skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish you were right but I have zero faith that Apple would ever willingly follow through with this. A depleted battery is an opportunity for them to sell people on a new phone who don't realize they can get the battery replaced. It also totally goes against their whole ethos of non-repair. Mandating USB C was easier because Apple already did that with the Macbooks, so it wasn't that big of a leap. Removable batteries, however, they would claim would require some expensive, impossible redesign.

Regretfully I don't see this coming to fruition. Apple will find a way, by hook, crook, or lawsuit, to get out of it.
The punishments we dole out for committing crimes are disproportionately large at least in part to improve their deterrent effect given that many people who commit crimes may get away with them. If we can suddenly catch every single person who commits a crime, then the punishments should become less severe.
I love the EU's focus on consumer protections and I'm all for progressive policies on environmental issues, but this and the USB-C issue strike me as misguided, policies from people who aren't qualified to to make the decisions they are making, and aren't listening to experts.

I'm glad we're getting USB-C on the iPhone, but it wasn't a huge problem and it was probably coming anyway in the next few years. But replaceable batteries? I'm skeptical, and think it could shrink the market and lower the quality for users.

I feel like a much better approach would be to say that phones must work with third party batteries, and manufacturers can't restrict battery replacements to their own repair centres. That increases competition, helps small businesses, and encourages a thriving batter recycling and replacement market, increasing device lifetime. As for USB-C, similar legislation about increasing compatibility and reducing lock-in (neutralising Apple's MFi program for example) could have had similar impact without the downsides of the industry being unable to move forward.
I'm not sure those efforts amount to anything, no matter how considerable. Some nation state can probably just scream national security and compromise the whole thing, complete with gag orders preventing people from blowing the whistle.
the actual price Apollo charged would likely have to be much higher. The average number of API calls for the users who are deep enough into reddit addiction to be willing to pay for it would be substantially higher without the casual user who views 10 pages a month to average it out.

The problem is casuals are not going to pay, only powerusers would pay and they're making hundreds of calls per day/thousands per month. Take that $2.50 number and 10-100x it, and then add in App Store payment processing costs.
I agree with both sides here. :) DS should own experimentation, AND engineers should be able to run a majority of experiments independently.

As a data scientist at a "blue chip company", my team owns experimentation, but that doesn't mean we run all the experiments. Our role is to create guidelines, processes, and tooling so that engineers can run their own experiments independently most of the time. Part of that is also helping engineers recognize when they're dealing with a difficult/complex/unusual case where they should bring DS in for more bespoke hands-on support. We probably only look at <10% of experiments (either in the setup or results phase or both), because engineers/PMs are able to set up, run, and draw conclusions from most of the experiments without needing us.
ChatGPT passes French high-school (bac) philosophy exam; loses to human
So, after spending years into building, growing my previous product I always had one thing that bothered me. Keeping track of updates from all the apps I use with or to run my business.

Maybe you will recognize this. Every once i a while, you login to a certain app you use (for example, subscription) and boom, it looks different or things have changed. Wow, i wish i knew this earlier but i guess i missed that product update because it's lost between the 10000 other emails.

Even worse, API updates, can be very important but also usually something you might or might not be emailed about.

To solve this problem for myself i created a SaaS called Fabulas. In Fabulas, you can track apps. Fabulas keeps track of all the product updates and informs you right away once a new release or any other important change has happened.

This way, there is no need to screen all the marketing emails and nurture flows. You simply just check Fabulas and you are always up to date!

Now that I benefit from this myself, I have decided to make Fabulas public and also have others benefit from its features.

I am sure there can be things to improve so be sure to reach out and provide me with feedback!
> If Reddit says "your content is yours but you cannot delete it" they're in a bit of a cake-and-eat-it-too scenario.

Yes, but the user is also in a cake-and-eat-it-to scenario: they get to own the content and have it distributed for free.

Both sides of this come from the perpetual non-exclusive license that posting to Reddit or Twitter or anywhere confers. "Ownership" is too reductive a concept for IP, which is why the section 230 thing is a non sequitur.
Yeah, I mean every job and person is different. But as a blanket claim I think it's bogus and John's article seems to be pushing back against that in favor of a more nuanced perspective.
I see that but
On the Infinity of Prime Numbers
Let A be the set of prime numbers. Let B_1 and B_2 be subsets of A. Let C be an element of A Let F(X) signify that X is finite. Let I(X) signify that X is infinite.
1. ∃B_1 (F(B_1 ))
2. ∃B_2∃C(C∉B_2 )
3. ∃B_1 (F(B_1 ))→∃B_2∃C(C∉B_2 )
Conclusion: ∀B_1∃B_2∃C(F(B_1 )→C∉B_2 )
Premise 1 is true because from the set of prime numbers I can create a sequence of primes that is finite.
Premise 2 is true because from the set of prime numbers I can create a sequence of prime numbers which C is not a member of.
Premise 3 is true because of Premises 1 and 2
The Conclusion is true because it is Premise 3 in prenex normal form. Thus, if I let B_1=B_2 then the conclusion should read: For any finite sequence of prime numbers, there exist a prime number that is not a member of it. The conclusion is also true if I let B_1=B_2=A. For since the consequent is false, the antecedent must be false too by Modus Tollens.
For them, making it private and not allowing users to use it are equivalent. I can't blame them either.
No, admin used to be much more hands off. You are complaining about moderators.
I found the concepts that help a lot in discussing this in its essence are equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome.
I feel similarly frustrated.

