skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You run into diminishing returns on test prep pretty fast. You obviously could blow thousands of dollars on a private test prep tutor but you’d be wasting your money compared to the poor kid with a $40 book grinding away at practice problems every night.
Technological breakthrough always causes a workforce expansion. More, diverse jobs. The "but this time it's different" people are correct. The important bit is when.
Solopreneur programmers collaborating using open source software to create businesses would be more fair. Even if it no longer makes sense to "keep the band together", the programmers have a greater chance of having something tangible to use moving forward. Non-programmers don't have the option, which is where proprietary Intellectual Property comes in. Giving everyone a share of the IP, like a co-op, would be more fair.

Perhaps this is unrealistic in most scenarios today, but it's at least worth pointing out. Perhaps the future of economic collaboration can have fairness in future progress/reward as a consideration.
This is, roundly, impossible to measure in real time as investments take long time horizons to mature. But its easy to self-justify as survivorship bias.
> Decoupling moderation and hosting means there's no onus to do the moderation that they describe:

I'm not sure this follows. There is a similarity to the reddit model of moderation. The host provides some base amount of moderation but supplemental moderation comes from members of the community. In the Bluesky model, a 'subreddit' is analagous to an indexer/aggregator (aka Relay/AppView) that provides a moderated and/or weighted feed of content. The same incentives for volunteer mods on Reddit will exist for volunteer mods on Bluesky.
Only 8 months ago, Reddit's CEO said the company wasn't profitable. An IPO would seem like a foolish decision.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...
People on Reddit upvote and downvote comments all the time. You cannot upvote or downvote a Google search result. Unlike SEO spam surfaced by Google that only needs to satisfy Google's ranking algorithm, SEO spam on Reddit needs to do that and garner enough upvotes by a diversity of users. Even though some of the users might be sock puppets or bots, the value is still there as long as there are more humans than bots.
Most reddit investment in the last several years has been about buying mindshare. Whoever controls the reddit board has a huge sway on public opinion, at least in the US.
You may be thinking of the Gmail default sorted inboxes
> ME/CFS is unquestionably biologically rooted, says Avindra Nath, clinical director of the U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, who led the study. It revealed brain activity differences, along with immune and other abnormalities, in 17 people with ME/CFS compared with 21 healthy controls

Not expressing my own opinion on the condition itself but this sentence makes absolutely no sense.

How on earth can you have a sample size that tiny and then use the word “unquestionably” as if you mean it.

You could fit the whole study in a school bus. Being wrong about one person would be statistically significant.
You can cut costs and cut costs and things seem to operate just fine. Until they don't. See: Boeing.
> "A broken workflow is a broken workflow" is just a tautology. I guess you're implying "any kind of broken workflow is bad" but yeah, I don't agree with that especially with regards to free tools. The project literally has weekly commits, devs are open and engaged and... patches are welcome

I just wanted to respond to this a bit more. My moving away from a project is my choice. Just because it has active devs and regular commits doesn’t mean that I’m in any way obligated to continue to use it, or contribute to it. It doesn’t fit my workflow, and the issues are longstanding and glaring. Might they be fixed in the future? Sure. Am I interested in sending patches in or tracking that effort? Actually it really doesn’t even matter, a broken workflow is a broken workflow, even when the tool is free. It doesn’t work for me as is and I will find something else if I want.

This seems to be some sort of defensive response as if I was attacking the project. On the contrary, and like I said before, I generally like it, but the issues I have, which are to be both glaring and longstanding, means that it doesn’t fit my workflow and I’m considering moving. Not all tools need to suit everyone’s workflows, and “patches are welcome” is very beside the point.
Reddit front page and top comments appears to be creepily hand curated by the DNC/State Dept. Country is completey divided on politics but somehow every single top political post and comment is pro-establishment.
This. Attrition often doesn't appear until the next vesting cliff / bonus. If leadership is not careful, they could lose a lot of key people all at once. For a big company like Google this is easy to stomach (they still pay well enough that _someone_ can be made to do the work eventually) but this could well be death to a startup.

Even an understaffed team can crawl along with a skeleton crew for a while, but you will burn people out. A burned out team ceases to make forward progress and is going to act like things are in maintenance mode. You're liable to spend more money and SWE-hours looking for backfills vs if you'd just kept your team intact.
C# has compile-time precompiled regular expressions now, too. The enabling C# feature is source generators.
I suspect a lot of things that were similar, didn't get there ever.
> The prefecture's system recommends partners based on personal information registered with the marriage support center and the internet browsing history of the person looking for a mate.

