skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, sorry about that - I didn't realize my story had been posted ehre until just a few minutes ago.
I'm not sure whether dang flags posts or not. Flagging is mostly a community thing. So things get flagged when some number (more than one, but I'm not sure how many) of users flag them.

That's it. That's the rule.

(All right, it's a bit more complicated, because other users can vouch for things that are flagged, and they can sometimes be resurrected that way.)

So, the rule basically is, "whatever the community decides doesn't belong, and is badly enough out of bounds that it should be flagged". It's whatever the people decide it is, and the people don't give their reasons.

That said, that particular post I can see why it got flagged. Big-name journalists admitting that they lied on an important topic? That could be interesting, yes - especially if it's the first one, or a summary of a trend.

Megyn Kelly not using preferred pronouns? That's 1) not the same as lying, and 2) not interesting. That's just culture war junk, and all it's going to produce here is a flame war.

I didn't flag it, but that's my read on why it was flagged.
They are planning to charge third party apps ~$2.5/mo per user (aggregate amount based on average usage), so that is already quite a bit less.
I think this misses the previous point, though. They're saying, correctly, that claiming that "not being able to repair something implies a lack of ownership" is not a logical claim.
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If you post the paper on site such as arXiv or SSRN and mention it on Twitter, appropriate subreddits and other social media sites, the work may get some attention and informal review without being published. Most papers I see in finance journals were previously posted on SSRN. I don't know how important journal publication itself is to you.
The bigger joke is their “open in app” links don’t work for me on mobile safari. At least old reddit still works on desktop.
What is holding back Bitcoin adoption for small online payments? With Bitcoin, a payment is a payment. So this problem would never occur.

The two arguments I often hear are "losing keys", which would not be a big issue for small amounts, and "fees", but that is avoided via the Lightning Network these days.

Is it that every payment is a taxable event, so it is too cumbersome for the customer because of taxes?
Can someone explain what value new Reddit data has for LLMs?

Presumably the entire 2005-2023 (up to March) dataset which is (was) freely available on Pushshift / torrents is enough?

Also, not that Sam Altman is unbiased, but he did say that social media (Reddit, Twitter) were not super important for developing LLMs (But of course, that's exactly what he would say if they were useful!)
Could science leave the university?
Not sure, this is a fiction.

But if I took a guess: more internalization of climate change by the general population, earlier investments into alternative sources of energies, maybe baking in carbon pricing early on before we all became completely dependent on oil.
It is much harder to launch an invasion from that point, than it is from the wide open borders of Ukraine.
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How would those api keys be exposed if it’s an app?
I don’t think the ad revenue for these two days is the important bit here. Reddit wants to IPO later this year and this protest highlights a very real existential risk behind Reddit’s business model.

Reddit is entirely dependent on a large number of unpaid volunteers to moderate their site. Without moderation the site will turn into a cesspool of spam and other unsavory content. No brand is going to want to put their adds next to that.

The problem is that unpaid volunteer have no obligations towards Reddit. They aren’t employees so you can’t fire them, they aren’t depending on Reddit for their livelihood and you can’t easily replace them (you’d have to find another sucker to provide free labor for you). They certainly can’t afford to hire enough people to replace the volunteer moderators.

So Reddit is now pissing off the very group of people they depend on for their existence, a group of people that can walk away from Reddit with zero consequences. They have shown time and again to not care about the people they need the most to remain in business. They are one dumb-ass move by the admins away from going belly up. Does this company sound like a good investment opportunity to you ?
I've thought about this a lot, so thanks for getting the neurons firing again. In my case, I worked for some agencies and had an absolute blast. In this phase of my life, I'm living somewhere else & would fight tooth and nail to stay here.

I wonder if it would be worth it from a talent perspective to create more, larger, and strategically placed SCIFs (Sensitive compartmented information facility) around the country so that there was less of a physical requirement for information workers to commute every day.

Some of the jobs I worked were a blast with really great and interesting people. I do miss it, but would never move back to the physical locations required.
Relevant tweet from one of the founders mentioned in the OP tweet: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1665625055777398784
> but to force users to use their crappy app so they can track users better

That's the point: let the users pay you to make up for the (potential?) revenue you're not making from tracking them. Estimates put reddit at something like $0.25 per user. Pushing them to the official app might _generously_ triple that number. Versus the user paying $5/mo? It's a braindead business case to say that users in your official app are materially better than the same users directly paying for the service they actually want.
Probably because it never became a big deal.

