skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s the unknowns which are dangerous.

You can conjure fantastic (positive or negative) unknowns about anything. Unless, for the negative case, you have a concrete reason for believing some class of net-adverse events are probable along some particular route and some concrete basis for evaluating whether alternative actions will both mitigate that risk and not create greater new ones, you have no rational basis for acting based on those unknowns.
RIF dev just posted an official update on the changes: https://old.reddit.com/r/redditisfun/comments/13wxepd/rif_de...

As the URL suggests, at this pricing RIF will simply die.
Pork loin (the stuff boneless chops are made from) is really lean and is pretty inexpensive, cooked properly, it can be delicious. But it can really easily dry out.

* Brine your meat before cooking to help it retain moisture

* Cook the minimum amount possible

* Try low and slow methods like

* Sous vide

* reverse searing

* Butterfly the roast and make a roulade or bake chops on a bed of seasoned rice or stuffing

* Cut into chops and pound until thin, bread and fry to make scallopini, schnitzel or katsu

* cut into thin strips and use the Chinese "velveting" method to prepare for use in various stir-fry type dishes
I got my vasectomy earlier this year specifically because of the Dobbs decision.

My wife and I agreed that a total ban on abortion (and potentially restricted access to birth control) is no longer out of the question.
No, but they are doing it on a line and with tools, parts, training etc provided by an engineer who does.
> And even for the switch, why bother if your goal is piracy? You can just emulate it better than the real hardware itself...

For a hypothetical Switch 2, you can't emulate if you can't decrypt the games. You also can't build an emulator if you can't run homebrew to figure out the hardware.
Yes. Solving context length has been tried in hundreds of different approaches, and yet most LLMs are almost identical to the original one from 2017.

Just to name a few families of approaches: Sparse Attention, Hierachical Attention, Global-Local Attention,Sliding Window Attention, Locality sensitive hashing Attention, State space model, EMA gated attention.
The irony of the sheer number of awards people are giving each other on that post, which if I am not mistaken, is just lining Reddit's pockets.
Very cool. Wish there was a bit more wiggle room ("easy" mode) to give to younger kids to play with
Very cool idea. I wonder if the design is a reference to the star-nosed mole. Appropriate for a blind camera!
I feel much the same way.

Looking at one of the subs I run though - old.reddit.com accounts for 5% of total traffic. Whilst 5% is not nothing, it's also not really all that much. I doubt they'd notice much impact even if half of the old.reddit.com users left.
In the US: https://imgur.com/a/VjlpwlN
Counter arguments to what exactly? Your line of thought is: some advanced technology is potentially dangerous. This is so vague, how can anyone counter argue? The sun is dangerous, water can be very dangerous, even food! I’m not sure I can follow.
I get bothered when people dismiss gun violence as gang-related, as if it doesn't matter because the victims are in gangs. We're all human beings, and we all deserve to live. Yes, people involved with gangs, pretty much by definition, are more likely to be a victim at some point, but it doesn't mean we as a society should just dismiss them, like they're meaningless, they all deserved to die. It just seems so heartless.

In the US, it's almost automatic when someone points out all the gun-related deaths: "A large portion of gun deaths are gangs in Chicago!" Probably true, but so what? People are still dying.
Well if I'm going to intentionally inhale poison, I'd be glad to know that at least I'm getting a consistent amount.
My DIY Coffee Bar Setup
There are no official uses.

Government agencies are required to accept de-mail, which is a proprietary email-like service. However, rollout has been nonexistent even among government agencies such that you cannot practically use it anywhere, they are a decade behind their rollout plan. The system itself is design-by-committee fugly, insecure and plain weird. You have to get an account with a commercial provider, all of which have closed down by now. PGP/GPG cannot be used with de-mail (except if you copy&paste the ascii-armored ciphertext into the software), and de-mail encryption is intentionally breakable anyways (officially "to scan for viruses").

