skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because one can afford it doesn't mean they should. Consumers must send a clear message to these companies that continue to price gouge with nonsense policies, and deciding not to spend money on their services sends the loudest message.

I'm of the exact same opinion as you. Too many services trying to leech too much $$$ from the consumer right now. With inflation and other essential living expenses as high as they are, cutting these other "nice-to-have" services is a no-brainer.

To each their own of course, but I hope more people (even folks with the financial means) will choose to vote with their wallets, because some of these policies are quite frankly getting out of hand.
This is not something that can be solved with speculation; only hands-on.

If I had to solve the problem, my first line of attack would be to feed them a domain or URL only they know about, if possible. So that if there are visitors, they must be Amazon insiders. I'd look for any helpful clues in their access information or patterns.

I'd make sure that only entities which can solve a Captcha can view the price information.

If Amazon uses humans for this task, I'm guessing they are low-paid overseas workers. We may be able to feed them different content based on geography, which will work if the target market for our products is the developed world.

Other ideas: I'd have the prices appear not as text but images only. OCR would be required to get the numeric value.

Time based: high prices appear on the site first in text form, but after a javascripted time delay, they are covered up by images showing the real price. The robot would have to execute the time delay to wait for the real data, and OCR it from images.

Another idea: don't show prices at all, except to logged-in users who have created an account on your site, verified by e-mail.

Offer lower prices through a non-web channel. If you can get some users to subscribe to a newsletter, there you can publish secret URL's that unlock discounts.

Anyway, I'm confident I could outwit Amazon with one brain hemisphere tied behind my back. (Left or right, doesn't matter).
> No, The Button doesn't currently exist, and all available science says it cannot ever exist.

In what way is this an analogy for misaligned superhuman AGI? I've never heard an assertion that it can't exist based on available knowledge. This seems a very flimsy argument.

Anyway, the button not only can exist, some would say it probably does exist. Some would say it's likely to have been pressed already, somewhere in the universe. It's called false vacuum decay, and it moves at the speed of light, so as long as it never gets pressed inside the galaxy it may never reach us.
As another comment here points out...why is old reddit better?

Performance.

Just get new reddit design to load content as quickly and 80%+ of the complaints will go away.
RIF (android) / apollo (iphone) are the only reasons reddit is usable on mobile since the official apps and new web view are absolutely terrible lol. If reddit kills the viewing experience, i can finally get off that site.

The reddit api is also essential because reddit offers so little functionality. I have used my own bots before to search my own comments and delete my own content en masse.
So what? Nothing you have said has anything to whatsoever to do with hype.
> those who fear large swaths of workers being replaced by an influx of heavily automated processes,

I’m definitely on this camp. Because it is happening already, I’m seeing it before my very eyes.

My partner’s employer, a tiny ~50 people company, is already making the copywriters and graphic designers use AI.

I work as a developer for a large media company. The chairman, like everybody else not living under a rock for the past few months, has become aware of ChatGPT and wants us to integrate AI stuff in the CMS. We’re working on it, there’s hundreds of people using this CMS daily to create content.

Even the best case scenario here, where people are not laid off and just become more productive, results in the profession of many people changing a lot overnight. People who might have loved writing articles or designing stuff from scratch will soon be mere supervisors of AI’s work.

I think a lot of some guy’s post in Reddit that made it to HN: he was a 3D artist who loved his work, but was forced by his company to use midjourney, stable diffusion, dall-e or whatever and now was just doing some touches in Photoshop. He hated his “new” job.

I haven’t really used ChatGPT, Copilot and the like to generate code yet, because I don’t think I’d like it. I don’t want to correct/touch up some AI’s code as that removes all the joy.

It’s weird how roles are changing: we used to have some “AI” autocorrecting the stuff we typed and now we’re the ones correcting the AI.

Interesting times for sure, but the “large swaths of people are going to lose their jobs or have any kind of joy removed from them” I’m sure it’ll happen. And no one has a plan to deal with this nor time to come up with something. And having 90% of the workforce being “prompt engineers” is sci-fi worthy dystopia.
Considering the amount of animes Japan does produce, they could very probably train amazing AIs: they could assist in a significant way the creative process of such studios (look at digital corridor experiment).

Worth to try for a long time and maybe waste a lot of resources.
Not my much, even; the analog scale on amazon is $27, compared to $20-30 for most digital scales.
I second this suggestion!
Most users are not technical

Most technical users are still happy to use a GUI over writing their own scraper / visualizer
I’m sure the customers who were affected will get the bulk of that compensation.
It seems only fair that the humans charged with doing the grunt work to build an automated fabulist would just make stuff up for training data.