If Hillary refused to concede and told her followers to storm the capitol to try and overturn the election, then the two would be equivalent.
America has paid a steep price for parking
Yes and no. In theory it would be totally fine to "allocate" a stack that was exobytes in size (or whatever extremely large number). Thanks to virtual memory no one really cares... if that memory isn't actually being used. But as your stack grows larger and larger the OS has to find pages of physical memory to assign to that allocation, and you're simply going to run out of memory. A high end home PC or average server is only going to have 64-128 GB of RAM, a very high end server might have a few TB. Of course when you start to run out of physical memory the OS will start paging (dumping data from RAM to disk to free up memory), but that will kill the performance of your app even with high end SSD's. If you keep chugging along with your stack growth you'll probably hit OS limits on page file size next, if not you'll eventually run out of disk space.
It's up to you if you want to, in your head, define climate change as something that's always a little bit worse than what exists today, but that's not what anyone else means.

Let me be clear: climate change is driving massive disasters around the globe and has been for years. We're in it. It will get worse, but we're in it.
Immigration to Britain has been at record highs since brexit, particularly non EU immigration. It seems they were exactly right on the money.
Furthermore, this line goes back to WWII. Operation Unthinkable, etc. The Allies debated just keeping the tanks moving further east after Germany.
That's my blog post.

The convention site in question had a GA tag, and it was in search console, and I had submitted a sitemap. Search Console knee the site had 9 pages in the sitemap, and had only indexed the homepage.

The other pages weren't rejected, declined or 404ed - they were simply ignored.
My town disallows repairs or installation to barbed wire fencing, fwiw. You can buy it but can’t legally use it.
Matches well with the definition of the engineering method provided by Bill Hammack, “the engineer guy” [1]:

> Solving problems using rules of thumb that cause the best change in a poorly understood situation using available resources.

1: https://youtu.be/_ivqWN4L3zU
With the cost per request model, third party apps have more autonomy to dictate how much users pay per month.
/r/iowa has actually improved but that's only because we are no longer first in the primaries. I hope south carolina has a plan to deal with astroturfing the likes of which they have never imagined.
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> Will they also bring ChatGPT to the interview? That'd be fun to watch.

It is already done, as I've heard. The previous iteration was to pay your lookalike to pass the interview for you. Or just pay anyone and blame lack of camera on "technical difficulties".
This is not enough of a penalty.
Sure, we'll just throw the toddler, child and his hockey gear, backpacks, the dog and the wife on a bike and drive the 3 miles to drop off the child at hockey camp, then another 2 in another direction to go to the playground (it has to be this particular playground because the one by the house is boring now) and walk the dog in the park while pushing the toddler in the stroller that we somehow transported on our bikes. And then when we stop at Home Depot to pick up a bulky and heavy items, we'll just tie that onto the bike before picking up the kid from hockey.

No, a bike is rarely a suitable solution to this problem. People want cars because they solve a lot of problems like freedom of movement at any time to any place with anyone and anything. If this was any way to live then people would actually be doing it. There's a reason MANY people move out the city when the kids start coming because subways and bikes are not very nice to manage these things.

This site is full of single dudes who live in urban areas and that's their world view. People with families do not fit into that lifestyle.
Decompiling apps even on iOS is not too hard, typically API keys would either be in resource files or exposed via strings in the binary itself.
Friend's family have all Android phones and he told me directly in the OS there is an easy way to limit online time, I guess they have some parental account setup. Just allow them 30 mins now, or 20 minutes after some homework/chores are done etc. By default its off, as it should be.

TBH this tackles some of the worst attention traps for kids, but I consider screen time in general for kids as huge waste of time and their life, it doesn't matter how big screen is. Of course there is educational purpose, but it may not be easy keeping the device purely to that.

Life is about completely different things, if kids won't learn that early, they will face many struggles later. They can waste their life in front of their screens once they reach adulthood as much as they like, lets not mess them up even beforehand.
Tell HN: UC Berkeley has the best set of free introductory programming courses
UC Berkeley has a three course sequence for anyone wanting to be a CS major. The course are:

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3. CS61C: Machine Structures (https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61c/archives.html)

You can view the lectures and do the assignments on your own at your own pace. These 3 courses will give you a solid understanding of programming based on which you can learn more subjects on your own.
Big Tech fake-ified interaction between people on social media. People felt hollow and deprived of something and so seek "real"ness. Big Tech shall provide, commodify, and drain once again.
From the HN guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This is beneath the interest of TV news.
You cannot prove that the risks exist, and you cannot prove that the risks do not exist, so this approach to the problem is clearly not useful to make any progress on the question "is AI dangerous or not".
His goal was to become X, the everything person.