The browsing history! It's a bold move Cotton, let's see if it pays off.
I linked to primary sources on moderation upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39471973

Block lists don't work at the instance level, so the answer to your question isn't just "no", but that it is impossible.
This is no justification. They should have another scale of resilience.
The flipside to this argument is that paying Reddit $60M to access data which was posted to the public internet for public viewing and consumption, by people who don't work for Reddit, is obscene and antithetical to how the Internet is supposed to work. Why on earth should Reddit get paid for this, especially if they're not giving the users who made the value a cut?
Bluetuith is a TUI Bluetooth manager with a lot of features https://github.com/darkhz/bluetuith
That's a great analogy.

Iomega made a bunch of people a lot of money and provided multi years employment to others.

But they were an evolutionary dead-end.

Whether because Zip drives (or other forms of higher-density non-harddrive storage) ultimately weren't very interesting or because networked storage ended up as something of a niche (although some companies play int that space).

You can certainly make the case that they were a "successful" company for their time but they also ultimately failed.
I think what was more prevalent was a "unequal outcomes can be explained away by this standardized test" and then we got a chance to experiment with it and learn new data.
https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/coddling-of-the-american-m...

Historically, students had consistently opposed administrative calls for campus censorship, yet recently Lukianoff was encountering more demands for campus censorship, from the students.
A terminal with built-in "telemetry" (spyware) and a pricing model... Just what I never wanted!

To avoid being too negative, I'll offer the option of Kitty[1]. My current favorite terminal. Supports many features.

Including my personal favorites:

* ctrl+c (as opposed to stupid things like ctrl+shift+c) to copy data only when you have content selected. Otherwise, ctrl+c sends a sigint like normal.

* font ligature support (a controversial feature)

[1] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
Phind-70B can get this too: https://www.phind.com/search?cache=b7w0rt4zybaajbsogatrb7q6.
Compare the inflation rates between Alabama and Argentina. Alabama is significantly better. Compare the GDP per capita. Oh that is right, Alabama is better. Is there any spot where Argentina is more stable or prosperous than Alabama?
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Basically, it's not about piles of cash. It's about the rate at which those piles are changing, and how you can allocate capital to min-max those rates of change.

In an environment where the "risk-free rate of return" is secularly-higher, the floor of minimal necessary productivity goes up.

Let's say the ROIC of investing $300k "into" an employee is $310k (3.33% rate of return).

If the risk free rate of return is 1%, you take that employee. If it's 5%, you fire that employee.

I think the reality is that the typical ROIC was above the typical salary, but that there was an inflection point that they crossed in the hiring spree of 2019-2021.

If you're a capital allocator (CEO), your responsibility is to maximize ROIC for shareholders over the long run. In environments where you're not absolutely confident that your eventual, steady-state employee ROIC will trounce (i.e. 2-5x's) the risk free rate of return, you should generally favor returning capital to shareholders (with dividends or buybacks) instead of putting good money after bad.
Understood. But if you, as a company, realize you're losing users because everything you show is rage bait, maybe adjustments are made.

Or your point stands and helps to describe why the non conservative GGP was of the belief that X is conservative leaning.
And centralized. Data is cheap (though they won’t admit that) while big iron cellular core stuff is expensive.

Funny when they billed extra for long distance calls even though all calls were routed through one place for a huge geographic area. Calling your neighbour could be a hundreds of miles round trip over mobile.
TOTP or SMS, it's just another text password you're entering in that's fully phishable.

TOTP just "feels" more secure.
The milestone timeline is oddly underwhelming. Both it and the letter from Steve Huffman emphasize the /r/WallStreetBets frenzy as evidence of Reddit popularity, which is ironic because a) it died out as quickly as it rose, as noted in Risk Factors and b) reminding the SEC that your platform was used for market manipulation in your S-1 is kinda funny.

Funniest line:

> Revenue from Reddit Gold and Collectible Avatars was not material for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2023.
Only previous submission that had a discussion (and it's worth reading through):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8940820 - Jan 24, 2015 (50 comments)
That's assuming you have it on and updated before you hit the road.