The basics of CAs, trust chains and certificates are pretty easy to understand once you're roughly aware of public key cryptography.

But then you get into the arcane and confusing details of which fields hold which information, the various serialization formats, confusing error messages when servers don't provide their intermediates, other software simply not dealing with intermediates (I'm looking at you, etcd) and on and on.

A "fun" example: I have an openvpn client config that contains, among other things, this here:

<pkcs12>
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
(base64-looking stuff here)
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
</pkcs12>

This contains, confusingly, not just a certificate but also an encrypted private key.

I wanted to change the encryption password, but it turns out that "openssl pkcs12" cannot actually read that block, because it turns out to be a base64-encoded DER format or some other shit. WAT?
I personally don't give a shit about them, everyone I know uses Signal or maybe WhatsApp. But lots of people do.
I despise Discord, but Discord's app works well. Its kind of like the Yin to Reddit's UI Yang.
> reprocessing is an economic loser at this point

Not on a time scale of 100 years or so, let alone the 100,000 years that are being imposed as a requirement on geologic storage. On that time scale recovering unburned fuel from reprocessing will be cheaper than mining and refining fuel.

> France still does reprocessing because whatever is done with spent fuel is not that expensive

Yes, particularly when you factor in that reprocessing gives you a source of additional fuel (most of the "spent" fuel removed from reactors is actually not spent, and reprocessing recovers it for future use) that, as noted above, is expected to be cheaper than mining it in the not too distant future.

> the boondoggle

It's not a boondoggle at all, it's a rational way of anticipating future nuclear fuel requirements, as above. It's certainly much more rational than requiring spent fuel to be stored for 100,000 years as if that was the only possible thing that could be done with it.
Nicely done Gabe!
The problem is not really the battery anymore, it's the software mainly. It's all closed source and is often deprecated before the hardware is dead. Then the manufacturer makes it hard to unlock bootloaders; keeps drivers closed source and effectively bricks the device. For recurring sales are the backbone of modern economy so we must force obsolescence.

Why would you want to replace a battery in a useless device?

Please, EU: bring a law that forces manufacturers to release their drivers / firmware whenever they stop updating a digital device.
I don't think your lack of success is because of the remote aspect. An interview is meant to see if your skill set can match with what the company is looking for and values. I don't know the React market and whether companies are getting flooded with candidates and can just swipe away people like tinder, but to me, your lack of success is either you are competiting against too many people, or they don't value your React knowledge / experience enough or don't think they can train you to get up to speed on how their tech stack works.
Jesus I completely forgot about r/IAMA and Im a daily reddit visitor.

I can't say that that subreddit was better in the Victoria Taylor era than today because I don't visit it anymore. I also can't say I stopped visiting it because of the same event.

But I know at some point I stopped caring about the high profile threads and the answers they gave.
One benefit of tinnitus is that I appreciate white noise, so a silent PC is no longer my goal. I still want well-made fans (Noctua, Be Quiet) but the sound of air wooshing through my PC is welcome!
It's a good assumption. Massachusetts is part of the Northeast Megalopolis[0] (part of the reason Acela makes economic sense in this area), and almost 25% of the most populous cities comprising that area are in Massachusetts. I don't think the automakers would be quite so willing to sacrifice all those customers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis
I think the larger it grows the worse it gets.

Small group to talk to family or friends? Great!

The local community? Begin noticing dbags and crazies, people nasty to each other

National or larger? Forget about it, and now it's ratfucked by bad actors, shills, foreign intel, and other ilk.

Moderation also gets worse because these large entities try to create blanket standards with such a wide variation of cultures involved.
The comment you're responding to refers to India as their country.

I'm assuming they've witnessed the changes first hand in that case.
Please make your substantive points without name-calling. Your comment would be fine without that first bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Wasn't Llama leaked, without Meta's consent?
Sometimes you can project leverage even when you only have a little. Being sure to use the language of the business, and framing problems in ways that make sense to the stakeholders, implies that you have some organizational experience and power -- and that you won't be easily brushed off.

