skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, I think I mixed up PDT vs PST
In this event, it wasn't the actual SWAT, the team in the police department assigned and trained to carry out this type of thing. Instead it was drug detectives who evidently wanted the chance to go out and play army. The whole thing was run with an appalling lack of common sense or adherence to their own written policies and it points to a breakdown of discipline within the department.
a whole lot of difference, and it's sad you even have to ask. actual cops dressed up don't actually have the training SWAT does. everyone forgets the And Tactics part of the acronym and just focuses on special weapons part, but street cops aren't going to have those tactics. they're just going to have big gun with armor and giant egos and possibly scared shitless and prone to make mistakes.
My vice was reddit, I could spend a lot of time on different subreddits for different topics and usually always find something new.

But I do agree with you, being away from the noise has been really freeing for my mind
if anyone hasn't delved into why, it's because the ocaml integer `x` is represented by the machine integer `(2x + 1)`. so what `x * x` compiles to is `((2x + 1) - 1) * ((2x + 1) / 2) + 1` which is `2x * x + 1` = `2(x * x) + 1`, or the machine integer representing the ocaml integer `(x * x)`.
I noticed that I could use it when logged out.
it will end up being similar to Chinese "social credit" system and that score will dictate everything in your life.

no, thanks
It’s true I’m US centric. What I do know about European equities market structure actually points to one specific problem that actually we also have some of in the US. I’d suggest you look at clearing house collateral regulations, especially around ETF transactions, creation and redemption, and posting of OTC positions. That part of the system, which btw isn’t HFT, is very very shady.

I agree it’s all quite understandable if people had the resources available. I would argue part of the reason it is opaque is the fears of operators that too much public attention can bring a lynch mob. This business can literally be one of the most profitable activities on the planet, but contrary to populist sentiment this is not evidence of wrong doing, it’s simply because it’s so automated and scalable and all electronic.

Back to ATS and dark liquidity, this isn’t as trivial to explain as you suggest, it requires understanding of flow toxicity and information theory to be understood completely. You must know that in markets, transactions can be beneficial to both parties as they have different objective functions and timescales.

What evidence can be presented that supports the idea HFT operators are extracting increasing costs on the system? I’m not aware of any.
Reddit is useful in Google search results though whereas Twitter and Instagram are not.

For instance if you search "movies like X", on Google by default most results are automated aggregators or one critics perspective. If you search "movies like X reddit" you get more recommendations.
This wasn’t the case for Twitter API pricing changes.

My Twitter usage is down a lot since they killed off 3rd party clients.
For those that are interested in algorithmic trading - take a look at Collective2. Where engineers make available their buy/sell signals for a subscription fee.

It's like the minor leagues for algorithmic trading. It's fascinating.

The system keeps track of the gains/losses, so no cheating on the reporting.

You can authorize Collective2 to access your Interactive Brokers account, so that the trade signals are managed on your behalf.

It's been around for at least a decade, so you can see some longstanding performance numbers, but most systems just don't last that long.

https://collective2.com/leader-board

None of the leaders have been there for very long. One to two years. Showing that most system's alpha disappears fairly rapidly.

The equity curves are sporadic ~a few of the trades accounting for a majority of the gains.
I am actually quite sad about this. I noticed the same thing re Apollo app no longer working. I used Apollo to interact with a number of communities and have tried the official app and the website (both new and old) and simply cannot use them in the same manner as I used Apollo. I am done with Reddit now and the void created by losing the communities I interacted with has left me with a feeling of loneliness. Damn you u/spez.
is this bad or good
And yet ...

Researchers found more than 90 per cent of the conventionally farmed soils in their global study were thinning, and 16 per cent had lifespans of less than a century.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200914115905.h...

Soil degradation costs U.S. corn farmers a half-billion dollars every year

One-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing loss of soil fertility.

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/01/12/soil-degradation-c...
> This seems very unlikely. If they really just wanted to stop just AI tools

Same issue with Reddit, it's a false excuse for embarking on some other kind of cash-grab policy.

They claimed the almost-no-warning API changes were necessary to stop the "AI", except that all the big (and therefore significant) actors could have been stopped by a change to the terms of service or some modest rate-limits.
Thank you. This is interesting and gives me a few things to read more about.
Welp, Twitter goes down the drain faster than expected...
Yep. It was fun. I'm done with reddit I guess.
There’s a very nice book about this subject called “Dark Pools”. I found it very enjoyable, you certainly seem to have the knowledge to enjoy it even more :-)
> the number of stories that I read per day about bad police officers is insane.

Do you ever read stories about good police officers? Are such stories so scandalous they can sell advertising space en masse?

