skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any sub that ever hits the front page will need 3rd party tools.
Pi is a function in reality, not a number.
I think we are giving too much credit to human generated content.
Also affects users who signed up for the wrong VPN provider

Ask me how I know
We dealt with one threat to the ozone layer, which is still recovering to its prior state and will take decades longer to do so all other things being equal. Except that all other things will not be equal due to the climate changing, and we may yet see it degraded from other processes to create a hole over the Arctic soon. A hole over the Arctic would have a much larger effect on human populations.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/topics/in-depth/climate-change-...

And a little explainer video on the complexities of differing temperatures at different layers of the atmosphere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y35Lzgc9iJk
Because ads are worse than cancer. The fact companies are allowed to jam them into your eyeballs without consent is absolutely ludicrous.
Chirper.ai is a great example of what this leads to, lol.

Its all quite nice and eloquent... Dare I say, deeper than organic comments. But its also samey and nonsensical in a very unhuman way.
Omg, I am reminded about daily that there are buttons all over every UI that you absolutely do not want to push. We're constantly three wrong clicks from completely ruining an app/your data/the entire OS/your entire disk. And it seems like UIs are constantly violating this:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/proximity-consequential-opt...
Grant funding has gotten more and more focused on direct applicability to publishable findings or patentable research over time. Metrics rule everything around us. Which means researchers have to spend ever more time "proving" the "value" of their work.
However if agile is used as a foil -- to project an aura of managerial competence, and keep everyone distracted while no one talks about the real problems that need to be solved -- then it also deserves blame.
If true, the next AI winter might be rough. The hangover from how much investment is happening right now will be huge.
80% revenue from search advertising is not entirely exact.

the revenue of google was 279.8 billion in 2022 [1]

GCP made 26.28 billion in 2022 [2]
Google play made 42.3 billion revenue [3]

There are probably some other non-search add revenue streams besides these two, I am not too familiar with google - but 'one hit wonder' isn't entirely exact.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267606/quarterly-revenue...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/478176/google-public-clo...

[3] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/google-play-statistics/
That would not surprise me in the least! In fact, that's exactly what happened at a company I used to work for (that shall remain nameless). At the behest of the design team, we implemented a complete redesign of our site which included changing the home page so that at most only two media items could be on-screen at a time, and the ads which used to be simple banners now were woven between the feed of items. I remember sitting in a meeting where we had A/B tested this new homepage, and witnessing some data analyst guy giving a presentation which included how "engagement in the B-group was increased by N-percent!!!" The directors of web content were awestruck by this despite no context or explanation as to why supposed "engagement" was higher with the new design. The test wasn't even carried out for a long duration of time. For all anyone knew, users were confused and spent more time clicking around because they were looking for something they were accustomed to in the original design. And no, it did not matter that I brought up my reasons for skepticism; anything that made a number increase made it into the final design. Then, we actually had focus groups, long after the point at which we should have been consulting them, and the feedback we received was overwhelmingly lukewarm or negative. Much of it vindicated my concerns the entire time; users didn't actually like scrolling. Then again, I guess if they're viewing more ads, then who cares what the user thinks?? Never have I felt more like I was living in a Dilbert comic than that time.
By memory leak you mean that every memory location has a limited number of alloc+free and once it passes that, the memory is unusable?

Maybe you should have said, "to overflow the generational index you would have to exclusively allocate and free it with no work being performed for 150 years. Once the overflow happens the only consequence is that this memory cell will never be allocated again."
The point is that those people wouldn't be using Excel if it didn't support the advanced usage. They would be using some other tool, that supported it.

And yes, even if all they want is to paint some squares by hand.
> but not rich enough to save them from climate change

I'm not sure what this really means. It seem clear that adaptation will happen, and that may mean some amount of migration by the end of the century which is personally upending for a lot of people but not unprecedented in the last century.

Desalinization is showing a lot of progress recently and will likely be much more affordable in the next 20 years. Lithium prices are dropping so we might have a path for ward for grid scale power storage, which would be huge. Major flooding and heat risk that effect large numbers of people are concentrated in a few spots so it seems like infrastructure can be built to handle flooding, and architectural changes coupled with cheaper renewable power can address the heat.

We collectively managed to tackle the ozone layer issue before Australia got cooked, so it think there's precedent here. Technology is getting better and we collectively have more resources to bring to bare now. Its not going to be easy or fun, but probably won't be an unraveling of civilization either.
Does Google really have Android though? Android is open source with a flexible enough license that if Google ever tried to tighten their grip too much, they'd lose the dev community quickly.
They own the Play store and Google services, but you can create an AOSP device (a non Play/Google services device) with no issues, and some chinese/low-end players already do that exactly to avoid some of the licensing costs and requirements.