I think it's off by default, and I'm guessing most people haven't thought to turn it on, or are even aware of it.
Sounds like you have hardware problems and need to speak with support (again). My issue is not likely hardware, but that firmware is not shipped often enough.
I think you're thinking about SXSW
And the teams are rightsized!
> responsible for their own actions but not to blame for someone else's.

You're changing the target of the actions mid sentence. Said person is responsible for their own actions _and_ to blame for their own actions. They are not responsible for someone else's actions nor to blame for someone else's actions.

If a person knowingly takes actions that put them at greater risk, then they are to blame for putting themselves at greater risk.
And a lot of them failed for their technical shortcomings and many others from social aspects.

IRC failed in technical side due to the failure in committee development model around IRCv3, Reddit succeeded by sole social factor despite being a carbon copy of Digg. To me, Bluesky vs Mastodon, and also Twitter vs Mastodon situations seems closer to the latter, even with controversial waitlist and the big turmoil, respectively.
That's from 2019, curious what the stats are in 2024. I've seen a lot more big names advertising on reddit lately.
I too rely on jobs, right now, but jobs are not something we are entitled to, especially forever jobs, and I cant stand people that act like that

Accumulate capital, make it grow

If you fail, your life is encumbered in ways that prevent you from doing that, there are limited programs in the US for you, but burdening corporations is a symptom
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> wealth inequality is skyrocketing and at record highs in the US in centuries...

Wealth inequality today is growing and is unconscionable, but just to look at the numbers it was far worse in the gilded age (and of course far far worse during slavery). Knowing that is no excuse for not fighting it, but let's not rely on hyperbole to make a point on HN.

> In addition to the erosion of progressive taxation.

I assume you mean that the progressive nature of the tax code is fading away, in which case I agree with you and consider it a terrible problem. In some states like Texas the tax code is actually quite regressive, but overall the whole country gone quite a bit backwards.

Interestingly, California's tax code is both too regressive and too progressive (though both are in principle fixable). Since most people with any wealth hold it in real estate, prob 13 has made homeowners in lucky locations asset rich but at a low tax rate, which is screwing up attempts to improve the housing situation. And I learned it was "too progressive" in 2008: so much of the state's income came from cap gains of rich people and during the real estate crash (leading to stock market woes), state revenues fell just when a surplus was needed. The same thing is happening now, though I expect it to unwind by the end of 2024. That can be fixed as well by changing the tax mix for the top 1% and above, (which is why I put "too progressive" in quotation marks).
Financial engineering is designed to benefit the designers of the financial systems. There is a sales pitch to convince people to play along, but it's a net negative game & not designed to benefit everyone else.
Congress has decided this is unacceptable for engineering salaries.
No one wants to pay the true costs, because we’ve been coasting on externalities. When they come due, everyone will be sad.

Add a tax to every barrel of oil sold to pay off the remediation liability, it’s the only way it’ll get paid for besides federal grants (subsidizing this behavior).
I took a sightseeing flight around Mt Everest (within the last year). The flight crew explicitly told everyone to move to one side of the plane while we were in the air.

I doubt everyone moving side to side when the plane isn’t taking off or landing is going to automatically cause a crash.
Agreed. Reddit ate other forums, but individual subreddits are close enough to forums in most important ways. Discord is far closer to a chat room, and is horrible wrt browsability, discovery, or threaded topics.
Try logging in please if that's the case.
Probably to lock out future competition.

Note that Webtext and OpenWebText datasets were basically scraped from Reddit. It's incredibly valuable if you can lock down this dataset vs. letting competitors use it.
I wish I understood what people think they're doing with that "yelling at the audience type tweet". I don't understand what they think the reader is supposed to be taking away from such a post.

I'm maybe too detailed oriented when it comes to public policy, but I honestly don't even know what those tweets are supposed to propose or mean exactly.
I believe your insights are accurate. Nevertheless, in the age of AI, it's evident that critical thinking remains indispensable. The value of a liberal arts education, which fosters the age-old practice of intellectual scrutiny, cannot be overstated, LLMs or not.
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We also like to thing that doctors are able to extensively test and determine what is going on - but with many diagnosis and treatment, it's almost entirely based on patient self-reporting.

We can test the blood for certain things, we can run other scientific tests, but for lots and lots of problems, we really don't have any scientific way to determine.
Tries are rarely the most efficient option.

