skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Dont North of USA also get really cold and dark? My winters in south of Sweden are like -10C max for a day... Not very brutal.

2. Take some Vitamin D and its fine...

3. Dark is cozy too
Off-topic, but these kind of conversations based on anec-data pop up here and in my social circles quite a bit, but it seems like they're often pretty sparse as far as the quantitative side of things are concerned.

Does anyone know what the actual data suggests here? Are there any projects that make this data more discoverable and consumable for regular people, so that we can all have more well-informed discussions (assuming the data is as unbiased as possible) about what the real problems are, how bad they've gotten, and how bad they are relative to other things?
From a business perspective, it never made sense for Reddit to support free API access for third party apps for as long as they did. Now, they are effectively killing those apps. The thing "not based in reality" was expecting it to go on as long as it did.
I'm not going to say it's not racist, it is, but I will say it's the only choice we have right now. Unfortunately, the collective writings of the internet are highly biased.

Once we can train something to this level of quality on a fraction of the data (a highly curated data set) or create something with the ability to learn continuously, we're stuck with models like GPT-4.

You can only develop new technology like this to human standards once we understand how it works. To me, the mistake was doing a wide-scale release of the technology before we even began.

Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

We're still in the first step and don't even know what "right" means in this context. It's all "I'll know it when I see it level of correction."

We've created software that infringes on the realms of morals, culture, and social behavior. This is stuff philosophy still hasn't fully grasped. And now we're asking software engineers to teach this software morals and the right behaviors?

Even parents who have 18 years to figure this stuff out fail at teaching children their own morals regularly.
This is really cool.

Even before the first batch of very high performance RISC-V CPUs hit the market, we're already ready to deal with applications/games that use the legacy x86.
Can you not do that if you live in any other country?
I would not say those are examples of western values being eroded, they seem more like examples of economic relationships between countries being detached from the values of their populaces. The values themselves in these cases are relatively unchanged.
Awww man Ted Lasso is over.

I wonder if studies will be done marking this show as the popularization of the end of the toxic masculine.
Yeah and times nearing Summer like this is annoying. It is coming to evening or extremely early morning and it is still way too light outside. Just horrible here in Northern Europe...
I've seen conservatives gloat about this as a huge win.

They see it as liberal men voluntarily limiting their future contribution to the gene pool, and thereby reducing competition for their own offspring to thrive and take control of the future.
They're called calming signals, and the reason they're calming is because they make it obvious that the individual isn't "on alert".

If the individual means you harm, they're going to be paying close attention to your every movement since they're about to attack. They'll be staring directly at you, sizing you up, preparing to pounce.

Looking away, smelling around, yawning, slow blinking or eye closing, are all boondoggles that signal, as you said, "hey, I feel at ease with you enough to do this idle busywork, almost as though you weren't here at all because I don't see you as a threat or target".
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Hey, I just made my appointment for this!
Even more of a reason for an open model capable of being ran by anyone with a GPU.
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> As of July 1, 2023, we will enforce two different rate limits for the free access tier:

> If you are using OAuth for authentication: 100 queries per minute per OAuth client id

> If you are not using OAuth for authentication: 10 queries per minute

So... doesn't this mean that each logged in Apollo/3rd party client user can make 100 requests per minute for free?

The Apollo developer says his average user makes less than 400 requests per day and it's somehow going to average $2.50 per user per month. I must be missing something.
I hadn't used it, but I looked at it in the past. They didn't control the block lists, it was entirely up to you.

Basically it had "lockout filters" which would mute people you didn't follow/hadn't interacted with/new profiles/not in your follower network/etc, you can still see those messages and those people can still see you, they just don't trigger notifications. It also had the ability to block people based on a Tweet's interactions - so if someone writes a Tweet attacking you or your identity you can not only block the author, but everyone that liked or retweeted it (and by associated supports those view points).

On another note, I don't think it's necessarily wrong to be in an echo chamber with peers, if the alternative is exposure to constant arguments, disagreements, trolls and toxicity causing damage to your mental health, so long as you're aware. One persons echo chamber is another's supportive environment.
Social networks are a two-sided marketplace.

In the case of Twitter, power users who posted the best content almost exclusively use third-party apps for the extra features and usability they provide, and the ban on those amplified Twitter's quality issues.

You have many people in this very submission saying they will quit Reddit if Apollo becomes defunct.
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Wow what a misleading headline
Mistaking "left wing politics" to transgender rights or anti discrimination movements in general is reductionist thinking and political understanding like that of a Ben Garrison cartoon character.
Amazon.com's Ring mishandled customers videos and will pay $5.8M fine
2 years ago, Jack Ma was the richest man in China and CEO of Alibaba. But the government and the CCP were the real board of directors and they stripped him of everything.

Today, he is a college professor living in Japan.

