skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>have you noticed that many of top subs are about either watching others humiliation or judging people

This is something I've noticed too! I occasionally browse /r/all and it's awash with judgemental holier-than-thou material. Echoing many posters here, there is a lot of great content on reddit if you dig a bit, but it doesn't often seem be the stuff that gets pushed to the top for me.

Even on subs that do have good content, low effort posts seem to get the most upvotes (perhaps low effort = less effort to read = quicker to upvote?).
A concrete example for me is on the /r/unresolvedmysteries subreddit - 2 line updates about a case (e.g. "Police announced no new evidence") are top of the front page daily, while longer insightful breakdowns of cases are often buried.

Perhaps a system for weighting upvote value to content length or complexity could be worth exploring?
DuckDuckGo is pretty good, is all about privacy and they don't have way less ressources as Apple. But we saw how the launch of Apple Maps was not perfect, so maybe it's easier and better for them to accept the $15B.
Ok, I entered start and end position. How do I start the simulation?
> back then it was universally known that those toolbars and extensions are distributed by assholes.

Clearly not the case or they wouldn't have been as ubiquitous as they were.
Yeah, at a certain point back in 2020 it suddenly was very bad to have variants with geographic origin in the naming. Although that was how it had been done in many other cases.
Could you elaborate on why it is not?
Why would that apply here, then? The premiums are the same. The fine is the same. Access to vaccines is the same.
Quantum fluffery. We as humans simply don't know what the state of the entangled particle is. There's no communication between the particles. All it guarantees is that if 1 particle spins in a direction, it's entangled partner spins in another. There is no measurement of collapse, you have to trust it just the same.
I'm in charge of sourcing components for multiple companies right now. I believe they could double (100%) prices and companies would pay it. There's chips that I'm sourcing from obscure places in China just to get the part and paying whatever price they ask.

Designers are getting overwhelmed because they're having to redesign boards for components that are available, only to realize by the time they finish the changes, the part they redesigned for is also out of stock.

There's been some talk of a Chip-induced cold war, and I would say that's not crazy given the market conditions. I also love the guy who posts here all the time saying he works for the company that makes the machines that makes the chips and they can't make more machines because they don't have the chips that go in them. XD
We can do a joint venture with my occasional day-dream company, which would sell appliances designed for longevity - e.g. an electric kettle or hairdryer designed to last you a 100 years. Featuring generic packaging[0], lifetime warranty, and extreme repairability - with CAD and circuit diagrams in the box, and spare parts available for as long as they can be manufactured. If any substantial change happens over the years (e.g. we change AC frequencies or switch from AC to DC mains), the company would also sell conversion kits.

--

[0] - Seriously, xkcd/993 is what I dream the shopping experience to look like.
> Why is it obvious that myostatin inhibitors would ameliorate muscular dystrophy in mice but not humans?

It's not obvious, that's why we have clinical trials.

What is obvious is that if your research process tests everything in mice first, and only tests in humans what already works in mice, you will find many treatments that work in mice but not humans. (Any treatment with the opposite character - works in humans but not mice - gets discarded by your process and never tested in humans...)
This site is incredibly slow to scroll/render. Closed.
I do mot think that what you wrote and what I wrote intersect in any way, to the point where I'm wondering if you replied to the wrong comment. (So, yes, they're consistent.)

I'm discussing how Debian handles versioning for the packaging scripts/metadata, which are effectively a very small software project that depends on your project. Those practices are no more relevant to you than some third-party software project project that compiles yours and uses it as a library, or some Ansible playbook that installs your project, or whatever. You might be interested in the existence of those projects and might want to address bugs they find, but whether they use version control is quite irrelevant to you.
This is where I got the numbers from: https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/california_state_spendi....

I agree that ballooning costs in the face of a constant slice of the same pie is a problem, but I wasn’t sure that diverting funding to prisons was the reason why, and that’s really all I wanted to check.
It's not surprising when you look at who was running the federal government at the time. If it wasn't a shitshow, there would have been something wrong in the universe.
If many miners move to another cryptocurrency, the difficulty for that network will go up, to the point that it's no longer profitable to mine it (electricity costs exceed income). Unless the price for the cryptocurrency goes up as well, but it won't magically do that just because of an influx of miners. After all, those other networks don't have the utility that Ethereum has.
>sim swap + phishing

nothing really specific to Coinbase.
The redesign was quite obviously introduced for the express purpose of monetization. In the old UI, ads can only take up so much space. The 3rd link down from the list (which is typically the link where promoted content is placed) in old.reddit takes up perhaps 7% of total available screen space. In the new UI, users are forced to look at full screen advertisements, which advertisers are willing to pay a lot more $$ for.
> It’s frustrating to watch so much of the output

well, frustrating maybe. But you know what, chips production is not like gravity, there are human controlling who gets what chip... Someone, somewhere could better arbitrate things...

