skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My prediction as a former i.reddit.com user is: don't get too attached.

old.reddit is showing the same issues that i.reddit had, such as redirecting you to "regular" reddit if you click on a title instead of the comments. I think old.reddit will keep accumulating small papercuts like these until enough users give up, at which point it will be shut down without recourse. Reddit can't do this right now because some moderation features don't work well outside of old.reddit, but the fact that everything outside the "official" website is being degraded or shut down should give you pause.
> > If you use another SQL database, the best thing to do is to use UUIDv4 as primary key, and use "ORDER BY pk LIMIT size".

> What if I want a different random order tomorrow?

If your data is large, and you want different samples. You can always always "select * from pk > gen_random_uuid() order by pk limit 10"

You have a very small chance to get ffffffff-... and get zero elements.

This is not perfect, I admit, but ORDER BY random() is one of the most wasteful thing.

If getting random samples is very important, the best you can you is migrate to postgres and use TABLESAMPLE.
There is a lot that gets done behind the scenes in createBuilder(). I understand where you're coming from, but this allows you to override any defaults that you don't like, in order to provide your own. I personally still stick to the standard MVC pattern, and don't go crazy with abstractions. I place my business logic within services and inject those in my controllers, but if you were to run a debugger, you would not have to jump through interfaces and other useless abstractions that were a thing of the past (and present if you follow current tutorials and books). I have used Node.JS, and still use it to provide my frontend developers with an environment using Express to build out templates using Gulp for minification/transpilation/compression for use in Umbraco (a .NET Core CMS). My frontend developers don't need to know C#, and can work in standard EJS templates and HTML, but benefit from SCSS and modern JavaScript. I can then build out the Razor syntax for views, and just drop their CSS and JS files directly into the CMS projects.
There is no sane middle ground on most of reddit. There are subs where you'll get reprimanded far quicker for "annoying mods" by bothering to report anything, and then there are the other subs that are so uptight and intense that your comments can only be fluff anything else gets slapped down for one of the vague rules it has. Good luck debating subreddit mods for their vague rules, you'll just annoy them and admins do not care in the slightest to resolve these petty things.

They've created systems that makes it obnoxious for everyone involved.

Tiny subs excluded, but at that point the form of reddit just doesn't suit smaller communities well. The way reddit sorts best, new, top, plus a bunch of obnoxious automod filters keeps smaller communities (even if "small" in this sense is 50000 followers) feeling absolutely dead.
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There are at least 3 companies working on very high end server-class chips which I expect will be available in a year or two.
Social Security number, passport number, birth certificate data, drivers license , tax information, etc.

Some numbers need to be verified every few years.
> Here's the thing: I do actually kind of believe that.

So... what's your answer to the question then? Are you just assuming we are likely to be annihilated and chill with that?
Fuck you, Reddit. A guy develops an app way better than your dogshit for FREE and now you want to charge him for API calls? Frankly you should be paying him, and it should be a lot of money!
It was a tongue in cheek reaction.
Try this: https://old.reddit.com/r/all/.i

Unfortunately it doesn't keep across links.
Well, humans switched from using using brains to store all their memories once they could dump data onto external media via writing. Much like how crypto switching to ASICs frees up GPU capacity for AGI, writing freed the brain to develop higher GI.
Delightful to see that this site still exists after all these years, apparently unchanged! I made three attempts to reach unclaimed confluence points back around the turn of the century, all unsuccessful: once to 48°N 124°W and twice to 46°N 122°W. It was a great excuse to go bushwhacking.
Very clean, super snappy, no external dependencies. Excellent first impression. Compliments to the chef.

That said, this needs a self-hosted option to be truly useful. One, for privacy reasons. Two, for decouple from you as a service provider. In particular, your service will get abused and sorting it out will put an undue burden on you, which in turn will likely cause you to throw the towel in at some point. The best remedy is to spread the admin load and let people host this themselves. A level up from there is to have a form of federation to let people from one instance participate in groups on other instances. If you manage to figure this out, while keeping the spirit and the aesthetics, you will have something both practical and durable.
What we need is a resurgence of specialty forums, but there's no good modern forum engine around, at least I'm not aware of one.
Happy to see the guy fail, but no one, not even Musk, thought Twitter was worth all of what Musk paid for it when he bought it, so it's disingenuous to use that as the baseline.
Milk-V Second RISC-V SBC – Physically Compatible with the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
Fuckit.py makes sure your Python code runs whether it has any right to or not
FuckIt.py makes sure your Python code runs whether it has any right to or not.
At least that's what he says. Maybe he got an unspecified offer to be the high priest of a to-be influential 'AI safety' organization. In my opinion, just like with the Patriot Act we are seeing a new world order trying to come into being. Come a decade, the few who bother and can learn about what transpires in the near future, will be shaking their heads at present humanity, asking how could we be so stupid and naive.
In the US, the seem to no longer require logging in. If they geo-locate your IP to anywhere else, they show "Log In" and "I'm not over 18" buttons.
> the website is stunning

I"m assuming you're talking about the website you see after you sign up? Because I don't see much on the linked website.