They may have had a very good handle on Android talent in the start, but now every facet of Android engineering has a non negligible community outside of Google.

I'm not saying it's like Google has nothing, but their position in the Android universe is one or two bad moves away from slipping from their grip at any moment. It's not a hard link like Apple's.
The issue isn’t Ruth. The issue is sundar and urs. Both need replacing.

Urs leads the SWE charter and pushes down technical complexity for promos. Sundar for the lackluster vision and continual not delivering
I dont know. All I know is that at least 2.6mil[1] people were pestered into installing the app. And all of them decided to leave a positive review of it. Past that, I wont make any assumptions.

Ive never used it. I rather be using Alien Blue, but the auth stopped working earlier this year. So, I had to start using Apollo.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reddit/id1064216828
Please try to be serious and don't put words in my mouth. I'm actually trying to learn and have a serious discussion here.

Thanks.
> a dictatorship ran by whoever happened to grab the name first.

voting certainly ain't the answer.

that just means that the mod teams backed by the best AI bots will win.

(which probably means spez and reddit itself will just control the mod teams of all the highest traffic subs)
> and the Reddit app can be used completely for free vs. the Apollo app requiring you to pay

I've been using Apollo for free for years, you don't need to pay for it.
I think people are putting the cart way before the horse here.

Yes there will be bot content online.

However, all these scraped datasets are extensively parsed and pruned and filtered and analysed by humans who work on the data to get a good result. If AI data screws the data up and makes the AI incoherent, ways will be found to make that data no longer do that, either by improving the AI or pruning the data set.

We are making wild and negative predictions here without remembering the number one rule of life.

Things change.

People adapt.
> The problem is not that deep

Technically yes, the data structure can be abstracted over and removed, in that sense, it isn't "deep". But the reason I say it's deep is because of the deep implications and assumptions of the GIL being there. For decades, the codebase (and extensions) has grown with the expectation that the GIL enforces a certain behavior.

> That's from my view the crust of the issue, the TLDR is that GIL-less python is not a priority for the python team, so they view any trade-off/comprise as "not justifiable". Especially something when it come to added complexity to the code base or what not...

Precisely. Because it's such a hard problem. If someone had a proposal to actually remove the GIL, limit the single core performance hit to say <10%, and not break extensions, I have no doubt the steering team would go for it. It would be huge PR for python, simply because of the Gil's bad rap.

Turns out that multi-interpreters give you most of the benefit of multithreading with nowhere near as much complexity.

> People have this reaction because having a single-threaded interpreter in 2023 is just ... embarrassing, what ever the reasons behind it.

What other dynamic languages invented over 3 decade ago have natively multithreaded interpreters? Oh javascript, the (fundamentally simpler on a technical level and uses different gc techniques) language which has gotten millions of dollars in development by the biggest tech companies because it runs on nearly every browser and thus has huge incentives to optimize? If python ran in every browser, the Gil would be gone by now.

Java? Again, huge amount of backing, 15 years older than python.

Perl, ruby, lua, all use refcount and have single-threaded interpreters. Objective C might fit the bill for multithreaded refcount gc (I don't know, I'm asking gpt). Nim does, but it's rather modern, (2008). Swift is statically typed, which helps, and much newer (2014).

I guess that leaves Erlang, which again uses different gc techniques.

I guess the takeaway is refcount is probably not the best design choice for writing a modern dynamic language if you value multithreading.
I remember my friend's story about interviewing as a PM at Google back in the day.

During some exploratory exercises on the future of entertainment, they kept pushing him to come up with "planet-scale solutions".

After some hesitation, he started pitching them on "Space Basketball" and the opportunities for a league on Mars.

He got the on-site interview after that.
Yeah Spez and a marketing director probably hired a bot farm or a mill in a developing country. If you use your employees, it’ll leak.
HackerNews? It was never fully open sourced but there are older versions: http://arclanguage.org/install
Thought John Lamhert did that in 1728

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/how-do-we-know-that-pi-...
Marketing push notifications used to be entirely banned. They're permitted now, but they're supposed to be behind a specific opt-in.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

> 4.5.4 Push Notifications must not be required for the app to function, and should not be used to send sensitive personal or confidential information. Push Notifications should not be used for promotions or direct marketing purposes unless customers have explicitly opted in to receive them via consent language displayed in your app’s UI, and you provide a method in your app for a user to opt out from receiving such messages. Abuse of these services may result in revocation of your privileges.

It used to say:

> 4.5.4 Push Notifications must not be required for the app to function, and should not be used for advertising, promotions, or direct marketing purposes or to send sensitive personal or confidential information.