Every business in China exists and operates under this same structure. Any suggestion otherwise is just a facade presented for outside consumption.
So uneventful yet you define your online persona with it. I don't think self mutilation should be taken so lightly.
Seems like this was made by Craig Kaplan (https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/). Had him for graphics while at school there, and he was a fantastic professor
Really? I just hopped on public transport, and could visit any friend within 20 minutes. Or just suit up and go on a hike. Or maybe take a walk in the exceedingly beautiful city. I never understood this complaint from the naysayers.

Having lived in both places for several years (first couple of years are never a good gauge due to taxes, relocation, visa, acclimatization, bias), I very much prefer the quality of life in Europe. At least California pays well enough to offset the forest smog I guess.

And yes convenient access to other European countries is also a big plus.
At first, I thought, "Cool, a sensor but no lens." Nope, no sensor.
How is Mark Gurman not investigated/sued by Apple
> Their moderation is wildly broken, frequently leading to blanket account bans of anyone participating in a thread close to content deemed inappropriate.

I reported someone in the news sub. Paraphrasing but apparently reporting someone for saying "they should all burn to death" (talking about govt officials) 1: isn't ban worthy, and 2: is "abuse of the report button" and led to me getting a 3 day ban.

I'm out.
same goes for generating weekly foodplans..
Not Sweden but in the Netherlands the government will cover up to 2/3rd of your rent.
Medical insurance idem dito.

Mind you America is THE place to be if you're a rich libertarian asshole but -spoiler alert- most people aren't.
The United States routinely has states, especially in the South, trying to get rid of evolution from textbooks, that fault line is usually the battleground between religious zealots that desire to inculcate their biblical worldviews into the formal education system.

Of course there are also contests to control history, sex education, politics, etc, because those are far more political.

The periodic table though, hoo boy, that's a new one.
For quantitative data, I think we should be looking at store closures.

How many stores closed in a city in a given time period? Is it more or less than other comparable cities? You have to normalize this data by population.

I think individual thefts are just that - anecdata, which sways one way or another too far in any given time period. But something like stores/pharmacies, where systematic theft can occur would be a better indicator
Not to hate on Sweden at all but these articles always read like they've been written by the country in questions PR arm of government.

I have a couple of friends that moved from the US to Sweden and absolutely hated it and ended up moving back to the US after ~3 years.

My wife worked with a woman that moved to [redacted] from the US and while she was okay with it her husband hated [redacted]. Whereas I, a born and raised Brit, moved from the UK to [redacted] in 2018 and absolutely love it here.

On the flip side I tried living in the US for two years back in my twenties and it was awful. I hated almost every minute of my time there. My sister also has been working in the US for the past 3 years on a work placement and cannot wait to leave in August.

That isn't to say the US is an awful place. It is easily one of my favourite places to go on holiday but I am not compatible with it as a home. Just as [redacted] was not compatible with the husband of my wife's colleague. And Sweden was not compatible with my friends.

In reality these kind of articles are basically worthless as everyone is different. IMHO you can't really learn anything of value from such pieces.
To be fair, voluntarily surrendering the ability to procreate seems life-altering and identity-shaping enough to qualify. Not something you'd do on a whim, no? Seems worth talking about.
I'm curious whether this is the same thing as the Gigabit Utilities Downloader enable/disable option i see in bios
Judging from [1], the volume is too big for evaporation, and they cannot guarantee that the vapour won't be radioactive as well.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-fukushima-water-idU...
Even if you compare all homicides, Sweden is about 6x safer per capita than the US.

But it's worth pointing out the danger in both is still very, very low. It really shouldn't be a contributing factor about where you live.
Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36140139
"he remembered having some drinks and winning an air-guitar competition before waking up in the water."

What a night.
My 11 years on this site has all been leading up to this very moment!!
I was aware the reduce and renew had been reduced to a whisper and largely forgotten (they reduce consumption after all, recycling is the only acceptable one in are consumption driven world) but I didn't realize some one had actually tried to twist things so they could vilify them.
I wanted to move the company chat from Rocket to Zulip but had some problems with the importer. I heard they improved it but haven't tried since.
Why did you pay €200 for a toothbrush?
This should be the link: https://www.ft.com/content/11cb394d-a13e-4826-b580-823b9367f...
To my knowledge, it isn't possible to self-train anything anywhere near equivalent to ChatGPT GPT-4 model, right? What they have is proprietary and subsidized by Microsoft letting them have access to probably... hundreds of millions of dollars in free Azure cloud compute/bandwidth credits + customized hardware?
If so, then it is completely unusable.
It would be interesting to see these rates and their political affiliation. My guess is that it would be pretty mixed. Seems the “libs sterilizing themselves” is a clear conservative cope.
Again, compare to the price for streaming services. Hulu charges $8/month an still makes you watch ads.
They are complaining about a company that is using the price of crypto to justify not paying their bills.
As an American I don't think that's really that difficult for people here either. Thailand is notoriously a cheap travel destination (once you get there) and YMMV but I'm friends with a lot of waitstaff that make good money including tips (avg. ~60k so maybe they just got lucky) and I live in a medium-sized city.