And the examples page is just a few images with text that is too small (for me) to even read.
So, the goal of the paper in

https://cdn.openai.com/improving-mathematical-reasoning-with...

is

"Improving Mathematical Reasoning with
Process Supervision".

Since I hold a Ph.D. in pure/applied math
from a famous US research university, I'm
at least curious, maybe impressed, by the
goal of "improving mathematical
reasoning".

In particular, one goal in the paper is

"To train more reliable models ..."

One of the techniques reported in the
paper is

"active learning" ... "used to train our
best reward model."

to improve the "reward" system to reduce
"hallucinations", apparently also to
obtain

"more reliable models".

And apparently part of the work is to be
"step by step"?

Okay: From my background in writing
proofs in math the work can be seen as
"step by step". E.g., the common high
school special format for writing proofs
in plane geometry looks "step by step".

Then, for "step by step" for a goal of

"more reliable models"

there are at least hundreds of examples
nearly 100% "reliable" in well known math
books by P. Halmos, W. Rudin, R. Buck, J.
Neveu, and many more, apparently back at
least to Euclid.

So, it appears that the effort in

"Improving Mathematical Reasoning with
Process Supervision".

is in a sense to solve again a problem
already solved with a nearly perfectly
"reliable" solution back at least to
Euclid.

In addition, in my experience as a math
student and teacher, commonly already in
just the first few weeks of high school
plane geometry, students get good at
writing proofs that are very "reliable",
and how those students learn does not look
much like what is described in

"Improving Mathematical Reasoning with
Process Supervision".

So, my guess would be, for the broad goal
of having AI do "reliable" math, need a
quite different approach.

Math that is not "reliable"? From my
experience applying math, e.g., to some
important problems in US business and
national security, in our society math
that is not "reliable" stands to be less
welcome than week old fish.

Indeed, at this point, for the unique
crown jewel of STEM, I nominate nearly
100% reliable mathematical proof as in
Halmos, ..., Euclid.
They can also offer to imprison people who won't turn theirs in, and publicly announce that they got all relevant online sales records through a secret court warrant.
I guess I'm charging too little. 50m GET requests would only be $500 with fastcomments lol
unions and liability reform.
Well, your comment is going to be flagged for mentioning these things, just like his article would get flagged if it did the same. I am new to this person but he seems intelligent, and intelligent people understand that the plights of minorities garner more sympathy than the plights of the (western) majority. He's walking a fine line already; he's advocating for not entirely writing off the views of disagreeable people, which is pretty much the exact opposite of what everyone in power wants us to do.

Maybe I'm just being optimistic, but I think that if he really does care about the examples in the article, he cares about the ones you listed too, and he just knows it's not politically correct to mention them.
> Others who trust this signing service then known that this key really belongs to someone with your name.

Yeah, but who are these others?

I mean I know how PGP key signing is supposed to work. But that all is entirely hypothetical.

It would be meaningful if e.g. there would be a requirement for gov agencies to accept communication with such keys with the same value as written communication. But "some fictional people may care about this signature" is meaningless.
I cant imagine that such policy will be popular because GPUs are useful for many important things besides AI.
> As a German citizen I don't agree that I have to sell my freedom to American companies

I mean your government already sells it to the USA government; why would you expect it to go any other way?

It doesn't look like it's going to change either especially since the EU is writing laws and policies that guarantee dependence on American tech companies.
Due in large part to their laziness with equipment... which is to say, they'd probably take up AI if they thought it could save them on the salaries of the people who might tell them they equipment should have been replaced 30 years ago.
Late to the party and this may get buried, but wanted to add a contextual POV. I'm an Apollo user, and I am also someone who was Reddit's earliest enterprise advertisers. As in, the campaigns I've green lit are perhaps still in their advertising media decks as case studies.

Reddit for the past few years have been changing the UX to benefit their revenue streams. Visit any reddit thread on a mobile browser, and get a nag to download the official app. Their app is less likely to be blocked by ad blockers, has advertising SDKs, and can link advertising parameters.

I believe certain threads need you to login. It is also in their best interest to find opportunities for you to login to again link browse behavior. Forgot to mention, the app also allows a logged in state to persist easier than browser.

TL;DR All of Reddit's UX decisions have been to grow their revenue stream.