You can get pretty far by creating an impression that you have a mandate for what you're trying to do. Having a higher-level individual contributor position seems to create that impression in itself, at least at my company.
I ran few forums on phpBB and vBulletin, spent a lot of time in flame wars. Those were the days.
> Huffman has calculated that, in the event of a disaster, he would seek out some form of community: “Being around other people is a good thing. I also have this somewhat egotistical view that I’m a pretty good leader. I will probably be in charge, or at least not a slave, when push comes to shove.”
"Peaceful de-escalation" is a funny way to describe shooting a dude with a drone.
Ask HN: Why would anyone work so hard to fake that he is a VC?
Why would anyone work so hard to fake things? Like creating a LinkedIn that says his company is based off a rich country and truly believe that founders are stupid and won't find out by simply searching available (on the internet) information?

He is not the only one! I found out that there are several folks from different nationalities do this! And the bizarre thing is that this is not a simple lie. No, they work extraordinary hard to fake their website, degrees, affiliation and so on.

Why do they do this?
The counter-argument is equally simple: a sail is a surface. The earth is a sphere. A sphere made of solid rock the size of a sail will be even less moved by a 15 mph breeze than this hypothetical person.
Not sure I'm following?
By the time Digg did their redesign, Reddit was already getting something like 250 million page views a month. Reddit was a clear alternative to move towards. Today, there is no clear and large alternative to Reddit, as Reddit was to Digg.
No, it doesn't depend on the law. I think all laws need experimentation regardless of the subject matter because no law is perfect. I also think a federal government that can quickly enact laws is far too powerful an entity to exist in a country of 330,000,000 people. While some "good" laws might get enacted sooner "bad" laws will as well. Remember we are a country guilty of genocide.

As an exercise try writing down the name of all the politicians you can off the top of your head. Then consider if you like and agree with them or not. Then ask yourself if you really want an agile federal government.

Thinking only the laws you like will make it to a federal law free of unintended side effect is naive fantasy at best. The laboratory of democracy is working. Please, lobby your representatives, get involved, but don't confuse lack of federal law for malfunction.
Being an invite-only alpha kills Tildes for me, even though I’m interested in it. It seems the closest to what I want out of a Reddit alternative.

I would hope the community would understand outages, bugs, and oddities if they made Tilde an open alpha.
On the one hand, maybe a reduction in e-waste. Then again - do you trust your average person to recycle batteries responsibly? At least the phones have some residual trade-in value so people are incentivized to turn them in somewhere.

However, the other challenge is people like buying sketchy cheap batteries off the internet, as we have seen from the recent spree of e-bike fires in NYC apartments so...
Unless those wealthy people are keeping their second car an unusually long time, while basically never driving it, they'll still get driven enough to recoup the up front carbon by a second or third owner.
I wonder what is the definition of easily removable and replaceable. Does popping a few screws and using a specialized tool qualifies as easy? What about re-sealing the device after to keep the waterproof rating?
> We should speculate in every direction while considering the motivations of a person or company, and we should weigh the likelihood and potential costs of being right or wrong about our suspicions when choosing how to react to events. Blinding ourselves to motivations (actual or possible) is a losing game which will only make us easier to manipulate.

Totally disagree, especially for companies. Companies are usually thousands of people. Any action was probably hotly debated, and some agreed and some opposed. It's just silly to treat a company like an individual person who has good motivations and bad motivations.

You do you, but I don't think making up motivations and then acting like they're true makes anyone less easy to manipulate.
Here's a link with more recent numbers from 2021.

https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/private-prisons-in...

Overall, it's about 8%, but if you look at per-state numbers, it is kind of a bimodal distribution. Looking at some of the more populous states, California has 0%,Florida has 15%, Tennessee has 35%. The trend in states with larger populations in private prisons is that it is also increasing, but there are exceptions (Texas) and you should look at the numbers yourself.
You’re making some incorrect assumptions. Why do you find it impossible that you can be more productive with 5x6 than 5x8 because you’re more well rested?

If you do 10 work units per hour at 5x6, and you do 6 work units per hour at 5x8 because you're worn out, then 5x6 is more productive.

Your mistake is thinking that the first 6 hours of 5x6 and 5x8 are equally productive. Maybe that’s true. Maybe it isn’t. But to claim that it definitely is and anyone who thinks otherwise doesn’t have common sense is just silly.

Edit: to further clarify, are you claiming that 5x10 is definitely more productive than 5x8? What about 5x16? What about 5x24. Or 7x24? Your confidence that you’re definitely right that 5x8 is better than 5x6 makes me wonder where you know the ideal line is and how you know that.
This implies that accepting a job that pays more, even if it doesn't align with your incentives, is being a "nine to fiver", which I disagree with.