I suspect Uber's in too-big-to-fail territory here.
Democratic socialism is not conservative. There's this specific weird case that a number of Sanders' prominent supporters turned out to be really weird people. A number of them, including Brienna Joy Gray, are supporting RFK Jr in the upcoming election. This is an example of how politics doesn't map perfectly onto a left-right line.
Are closed source products forced to reveal their training materials? Would be interesting to see a new company come out be closed source have a killer product then get forced to reveal training data in court only to reveal they pretty much only used stuff they didn't have rights to. Is it technically illegal yet to "learn" from data you don't have ownership of yet?
ah I see. Too high a price then.
Investors would also prefer cash be returned so the investor can decide which bets in highly under valued areas to make.
Most of it isn't. GDPR covers only personally identifiable data, not all user-related data. Unless you doxxed yourself in your comment, there's no personally identifiable data in those.
> but we didn't see them as "stupider forms of us" but "intelligent in different way"

> My two border collies are clearly less "intelligent" than me on something like the axis I refer to above

I very much agree with intelligence being multidimensional and that humans are largely similar in general intelligence level, just that everyone has different intelligences.

I'm not sure that's true of a different species though. Intelligence is the evolved trait of homo sapiens. I wouldn't call a baboon, rattlesnake, or jellyfish "intelligent but in a different way". Those creatures have other evolutionary reasons for success, but not intelligence.
I would probably call these integration tests.

I came across this interesting tool for similar tests the other day. It lets you request websites or API’s and then search the return for a string. It’s more for checking uptime, so I dunno if it would be acceptable for this type of test, but it looks like a cool tool.

https://onlineornot.com
The prisoners learning the world’s most valuable skill https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/29-08-2021/the-prisoners-l...

Prisoners to programmers: How Take2’s graduates are faring in the tech sector https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/18-10-2022/prisoners-to-pr...

Slightly different example but as far as a constructive approach to incarceration goes schemes like this will always be a net positive. Far cheaper than locking people up.
Apache Cassandra + this would give high availability and reliability by being able to add/remove nodes randomly.

Think transparent backups like RAID 1 or depending on how you structure the data you could even use joins to do RAID 0 and get a performance boost.

Obviously this won't be as fast a real RAID cluster but throwing random storage at it like old usb sticks etc might be a bit of fun and an easy way to expand it over time to bigger devices.

select * from files where filePath="d:\data"
(facetiously) Why are they adding AI? All I want is for the new blocks editor to stop covering up the text I'm writing with the damned pop-up dialog.
There’s a large body of growth hacking specialists, working in agencies or who go from one company to another, who try anything. They get slapped on their finger a lot but pretty much never face the consequences of pushing the line.

I suspect that some of them have tried that continuously for the last five years, repeatedly got their pop-up censored—until, one day, it went through because the person who cared about it left that position.
Yeah Huffman's whole argument is disingenuous from the start, which is to be expected from a guy desperately trying to convince people that his platform has profit potential even though just this week he stated that it is not profitable. Uphill battle, y'know?
The west is working hard at lowering it's emissions, but all that work is getting undone because China's emissions aren't slowing down. Coal is incredibly cheap when there's no carbon tax or emission standards. One of the many reasons it's cheaper to manufacture in China and why North Americans and Europeans can't compete [0]. Comparing the US[1] and China[2], the US has:

- Decreasing per capita emissions in the US starting in 1973 (-27%)

- A decrease in the countries emission starting in 2007 (-13%)

Meanwhile for the same period China has had

- a 7x increase per capita since 1973 (+532%)

- 48% increase for its global emissions since 2007

So it is possible to drastically reduce our carbon footprint thanks to innovation and smarter power generation.

Time to add tariffs on goods produced by states who made the decision of going all-in on polluting power generation, and potentially apply immigration quotas to citizens of these countries.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/us-leads-greenhouse-gas-emis...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/united-states

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china
Look, I'm not the biggest Mark Zuckerberg fan or anything, but I don't think the thus-far questionable business decision to pivot to the metaverse is quite the same level as having an very public mental breakdown and making anti-semitic remarks
Is it that big of a stretch to assume Reddit boosted their own apps ratings with fake/paid reviews, given one of the main arguments is that their apps still suck while they're killing third party ones?

> I can’t imagine anybody has time to do all the random stuff they’re being accused of.

Employees are probably not happy but they are still working. And you can literally find a page offering paid reviews in seconds, add an item to _a basket_ and pay with a credit card
One potential issue I see is that Cloudflare doesn’t allow changing to non-Cloudflare name servers.

Not an issue for me, but worth noting since this is fairly unusual, as far as I’ve seen.
That one boggles the mind… how long would it take to clean up the imposter apps - a few hours? I guess leaving them up might be a 4D chess tactic against Microsoft
So many people see the brewing storm of AI as dystopian, but this is one of the tasks that it could be quite good at.