And it's not the invisible hand which is, as often, well, invisible.
> (...) but it's undeniable that doing so exacerbates echo chambers.

No, not really. In fact, you got it exactly backwards. The problem was only made possible by these echo chambers. These conspiracy nuts create their subreddits and ban anyone who expresses any dissenting or even inconvenient information. Once these conspiracy nuts remove all reactionaries from the picture, they double down on craziness and create an environment in which everyone feeds off myths and fables repeated ad nauseum as self evident in spite of any lack of substance of bearing in reality.

If these conspiracy loons weren't able to censor contrasting opinions and those calling them out on their bullshit, half these crazy rumours would not even go beyond the discussion.
Generally low quality content too: "[some person with an obvious vested interest] announces that [some cryptocurrency] will be extremely valuable and fix all the world's problems"
Is there even a material that can withstand the temperature of Earth's core?
When you don't pull a CA and let things grow organically there isn't much of a discontinuity so you don't get much development like that. It'll be a gradual increase from SFH in the exurbs with more and more mutlifamily and small apartment buildings increasing in density to the city core where it's basically all purpose built apartment buildings with dozens of units at a minimum.

A neighborhood that's got a lot of 2/3/4 family homes feels about the same as a SFH neighborhood if those homes have one unit occupied by the owner.
Guess I could give a shoutout to fellow people in Oulu with their handset marketed to government use mostly I guess(?) https://toughmobile2.bittium.com/

Meaning the price for a consumer is steep and dunno if some of the features are useless without the matching backend. But I guess the level of security should be good. At least the folks from Bittium I’ve interacted with seem to know what they’re doing, for what that counts for :-)
> Estimates on Bitcoin energy usage put it at over 1TW now. I believe it was comparable to the energy consumption of Argentina.

Looks like Argentina generates 131TWh annually as of 2016. The US was estimated to generate 4K TWh (a.k.a. 4PWh) in 2020.

"Argentina generates 131,910,280 MWh of electricity as of 2016 (covering 109% of its annual consumption needs)."

https://www.worldometers.info/electricity/argentina-electric...

Bitcoin energy usage is estimated at 100TWh annual, but the upper bound estimate is nearly 350TWh so it could be more than Argentina.

https://cbeci.org
If everyone does their job just right, does everyone get promoted? Until when? Relative to what?
Nowadays you have to create an account with you e-mail for using Discord.
This time, and it feels like it only just barely worked. We'll see if we get as lucky in round 2.
This post would have done fine without the whole “we do not approve” / “we need to take them down” attitude.

Call it a terrible idea, explain why, recommend against it, and be done with it; one shouldn’t need approval to maintain a fork, and they are not misrepresenting what it is. I find the animosity a little off-putting.
Exactly what I meant by "mask compliance". It's tough to measure and can only be done through self-reporting.
You have to revisit AS's porfolio, we're not talking Springer, the book publisher here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Springer_SE
Alert was always annoying, but it was never as annoying as sites asking for notification permissions.
Didn’t this already happen at one point? At least for Siri results I know it did. I feel like it happened on Safari too but it might just have been Siri results.

[0] https://www.cultofmac.com/231133/apple-takes-another-step-aw...
Haha, no offence taken. I 100% agree with you.
In the future, shore up your immune system by nibbling on raw garlic from a few days beforehand up until the day that you take it.
On a similar note, assuming this is done with a default=‘true’, would this not be a contender for the most expensive code per letter ever?
It's not just the OP. I've heard from multiple sources that "Pfizer has an mRNA vaccine for Lyme in clinical trials." Somewhere along the line someone(s) saw Pfizer, vaccine, and put 1 and 1 together and got 3. And it spread. This is the first time I realized that's not true.
His prediction is that a machine will pass the turing test in 2029.

And yes, there's evidence of incredible machine learning discoveries all around us. You'd have to be willfully blind not to see those. AlphaZero in Go & Chess, the protein folding miracles of Deepmind, all the amazing work being done today. The field is racing ahead. Human minds are good at seeing linear progression. Our brains aren't particularly good at exponential growth, which is what is happening in this field.
I'll admit, this was my first chuckle out loud of the day. No stack would intentionally label itself as such, while basically all of them eventually become that. If you bundle the world in your package, expect bloated outcomes, in all of its cyclically-dependent glory.
Decentralized currencies rely on proof of economic waste.

It's possible to imagine forms of economic waste that have different externalities, e.g. different environmental impacts.

But we don't have evidence yet (that I know of?) that introducing one decentralized currency reduces waste in another one -- if you did introduce a new currency that wasted economic value in a new way, there's no evidence that crypto as a whole would waste less of the existing things, it would just start wasting that thing too.