There are tons of societal and financial problems in the US but you kinda gave a super cheap travel destination as an example.
It's therapeutic, people use whatever is available to them. Having a struggle at the edge allows people to do the busy work they bill for while not accomplishing anything meaningful. Technical folk will find new ways to keep their thing going. If to many websites are gone people will move to a new formula (new to them)

The network of sharing software and movies is much older than the internet. Eventually you just purchase a preloaded data carrier from your local pot dealer. The drives are so large, the formula would go dramatically faster than BitTorrent. Shipping [say] 10 kg worth of data carriers is amazingly cheap.

Looking at some random portable drive 10 kg box / 0.265 kg = 37 drives and 37 * 5 TB = 185 TB ? Something like 100 000 to 400 000 hours of film. Good for a maximum fine in "lost revenue" of $ 1 000 000 000 000 for the single box.

There is a lengthy therapeutic treatment program between that stage and the torrent websites.

Eventually some bean counter will discover crowd sourcing Police Academy 8 and people will just give them money provided they desire to see it. Star citizen raised over $569 million. On the most profitable movies list nr 191 is Fifty Shades of Grey with $569 million from a budget of 40 million. I can see the problem, with crowd sourcing it would be like normal work. That extra 500 million would be unlikely. They would have to make 10 movies.
Alphabet is valued at over 1.5 Trillion dollars. If they pay 1 Billion USD in fines per year, maybe their lawyers are actually doing an ok job for their client.
https://youtu.be/GimCcrwYxdE?t=910

https://youtu.be/GimCcrwYxdE?t=1174
There’s no reason for $5/month to be what the average user pays. It’s for power users who spend way more time on the app.

Netflix has introduced ad-supported tiers where you pay less. That’s the same here, those users can use the website or first-party app.
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I think reddit is being naive by charging per API request. Do that, and application developers will try to reduce them - for example, caching popular subreddits or posts (ie. "this is /r/technology as it looked when we last crawled 15 minutes ago").

If Christian added a cache layer on his own server he could easily make the finances work.

But... Thats in nobodies interest - Users end up with stale content, Reddit looses users due to stale content and loses revenue due to Christian extending caching times to save money. Also, Christian will make uncachable requests, like for example voting, hard to do, which again hurts reddit as a platform.
Here's one from Bing chat"

"Which political party has had the most politicians convicted of crimes in the last 50 years?"

"According to a comparison of 28 years each of Democratic and Republican administrations from 1961-2016, Republicans scored eighteen times more individuals and entities indicted, thirty-eight times more convictions, and thirty-nine times more individuals who had prison time1. Is there anything else you would like to know?"

Oh wait, that's not bias. The Republican Party demonstrably has a higher number of its members convicted of crime. Simply put, Republican politicians are much more likely to commit crimes than Democrat politicians.

Reality has a well known liberal bias.
You are right and I am not sure where my mind is right now.

Isaac Asimov is on my bucket list to read. At least the trilogy.
I recommend reading the forward[0] of The Art of Assembly.

Or to just look at the output of your favorite compiler. Nobody has ever looked at the output of a compiler and thought it was good.

0. http://flint.cs.yale.edu/cs421/papers/art-of-asm/pdf/FORWARD...
That's a bizarre take.

The conservatives even commenting on this phenomenon mostly champion personal responsibility. ie. they would prefer you act responsibly before you require an abortion.
Pretty sure I remember there being ads.
Are they able to make it reversible, similar to lap-band surgery, where they just pinch the tube, so to speak?
That's a smart strategy. If you allow your feed to have things from whitepeopletwitter, blackpeopletwitter, politics, news, damnthatsinteresting (and other similar things), then you get a really awful experience. Every bit as bad as some people claim.

But if you filter all those out and go for smaller, targeted subreddits in your interest area, you might as well be on an entirely different site, it isn't the same at all.
You are totally correct.

What I can say is that there are some extremists on both Twitter and Reddit on both sides and as also found in other communities. Unfortunately, the commenters you are replying to choose to pretend that it is not the case with ridiculous anecdotes such as 'on my feed', 'not for me though' to dodge and as another question without answering yours.

As soon as one uses an anecdote, it is safe to immediately dismiss their comment.
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Backblaze is not a good choice for most things unless you were using it strictly for backup. Their S3 compatibility, as is most S3 compatibility, is a cruel joke last I looked at it.

