling with karma requirements to stop brigades.
>it was built and designed by the lowest bidder.

This is true but it still has to be built to spec and pass testing. Manufacturers can't substitute materials and whatnot to save cost. Having said that, the military might have different priorities than you are I would, most notably, they have to have 2,000,000 of a said widget and spec accordingly.

A good example is the Thompson sub machine gun, which was a commercial weapon, beautiful and well made, but a very expensive piece of hardware. It was replaced mid WW2 with the M3 submachine gun (Grease Gun), a useful, durable, but made of stamped steel and about 1/5th of the cost.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3_submachine_gun
“But he kept telling himself that I was the one who was hallucinating, me, not him, and the reason why he could not understand me was that his thoughts were on so much higher a plane than mine. And whom else could he ask? All the black-and-white puppets he had made around him nodded and agreed with him; he had forgotten there was an outside world.” --The Golden Age, John C. Wright
Look we know that pi is normal. You know that pi is normal, I know that pi is normal. I'll give you 10,000:1 odds that we find any string you want with exactly the probability you'd expect from pi being normal, and before long you'll have forked over your life savings. It's annoying to prove, we barely know if any numbers are normal, but the idea of a normal number was invented to discuss what numbers like pi or e seem to be like. In math that's not enough, but this is CS! All encryption is built on weaker grounds than pi being normal.
People need to be able to operate outside the constant surveillance of the state. Our society is not built for 100% compliance, and that's where we go if we have constant tracking.

For one, many laws are enforced with discretion and rightly so. Second, people need to coordinate action against their government from time to time.

No, phone data and localized CCTV are not equivalent.
If I was building a crash cart today (without knowing the environment) I'd have at least VGA, DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort as options. It wouldn't be too difficult to get a monitor or setup (adapters) to support them all, especially if one just needs to buy a couple for the datacenter or whatever.
> the lack of clarity on the criteria for inclusion, as well as the constant goal post moving

This is where I think Sam is being unfair. He's asking for a breaking change. For 25 years, CPython has consistently and clearly said that they fully support no-gil in other implementations, and have a minimum criteria of no performance regressions for CPython. He made his performance demonstration before getting real buy-in. I understand he made that choice because of how his funding works, and now he's desperate to get a result. They acknowledged his demo and said they're considering it. Lashing out and accusing them of unclear criteria and moving goalposts misrepresents the situation.

It's not his decision to risk burning the community on a breaking change. He knows they haven't decided on it. It's reasonable to expect someone to do that work. He hasn't done it, so they will have to do it.

The steering committee also has to consider how this change will impact pursuing other goals. It doesn't exist in a vacuum all by itself.

They reiterated that they do in fact want to remove the gil, even after noting how much work it will be to do due diligence. They've also said they want to take in big projects like creating a JIT. Seems to me like effort itself isn't an issue. By calling it a fork, coming from the steering committee, they're saying either the transition plan is non-existent, or it's the wrong design for their goals, or it's coming at a bad time. Maybe all of them.

His task was to convince the committee to remove the gil. He interpreted that as simply doing a technical demonstration. Not sure why, especially given the history.
Wait, are you saying that till few years ago non-waterproof phones broke more or something? Because that never happened.
I wonder about this.

First, it seems like you could just make the phone part waterproof and if they dunk it, they have to replace the battery. I have ruined a phone by putting it through the wash, and I would have been very happy to just replace the battery instead of chucking the phone.

Beyond that, I wonder what the reality is for waterproofing needs. Are people taking smartphones diving? IP65 means it's resistant to 'spray' - like rain, not a firehose - and it seems like a battery compartment with a tight-fitting cover would be more than enough for this. IP68 doesn't apparently mandate a depth rating but recent iPhones are tested to 6 meters for 30 minutes. That's more water pressure than 99% of those iPhones are ever going to see.

I don't personally think the non-replaceable battery has anything to do with IP rating, it's because manufacturers want soft-sided batteries with more delicate terminal connections, for volume/capacity reasons.
Where does the proof fail if you use

A = {the set of integers between 0 and 9} = {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}

instead of using

A = {the set of prime numbers}

?
I think it looks really clean and it's awesome that you're actually building something instead of just complaining.

