skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is Reddit mostly bots now?

Long ago, marketing firms became aware of the "just add 'reddit' to your product search for real human advice" meme. They're also aware of the fact that it's very easy to buy karma, buy accounts, set up upvote/downvote networks, and manage sockpuppets. Now I'm absolutely certain that >80% of all posts in product-related topics are fake. Bots, guerilla marketers, PR firms, reputation management firms, influence operations, you name it.

A lot of the personal stories you see on Reddit are also fake -- posted to farm karma.

The upvote/downvote system there, combined with anonymous accounts that have public post histories, has been a disaster for internet discourse. (Here, at least, it's gated and the community is relatively small. Also, the power of the downvote on HN is very limited, and only accounts with 500 karma can downvote anything. Over there, it's unrestrained and the downvote is too powerful. Reddit has structural problems.)

> Does anyone have any recommendations as to a Reddit alternative?

Forums still exist for most interests. They're usually much better than Reddit.
Analogies are not arguments. Just made up scenario.
I suspect the author is going by the documentation rather than having tried themselves
I would really like my investments and savings to be as impressive as this app. Congrats!
If you think Apple's part pairing policy has anything to do with consumer benefit, I have a bridge in Arizona to sell you.
A recent Motorola smartphone. Only advantage: it's cheap.

* it's a Tamagochi that keeps crying all day long. "Please set this thing up". "Notification about settings". "Help I shat!"

* Loses connections too often.

* Good old apps, like internet radio silently crash.

* If you happen to listen music over Bluetooth and there's incoming call, it

a) shows you modal windows -- "should setting ______ be set forever?"

b) to turn off Bluetooth speaker, you must notice and click a tiny drop-down menu, and select from "speaker" (which is phone's own loud speaker), "bluetooth" and something else -- basically you gotta guess where is "normal" call with phone at the ear. All this must be done in like 10 seconds of caller's patience.

* Unconfigurable at all. You set it to "don't disturb" and whatsapp/telegram still ring loudly!!! IDK, if this setting changes anything at all. Seems that every app has own overrides.

* tries to add junk stuff like "smart wallpapers" -- and after I found a way to turn it off, showed me "The notification will be shown in 24 hours again."

* wakes up if slightly shaken and shines with the screen -- must put it screen down to avoid bright light randomly shining at night.

Maybe it's the recent Android OS such a pile of accumulated crappy features, like CSS in the wild, that is impossible to sort out... Whoever approved to buy crappy noname smartphones and brand them as Motorola, had no brain.
Show HN: I solo coded a crypto analytics platform and now it's getting traction
Website: https://www.tradingdigits.io/

I year ago I published a post over here about how I learned to code on my own (my major is linguistics and I didn't know anything about coding before) and built a free crypto analytics platform with 17 tools, but back then it was barely getting 1000 visitors per month.

Since then I launched 15 new analytics tools, completely revamped the UI, added lots of new features, and even coded my proprietary candlestick charts with a technical indicator using HMTL5 Canvas from scratch (check Coinbase Premium tool).

This year the website started to get traction and now the platform is visited by 20,000 to 30,000 users per month. I will keep building on top of the existing features and will be releasing new free tools in the coming months.

Tech stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, HTML5 Canvas, Framer Motion, Html2Canvas, Canvg, Tippy.js, Supabase

Thanks for reading and I’d love to hear your thoughts. Feedback is always welcome as it’s what helps me keep improving.
Ah the classic "I don't see value in this analysis so that means it is worthless"

Surely you spend all your time curing cancer right?
Comparing Minimizers
Here's another one:

4) It's offline, and works in the absence of electric power. Even if you're in a tiny village deep in the middle of the Amazon forest, you can still pay for things with cash.
I’m not advocating for isolation, rather I’m talking about anarchy. Being able to self select who you learn from and not being in a graded and tracked institutional setting. It’s soulless and contrived.
The comments here are somewhat confused, understandably as the article is too. Cash is really expensive for shops, many digital payment methods cost a fraction. (Not in the US perhaps, but that whole payment system is antique)

The interesting question is how anonymous digital payments will work with stable coins. While in theory perhaps traceable, in practice not doable at scale.