Innate to our economic system is the tension between labor and employer. Us as laborers want a higher share of the profit from our labor. Employers seek the opposite, and "fulfillment" provides them the means to extract it.

Consider the wages of game developers, which have stagnated compared to less "fulfilling" SWE work, because employers are able to supplant higher pay with work that people are passionate about. If being a "nine to fiver" prevents me from falling into that trap, so be it.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Everything must be paid for twice - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30013025 - Jan 2022 (241 comments)
You can now run OpenAI evals in ChainForge
Not to mention, they purposefully disengage autopilot right before crashes, so they aren't included in crash statistics.
Agree!

Although its a double edged sword. Untimed chess games tend to leak for me even after the game is over. I keep thinking about them long after.

Classical chess is probably the last analogue activity that completely sucks me in.
Limits of Programmer Productivity: A lesson from Fred Brooks
Porting Python and Pwnlib Code to Ronin Quick Refs
> what is essentially the first time marginalized groups could have their voices heard

> There has never been a right to say what you want without being shamed or shunned

So... when the marginalized groups start getting cancelled, do I get to say "well they don't have a right not to be shunned"?

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

We're living in a new McCarthyism.
The only leverage any employee has (non-union, in the US) is purely political.

All employment is “at will” in Tech, you can be fired for any reason. The only thing preventing you from being fired is your capacity to create value for the company (as seen in the company’s eyes)

Unless you’re truly irreplaceable, you don’t have much leverage by default.
Did you make a similar observation in the opposite direction when his wealth dwindled?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-net-worth-worst-loss-...

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1591291952464801794

I see this common pattern.

1. Stock goes up: "Oh no, they are stealing from us"

2. Stock goes down: Silence

> And billionaires crow about taxes.

Not just billionaires. Even non-millionaires crow about taxes. Fix the leaky bucket first before filling it up is a good strategy.
It's been quite awhile since I've needed to update my resume, and with the latest advancements of AI, I'm not sure which one leads the pack. I'm sure a bit of research would find you with some options.
Yeah but that only sorta solves the issue of agency overreach, which is typically the ideological part. I think it's more of an ideological/values based position than a practical "protect our democracy" position.
just in time, my google pixel 6a phone is bloated and cracked open the back cover
I blame Apple for everyone's obsession with size. Or really, thinness, as everyone seems to have pop tart phones as thin and fragile as glass--with such a large phone, what value does thinness really add? I'd rather have a less delicate, easily serviceable, thicker phone.
The correct comparison is worker "total compensation", not wages. Total compensation includes the value of the benefits package, and is often an additional 40% over salary. The benefits package includes:

1. stock options

2. stock grants

3. health plan

4. 401k employer contributions

5. sick leave

6. vacation leave

7. maternity/paternity leave

8. employer paid social security taxes

9. other payroll taxes supposedly paid by the employer

10. retirement benefits
In the reddit model, moderators are sitting by a gentle stream and when they see a turd floating by, they scoop it out and throw it away.

In your model, moderators are in a sewer tunnel sitting next to a raging river of shit and when they see something that looks relevant to their interests, they scoop it out and wash it off.
I'll bite:

The response to "then only criminals will have armed drones" is:
Ok, let's give all the cops a lot of drugs and child porn, because it would be bad if only criminals had that stuff, and maybe we can give them anthrax and components for a dirty bomb, because it would be bad if only terrorists had those. Or maybe, that's a broken line of reasoning and law enforcement isn't a war in which enemies must be met with equal means.

The answer to "sometimes police have to use deadly force; isn't it better if their lives aren't at stake is":
We live in a world where kids having fun on the internet will have other people 'swatted'. This is only possible because police are willing to arm themselves and suddenly and forcefully enter a situation where they have _no credible information_ about any kind of threat. Until they demonstrate some capacity to consistently identify whether a situation requires deadly force, it's irresponsible to give them more of it.

The response to the "police who use deadly force inappropriately may have felt their life was at risk" is ... all the videos of police killings where an unarmed person is running away, an unarmed person is already effectively restrained, etc etc. Police use deadly force even when there is clearly no threat. Making police safer isn't the solution; the rest of us need to be safe from the police.
It's more like 3 paragraphs, but that's not really the point. It's one thing to have ugly subreddits / communities, it's another if the developers and the main instance is the ugly one. If one of the main issues of those federated networks is fragmentation, telling me to just ignore the main one doesn't bode particularly well.
Unique and Professional AI Backgrounds for Youtubers and Streamers
Thank you for linking directly to the relevant study! Definitely helps us all. :)