I publish a mildly(?) popular offloading plugin for WordPress and adding Backblaze support was my biggest regret.
So the AI companies secretly scraping the data and without producing a direct attribution or affiliation are precisely the ones unaffected by this, meanwhile devs trying to make
complementary tooling (and thus fully public who they are and thus targets of C&D’s) are negatively impacted.

What a lovely model.
> Reddit, Twitter et all don't owe you anything. They do not make money via read-access API calls - they lose money. It's super simple...

Twitter eliminated 3rd party clients, and now Twitter is estimated to be worth 1/3 of its acquisition price.
When you use a framework, and add a route that uses QUERY you 'implement' it. My point is that when you do, it will all just work.
How much money can the average waiter/waitress save up in most countries?

(I've never worked as one, all I can say is the role has a reputation as being low-paid).
I've researched this issue, the Scandys doth protest too much.
They no longer require you to authenticate to see NSFW content. There's a big "I'm over 18" button below the login button.

There was a few months where it was required, but it isn't anymore.
This does not strike me as surprising or problematic, as the choice of headline would suggest.

They specify 4 hours of "focused" work. That seems a perfectly reasonable amount of time to remain in the flow state on an average workday. Email/Slack, meetings, and administrative tasks can easily eat up the rest of the day.

Expecting engineers to churn out 8 hours of raw code/infra/documentation every day is not sustainable or even desirable in most cases.
How do you guys maintain a healthy lifestyle?
I have recently been feeling the affects of sitting all day and want a change. I have hip pain, high blood pressure and I'm pretty over weight. I blame most of this on my job and how I sit basically all day and don't really have much time for other things(That might be a me issue because I have 3 kids who are involved in a lot of activities). I have been wanting to change careers for a really long time just to become more active and live a healthier life style, but none of them pay even remotely close to what I make as a software engineer(140k). I have considered becoming an electrician or something similar just to work with my body and not let it wither away. My question is do you guys know of any jobs or roles where you can be active and still utilize software engineering skills? It has to pay semi-well too. I'm willing to take a significant pay cut but not too much.

*edit - one other thing is I have been a software engineer for almost 10 years and it hurts to think of moving careers after all that time invested.
The "risks" from AI are far more mundane from this AGI taking over the world and extinction level event nonsense.

It's the usual, more power to the few, less power to the workers. Easy manipulation and control of the masses by "subtle" ways such as swamping the media with false divisive narratives (as being done today, but on steroids) and more violent ways such as automatic "police" without qualms or empathy.

The risks we face are from other humans.

This statement is at best naive misdirection. I won't be surprise if people like Altman are just working to increase their own power through regulatory capture.

This is a silicon valley power move. Some Randian heros with monarchic aspirations got some good folks to be their useful idiots.
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It's so weird to me how Oregon, for example, tried to adopt Portugals policies on drugs, but seemingly stopped reading at "legalize" and didn't implement anything like mandatory rehab if it's found you need it.
Reversibility goes down over time, and can cost $5k-$10k. You can put semen on ice with a cryostorage company for ~$1200, covering collection and some initial storage time, with cost of ongoing storage on a cadence. I recommend Reprotech, but there are several reputable providers in this space. Cheap insurance if your life changes and you change your mind.
I might have too much privacy stuff enabled but Facebook could not be further from what I am interested in.

I'm pretty sure FB thinks I'm a republican country hunter with a big beard who loves driving his huge truck to crossfit. Because of where I live possibly?
the amount of people seriously considered about some doomsday skynet like AI happening anytime soon is just amazing to me. I'm far more concerned about the naive politicians and those who have their ear.

perhaps AI will be generally intelligent, but please for the love of god, let's only consider that scenario what it actually happens.
Just checking that you've played new vegas?
+1

Please do. Backblaze lists x-amz-sdk-checksum-algorithm as unsupported [1]. Would be great to have it supported to be able to use it with Mattermost and other tools that use min.io for S3.

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/s3_compatible_api.html
Whenever I again consider getting one and start reading up opinions on the Internet, it is usually a mix of a lot of people who say they're absolutely OK now ... and then I run into someone who says it COMPLETELY destroyed their life and they're in pain all day every day.

Some even say they've been fine for quite a bit of time and then suddenly the pain starts.

Which in total makes me absolutely NOT want a vasectomy even though I have zero desire to reproduce.

Because it does feel plausible that it can cause trouble to lock something up in the body which is meant to be released once in a while.

I hope some day men too will have real and reliable (condoms fail a lot) self-determination in terms of reproduction, not only "suffer abstinence your whole life or risk getting financially gutted for decades."
Right, exactly. As of relatively recently I've come to decide that the internet in general has become a net force multiplier for evil and bullshit more so than for good. Crypto, AI, no reason they'd work differently.

Anonymity and obfuscation of crime are killers.