We might be going back to a world with more cash like payments.
With the suggested configuration, git-activity logs commits, merge, pushes, rewrites, and branch creation.

Useful for

- validating a time sheet, or retroactively filling out a time sheet, or correcting a time sheet when you realize you left one timer running all day

- answering a weekly department "What projects did you work on last week and what did you do on them?" prompt

- finding that time you solved a problem similar to the one you're working on now

The log is stored in a text file. You can run your own programs on it if the git-activity CLI doesn't meet your needs, and you can share it across your computers for a cross-repo cross-machine log.
I had to buy a laptop on 24 hour notice for a consulting gig I had. I really regret getting an Acer. Cheap construction, no discernible thermal management, and the screen would regularly go completely blank with the IBM MDM/corporate spyware the customer required, I had to do a paperclip reboot several times each time I used it. Also terrible IRQ latenecy for audio.

Besides that, any wireless speakers using Bluetooth - it's a garbage consumer technology that I can't believe became a standard. Curious if there was a superior "Betamax" to its "VHS".
It isn't a per-soldier thing. It's just pieces of fabric that are all cut differently. They aren't out there making sure one person has a specific pattern that matches every single one of their uniforms, and doesn't match someone else's.

I get the line of thinking, and I tend to agree that if they really wanted to, they could figure out a way to match the pattern of a uniform to the person if the person had published a picture of themselves wearing the article on something like Facebook.

But that's a big if. When I was in the military, I think I posted like one picture of me in camo and the resolution was so low that you probably didn't have enough detail to come to any conclusions.
>Emacs is just too old to be architected with security in mind.

Bad security is endemic to all GNU projects. gnutls and gnupg come readily to mind, for example. In fact there was an article/blog post making the rounds a few years ago about how the letters "GNU" are an excellent heuristic for broken security models and fatally-flawed crypto.
> The big reason is growing food in wide open fields is almost always more economical. Urban farming is mostly advocated for by people who spend too much time in urban areas and don't have a solid grasp on the scale of the rest of the world.

While I agree on your conclusion, your reasoning is not entirely correct; urban farming is a byproduct, at east in MI, of a broken food chain wherein people left in the wake of financial disaster (2008) were left to fend for themselves and had to 'return to the land' while still being forced to stay close-by in order to just survive. Detroit was a food desert, the local, state and Federal government did nothing and corporate interests di-vested mainly from any real healthy options or grocery stores, what was left was what plagues the modern American diet (highly processed junk) and when the people of Detroit realized the help was never coming they took it upon themselves to create what has become the largest urban farming operation in the US.

Again, your conclusion may be correct, these people could not leave Detroit mainly for ecnomic reasons and were therefore 'Urbanites,' but rest assure this was not a hobby-farm approach they took, but rather the sullen and resentful resignation that they must feed themselves: what has since occurred has been amazing to watch, many chefs and artists returned back to Detroit and have made it an impact in self-organization and food security circles.

If I had more time I'd also make an argument for why the economies of scale tend to favor open field farming, but isn't that much better due to the vast needs of Govt. subsidies and the ever diminishing returns on investment when it comes to farming, conventional or organic, or in my case when I farmed: biodynamic.

You need only look to US/European farmers following the path of their Indian counterparts in mass suicides due to the unrelenting pressures and high debt loads in order to feed the masses.

Personally speaking, I think a huge missed opportunity was lost when many of the disillusioned in both West/East took to lying flat or quiet quitting etc... what should have been done was incentivize these people with low no interest loans and give them swaths of land to find purpose in regenerative Agriculture in order to remediate the soils and help offset climate control. Instead they just got chopped up in the meat grinder that is the depressing work force where they wallow in depression and suicidal ideation benefiting no one and making society more precarious day by day by making them gravitate towards extremism.
The Cybershard Keyboard Layout
> With conclusion I meant you claiming that go returns multiple values because a function also takes multiple values.