Growing a community is going to be a huge challenge.

I'm working on something similar, but based on Nostr.

Good luck man.
Never said engineers. The engineering is fine.

Designers though..absolutely.

If what youre saying is true
..implementing dark patterns to increase ad sales and user engagement over quality ui, content, and a historical beloved ui is a big middle finger to their users.

All involved should be made public and shamed.
It's astonishing how few patterns there are for scams on fb/ig that anyone with introductory statistics knowledge could build a classifier for even with hand-collected data, but meta lets them go on for years.
I guess r/SaltLakeCity and r/NewOrleans don’t exist.
It's hard to see it happening with how things work today. If companies had to do this they would make an effort to figure it out.
"Safety-critical systems now usually rely on software" is a distinct and largely independent statement from "software is now usually safety-critical". The former is true, the latter is not. (This is actually a pretty clean example of the "Affirming the consequent" fallacy.)
Are you talking about the S5? It has a removable battery and has an IP67 rating so it should definitely be watertight.
Wasn't the 'protest' of overpriced or non-existent public APIs for popular websites really the additional server cost due to endless web scraping? The whole concept of a general strike of subreddits seems like an antiquated way try and strong arm Reddit into complying.

If all these subreddit had instead migrated their users to a hastily built alternate frontend that web scrapped reddit.com, the entire mother site could have been taken down quite effectively.

There's plenty of methods for routing around ip-address blacklisting or region blocking.

Just as there's no law against web scrapping there's no law protecting the labor rights of the moderators who work for free. Overall it just strikes me as a weaker axis of attack.
0.6% of 380 is 2.28 people.

So new method is 10x better.
In my experience the issue with Flutter apps is though they aren't too bad on Android, they have an odd off-putting feel to them on iOS, more than is typically visible with competing cross-platform UI frameworks.
Or taking pictures of my nephews in the pool. Your blatant misogyny around a phone battery is pathetic.
> we need create an economic system that encourages sustainable use of resources

Which would require regulation, or you have way too much faith in humanity. Regulation isn't bad, just dumb regulations.
Sorry, I did not mean doctors in North America. But if you go to rural Brazil, or to India, that's the living style that many doctors can and do afford.
AI VC
I didn’t know r/nfl represents the whole of reddit. Mind = blown.
It's not the first evidence of treatment and preventing isn't the same as treating, because it does nothing for people who have the disease.
Well it’s a variant of bait and switch and the impression that they fitted the design into a standard small form factor is false. Anyone who buys this is in for a world of hurt
They just released a bunch of invites to the users there, if you like I can give you one.
Same. Was the Samsung Galaxy S3 (which in 2012 had wireless charging and a removable back) not sufficiently thin? It's less than a millimeter thicker than the current Galaxy S23, and I'm not sure that the <1mm of difference in the S23 comes from having a non-removable back (as opposed to the 11 years of advancements in other technologies.)
Hello me from 2003. I would have written almost this exact comment twenty years ago.

In the meantime what I've learned is that:

1. Billionaires have 10 fingers and 24 hours just like the rest of us. They are not superhuman, superintelligent, or even particularly good at anything. Many are on top of their organization simply by inheritance or successfully navigating internal organizational politics.

2. Greed is a real disease. It's a mental illness. We don't call it that anymore. But what would you call an obsession with acquiring thousands of times more wealth than is necessary to have a full and complete life? Many lifetimes!? There's some kind of serious pathology there.

3. Billionaires either inherit huge amounts of money or they create organizations that funnel money up to them. The day-to-day earnings of the organization are the operation of a huge pyramid of people who do real work. They're taxing the produced wealth of their org they sit atop of.

4. Most organizations can coast for months or years without any real leadership, but would sputter and stop instantly if the people at the bottom stop working. Our age's conceit is to think the guy with the rudder in the fog is the leader when there are dozens of slaves doing the rowing and fish are jumping in the boat.

5. Billionaires never get screwed. Ever. They have bad ideas all the time. They can literally fuck up until the cows come home and still get mega payouts and people still lionize them.
People are not very good at knowing what the national average rent increase is, nor are they very good at factoring it into all other expenses to come up with an inflation number.