The eID/ePA "elektronischer Personalausweis" electronic RFID passport which you need to use is another such weird proprietary waste of taxpayer money, accepted nowhere because it doesn't follow any standards and using the RFID function (e.g. as a bank for opening an account) costs tens of thousands per year just for the certificate you need. So nobody uses it and nobody enables the RFID functionality. Therefore the govt got the brilliant idea (among other, far less pleasant ideas such as requiring it for certain payouts) to offer free signatures on GPG/PGP keys using the ePA.
> Darwinian evolution and an overarching reincarnative process cannot coexist because the former requires that the physical world is the totality of reality

What? No it doesn't. In fact, evolution comports rather nicely with reincarnation–there is a finite number of souls reincarnating through ever-evolving bodies, working together across time to press life as a whole forward.

> Humans are either the descendants of monkeys via a completely-observable evolutionary process

Humans are not descendants of monkeys. That is not, and has never been science. Humans and monkey share a common ancestor, as do all mammals.
Is there no browser plugin that can give a more reliable offline browsing experience than browser cache and more convenient than wget?
> "stocks are evil, one can lose complete retirements on the stock market"

Putting retirement money into "balanced portfolio" of stocks also destroys competition and pits corporations against their employees in a fight to get them more money after they retire minus the profits of the bookkeepers or how are those managers called.

> "rich are rich because they earned everything in the stock market"

Insider trading. :] And also just buying index funds, with the save issue as above.
AFOAF belongs to the same pvt tracker now for more than a dozen years. The admins amp and push the community feels and have periodic fund raisers. No ads, and if you want to donate, you buy a jpg of a flower on an different site.
Seems to work out well for all concerned and while you have to maintain an u/d ratio, free leach and easy generous ratio reqts contribute to that community feeling.
I think youre right. People are always trying to imagine the next reddit and its not going to be some clone like voat or whatever. Hackernews is actually a lot like reddit used to be but its not going to scale to reddits size without subreddits, or the like.

I dont know if anything will overtake Reddit for a very long time because of network effects. But discord is probably the best guess. Although I actually think people do want centralization. They want 1 login to 1 website that has everything.
> Either make money and pay for access to the API or shutdown.

I agree. And I think people should also keep in mind that OSes also have APIs as well, and should be wary of systems that try to prevent user freedom.

Then again, I've been running Linux for ages now. And I don't have to worry about anti-user garbageware on a forced update coming my way, or updates that de-feature my system.
Right. I'm less concerned about what some AGI might do, or some almost-AGI, even if controlled by Dr Evil himself, than about what humans will do, when made redundant and left with all their waking hours to self-radicalize.

This will get worse of course through LLM-powered fake news barrage funded by powers interested in destabilization, but that's bad enough already without AI anywhere near. From this angle, LLM are more like the introduction of a more powerful gun than like the invention of gunpowder.
Meh that's why I stay away from German services. People who go apeshit on you for sharing one 64kb chunk of movie have lost their marbles. Service provider is GmbH, headquarters in Germany? Maybe someone from the other side of the world believes in their "privacy" lunatism.
What does it offer over NewPipe, if anyone knows?
There is no special legal status attached to that.

Actual electronic signatures recognized by law are not based on GPG.
I blocked reddit for a week. I was much more productive and I'm having a hard time thinking of what I missed out on. I told myself it was full of interesting discussions but I basically forgot all of it the second I had closed the tab.
> that seems like sci-fi nonsense

Your burden of proof is backwards.

It is on the AI-doomers to explain why sci-fi concepts like “AI improving itself into a super intelligence” or “AGI smart enough to kill everyone to make paper clips while simultaneously stupid enough to not realize that no one will need paper clips if they are all dead” have any relevance in the real world.

The entire AI-doomer worldview is built off of unproven assumptions about the nature of intelligence and what computers are capable of, largely because thought leaders in the movement are incapable of separating sci-fi from reality.
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> We have dueling anecdata here. I have not seen any information, in data or anecdotes, that would make me even a little nervous about getting a vasectomy.