That remains the most reasonable explanation. There is no legitimate reason for functions that accept multiple arguments but only return one argument. That defies the very nature of what a function is.

C made a mistake, but that is not a good reason to copy it. It also made a mistake around memory management. You wouldn't copy that in a modern language either, would you?

> A map access is not even a function call.

Theoretically it is, albeit with unique syntax. However, importantly, it establishes the concept of multiple returns in the language. Once the syntax for multiple returns is worked out, there is no reason to not extend that to functions proper.

But the most likely reason it was added was not because of some specific reason, but because it would be strange without. It is not like Go is the only language that has that feature. It was already an accepted paradigm.
No one is saying what they did was illegal, but you'd have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to make a case for it being ethical and in the spirit of open source.
> I never mentioned city,

Yes you did:

> first settled into fixed colonies/cities around 45,000 years ago
they have other categories too, but its a different take. you get paid when people zap your posts.
correlation does not equal causation homie. a US news listicle with a method of ranking doesn't mean anything. i can find a list that has mass towards the middle or bottom depending on the bias of the ranking i share.
I’m the opposite end of spectrum. I really disliked the frosted glass look on images as they loaded and left the page before finishing reading due to how off-putting I found it to be.
All North Korea and China have to do is convince the people of South Korea and Taiwan of the enormous benefits of being annexed. If they're unable to pull off even that, then they only have themselves to blame.
we're talking about seizing cash they find while searching; I'm not sure if they can seize bank accounts (or crypto accounts) in the same way. How would they even find them?
I'd love to return to forum internet. I just don't know how to find them anymore because Google search is so crap.

Maybe a website, that links people to the forum equivalents of whichever subreddit they want to find an alternative to, would prove helpful?
Nope. Even if you aren’t a bot you get banned or suspended for being a bot.
You're welcome to contribute anything to the conversation besides blindly throwing out insults with no explanation.
Works well for SQL too, I‘ve been using it at my day job, found out via https://github.com/sqlancer/sqlancer?tab=readme-ov-file#redu...
I love that the proof is so elementary and understandable ( almost reminiscent of the Pythagorean theorem proofs) yet it might have some significance
Which only works when the error itself doesn't contain any information.

It's better than nothing, of course.
My info is maybe a bit dated, as it's been a while since we wrote this hackery. We also adopted SQLModel at some point but we had to patch it to work well (I think some of my contributions are now in upstream). As for some of the hacks:

def c(prop: t.Any) -> sa.Column: # type: ignore
return prop

To make it possible to access sqlmodel properties as columns for doing things like `in_` but still maintaining type safety.

Added types ourselves to the base model like this:

__table__: t.ClassVar[sa.Table]

Added functions that help with typing like this:

@classmethod
async def _fetch_one(cls: t.Type[BaseT], db: BaseReadOnlySqlSession, query: Select) -> t.Optional[BaseT]:
try:
return (await db.execute(query)).scalar_one()
except NoResultFound:
return None

and stuff like this for relationships:

def ezrelationship(
model: t.Type[T_],
id_our: t.Union[str, sa.Column], # type: ignore
id_other: t.Optional[t.Union[t.Any, sa.Column]] = None, # type: ignore
) -> T_:
if id_other is None:
id_other = model.id
return sqlm.Relationship(sa_relationship=relationship(model, primaryjoin=f"foreign({id_our}) == {id_other}"))

def ezrelationship_back(
id_our: t.Union[str, sa.Column], # type: ignore
id_other: t.Union[str, sa.Column], # type: ignore
) -> t.Any:
model, only_id2 = id_other.split(".")
return sqlm.Relationship(
sa_relationship=relationship(
model,
primaryjoin=f"foreign({id_our}) == {id_other}_id",
back_populates=only_id2,
)
)