Humans are biased, deceptive creatures and whether intentional or not we can misrepresent ourselves, others and every...thing. AI would definitely help to drop a "badge of approval" on something in some cases.

Reviews for restaurants may be harder, but just simple fact checking it's going to be so amazing to have a trusted AI that can say "yep, this is most likely true" with a click-through to references/sources/reasons why.

Look at trending Twitter tags, I've been looking at #ukrainerussiawar etc a lot and sometimes like 90% of the tweets have _nothing_ to do with the topic, jsut shameless self-promotion spamming tags, or misinformation tweets from either Russia's information warfare team, or quite simply right wing morons parroting propaganda. Would be nice to make all of that go away...
First determine if what you want to test for is a dark pattern?
Same - started using phpBB in 2000? 2001? Started my career in web development.
My information is outdated, but India is also currently building a ton of coal plants as well.
I'm not even sure it was to protect old people. It felt more like a political game.
To be clear, that's exactly what I mean. Every perverse incentive that nudges for-profit prisons towards manufacturing prisoners is magnified by turning individual prisoners into revenue streams.
thanks for your perspective on how this worked....
I absolutely loved working with Elixir and LiveView. I made a decision to migrate to Python/Flask to simplify our infrastructure and move application code into one language, but I’ll miss it nonetheless!
Reddit is free, you don't need to pay to write comments. You're not paying for anything. And whether future users find value is up to them to decide, not you. You can't read their minds.

And you're going out of your way to delete something you already wrote. That's extra work for you. Why do you hate the future users who might find value?
what should receive credit then? cat videos?
I think the problem here is that content that the user expected to be deleted from Reddit's databases is popping up in public forums. Not to downplay it but the problem you mention is the inverse of the current issue.
I didn’t say they were a one-hit wonder I said “more of a one-hit wonder”

Google is more concentrated than Apple and Microsoft and their ancillary offerings are less synergistic with their main offering.
Sure, but in this case if it were a zoonotic jump in the lab it would be really really easy for them to have found the animal now wouldn't it?
It also seems to be a sly reference to the “midwit” meme.
You have to get them to take that perspective. What happens is "we want all this stuff how long is it going to take" and then they fight that number down while not answering any clarifying questions. So you have to sumo wrestle a bunch of assholes twice your weight into even framing the context correctly before the conversation you recommend can even take place.
You can't change human nature but you can get mods that don't care about this particular issue and when the next ones cause problems you get rid of them too
If you've got to aggressively censor people en-masse for 'just asking questions', maybe you should question the ideas that you're defending, and whether they're really defensible.

At least let downvotes do their thing. Deleting posts and banning users should be reserved for spam, persistent troublemakers, or actually-abusive comments.
It's not as simple as costs vs revenue and you are wrong, it is trivial to speculate in this case.
> And yes, it's not "truly" open source, but it's way more than android. Yes, android has an Opensource license, but good luck doing something that google don't want.

How is it "way more" than Android? Doesn't Google's team contribute the most to Android development? Sailfish contains closed source components, so I don't understand how it's inaccurate to say Android is entirely open source, and Sailfish OS is almost entirely open source.

Since when does open source imply that you can submit anything you want and expect it to get merged?
This is the desired result. Personally I'd love to see Reddit forcefully remove mods from top subs and have to find replacements.

1) it's a big pain, and probably takes away from their timeline of delivering worsening UX and monitization features

2) the new mods will probably be even bigger power trippers than the old ones.
I don't disagree with your overall sentiment, but working safely with gasoline requires a lot more than just ventilation. In my case, I was fixing a fuel valve, which turns out to be fraught with all manner of peril. I was very lucky in that I had a neighbor who has experience working with ICEs looking over my shoulder. Without that it would have been very dicey.
Was just buying a new Toyota thats supposed to be delivered in about a month and was thinking about how to hit them with the "So about that new law..."
> I think it's thrice: Acquiring price, usage price, and disposal price.

I'd add a 4th: storage price. Having lived in the city, space is at a premium. We have found ourselves unable to go into specific (smaller) apartments in the past just because we had too much stuff. This goes especially for kitchen items.
I think you know better than to claim that anyone who disagrees with you "culturally" proves your point.

My whole point is that the culture of academia is not something worth replicating, and indeed needs to be fundamentally... disrupted.
It's not an insane conspiracy when you acknowledge that they bootstrapped their community through fake accounts[1]. This shows they have no reservations about using deception to increase their brand's reputation. Fake app reviews falls into that category.

1. https://www.themarysue.com/reddit-fake-account-origins/
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