You're right, it's not like what my anecdata describes is common/confirmed by the data enough to have a medical term describing it with its own wikipedia page or anything...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-vasectomy_pain_syndrome
I work near the spheres (not for Amazon!) and took my own lunch break around 12:20 today. I was hoping to witness the walkout crowd, but did not see anything out of the ordinary.
Or maybe it’s the debunking that needs a debunking:

https://sybilandmpd.blogspot.com/2011/11/from-sybils-closest...

Dissociative identity disorder[0] remains a perfectly real thing:

https://didiva.com/2011/10/sybil-the-nathan-defamation/

Nathan is an advocacy journalist who argues that federal laws on child pornography and child sexual abuse are too strict. "Sex is such a highly charged issue in our culture that — particularly when it comes to child sex abuse — people are very irrational," Nathan says. "Many people are convicted who are innocent, in my opinion."[1]

Not necessarily a reprehensible take but this plus her “debunking” of DID, SRA, and any connection between pornography and criminality certainly suggests an agenda. The anti-David McGowan basically.

In related news, the real story of Girl, Interrupted is more interesting than one might think: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/unlocked-crackpotoberf...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder

[1]: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=154309...
I go to Cash and Carry (well, they've renamed it about 15 times in the past few years, so it's actually US Chef's Store or something dumb like that) for wholesale pricing on meats.

Costco near me is pretty much the same price per unit category as grocery stores unless I go to their special wholesale outlets. Costco has better quality and variety that the standard grocery options though.
How do you initially train the tiktok algo? I don't have the willpower to wade through videos of children crying or dancing, acapella singers, people having small accidents, and so on.

And I swipe next as soon as I realize it's this kind of content.
Neither "wild" nor "children".
> No GPU purchases means no game industry

It would be a huge hit to AAA games, but the games industry is a lot more than that, and very little outside of AAA games require a GPU.
The usage of the Rentenversicherungsnummer is strictly limited by law, basically to pension-related administration. It cannot be legally used for general purpose.

The Steuerindentifikationsnummer used to be strictly limited to tax purposes. Against original political promises the legislation has been changed 2 years ago, weakening the limitations. I am not familiar with the details.
> "We have 50 to 100-ish new reports each month," said Sean Kirkpatrick, director of Nasa's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).

> But he said the number of those sightings which are "possibly really anomalous" are 2% to 5% of the total database.

So... 1-2 per month that are even in the "possible" category, and given the anecdotes around lunch microwaves and "turns out it was a commercial aircraft" this is not going to be the all-revealing report some folks are looking for.
I don't think many will be rolling their own from scratch, because fine-tuning is cheap and effective, and there's value in owning your LLM stack.
I think the devs of Apollo, RIF and the other major 3rd party clients should spin up an alternative reddit backend. They can let their users chose whether they want to connect to reddit proper (and purchase API tokens) or to the new custom one.

I imagine that with the userbase these apps have they could succeed and perhaps do some less greedy/intrusive monetization.
None of those arguments for existential risk are actually "clear" or "technical". Just a lot of hand waving which only impresses those who don't understand the technology.
Streamtuner2 is an internet radio browser from various directory services
All the talk of internet radio lately, thought I'd share my favorite. Written in python with ports for windows/linux/src, etc.
I don’t know if they’re trying to eliminate access but rather make more money/push people towards their own client
[Contributor to Aviary] Not many are building their own LLMs (though there are some like Bloomberg). But quite a few are experimenting with fine tuning.

One of the great things with LLMs is that they can (and are) fine-tuned with small amounts of data. In our previous work, we showed it cost as little as $7 to fine tune a model with 40,000 lines of text.
Ban Targeted Advertising? Empirical Investigation of Consequences for App Dev
> The industrial revolution does pose an existential risk: climate change.