"My rent went up a bunch" is not a particularly useful rebuttal to "the CPI is x".

(The CPI, after all, factors these increases in. "Rental prices were by far the 'largest contributor' to the rise in inflation on an annual basis in March, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics." https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/real-es... Note, also, the regional differences; +23% in South Dakota, down 3% in Connecticut. That's a large gap that can easily explain why individual anecdotes don't perfectly match the overall data.)
the current meta game is: you work over-time to deliver more and exceed expectations, then you get promotion and +money

if you don't expect promotion, then there is no incentive to over-work and overdeliver.

This is how modern tech companies get ahead of legacy corps: hire young high energy and high capability folks, and let me compete with each other for tiny pool of promotion money. As a result everyone will overwork, but you have to pay only to a few who gets promoted.
The world needs something like a web3 reddit.

You know what's an interesting problem? Decentralizing moderation. HN does it sort of but the masses are really stupid and biased.

Maybe an ML based personal moderator. Based off of comments you vote down or up.
Sounds likely illegal if true.
at the same price, i'd rather have new old stock than one that's been through god-knows-what plus open heart surgery.

not sure where you're getting your prices, but it doesn't matter. the fact that this is even a point of contention indicates that swappable batteries would make a difference.
When I'm really motivated on something I will work well in excess of 40 hours, perhaps double that, in a week on it and get drastically more done than I would ever have done limited myself to fewer hours.
Alternative title: Ex-criminals become smarter and harder to catch after practicing chess in prison. /joking
Phones cameras frequently were rendered useless before this, when humidity would seep in and condensation would form in the lense.
This just sounds like Reddit without solving any of the big problems of reddit.

I know you said you don't believe in federation, but why not solve the problems with federation.. or if you think that's entirely the wrong approach, then figure out some other way of solving the issues that federation attempts to address. Those issues don't disappear just because it's your project.
Do you claim all polls are brigaded until disproven? Or those you don't like?
I think which language to teach is getting into the weeds a bit, but imo python is the right language to start with because it's so straightforwards. There's no pointers like C or anonymous functions/await in JavaScript to learn. once there is some confidence, more advanced concepts can be introduced, but there needs to be a solid foundation first.

JavaScript makes for a great diving off point though. Have the class open a webpage on their laptops, then open the developer console, type in some JavaScript, and do a thing to the page they're on. Choose the right thing and the kids will be hooked on programming.
While I like Rust and get paid to work in it, and am happy it's now possible to work in the kernel in it, I am skeptical about the promise of Rust to solve issues like this, honestly; at least the for short term...

Because I think once you get down to the kind of code being written here it's going to be chock full of unsafe {} and UnsafeCell and various snakey error-prone tricks to make the borrow checker work in the context of the entirely different world that is the kernel, closer to the metal. And so realistically most of the same issues that impact C code will happen here.

I haven't looked at the io_uring security issues in general but I've used io_uring (from Rust) and I can see how it could go wrong. And I can see that if one was writing a facility like this in Rust it could end up subject to many of the same issues, because in the end io_uring is holding references to user instructions and executing them in a pretty privileged context. Many things could go wrong here: how one manages ownership, what the boundaries between this thing and the rest of the kernel look like, etc. There's no magic bullet that Rust provides there, other than perhaps an expectation of a certain kind of borrowing discipline?

Hopefully Google shutting this down in their GKE environment doesn't spread beyond into AWS and Azure hosted instances, etc. because I think there's plenty of people who will be impacted quite negatively. io_uring has incredible promise, and the kinds of companies that it will hurt are the fairly innovative ones pushing the envelope for database or server tech generally (including a former employer of mine!).
The Guardian’s approach to generative AI
For web apps on desktop you're not even restricted to Electron anymore. Thanks to Tauri, I feel a lot more comfortable shipping web apps beyond the browser (and React Native) since I don't have to pay the cost of bundling Chromium and Node.js. The Rust ecosystem is large enough that any backend-related task I would use Node.js for has an equivalent in Rust.