I think that your wording implies an accidental oversight.
And loving it ;)
Or an Orange RSS Couch.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/447874780/
Steel Bank Common Lisp
15 years here. This is the third time in my time period that it has been down. I have zero incentive to move to anything else.
Ironically, my landlord has been bugging me for the past few months to review them publicly. This is how they do it: I log in to my tenant portal to check if my account is current, and a full-screen modal dialog blocks my way, promising that I could win a $100 Amazon gift card if only I'd review them on some site I don't know. (And I'd probably need to create an account and jump through all the associated hoops.) So yeah, dudes, I don't use Amazon. Most gift card offers at least provide a choice of two, in case you don't shop with the place. And the dialog is still in my way, months later.

That dialog is the only update they've made to the portal in years. In fact it still doesn't support MFA at all. But reviews!
Google, again doing Google things.
Those are typically finance companies, so dealers are no where near repossession. Each of the big auto makers all have their own financing companies, so it very much is the manufactures.
This is unfortunate, it was actually TCM that introduced me to some more obscure films I’m really passionate about from Studio Ghibli which are now some of my favorite most-cherished animated films.

What set TCM apart were the interludes where the host explains the background of how the stories came about, where the directors were in their careers when the film was made. Just really insightful stuff.
In the spirit of friendly discussion, would you be able to acknowledge that the leaders of company being unproductive and exploitative is not a mainstream theory of the economy? Would you be able to acknowledge that you are equating riding unicycles outside of work with economic recession and urban decay? To be frank I found this comment disturbing because it is arguing against me from a line of reasoning I do not hold.
I'm curious what happens to reddit now. I'm guessing just auto pilot of low effort content. Don't think it'll truly die as far as numbers go.
Why would they? At the end of the day, the CIA is driven by realpolitik. Chomsky sees things as they are, and is also an idealist. Where they intersect is that part about seeing things as they are.
“Most of you have browsers, and most of those browsers show you advertisements, and I’m very puzzled about why. The advertisements are annoying most of the time, they slow you down, they injure the concentration that you bring to whatever task it is that you’re doing, and there’s no reason why they show you advertisements; my browser doesn’t show me any advertisements. I don’t see any ads when I read The New York Times, or go to wherever it is that you are happy going to, because my browser has Adblock in it, and that pretty much ends the story. Even in this town, many of you, indeed, I would guess, most of you are probably using the Firefox browser. That means you’re two clicks away from not having any advertising on the net anymore. All you need to do is google “Adblock Plus”, and say “I’m feeling lucky”, [Laughter] thank you very much. Now you know why my friends – and they are my friends – at the Mozilla Foundation are paid tens of millions of dollars every year by Google – basically, not to bundle Adblock Plus into the default distribution of Firefox.

But you also know why all the talk about advertising supported models on the web is just talk, and why it is that in the end, all of those models are fated not to work. Because in digital media, when you give people knowledge, you can’t force them to take advertising, because digital media are filterable – that’s the beauty of them.”

— Eben Moglen, Free and Open Software: Paradigm for a New Intellectual Commons, 2009-03-13, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbcy_ZxXLl8#t=31m51s>
HFT provides a great deal of liquidity and efficient pricing in markets that are adapted to it. It provides a real service, allowing people to transact without using a large bank or broker efficiently on an open market. The fact you can click buy and it buys on almost any stock is likely due to a HFT on the other side. That may not mean much to you directly but it does provide a lot of utility in markets. The biggest gripe people bring about HFT is it during high volatility HFTs usually pull out of the market at a time when people really value the increased liquidity. I think some of the more advanced HFT firms though have moved into longer time range trades which helps provide more liquidity in those markets.
On a related note: any ideas on why Bluesky seems to be taking so long to open to the public? They had a beta program a few months ago, and everyone seemed to love it, and now nothing?

Surely now is the time to capitalise on the discontent on Twitter, even if it means dealing with a few scaling pains.
lemmy is trying, but it's pretty bad as a replacement.
Ask HN: How do you have fun with code?
$haveFun = ["Create code that could be used in a real life or game type way", "Create working pseudocode", "Etc...etc..."];
shuffle($haveFun);
echo $haveFun[0];
I assume these are the alternatives that people with javascript disabled really want
apparently there is going to be a Sync for Lemmy.
Hopefully we also get Apollo for Lemmy and get rid of reddit for good.
Coming of age in the late 90s/early 00s we had plenty of forums to choose from, hosted by hobbyists, with nary a monetization scheme in sight. And this was in the era when the tech was far less accessible and the hardware far more expensive. Sure, maybe a modern $5/month VPS running basic forum software isn't going to handle 100,000,000 active users, but it sure will handle 10,000 active users, and that's more than enough to have a healthy community.

(Note: I'm of the opinion that fediverse-style federation in the context of forums is merely a nice-to-have; the web is already naturally federated, and people should not feel bad if they want to save money/tech complexity/administration complexity by settling for ordinary self-hosted forums.)
Unpopular opinion, ad blockers are the same as piracy.