And yet, until much later when we understood the mechanisms and could evaluate mitigations, any restriction on industrialization based on purely speculative “existential risk” that we could neither adequately explain nor provide a factually-grounded framework for evaluating relative risks of alternatives would mostly likely not have made things better, and could have made them (and even the real existential risk, as well as experienced conditions at the time) much worse.

It’s true that once we understood the concrete mechanisms and could evaluate alternatives, not mitigating the risk has been irresponsible, but that was…significantly later than the Industrial Revolution itself.
You could definitely do that now using many techniques, that would cost under $50, up to building your own RLHF for the socratic method. If this is something you and interested in and want, I would highly suggest pursuing. I use it for exploring and learning subjects all day long. With a couple of external tools, it would be 10x better and would enable less skilled users to get value out of it.

You don't know what you don't know after all.
How do you deal with "Please open in app to see all comments" and other similar bs? If you don't want to install app and/or login only old.reddit works on mobile web.
Prepping the serfs for war with China
The jab at OpenPGP feels unnecessary when your yardstick is an FSB signature using a GOST.
Leaving comments on a website is what I was referring to. The GGP commented that news sites allow comments, which I stated was a web2.0 feature that does not make the site using it a social media site which supports the original comment's sentiment as well. hopefully that clears up your confusion
Lemmy: Federated Reddit alternative with Mastodon integration
> So at generous estimates of $600M and 430M monthly active users, that's $1.40 per user per year, or $0.12 monthly. ... With the proposed API pricing, the average user in Apollo would cost $2.50, which is is 20x higher than a generous estimate of what each users brings Reddit in revenue.

This is 20x higher than what each user currently brings Reddit in revenue, but I'm betting that Reddit is going to be cranking up the monetization hard in the next few months.

Reddit Premium is currently $5.99/mo, so the bean counters probably see $2.50/mo for API access for a competing app as long overdue rent. I'd be very surprised if we didn't also see a big push to drive up the ad revenue on free accounts (more pushes to get on the app, ad-blocker-blockers, etc.)
Reddit may force Apollo and third-party clients to shut down
This smells like it was written by an A.I.
And just like Pascal's Wager, it's fucking bollocks. You can't just make up numbers and probabilities and imagined scenarios to invent the outcome you want.

It's rhetorical sleight of hand.
Right, you said before that's unrealistic, sorry.

But it's not clear to me what you think would be a good idea, which makes it difficult to see what you think would be a serious proposal rather than misdirection. It appears to me that you are taking it as evidence of bad faith if someone proposes regulation either stronger (pause) or weaker (OpenAI amendments to proposed EU rules) than what you prefer - but you also haven't said what you do prefer. What am I missing?

Personally, while I don't think the pause is realistic, I don't think advocates necessarily have any obligation to propose realistic ideas when they're not in a position to actually write any laws and are only able to potentially shift the window of what politicians and media consider acceptable.
The only way I can see this making rational sense is if the senior leaders in the government are in possession of secret, solid evidence that population growth is about to become lethal in the extreme, and this is a radical move by the government to precipitate their own depopulation through mass starvation.

But I seriously doubt that's the case and the mechanism of action seems weak.
So is there a better way?
iOS has been "swipe up to unlock" for some time now, as well as Android vendors had "slide to unlock" lockscreens earlier.
Wow, I wonder if the 95% of reddit users for your sub that use the new format are net new to the site, or if there actually are a lot of old-reddit users that happily converted to the new UI.

Don't get me wrong, the old UI was awful, but it was much more information-dense, so I prefer it. I think it's unlikely that anyone that's not already a turbo-nerd would come as a completely new Reddit user, compare the two, and pick the old UI.
I'm talking about improving C# by replacing LINQ with the more general Computation Expressions.
Does anyone else get the feeling that the "great filter" to our continued global civilization advance is how you manage, after reaching a certain size, the millions of competing motivations and concerns that branch out and cause confusion when there are no longer just a few clear problems to solve?
More than half the calories people take in is purely for energy. Excess is excess, it doesn't matter so much that it's fat or carbs. The difference being that if you're downing refined sugar or heavily processed foods there's other negative impacts that you don't see from excess fats.