Do they have the right to do so? Of course. Does it suck for this audience in particular, probably. In my opinion, they will lose their early adopters and perhaps some power users. Is that a risk they are taking? Clearly.
Absolutely.

Once upon a time I encountered some small issue (not a bug) with Postgres. I was able to get to the very source of it in the C code, understand what's happening, and adjust my code accordingly. It took maybe an hour.

Upon doing that, I shuddered, as I remembered troubleshooting an issue (a real confirmed bug) inside Oracle 9. It was by poking in the dark, trying to trigger a condition that made a server process crash, then trying to help Oracle engineers reproduce that. It took a week.
Good point, but in the case of OP, without condition, it will do a full table scan.

Also, any case of "WHERE filter ORDER BY random() LIMIT n" means "I want a tiny sample from a broad filter". So it might not be a full table scan, but it will still assign value to a lot of rows.
If Reddit wants to Digg itself, so be it. If I can't use my favorite 3rd party app my usage will drop like a rock. Its current usefulness probably means my usage won't disappear completely like twitter but it will be severely reduced. I can't imagine I'm the only reddit user who feels this way.
Seems like you could still a meta UI that drives the underlying SPA in a hidden browser but it would be a pain. Maybe a framework for that will be built one day
It seems that major compilers, gcc and clang are now suffering some sort of "planned obsolescence": ISO C is always adding stuff, then somebody will manage to use the new stuff in some critical system components and will force everbody to upgrade. It is even more accute with gcc extensions and linux for instance. It seems ISO C planned obsolescence does happen on a longer time cycle than gcc extensions for linux code for instance (or the glibc, or gcc but even worse: c++11 c++14 c++17 c++489374892347892374238, c++ is orders of magnitude more planned obsolesence troubles than C).

Then actually, they could generate amazing code, I would not care less: I am so much angry because of this manic and systemic planned obsolescence, I now try to code everything in assembly (avoiding grotesque assembly code generators and absurd usage of the macro preprocessor).

I write x86_64 assembly code, but I am confident porting to risc-v should be brutal but not that hard... and I kind of know, it will happen.
No, that's not what it meant. You had to click on the same icon twice, which was typically 32x32.
> We as individuals should not be advocating for the modality that maximizes the number of deaths, regardless of other trivial factors like status quo bias.

I'm not sure it's that simple. Traffic deaths are not entirely random, they can but there are actions you can take to decrease risk for yourself and other people in your car. If the number of deaths only marginally decreases the chance of death for some people (those who don't drive while intoxicated, don't use their phones, are more attentive etc.) will increase?

Also the state will have to grant legal immunity to car manufacturers so that they couldn't be sued to bankruptcy. That shouldn't provide them too many incentives to make their cars safer..
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April 2022: 12.2 kWh electricity from coal

April 2023: 9,4 kWh electricity from coal

decreasing coal usage, despite the sanctions due to the Russian invasion...
> But a persistent oversupply of milk in the U.S. depressed prices paid to farmers so much, for so long, that most dairies like his hadn't seen positive balance sheets in years.

Just because you made it doesn't mean anyone is obligated to buy it
I mean it could though. The US military has drone swarms that can automatically search for and kill people with incredible ease. AI systems are already capable of killing tons of people through similar homemade devices. Just attach a gun and facial recognition to a drone and you've got a product that works.
I believe the burden of proof is on the one making the claim.

Misinformation has been a problem for all of human history, in its current form dating back to at least the Spanish civil war.

All the existing version of AI does is replace troll farms.

This isn’t a new threat, it’s a faster bullet.
Unfortunately, it's based on new reddit and a UX nightmare on desktop.
All part of the process of TVifying the internet. It is considered dangerous for people to be able to communicate, to speak their minds about products and politicians, and the power of commercial interests combined with government is speeding this degradation along.
Holup. You're referring to something specific, methinks?

I don't recall much of this in cosmology, organic chemistry or behavioural ornithology.
Which languages have made it to the level of success that rust has achieved and then flamed out because of small organizational issues?
TEXT ISNT STORED AS TEXT ITS STORED AS POSTSCRIPT PRINTING INSTRUCTIONS IIRC
I've given both the package managers a shot with home-manager and Guix home running on Ubunutu. I enjoyed guix a lot, but because it's so focused on building from source installing software took a very long time. Maybe my setup wasn't right, but it would often take several minutes to install a package because it had to compile a bunch of dependencies. I've since moved back to Nix for the day to day, but I may try guix again at some point.
Loin is IMO not nearly as good because it's too lean anyway.
This is has always been an interesting aspect of Reddit.

On the one hand, this is fine: Reddit is supposed to be a collection of independently moderated sub-communities with their own rules and administration. On the other hand, you have a unified identity and content history across those communities, so it's a lot easier for one community to take action based on your history in another, which is a strange dynamic.