I hope this helps, I don't have time to find all the stuff, but we also hacked on SQLAlchemy a bit, and in other places.
> decades

ss7 was developed almost a half-century ago, wasn't it?
To prevent the effect of people picking the first zone in the list to launch resources into
They aren't issued to you. You just buy them at the post exchange. You can buy one pair or 30. You can buy new ones every three years or every three weeks. The Army has no database mapping every specific pants pattern ever sold to a particular buyer, let alone a particular wearer, as junior enlisted who aren't married live in shared barracks and are perfectly able to share clothing if they wear the same size.
Will it be too late? We could move region by region and give a few years to see any changes. It's a two-way door that way.
Starship S31's debris has been returned to Australia
You realize that many Americans don't want our country meddling in the affairs of others, right? We are powerless to stop it.
I would say something about forest and trees.

But its funny how truth seems to eventually find its way, be it after a week or few centuries. Future captains of industries - take note and don't fuck up like this thinking all is fine and you are above retribution, because this will be your ultimate legacy. Find a punching bag, blowup doll, take VR glasses, do extreme sports, whatever works for you.

Its extremely hard to hide truth completely and forever in modern world, maybe even impossible. I love it.
Marc Andreessen on Biden administration targetting tech founders
> It's almost suggesting that it's morally wrong to use cash

Quite the opposite actually, it emphasizes the importance of such anonymity but also acknowledges that it also comes with problems for society.

> 0) Payments are final. Once you handed over cash, it cannot be taken back

First this isn't true, as most good comes with legal guarantee, retraction rights and so on. And then the near-final aspect of cash is also the reason why armed robberies works. (And yes I said near final, because the police routinely seize cash from people who got it illegally).

> 3) No tolling.

Cash is extremely expensive to handle for banks, and even if they don't charge you directly, they definitely factor this cost in what they charge to all their customers (business and individuals alike).
In the context of archaeology.... a good starting point would be

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344644569_Definitio...

Yes, the dividing lines are blurry.

No, it is not totally subjective
The linked GamesRadar article has way more substance than the Forbes article, which says a lot of nothing wrapped around one quote from the GamesRadar article.

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/publishers-are-absolutely-t...
Ahh ok so you got nothing. I figured so. Thanks for confirming!
Damn, answering feedback with a pr link is fireeee
We actually just wrote a book with your profile in mind -- especially if by "AI" you're especially interested in LLMs and if you're a visual learner. It's called Hands-On Large Language Models and it contains 300 original figures explaining the main couple hundred intuitions and applications for these models. You can also read it online on the O'Reilly platform. I find that after acquiring the main intuitions, people find it much easier to move on to code implementations or papers.
We can do basically this today. I could probably do it, if I decided to throw my entire life away (which, if I'm considering killing, is the minimum bar anyway) – though, not reliably and not without side effects. For an organisation of significant size, it's a question of how sophisticated they'd want to be.

The main obstacle to your sci-fi scenario is that, to date, no such "contrarian gene" has been identified. In fact, most traits you'd want to genocide away seem tenuously related to particular alleles, at best. Unless we start seeing fanatical HERC2 purists, or the people making bioweapons decide they don't care about collateral in the War Against Redheads, we're probably safe from genetically-selective mosquito-induced heart attacks.
> you can't chose the location of your R2 bucket!

Yeah this is really annoying. That and replication to multiple regions is the reason we're not using R2.

Global replication was a feature announced in 2021 but still hasn't happened:

> R2 will replicate data across multiple regions and support jurisdictional restrictions, giving businesses the ability to control where their data is stored to meet their local and global needs.

https://www.cloudflare.com/press-releases/2021/cloudflare-an...
https://a16z.com/ai-canon/
Misunderstood your comment. It is 2D as you've said, my above being evidence of that.
US urges Ukraine to lower fighting age to 18 to bolster ranks, official says
Yup.