Unless you're suggesting that getting an extra ounce of natural animal fat is worse than eating something like a cereal bar with lots of refined chemical additives that aren't real food, including refined fats that don't even exist and would never be taken in in nature?
I am skeptical that this is about regulating AI for safety rather than regulating AI to try to be the gatekeepers of the value AI brings to people who love drinking from the chalice of knowledge.
You can extract the transcripts and have it automatically provide context on terms and supplemental reading to support the material.
The OpenPGP stuff in Germany is not officially required to be accepted as a paper signature replacement anywhere. They are just doing this as an advertisement for the eID/ePA electronic RFID passport functionality that nobody wants.
Great game. My only wish is that each level had an associated URL (with a nonguessable ID, perhaps). Would make saving and sharing much easier.
As far as I have seen the conservative ideas of

> returning to a previous state of affairs that is perceived as favorable compared to the present

and

> maintaining the status quo

are primarily directed at hierarchy. The exact ideas of any conservative might differ between them (e.g. they might prefer different time periods to "return to", or focus on different areas of society and politics as important right now), but at their core they are directed at building and maintaining strict social/political/economical hierarchies. Often times it's about perceived "natural hierarchies" (e.g. meritocracy in the labor market, or competition in the free market), often times about traditional ones, and sometimes about preventing "unnatural ones", but I honestly can't think of any current or recent conservative legislation (internationally) that doesn't follow this pattern.
It's hilariously easy to spot astroturfing comments and posts on reddit vs. actual opinions. Real posters don't spend years frequenting the same niche subs writing multiple paragraph comments about the same topic. Sure those opinions may be influenced and biased in their own way, but if you read enough of them you can form a pretty good summary.
It’s absolutely true, and even in the sense of losing technology.

The effect of British rule on India is sometimes called “de-industrialization”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-industrialisation_of_India?...

The British had a deliberate policy of extracting raw materials and flooding the market with machine-manufactured goods. The British markets were not open to Indian manufacturers. So not only was India de-industrialized, but many rare skills and techniques were lost during this period. I can’t find a reference, but I remember reading an early British East India Conpany account of encountering silk of such fine quality that yards of it could be folded into a tiny box. Those workers would have been put out of business by the British, and their skills lost for generations. Might be a legend but I’m sure many things like that happened.

It’s just not things like rockets or nuclear weapons.
I use the old.reddit desktop mode on my phone. I can see 20 stories at once compared to 4 on the normal mobile layout (The text is small but still pretty readable). The minute they get rid of old reddit I'll probably just stop using the site.
Anti-Hallucination Add-On for AI Services Possibility
After my first day with Bard, I would have agreed with you. But since then, I've found that Bard simply has a lot of variance in answer quality. Sometimes it fails for surprisingly simple questions, or hallucinates to an even worse degree than ChatGPT, but other times it gives much better answers than ChatGPT.

On the first day, it felt like 80% of the responses were in the first (fail/hallucinate) category, but over time it feels more like a 50/50 split, which makes it worth running prompts over both ChatGPT and Bard and select the best one. I don't know if the change is because I learnt to prompt it better, or if they improved the models based on all the user chats from the public release - perhaps both.
There's always gentoo I suppose?
I'm not saying that tough-on-crime policies are the right answer, I'm saying that things like the three-strikes-law enjoyed support from communities afflicted by crime because they are the primary victims of criminals. They will want solace from criminals who are threatening them today, not mere promises that their communities will be safer 20 years from now.

Providing security is one of the State's most basic functions and people will demand it.
>The bun/roll is far worse, but that is true for most modern breads.

Do these "breads" qualify as bread in the EU? Subway's bread had issues, so I'd assume any US based fast food company would fall the same way.