Kind of like linked lists...conceptually pleasant but rarely if ever the best option for real-world perf.
It is wrong to think of the Chinese government as a well organized/disciplined machine that can ease drop on citizens and visitors alike. It really is much more chaotic than that: they rely on services to local self censor because they don't have anywhere near enough to do so on their own, nor do they really want to.

When you visit there is lots of chaos, like people parking on sidewalks when they aren't supposed to, or driving the wrong way down a street and no one even batting an eye, or obvious brothels advertising out in the open. Like, if the Chinese government can't even control these simple kinds of things, why do you think they are going to try and control much harder cases?
They effectively disabled the developer API via absurd pricing. That alone would cancel a ton of projects/teams due to the load that likely placed on their servers. The user experience is also not even close to the same, while they've not really added any new features that likely weren't already in the pipeline. Not even to mention their tanking revenue and valuation. It's not even close to a "working the same as before" company.

Your definition of "working" needs work. Nothing you said contradicts the parent.
Suddenly Reddit user count is x5 and we have bots upvoting
This is a very simplistic understanding of how much more complicated the world has become.

Google was able to take 20 years worth of salary of its laid off employees and execute stock buybacks that increased stock price more than those workers POSITIVE revenues.

Its a more brutal reality than you think.
When is this going to support IPv6-only hosting? Would've loved to set up an instance to mess around with but requiring IPv4 is a showstopper for folks behind CGNAT (i.e. most people on earth).
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Hi! I’m Aloke, an engineer at Warp.

I’m really excited to share that Warp is now available on Linux! If you’re interested in trying it out, you can download Warp at https://www.warp.dev/.

We've gotten 2-3 reports of authentication issues like the one the author mentions. We are actively looking into it; we believe its an issue with a library we depend on to open URLs. If anyone is experiencing these issues, please contact us at support@warp.dev so we can better understand the issue and further debug!

Building Warp on Linux was quite an undertaking. Warp uses a custom Rust-based UI framework that we built in house and renders natively on the GPU. To get Warp running on Linux, we built a version of our UI framework that supports winit [1] as a windowing backend. We also built a version of our renderer that uses wgpu [2]. Reducing complexity by using these well-supported, cross platform, frameworks let us bootstrap a version of Linux quicker than expected and should make it easier to build Warp for other platforms (like Windows).

Please let me know what you think! Happy to answer any questions, either about the product or about technical challenges.

[1] https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit
[2] https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu
The person you were replying to is explaining why firing people "raises the stock price". And yes, it really is that complicated.

Firing people whose salaries have a dramatically positive ROIC for the company does not raise the stock price, it lowers the stock price.

The mistake, in retrospect, is the executives': they should not have over-hired in 2020.

I know it's a bizarre silver lining, but to the extent there is one, workers got capital (in the form of SBC and cash) that they otherwise "shouldn't" have. If those companies had been run more effectively, most would have never been hired in the first place.

It's kind of a crap silver lining, because we psychologically feel loss [of a job] 10x more than gain, but the realistic "market-optimal" alternative was not "I have this cushy, high paying job forever", it was actually "I have never had a cushy, high paying job".
> They are the ones that ultimately messed up as they had poor strategic vision

Everything is a gamble, the right decision can still lead to a bad result due to randomness. So just because a gamble didn't pan out doesn't mean that it was the wrong thing to do.

For example, not hiring extra is also a gamble, it means you gamble on the market not growing and you would lose a ton of money if the market didn't stall.
That relies upon the benevolence of corporations to much more of an extent than I am comfortable with. 20 years of social media has convinced me that that's a bad idea. And, I think, it removes much of the benefits of federation: if the only way to sustainably moderate is to rely upon gifts from BlueSky Inc., moderation is going to be necessarily dependent upon them.
Between them Reddit and Macrumors have almost all the useful public information for macOS users, music producers, video creators, colourists. Handing Google the keys to Reddit will be trouble. I'm not quite sure what kind of trouble, but deep trouble.

The SEO spamslaught which will start now will be part of the issue, Google will also work to make visible on Reddit what they like and make invisible what they don't like. Money talks and Reddit was already big on censorship. A more independent public space is what we need, not a more moderated and beholden prison yard.
Based on upvotes and user behaviour. Established = currently on top probably. Seems plausible