There's basically an agreement that in return for watching some video for free, you have to 'pay' by watching an ad. On YouTube a significant amount of this money even goes to the creator.

Not really sure how you can defend your entitlement to free content with no ads, refusing to support the creator and provider, when the ad free version is reasonably priced, and even includes music.

To me it sounds like thinking a restaurant is too expensive so you just dine and dash.
A book about the US media coverage of Central America in the 80’s if I recall correctly.

I didn’t experience this period in the news but it was interesting enough for me to finish for some reason. The writing style doesn’t hurt.

> Under these circumstances, the task for the media is clear. First, they must apply the standard technique of historical amnesia and “change of course,” which obliterates all memory of U.S. policies and their effects. Virtually a reflex, this device can be applied instantaneously.
Turning a height map into a nice looking 2D map
I really mainly use Spotify because of the combination of its library size and ease of availability / accessibility.

(Although John Zorn's catalogue remains an elusive beast)

I use LMS for my small, curated personal music library, which is great: https://github.com/epoupon/lms
Lemmy/kbin
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542101
As noted by the current top comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36544024) this is a small part of a dump of all files found during the Bin Laden compound raid that is publicly available on the CIA's website. Check the url to verify that claim. There is no other reason this content is there, it's just a coincidence.
Lemmy has scratched the itch for me. Obviously not as big or thorough as Reddit, but I’ve found a lot of the niches I used to frequent on Reddit, and they’re fairly active.
This law ( https://legiscan.com/VA/text/SB1515/2023 ), signed into law on May 12th ( https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/porn-industry-group-... https://www.wtkr.com/news/bill-requiring-porn-sites-to-verif... ) will take effect July 1.

It will require sites with adult content to require users to submit copies of government issued IDs in order to access pornographic content.

Sites that did not use proper verification measures can have lawsuits brought against them.

> B. Any commercial entity that knowingly or intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the Internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material shall, through the use of (i) a commercially available database that is regularly used by businesses or governmental entities for the purpose of age and identity verification or (ii) another commercially reasonable method of age and identity verification, verify that any person attempting to access such material harmful to minors is 18 years of age or older.

> C. Any commercial entity that violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to civil liability for damages resulting from a minor's access to such material harmful to a minor and reasonable attorney fees and costs.
hah. if twitter wasn't such a twat we could actually read the tweet. You know what? fuck reddit and also fuck twitter.
I hear you. I only get the courage to post a comment when I'm beers deep; it doesn't always go well.

I feel you did great!
I've never had a twitter account...
100% agreed. If content is provided for free along side content (ads) that the site wants me to view for their own reasons, I'm under no obligation to view the content they want me to view.

If the site needs me to view content in a specific sequence, then they need to deliver it as such. Otherwise, I'll ignore (technically block) any content other than that in which I'm interested.
I can't speak for him, just relaying the information.

But I'm happy to speculate: Organizations violated the twitter TOS by scraping, and he's going to sue the organizations for it.
I'm very curious what you think macros are that they'd be analogous to "simple state machines".

Macro expansion occurs at, well, macro expansion time which is prior to compilation (in a compiled lisp, as is the case in the context of Racket). The result of the expansion is what gets compiled. You could certainly express a state machine using macros (or with the aid of macros), perhaps even offering macro/compile time optimizations (hypothetically, you could take a regex in some form and convert it through a macro into straight code removing some runtime overhead). But macros are much, much more than "simple state machines". And I'm not sure what you mean about "object composition style", unless you're talking about the OO sense of preferring composition over inheritance. Which, again, what does that have to do with macros?
I mean, I don't exactly pretend to believe I see a truly statistically good cross section of US teens but through family connections and friends I probably know a few dozen, and I don't know of a single one who has ever been swatted. I can't even imagine any of their friends would have been swatted, but I can't say I've interviewed them all about it.

1 in 9 is pretty insane, if that's actually reality there's gotta be some extreme compounding factors influencing it.
Striking a Balance: The Art of Effective Decision Making
Bookmark their page, or have it in a tab, or do a web search whenever you want to look
Am reading the book[1] slowly, two pages at a time, taking notes.

A recent note I took from Ch 7: Unrestraint and Pleasure

"...virtue keeps the source safe, while vice destroys it, and in actions the source is that for the sake of which one acts ... so neither there nor here is reason able to teach anyone the sources, but here it is virtue, either natural or habituated, that directs one to right opinion about the source."

Reminded me of Buddhist teachings that say that moral conduct is necessary and you can't just think/meditate your way to wisdom/enlightenment[2].