This is what happens when you're surrounded by yes-men non-stop for like a decade and they tell you that you're awesome at everything you do. You start drinking your own Kool-Aid.
My personal guess: with ChatGPT and other locally runnable LLMs being commonplace now, Google just can't keep up anymore. There must be millions upon millions of SEO spam pages being created and updated every day.

They lost the battle, at least for now.

This also lines up with Google Search results becoming increasingly worse over the last few years, but the last months in particular.
Show HN: TypeScript type-level math expression parser and evaluator
Different strokes for different folks, but a youtube video from a famous news celebrity apologizing for lying when covering a contentious topic should qualify as a worthy topic.

I don't know what video you're talking about but I would almost certainly have flagged a post like that. The last thing HN needs is "famous" "news celebrities" apologizing about lying.
Inspecting the app's content or the network traffic.
On top of this, there's this bogus mantra in the Rust community that "if it type checks then it works."

I've spent of hours interactively debugging Rust code, crawling through tracing output etc, and hours waiting for Rust code to link with mold because I added an eprintln somewhere, so I'm not convinced.

I love writing Rust and think it makes my life easier, but there's this stockholm syndrome about compile times. It sucks, and it's not the type system or borrowchecker's fault.
Smartphones teach you very little tech literacy. Get them a desktop computer without internet access and they will learn a tonne more.
I don't understand the point of a protest like this without some sort of concrete demand. If you're going to take down most of a popular site, you should:

1. Articulate the reason for your action

2. Explain what specific things need to happen to redress the problem

I haven't seen any clear statement of (2). Am I missing something?
Will he have to refund those lifetime members?

Smart on him for selling those…
Is that budget salary-only? They have some mighty expensive material requirements for some of their projects.
Ah yes AI and Automation the solution to all problems. It's basically impossible to directly talk to anyone in my state because of that when it comes to unemployment. What's worse is a 3rd party was hired to basically say they can't do anything but tell you if your account is either good or not. Sometimes it's nice to be able to talk to someone who has some power in the system.

If you mess up in the system good luck figuring it out for a few months. I think my state has had investigations over had bad it is. What's really stupid is unemployment fined me at some point but my unemployment insurance covered it as I had like $10k in my unemployment account the state agree I qualified for that I eventually gave up trying to use as I couldn't get these two parties within unemployment to agree. So I was qualified just unable to qualify. At least I didn't have to pay anything as unemployment covered it and I'm employed now but what a horrible system. I did attempt to go to go to court over this, major waste of time too. Especially because their own system failed with the original court date so they rescheduled for 4 months later. Huge mess. Don't ever be unemployed and you are fine though. Or move out of Texas I guess. I'm glad I had savings but I feel for those who don't. It's way too easy screw up in these systems.
I'm sure it matters for purist (valid concern), language designers and "lisp-power-users (sic ?)"

I do feel however like that statement is kind a like a "tomato is a fruit" statement. Technically true but for the vast (again not all) amount of tomato users does it really matter ?
Of course you can, there's a thing called research. This narrative is being pushed WITHOUT any significant research behind. So this is only about economics and politics, not science.
That is my blog post.

I did that with the convention site, yes. It still wasn't getting indexed.
I'm also a huge fan of Kagi. I've been a paying user since they launched the paying subscription. Really happy with it!
PHD tech developer here with an 11 year old daughter.

I wish this would happen in the US. Our family is the odd one out, because most parents are not yet aware of the harms of social media and FOMO (esp. for girls).

Of course, our daughter is extremely annoyed at us all the time because of peer pressure...
> - yuan

The Odd Lots podcast just had an episode on this:

> There's a lot of discussion these days about de-dollarization and whether the US dollar will lose its standing as the world's sole reserve currency. Generally, people seem open to the idea, but they also don't see many good alternatives out there. The renminbi is the obvious candidate to take share away from the dollar, given the size of the Chinese economy and China's role in global trade. But for various reasons, the currency isn't suited to be a global reserve currency. So what would it actually take to become one? And what would be the effects if it started to play a major role in global trade? On this episode of the podcast, we speak with Karthik Sankaran, a longtime FX veteran, about what China would have to do if it really has global aspirations for its currency, and why a more multipolar FX landscape might be good for world financial stability.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_EZDfe4y1Q

* https://omny.fm/shows/odd-lots/what-needs-to-happen-for-the-...