"Luciferians" don't understand the nature of light.
Yeah, maybe. Like I said you have some good points to make.

However, using the word "history" in a way different to historians is not going to uncover any blind spots.
It's enough to find a fingerprint that's visually similar enough. It doesn't have to be exactly the same. That's many orders of magnitude easier than finding an exact match!
"... Moreover, I am reluctant to break this already sealed envelope, as you undoubtedly now have done, just to replace the letter with a shorter one."
Smart Device Makers' Failure to Provide Updates May Leave You Smarting
Why use androids at all? Bipedal robots are accident prone and difficult to repair. A wealth of effort would be wasted housing and maintaining a transient race of robo-people that would one day be obsoleted to make room for humans. Even then, it's doubtful how effective the anthropoidal form is on a body of mass with 38% of Earth's gravity. You might prefer other options.

When you weigh the risks involved with sending robots that have a limited motor manipulation, range of motion and independent ingenuity, you might as well just spend a few bajillion dollars sending an astronaut do it. You can very feasibly sustain a small population of people on life support, and if they were aided by additive manufacturing tools that could leverage Mars' natural resources then I'd consider that a much more realistic colony moonshot.
Well, the only way is the usb-c way. Via regulation.

Yes there will be resistance. There will be foul play. But tectonic shifts will happen over time. And the ecosystem will evolve and thrive.

Not every product will be supported by 3rd parties. But it would open a market, often smaller and local actors.

If it raise only a handful of hobbyist learning opportunities, i already call it a win.
Boy I love the continued insistence in America that law should be based entirely on stupid, niche, completely made up technicalities instead of just accepting that laws are made for a purpose and that purpose should have just as much weight.

Glad that we will continue to live in a country where you only get rights if you can afford to construct an absurd business that abuses poorly thought out pedantry just to do the same thing that is explicitly illegal but "with computers so it's different".
Spamming this comment all over isn't going to make it sound any less unhinged or off-topic.
Associated release:

Smart Products Surveyed Fail to Provide Consumers with Information on How Long Companies will Provide Software Updates

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/11/...
The US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation
Most posts on r/all seems to be fake for purpose of engagement harvesting.

But is this the case for smaller subs as well?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_scripting#Server-s...
>you get paid when people zap your posts.

This basically ensures that posts will be worthless engagement bait
this is why I'm always very astonished when European regulation is frowned upon by reflex
> IDK, maybe it's just the newer Android OS is such crap

I have a fairly new Pixel (so up to date OS) and none of these problems. Odds are it's something Motorola/Lenovo have messed up.

For better or worse, Android experience depends largely on the specific vendor.
Because Androids don't exist?
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> Async infrastructure allows your stuff to be sync or async. While sync infrastructure forces your stuff to be sync.

Is that specific to the threading model for Python?

The reverse is true in nodejs where once you’ve got one async call, the entire chain must be async.
Oh, Bluetooth is such a pile of crap... Never works properly, always lives its own life, deciding for you what to connect and what not to.
Bingo. The negative effects of karma farming are already outspoken on platforms like Hacker News and Reddit, and these are both platforms where karma itself is relatively worthless. Adding real money to the equation ruins it for good - look at what happened to Steemit, BAT and Coil.
Use Postgres for your events table
I didn't grow up in the trenches like you did, but nonetheless I think Kubernetes has a very user-friendly API. Imo Kubernetes is only complex because IT infrastructure is complex. It just makes the complexity transparant and manageable. Kubernetes is a friendly guide helping you navigate the waters.
Well I wouldn't say any other language. Common Lisp for example you have a currently running lisp instance that you are modifying.

You can pretty easily set up Emacs to work that way for any language with a REPL.
They are already being developed at Tesla.
How to Fly the Joby Aircraft in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 [video]
Joby posted an overview of how to fly their aircraft in MSFS 2024! I’m an engineer at Joby and was lucky enough to be part of the project. If you’d like help setting up your control mappings, let me know!
Could this be linked to instead?