skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that's still not an "AI" problem: it's a "for some reason a court can decide to use a privately supplied black box decision making system".

Like, the ludicrous part is that sentence - not that it's an AI, but that any system at all is allowed to be implemented like this.

Not to mention the more serious question as to whether it can even be allowed to apply personal penalty based on statistical likelihood like this: i.e. if a recidivism rate from a white-box system was calculated at 70%, does that mean the penalty to be applied to the specific individual under question is justified?

Now that's an actual, complicated question: i.e. while no system based on demographic statistics should be used like that, what about a system based on analysis of the individuals statements and behaviors? When a human makes a judgement call that's what we're actually doing, but how do you codify that in law safely?
It affects watch time depending on how long the blocked sections last, which should affect money received by ads.
I'm guessing you've never written code for nuclear device, then.
The intent is what counts. The intent here was to troll, not request accommodation. Employers and judges don't take kindly to that.
> such as (to give a somewhat minor example) the day last year, deep in lockdown, when a shard of flying flowerpot ended up halfway through my partner's hand, sending her to hospital and upending our finely calibrated work and childcare plans for the week.

Author needs to realize this is a basic execution skill that most people have. Author is probably on the spectrum (like most of us here are).
I’m not saying “no one is driving.” Clearly they are or there wouldn’t be such horrible gridlock in lower Manhattan. I’m just very skeptical of the claim that congestion pricing in one of the densest urban environments in the world will “kill the city.”

I work in lower manhattan (in a high-income field). I don’t know of a single coworker that drives into work. Most of my friends also work in lower Manhattan. None of them drive to work.

Many other cities have implemented congestion pricing without killing their economies.

If businesses really do require employees to drive into lower Manhattan instead of taking transit, for most profitable businesses it will not be an issue to cover the additional cost.

I feel for you in Queens. I think we should absolutely expand public transit access. But that takes money. Congestion pricing provides (at least some of) that money.
he's literally doing exactly what the board wants. reddit's investors are more than happy to sacrifices users and the user experience for profitability.
I think the CEO will have to step down in a few months. It's difficult to survive this level of cluster.
How do the subs make money on reddit?
This gets messy quick. If for example you lived under a dictator and that dictator didn't like your conversation then you wouldn't expect to have a venue unless you took extreme measures.

Now let's say that you think AI was an existential threat to humanity and we were all going to die because of it. In your mind would it matter if you blew up 10 people? 100 people? 1000000 people? I mean in your mind they are all dead anyway and if this is the price to pay to stop it, it will have been worth it.
Unless they already have moderators that are up to speed on taking care of subs that big and active, there's going to be a deluge of spam content...I hope. It would be a shame if r/videos turned into a bunch of OF and crypto spam, especially on the day of IPO. Hardcore porn on r/all as the markets open would be hilarious.
I agree. And history shows that it’s important to acknowledge skill in situations like this. One of the primary reasons Germany was so deadly to my ancestors is due to the oratory genius of one man. I’ve been reading though The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which is a fantastic and dispassionate analysis of such evil. It makes you question what might’ve been different had others studied the means by which evil people exert power, as Ted has done here.

Remember, authorities weren’t able to catch him. His family turned him in. It’s only through luck that his spree came to an end. That alone makes his particular case worth intensive analysis.
I think characterizing the contempt for technology only in terms of the advantage it conveys to the "adversary" is kind of an incomplete analysis. There are true and valid reasons outside that. I'm in the camp that it (technology) is a double edged sword. It's hard to argue with the improvements in medicine, reduction in basic suffering, etc. But it wreaks a lot of havoc in its own right. The question is whether the good outweighs the bad. At one point that was a resounding yes. Currently? Harder to say. And if the answer to that question is no longer yes, then is there any meaningful way for a group of billions to coordinate conscious decisions and limitations about how technology should be approached, developed, and applied? Heavy stuff. Especially for a bunch of tech geeks.
Noise Can Take Years Off Your Life
Going dark for 48 hours seems rather toothless. Props to the subreddits at least attempting to go private permanently.
Yes exactly! Speaking slowly without a reason to do so is very painful for the listener. If what they have written is worth slowing down for, I'm all ears.
On my previous post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36110833#36123339) many people encouraged me to write about Japan's convenience stores, so here it is!