Snippet/clip on prerequisite(s):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIfMC41-Zfc

Transcript:

* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-22/transcrip...

* https://archive.is/8iNgy
Well it is happening.

You have a flawed theory that does not match reality.
We're largely headed for Bretton Woods 2.0. Nobody wants a single country to operate as controller of the world reserve/trade currency, because it gives that country a grossly unfair economic advantage over the entire world, which also loosely equates to a military advantage. Bretton Woods was designed such that the USD would be the defacto world currency with all other currencies directly set against it. To prevent the US from exploiting this position, the USD was to be directly convertible to gold at a fixed rate, which severely handcuffed the ability to do things like 'print' excessive money.

So, the ideal is we'd behave responsibility with an unimaginable amount of power at our fingertips. You'll never guess what happened next. Anyhow, after we found ourselves without enough gold to pay off our debts, we simply defaulted and withdrew from Bretton Woods, collapsing the entire system. A fun quote from Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury of the era is, "The dollar is our currency, but it's your problem." Here [1] are some interesting graphs of result economic changes after the dollar became completely free-floating.

So the "real" question is what form Bretton Woods 2.0 will take. One reasonable, if not likely, possibility is BRICS new currency, which is set to be introduced as early as August. The details have not been released, but it seems likely that it will be backed by gold in a similar fashion to the original Bretton Woods, but without any single country having uncontested control over it or the ability to 'default' the entire system. If nothing else, we sure live in interesting times...

[1] - https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
> If Ukraine had agreed to be neutral (non-NATO) the war and all this bloodshed would have been avoided.

This was already offered by Germany, turns out it's not really what Russia wants.

> I'm sad so many people had to die. This would have been greatly advantageous for some of those dead people not to have died in vain because we want Russia to have a quagmire.

Be great if Russia just decided not to invade instead.

> Won't happen. The Russians are likely going for all the ethnically Russian Oblasts in Ukraine.

Yes because Russia has an infinite number of soldiers, vehicles and weapons and isn't running out of all three of those things.
Levelsio: Jake Smith is a common fraudulent CC name
We aren't currently, no, sorry. However, I'll reach out when that changes!
Well on one hand, pretty much yeah. Not literally of course, that would be absurd.

However, there should absolutely be strong incentives for manufacturers of computer hardware to focus on hardware that is built to last: chipsets designed with future development in mind, unsoldered external RAM, etc.

Incentivizing this is good because it prevents the situation where a vendor gets punished for "doing the right thing" and making hardware that doesn't need to be replaced as frequently.

But is that "right to repair"? Mostly no. I would place it more in the broader category of measures against ewaste.
I hate this narrative. Every piece of it has problems. We are no where close to AGI. On top of that, the risks associated with AI have not been demonstrated beyond some speculative pieces sci-fi fan fiction.

The current generation of work is not AI. The risks it poses are minimal. You cannot hurt me with an LLM. It may reshape the internet due to the fact that content generation just got a whole lot easier. Beyond that you would have a difficult time harming me in any way with an LLM.

This article really boils down to Sam Altman traveling the world and having all the institutions of power happily agree that they want to repress any threats to their power.

I hope open source wins before the UN Treaty on Compute gets drafted.
Is that what you would have told me if I said I was 19?

Surely if age has made you so much more wise, you would be prepared to express that wisdom.

On the other hand, if age has inflated your ego to the point you are unwilling to even consider a different perspective, then why are you here?
I think this is a huge stretch. I would have a hard time even calling it immoral if the whole site vanished tomorrow, without reason.

Surely, there is nothing in writing that has been agreed to that Reddit owes anything to the health of communities.

No one could possibly say this about usenet and I don't really see the difference.
Then you're not working on big enough projects or in ecosystems where you need to regularly perform clean compiles, because afaik the "incremental" output from cargo/rustc isn't relocatable.
it's been declining for longer than 5 years, especially since they've removed discussion result filtering
> Revenue could shrink further and none of that would be lost.

How so? If Twitter goes under due to debts and lack of revenue, all of that will disappear.