Tit for tat and all that.
Things that you can't get with IMAP and SMTP are not e-mail, pretty much by definition. They are in the area of embracing and extending e-mail.

> You seem to be fixing on first-party software, where service and software are provided by the same entity

No I'm not. It's a given that those are unbundled.

For instance, today, you don't have to use a Google mail client with Gmail, right?

Maintaining their dominance doesn't depend on locking people to the Gmail webmail interface.

I take it for granted that the purveyors of JMAP want people to go nuts developing clients.
I had the same thoughts, that Reddit's reasons must stem from opportunity cost.

The Apollo developer does however address this in his post and he claims that Reddit's ARPU is only $0.36/quarter. Reddit has likely been doubling down their efforts on Ad Targeting, etc and perhaps forecasts much higher.

Christian's reddit post only addresses ads though, but Reddit has been trying to diversify and create multiple products and revenue streams. They have gold for purchase and if I recall they were trying to launch some Clubhouse-esque product. Point is, it's hard to push any of these things if so many users are on 3rd party clients that don't support such features.
I think you are in the wrong thread.
Nobody would attach the timer to the actual moving drum, so the worst it has to deal with is physical vibrations from use (which, admittedly, can be quite violent if you have an unbalanced load). There are very few digital circuits that are actually meaningfully sensitive to vibrations. At worst, it's a manufacturing problem to make sure the PCB/solder joints don't crack from vibration.

In comparison, the mechanical timer is physically moving. A clockspring, or some sort of mechanism that physically sets the time remaining. Depending on how it's built, vibrations are a harder problem to solve. Not impossible, obviously, but it certainly adds cost.

Also, for most appliances we deal with today... they usually ARE simple to work on. Simple switches and mechanical contrivances. Parts are typically readily available... even PCBs, although possibly not at great pricing. There's certain appliances where you are basically screwed (fridges come to mind...), but that is mainly in my view because the typical failing part is the compressor. Nobody is rebuilding a compressor themselves.
Teddit.net is what you're looking for. It can get slow, but there are a lot of instances and you can also self host
Guix has more stuff in it now than Nixpkgs did when I started daily driving NixOS. I'd say it's quite usable, especially if you're willing to package whatever extras you need.

Encouragingly, as well, the Guix package collection is growing at an exponential rate (as is Nixpkgs). In a few years there'll be twice as many packages or more, so if you can make it work now, it won't be tough to stick with it.
Because some of the smartest and most well funded humans all over the planet are spending their careers making it more and more likely by the day. Nobody is aiming asteroids at Earth or trying to rotate nearby massive stars to point their poles at Earth.
Really disturbing and probably just a small sample of the privacy violations.
its meaning has shifted to now mean ESG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental,_social,_and_cor...) and DEI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity,_equity,_and_inclusi...) for corporations that make algorithms that have learned natural language well enough that people are talking with them and taking them seriously. the AI alignment guys don't like that and they have started calling their old AI alignment meaning as 'not-kill-everyoneism' with mixed results (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jMzBhCRrr7otmqcvK/notkilleve...).

EDIT: btw i don't have anything against ESG or DEI. I'm not a culture warrior complaining about 'woke ai'. I'm also not a lesswrong guy. I'm answering the OP's question "Is machine learning model "alignment" a serious academic concept? I've only seen this mentioned in pseudo-philosophical Twitter posts before." by saying what they mean now by 'AI alignment'.
Imagine paying $60 to remove ads from Reddit. In what possible world would that seem like an investment worth making?
Apollo needs to go open-source and pivot into a feeder app that connects to Reddit, Twitter, Substack, RSS feeds, etc. Allow users to connect their keys and pay the API themselves. Think of that as the subscription. The Apollo UI is killer and can make other social apps better.

Once the new app is being used by power users paying for their own usage, Apollo builds a Reddit alternative. It will fit into the feeder app just like the rest.
And similarly to climate, many people who signed this letter are academics who do not appear to have any financial incentive to push for government regulation.
After I hit the add comment button to post the question, this was one of my thoughts. Giving an API price like that is an instant devaluation of every 3rd party Reddit app.
Nintendo consoles and games are available in western europe as well
It turns out the real nanotechnology was the life we found along the way.

More seriously, I think that biology is better described and studied as applied nanotechnology. These are nano-scale, complex mechanical systems that are capable of manipulating their environment in an autonomous fashion. They're the science fiction nanobots we've been looking for all along!
> feels like going on a 2010s news page without an adblocker

I don't think it's any better now...
What is the best alternative? I know usually people use a seedbox + private torrent server. But which private server?

RARBG was amazing because it had everything, but still curated the releases for minimum standards of quality. Is there an alternative out there?
Our CAC is higher than $240. Lots of services are. When you start thinking about a customer being worth multiples of their revenue (not even profit) it makes a lot of sense.