In this model crypto is like ... an emergent antipattern of networked civilization, where the network starts to waste every economic resource that it can "see" and provably waste.
We need a down to earth real guide on quantum, because many are convinced that superposition and entanglement are somehow communication and/or trust mechanisms. In reality entanglement simply means that one particle spins the opposite of another particle it's entangled with. They could already have been this way from entanglement, but we don't know it's actual state until observation (with scientific instruments small enough to read the spin of a particle, not eyes).

I'm probably completely wrong too.
What I find interesting in the replies to your comment is that you are not taken at your word. I find we have lost our ability to do that.

You’re point is a strong one: shortly after preforming a very novel and rare action, your sister got ill with a rare disease. Her Dr. also mentioned that he had seen multiple patients who shortly after preforming a novel and novel action they got ill with a rare disease.

instead the replies boil down to:

1. Correlation doesn't imply causation

2. its psychosomatic.

Both annoy me.

1. People forget that the inverse is also true - causation doesn't imply correlation. For example, a quadratic relationship between independent and dependent variable will show zero correlation.

So why bother with correlation at all?

Because we need something to tell us where to start looking

Take the famous ice cream sales vs. robberies example. A lot is learned explaining the strong correlation between the two, even though there is no causation.

Of course, all the AI fanboys have no problem with flaky correlation as long as they predict well and they don't have to explain them.

2. This one really annoys me. While I believe that psychosomatic reactions are real and understudied (my great uncle - head Dr. at the largest hospital in a large city once told my dad that half of all ailments are cured with placeboes) this explanation is far less mechanistic and unscientific than blaming the vaccine itself.

The explanation boils down to “i don't want to believe its something I cherish, so Ill blame your hysterical sister instead”.

Psychosomatic digestive, blood pressure and heart problems are hardly surprising. All those systems are tightly connected and controlled by the mind. But vein issues? What is the mechanistic link between the mind and veins?
If you have a username, content is pretty much permanently archived on the pushshift.io API

https://pushshift.io/api-parameters/

A weakness for the specific application you are interested in is that I don't think it works with banned or quarantined subreddits - the archived dumps probably have that, but not the main API feed
Reddit modding is a network of cartels; this post is just pointing out the one that controls the front page. There are cartels that control most groups of closely related (by subject or theme) subs as far as I can tell, and subs that are closely related primarily because they are modded by a particular cartel. There's also constant mod drama, with intra-cartel disputes developing into schisms, and inter-cartel disputes developing into wars complete with invasions.

A real problem is that I don't think that the process of becoming a mod is particularly exclusionary, and anyone with ambition can eventually work their way into any cartel they want through flattery and constant online presence. This sounds democratic, so the opposite of a problem, right? But it's not actually democratic, there's no votes, it's appointments all the way down. The only way you can vote on reddit is to leave a sub as a group of users, and move to another sub together, hopefully with enough posting force and shady knowledge of mod tricks to attract more incoming readers/posters than the sub you've left (by "incoming" I mean people encountering that group of related subs for the first time, either through search or through chance.)

Again, why is that bad?

Because it's so easy to game. The people who mod subs are not exceptional at modding subs in terms of fairness and cultivation of interesting dialogues, they're exceptional in their degree of motivation to be mods. An easy way to create exceptional motivation is through paying people. Another way to be exceptionally motivated is to be irrationally motivated, e.g. mental illness.

The motivation that we hope people have is the intrinsic motivation to facilitate/provide pleasure/information to others, but to also do that for free while Reddit gets rich. Not only do I think that borders on irrational, but I also think that in the fight between the intrinsic motivation to help and collaborate with others, and the simple economic utility headwinds, you 1) can't expect many people to be of the type we want, and we 2) certainly shouldn't expect them to remain for very long if they are.

And even worse, the interaction between the paid and the irrationally motivated will always benefit the paid. The paid have a mission, and if they see no means of accomplishing that mission, they leave. For the irrationally motivated, modding is the end, not the means, so if being an enabler of the paid gets them appointed or promoted, they're going to be the best enablers you could ask for.

Reddit, and most forums, need tools that facilitate real democracy (or some sort of open political process), and in certain cases the requirement to use them. This dictatorship of the appointed and the "people willing to do the work (for free)" is just M-L style vanguardism and results in rule by apparatchik.
We only have 4 manufacturers of SSD drives who also making their own chips: Intel, Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix. Here’s the table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solid-state_drive_manu...

I tend to buy Samsung and Intel, both working well in my devices.
Just don't go meandering in backwoods. You're not going to get it in any urban environment.
At that point you still have a natural production, it's just less than at your lifetime peak. You can still destabilize your hormone signaling further and get symptoms like hypogonadism and gynomastia-- to say there's nothing to lose isn't quite right.
What does this mean for teh bitcoins?
I've used AP in some situations where I was having a hard time clearly seeing the lines due to the rain. It held up pretty well, with me only very rarely intervening (from memory, 2 times in 100 miles). It probably helped that I slowed down pretty significantly due to the weather. I've also heard that the newer radarless vehicles are a little more picky.