[1] Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle. tr. Joe Sachs
[2] cf. https://puredhamma.net/living-dhamma/transition-to-noble-eig...
If P2P micropayments could somehow have succeeded, then a different Internet could have been possible. Tipping content creators directly is impossible without megacorporations taking a cut, be it Apple, Paypal, Patreon etc, and their unit economics work better with recurring payments, which lands us in subscription hell.

One would almost be tempted to ask for a cheque in the mail like in the old days.
I'm already in the flow with copilot so I'm pretty good at expecting when it's useful. Basically I use it as AI copy paste. When I have variations of methods or conditional logic copilot is great at one shot solutions and it's trivial to verify (if it's wrong somehow then I would have done the wrong thing as well - it just saves me a minute of copy/paste and refactoring) copilot was just better.
An unrealized capital gain being "nothing but downside" is the possibly the most charitable spin of an interpretation. If you can't support the carrying cost of your private property, you sell it, just as you would with a car, for example. And in this case, the large gain eases the pain immensely. If you wish to inefficiently use land that otherwise would have a much higher utility to your surrounding community, you need to pay for that privilege.
Thank you for the article :)
One small correction, the command to list the voices is `say -v '?'`
A teacher friend's school was sued because they disciplined black students more often. No consideration for the fact that the disruptive students were indeed disruptive. Now they're just not allowed to keep discipline, full stop. You can imagine the results for everyone else in class, the well-behaved blacks included (who are statistically most likely in need of a good learning environment at school)
> but they are there for our safety

It's insane to me that anyone can think or say this with a straight face, about anything. They are there because of lazy design and a distain for customers. Any campaign to convince you something is "there for your safety" is an attempt to rob you of something and control you.
I remember signing up for Reddit as a college freshman. I was a digg user and joined Reddit in the aftermath of that fiasco. I sometimes laugh looking over my post history for the past decade plus. If you read the posts linearly, you can trace my evolution from a kid arguing passionately over politics and culture (things he didn't really know much about), to a more mature young adult who rarely waded into discussions unless he had something meaningful to contribute. To me now, as a 31 year old man, who mainly posts on a few private subreddits full of likeminded people (and still occasionally gets into arguments about things he knows nothing about).

Until today I had not really mentally processed that Reddit as we knew it was going away. Until a hour or two ago I started get Rate Limits on Reddit Sync. At first I thought it was some kind of bug. Then noticed the date.

Like others mentioned, it will take some getting used to not having it. I've already noticed since the blackouts that "site:reddit.com" is less effective than it was even a month or two ago: some of the key subreddits I used have gone and stayed dark. I wish the owners of Reddit the best in turning their website into TikTok. But if I have need for mindless entertainment, I'll probably just use TikTok directly. The small communities of likeminded people are not as easy to replace, and will be missed.
SAT prep being affordable only for rich is such a silly meme.

SAT prep materials are FREE at your local library (or high school library), anyone who is smart and has willingness to study - can study and nail this exam.

and SAT is very very easy exam nowadays, nothing compared to Indian/Chinese/Singapore exams
I don’t find live-read ads nearly as offensive. They at least have some personal touch to them and they often vary each time (they are live, after all). I tend to listen to those in podcasts when they are truly one-off live reads (TWiT has historically done pretty well at this, for example).

What are terrible are the tone-deaf pre-packed injected ads that blare out of your speakers into your skull.
That's an extreme overestimate
Assembly in the US is expensive, and what is the benefit to the end user?

We're looking at manufacturing hardware, and considering Mexico for assembly (if anyone has experience with this, please let me know).

Our initial thinking is

1) lower cost than the US
2) geographically closer
2a) lower environmental footprint in shipping
2b) quicker time from assembly to customer
2c) easier to visit the factories, solve problems, manage the relationship
3) the obvious geopolitical/tax/duty implications

I wonder if Purism would have as much impact with Made in the USA, as they would with Made in North America? Or even Made in The Americas - if there are other countries outside of Mexico and Canada that have the requisite manufacturing capabilities.
On the contrary, fastmail is usually the fastest for me in terms of delivering mail and has never failed. I get all PINs and verify emails.
Don't know if this applies to you, but it's been doing that for about the past month if you refuse cookies.
The vaguely detailed, unclear, NIH’d corporate rip-off version that already has privacy concerns (public block list issue) that’s even less developed?
You can't use that one in VMs though. Only on bare metal.
The Condiment Packet Gallery
This is basically the entire point of the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (AT Protocol), which powers Bluesky. I think it does a ton of stuff right, including portable identity backed by solid cryptography (no blockchain or "crypto"!) and has a lot of promise. It's still in development, but I am hopeful that it will live up to its promise.
How could someone make a prototype for "monstrous chat" and not include a demo link with a monstrous amount of users.
Indeed, the consequences of letting a an autocrat keep trying fraud/violence until it works are generally far worse than a single murder.