Also, online advertising can lead to in store sales. When you look at those dollars people spend a couple orders of magnitude more than $240 on stuff every year.
Sorry to hear that and the best of luck that your account gets reinstated!
Ongoing discussion with 450+ comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083
NASA concludes first-ever public UFO briefing. What did we learn?
Point not without merit, but I’d say there are quite few pedestrian-friendly places in this country unless your standards for that are very low. Most pedestrian-friendly areas might be limited to a couple blocks downtown with a little or no decent non-luxury housing available.

I think adding more pedestrian-friendly places, or at least stopping building ones that are outright hostile to everyone but car-drivers, is very important.
Yes, that was my meaning. The McRib is mostly pork, with some binders (typical for mechanically separated/joined meat) and form pressed. The nuggets used to be closer to this, but now a lot more filler and less meat, same for the chicken sandwiches. The fish is pretty good, but a lot of breading as a proportion.

All said, it's not that bad at all. The bun/roll is far worse, but that is true for most modern breads.
I do agree. The hard part will be figuring out how to do that. So my background is in networks and I think SMTP was always a great example of a solid network. The question on the self hosting front is, how many moving parts will people tolerate. This was built on a past Dev product. So there's a lot of inherit tech debt. I'd have to rebuild a version that could be self hosted and federated. Just depends on whether it makes practical sense.
Yeah, then on top of plastic pollution we can have more e-waste.
Because they're also taking this opportunity to change rate limiting from client_id+user_id to just client_id.

To stay inside the free tier, you get 1000 requests spread over 10 minutes (their current spike-smoothing behaviour) across your entire user base.
Fedora 38 removed the filter:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UnfilteredFlathub
Ikr. I feel like there's lots of problematic folks? doing a lot of heckin wrongthink out there in the current climate? and its making me feel like so unsafe?
The outrage is usually because those sites deliberately go out of their way to compromise the experience for those that don’t pay.
It seems to be a good move towards self-hosted individuals, communities.

But since they broke noscript/basic (x)html browsers support, I don't think I will trust them on the long run.
Reddit doesn't supply a valuable service. They basically just ran and squatted on the concept of "internet forum" and used VC/network effects to bully almost all the normal forums into (temporary) nonexistence.

Anyone reading this can make their own Reddit-esque forum on a VPS and serve a few thousand people for a few bucks a month. And if Reddit ever kicks out all the polished app users/old.reddit users, you'll see that start happening a hell of a lot more
Yes. It’s very important. Think of it as quantifying whether a model understood the objective. This is, as you’d expect, especially important for auto-regressive models.
Note you can’t just make a New Digg and move people over - it will be something next-gen compared to what it is. And 100m babies are born each year, that’s double what’s their userbase.
I would expect any company over 500 staff with a functioning InfoSec team will want a more secure option to deploy. Just an idea, but if you must run the service on your end, another option could be single tenants/pods that you provision and the customer holds encryption keys in their KMS and can manage RBAC. Your staff would have only lower level admin ability to start/stop/delete the pod.
>> Facebook's average revenue per user (ARPU) is ~$10/quarter[0], and 6x that in the US.

> Can someone explain this to me? Why is it so high? Even if every single person on Facebook buys a product because of ads once per year, doesn't that mean companies are paying $240 to acquire a customer in the US? Is it worth that?

1. I wouldn't be surprised if lots of businesses lose money on their Facebook ads, but either don't realize it or Facebook has enough churn that it doesn't matter if the quit (e.g. a revolving door of unsophisticated local businesses spending money on Facebook because it's the biggest game in town).

2. A lot of advertising is broad "brand awareness," and I imagine it's actually very hard to determine if it's actually working in many cases.
Honestly, sounds good to me.
I see that, but its capital first letter already implies a proper noun, so no need for extra quotes, is there?
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oh that's cool, thanks a lot
The path to many things are completely unknown but that doesn't make them likely to happen or worth worrying about. I still don't get it.

We can't know if we've started the process to summon alien entities from another dimension through a rift in spacetime, either.
Apollo is not a competitor to reddit, it's a consumer of reddit. Those are very distinct things. It literally doesn't even exist without reddit.

If I have a backyard and let you host a couple concerts in it free of charge and then next year I decide "hmm, I think I should be paid for those concerts you're hosting in my backyard" is that anti-competitive?

Absolutely not.
As a user of Nix for several years who has only recently taken up HCL: why? They're already very similar languages.
People who write bash scripts well and people who write nodejs scripts are likely different groups that will want very different things from this service.
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> I can appreciate that. I haven't been listening to him for that long; having no idea what situation you're discussing, I'll take it at face value.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2HMPRXstSvQ

We are currently facing the biggest radiologist shortage in the last 30 years.