I actually think Facebook Groups are onto something with the way post history and profiles work: each Facebook Group a user posts in creates a separate sub-profile for that user which is specific to the Group. Users in that Group can see a user's post history in that Group, and that user's "main" profile depending on their privacy settings, but a user can't walk "across" to see a user's post history in other Groups unless they search from that other Group.

I feel like per-subreddit post histories along with a global user profile would help move Reddit more towards the "sub-community" vision if that's the direction they want to go.

The issues Reddit have are:

* Cross-stalking, as discussed above.

* Content discovery. This is the same problem every user-generated content platform has. What sub-communities get surfaced on the logged-out front page? Cross-pollinated to existing users? Every type of content will be objectionable to someone, so deciding what to show is always going to be a lightning-rod issue with advertiser dollars at stake.

* Global moderation. What's "bad" enough to get a user banned from _all_ of Reddit? What happens when that user is completely banned (do all of their old posts disappear?) Should large-scale content moderation like spam be handled at a platform or a community level?
Generally the goal of an authoritarian government is keeping the leader in power long enough to rob the country blind and then die peacefully. Where they have goals outside of that they do not tend to prioritize education — educated people often have more of the resources they need to challenge power.
None of those social media are rudderless, just that, money’s circulating in hyperspace and the lower dimension slice of those just has to be mostly consistent on time axis. We are looking at a cross section at ballast deck of a ship.
How many fatalities per mile are we aiming for before we can remove the beta label? 0?
> 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?

My first though was that maybe 1% of users buy something in a given year, but that's $24k to acquire a customer and is so far from reality that my perspective must be way off.
My thoughts exactly. People ask for paid options in lieu of ads and tracking, but when sites like YouTube and Reddit offer paid plans at reasonable prices ($3-$10/mo) there is an equal amount of outrage. You will never be able to please users who simply want to pay nothing.
https://archive.ph/zTHcM
Yes, he's dead. So, for that matter, are Newton and Einstein, whose autistic traits have been discerned by none other than the world's leading expert in the field: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3676-einstein-and-new... .
I have paid for Apollo, and Apollo is the only way I am using reddit. Should they go ahead, i will message Christian, send him my regards and gratitude, and nope the f out of reddit forever.

I too am sick of subscriptions, and may find myself in the same seas I found myself at 14.
Unconventional, but I played this both solo and with my kiddos. As a multiplayer co-op game it really shines. Granted it's easier than solo, but maneuvering multiple people around a tiny phone was absurdly funny.
Wait so when I'm using postgres I'm just designing a front end for it? Maybe I'm just designing a front end for my CPU?
Openfire 4.6.8 release (old stable) – Java XMPP Server
I stopped using Reddit last week when they shadowbanned me for, I assume because you cannot know for sure, saying something related to gun violence in America and my local area in a political subreddit. I only ever commented about sim-racing at any other point in that account's life, and so perhaps it was shadowbanned for posting my own YouTube videos that were not monitized and had like a dozen views? I don't know, and I don't care, my mental health has never been better than the past week!

tl;dr: I quit Reddit because I didn't want to make yet another account, and my life is better for it.

Edit: Also, I've been trying not to come into HN political and pop-culture threads too much, but am failing at that. Maybe today is the day I start just hitting the technical threads!
When I was young I got a tech job in Spain that was great but required me working until night, so I will go home by car at 1AM-3AM.

I had three incidents of crazy vehicles that nearly killed me. The last one with more than 50% of probability of dying. I am alive by sheer luck.

I was so upset that went to the Police to denounce it. They told me that it was routine, that the guys going out the discos at that particular spot were so full of drugs and alcohol that there will be accidents all weekends. There were raids and people detained but they continued doing it.

I left the work and told my boss to look for someone that did not need to use the car there.

I can't wait for the day people could kill themselves if they want with drugs, but let their cars drive for them and do not kill others.
Same latin root
I found this attitude from Christian really off-putting.

Dude, you run an interface to another company’s core business. You cannot make any guarantees about what they may or may not do.
That's not at all what "nuke from orbit" means. Google broke Thawte and Verisign. They didn't simply "make it public". Thank you for clarifying this; I could have been clearer. I think the distinction between what's possible in CT and DANE is much more obvious now.
Japan’s government will not enforce copyrights on data used in AI training
> "fundamental limitation of computers, you run into the halting problem or decidability problem when you have same fixed inputs and multiple different outputs. human's can handle multiple different meanings given the same inputs and provide a correct response."

the computer science concepts of the halting problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem) or decidability problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidability_(logic)#Some_unde...) aren't relevant to running an eating disorder helpline