In general, I'm surprised at how many things it can handle well, but it does still need a hand on the wheel for the few times that it will fail.
We find ourselves in times where most mainstream software from renowned companies should be, by the standards of the toolbar era, classified as malware.

It's called Microsoft. Microsoft Windows 10, to be precise.
I actually have another idea for a medical device (different specialty). Do you have any advice or suggestions for someone like me (non-medical) to get started?
> The only thing they more or less do is to pin an old executable to old library versions, and you can supposedly install a newer version of the library. You then save a little bit of disk space.

You also then can remove the old library file and only have to maintain one for security purposes.

If you have old library versions around, especially in a packaged environment like most Linux distros, then the old code will sit there and potentially no one will be paying attention to it anymore. If you're lucky you'll have some security software (e.g., Nessus, OpenVAS) tell you there's a bug/exploit in it.

If you have only one maintained version of the library installed, with the old symbols embedded, then it's more likely to be paid attention to.
I think you may be massively underestimating the lead times on those decisions. We're talking years.

Also, you can't simply choose another node last minute, your design is intimately linked to the PDK of the node. Porting to another node is far from trivial.
In the unlikely event that you're absolutely confident that's true, you should also be competent enough to find the answer on your own.

If the device is network-connected at all, or is exposed to any external devices or storage (drives, USB or other devices), it is running untrusted software.
Mayim Bialik was already hired. Long-term, she will be hosting special episodes (in addition to her current guest hosting role)
What makes you think the war wasn't won /despite/ pathetic and fumbling actions by leaders and governments? Ha, my country sent a small contingent (25k) to fight against the Axis in Italy. There were new uniforms made for this expeditionary force. Turns out they chose uniforms that closely matched that of the german uniforms (!).

From a book on this subject: "Another problem in the country's preparation was the production of uniforms similar to those of the German Army. 'They even threw rocks at us in Naples thinking we were the invaders'.”
> Your primary printer should not be an inkjet unless you only ever print color photos.

And unless you print photos very regularly or sometimes need them right-this-instant-gods-damn-it, you are usually better off going to a local shop and having them printed there on better paper with better equipment, cheaper.

My main printer is a relatively inexpensive[†] laser, that has a true-black-only mode.

[†] not _absolutely_inexpensive, because I wanted the luxury of automatic duplex and the cheapest models out there are rather unreliable or nearly as expensive/inconvenient to keep running long-term as some inkjets.
The antibodies stay in your bone marrow forever. See jack kruse's Instagram posts.
I am using Ubuntu 20 and as far as I know I don't encounter any of these issues. If anyone is aware of user hostile things in Ubuntu, I'd love to hear it.
As someone who considers the Nokia N9 the greatest phone ever made, I’d love to pick up an Xperia 10 ii and pay for a license… but apparently because I live in Australia, I’m not authorised? What’s up with that — seems like an odd restriction.
I can identify with the guitar example. I started learning to play in high school, right before internet access became common for average folks in the US (I knew some kids who had CompuServe at home and I was aware of some BBSes, but nothing like today).

I remember going to the music store where they had a room with sound dampening and a giant pedal board hooked up to an amp. Some friends and I would head over after school, guitars in gig bags, and plug in to "try out the pedals". I'm sure the staff loved us since we couldn't really afford to buy them ever. But we got to hear what they all did.

Other times I'd think I invented something, only to realize it had already been done. I had this little headphone-amp that ran off a 9V battery and plugged into the 1/4" jack on your guitar. It was great to play loud (through headphones) and not annoy my family.

But one time, I had some old broken headphones plugged into it and found that I could wedge the driver in the corner of my mouth, play distorted guitar through it, and shape the sounds with my mouth. Do it in front of a mic and whoa! How cool is this??

Later on I learned talkboxes were already a thing. Do you feel like I do, indeed.
If you're on Firefox, there's an extension called Auto Reader Mode which saves you the game of "click reader mode before the popups appear."

Though I guess this extension is less useful now that many sites are purposely breaking reader mode.
I looked for a way to stop it spinning but didn't find one.
Funnels: The one big mental model from sales and marketing (2021)
There are auto-ban lists that will ban you from all subs that mod has control over, just for being subbed to a sub that mod doesn't like and is on their 'list',you don't even necessarily have to post to the 'offending' sub.

When the ban waves were happening and subs shut down, people tried going to voat. reddits favorite phrase was 'if you dont like it, leave' so we did.

But the mods followed us, especially the infamous mod 'She'. All the mods we tried to get away from bought their way into the voat subs and turned it into the cesspool you see today.

See, no one cares about the bans or shadowbans until it affects them, but by then it's too late.