> It’s the unknowns which are dangerous.

Electricity, the Industrial Revolution, the internet, gene editing/bionengineering also came with unknown existential risks.

> We’re inventing something new in almost every way imaginable.

> I think people assume advancements will accelerate, actually.

This is highly debatable.

> we're talking about the potential to build a new life form with godlike abilities.

Evidence? This has been stated in sci-fi books from before I was born and I don’t see any proof that we’re building something remotely close to this.
Mh, it feels like there has been little to no innovation and competition between companies about social media that are primarily text-based. Mastodon is in essence a decentralized Twitter. All new social networks seem to be about media other than text. The only text-centric new entry that comes to mind is Substack, but that's not really a social network product. Maybe it's time for a new innovator?
In a perfect world the detection system would launch a net and cast the person before they hit the water

The problem is that all these things cost a fuck load of money and in this industry if something isn't made mandatory by law it's going to be skipped
As someone replied to in the comments there, Apollo adding a mandatory subscription -- which doesn't sound like what the dev wants to do, anyhow -- is basically just doing a passthru subscription to Reddit. It's the same sort of thing with certain fees in US companies that get passed to broadcasters/regional sports networks.
He should seriously consider starting his own Reddit alternative. He has a sea of enthusiastic supporters that potentially have enough critical mass to get it started. Unlike attempts to create Reddit alternatives in the past, this group isn't full of racists and others who were kicked off the site for engaging in reprehensible topics.
Not sure if this is what you're implying, but I think it's a mistake to think of YC as a monolithic organization that makes decisions by saying, "idea X is good, we should fund teams doing it."

More likely, each of the teams doing each of these startups interviewed with completely different partners who had no idea of the other startups even existing, and in that interview, they thought the founders seemed solid and had thought through their idea well, and chose to fund it. It's even possible some of the people doing these ideas came up with the idea after they got into YC (i.e. they pivoted) - some of the most successful YC startups were companies that pivoted mid-batch (e.g. Brex).

In general YC doesn't want multiple shots on goal in a specific market area. They want as many shots on goal as possible among great founders in general.
“Advanced” is sort of ambiguous, so it is hard to say what the original comment is really dismissing.
Hopefully this accelerates the death of reddit ... I think once they nuke the Google SEO fu they have on questions (they'll screw it up, like Quora did), get rid of NSFW content and kill old.reddit, they're done. That should reduce traffic by a good chunk, and less eyes on their site, less ad money. Ironic, because they think these changes will increase ad money.
LOVE Disco Elysium. Different for sure, but I agree... That was a lot of fun too.
Fwiw (tangent), I don't necessarily believe either of those instances were cosmic-ray induced bit-flips. I'd have to dig up the study, but I read a study once that more or less concluded "cosmic-rays are more common in memory unsafe languages and on overclocked PCs". Or more accurately, engineers frequently misattribute memory corrupt and operating outside specification to cosmic rays.

Particularly when the software in question is running on somebody else computer, proprietary software and OS (or OS modules), unknown patch versions, etc.
> redirecting you to "regular" reddit if you click on a title instead of the comments

Old reddit has been working exactly the same for quite a few years now and I can't remember it ever redirecting me to the new version. Perhaps this happens if you're logged in and have the new version set as default or something?
6. It is going to get better over time.

What Tesla does is record every single accident and incident, with video and with Telemetry.

That means that we learn over time. We did that with airplanes, going from being the highest risk vehicles to travel with to being the safest.

Every time an accident happens we learn something that we can use to improve the system. Not just the car, but also the roads and procedures.

For example, This accident has a strange vehicle on the road: A firetruck, probably the firetruck could have done better.

In the accidents involving the median of the road, the maintenance people had also responsibility removing the signs that should be there.
Big movie production is getting more and more expensive. We have been making movies for more than a century, and yet, the majority of the most expensive movies (inflation adjusted) have been made in the last decade, and that includes the pandemic. It is even worse with TV series. At some point, there won't be enough money in the world's entertainment budget to pay for it.

And big studios don't really have the option of lower budgets. They need to go bigger and bigger to meet the ever increasing demands of spectators, cheap production won't cut it anymore. It is not that you can't make good low budget productions, in fact, movie production is more accessible than it ever was, which is the other side of the problem. Big studios have a hard time competing against the creativity of thousands of small producers who have little to lose and a lot to win in pursuing bold ideas.

It is the same thing for AAA video games. Players want the latest ultra-HD, ultra-expensive stuff. And those who don't will typically turn to the indies.
The same, my S23 doesn't recognise 4 touches.