Thank you HN! I had a LOT of fun writing this!
Exactly if your ideas aren’t compelling enough to garner attention without murdering people… probably your ideas suck.
It's one of Mozilla projects.

I ported fluent.rs to C# after current FluentDotNet Ftl implementation was abandoned.

Interesting format, very simple compared to MessageFormat2. A bit too simple. To be honest.
I had the exact same thought. A real shame indeed.
I've seen some pin posts from sponsors. Eg advertising for SaaS apps.
>As a Gen Xer, it's wryly amusing to hear today's internet referred to as "Web 2.0"

Yes. I stopped reading right there.

Because Web 3.0 hasn't come, and the so call Gen Z, which at best are in the mid 20s. ( I thought Gen Z was suppose to be after 2000 but turns out they started in mid 90s ) They thought the current Internet as Web 2.0.....

>Web 2.0 was the period roughly from 2002–2012

I agree. The death of Web 2.0 started when Smartphone arise ( from 2007 onwards ) and when we transition from Web 2.0 era to App era. I would even argue it was 2010, because from 2007 ( iPone introduction ) there was the push for HTML5 Apps, and later SPA and basically the start of the mess of Javascript Frontend .

Web 2.0 to me is DHTML and later known as Ajax era.

It is also funny we now have Gen Z rewriting the definition of "Workstation", "Web 2.0" and a lot of other terminology.
Doesn’t Reddit have a track record of getting the CEO to do something unpopular and then replacing them?
You can read through all of /u/spez's replies here [0]. It won't take long, because the most striking thing about this AMA wasn't that he said very many controversial things but that he barely said anything at all. There's one moment where he gives a sarcastic jab about how Reddit isn't profitable while some of the third party apps are, and an earlier one where he repeats some of the things he said about the Apollo dev. But mostly he just avoided even moderately controversial questions.

He put in an appearance for about an hour, ignored all the most upvoted questions, then disappeared.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/user/spez/comments/
Cloud platforms are very much commoditized with all of them offering same core products at similar price points. Just different fancy names. Also shifting a cloud provider completely is not worth the small savings in most cases. So these days they don't pitch you to move entirely, they ask you to consider their platform for any upcoming projects.

One more trick used by channel partners it to move the billing under their name instead of billing directly with the platform. They promise to give a % of the commission they will receive from the platform back to customer. So they promise savings that way. They also promise to optimise your cloud infra, shut down unused instances, downsize some services that are not fully utilised and getting reserved instances for ones which are not yet on reserve. And for some companies it does end up with significant cost savings without actually switching the provider.
with a massive golden parachute thanks to this being exactly what the board wants.
Until there are no users and reddit is a dead husk.
That's pretty sick. I like a blog post from someone better at hacking than I am.
Always seemed to me the CIA were more creative: fish robot, sewing transmitters inside cats, arranging for their former director to die days before he was to give testimony. KGB and GRU were just "we're going to push you out the window" or "murder your family."
That would be a disaster for them. It would be "Mods are asleep, post X" taken to extreme. Any remotely contentious subreddit will be filled with crap and Lemmy will keep getting new users. I think it would be significant numbers switching, even if it takes only 2 days. And that's assuming mods will want to come back after the blackout...
Perhaps the most enlightened period of my life was the two weeks after I first took psychedelics.

My biggest realization while under the influence was that my attention (and accompanying focus) was substantially similar to a laser beam: when directed to a single point, it could obliterate anything in its path. I also realized that I spent the majority of each day splitting this laser beam up into hundreds of smaller beams which had no ‘obliterating’ effect on the tasks they were meant to be ‘doing’.

For about two weeks afterwards, I had an incredibly Zen state of mind, where it became abundantly clear in every moment exactly what I should be doing. I would then do only that until it was done. The visual was always very clear — I was manifesting the superpower of fully directing the laser of my attention.

Somehow I lost that state of mind, but I am always seeking to reattain it. The ease with which I progressed through tasks during that period, and the amount that I accomplished was, and is, incomparable to any other period in my life.

Ever since, I’ve firmly believed that prioritization is the single biggest hurdle to getting things done. Effective prioritization is incredibly hard, and seems to require deep intuition. Prioritizing based on logical facts is near impossible, because you will necessarily spend more time deciding what to focus on than actually focusing on tasks. There is some trick that I believe incredibly productive people employ (whether consciously or not) that allows them to fully leverage their intuition for good prioritization.

When you really dig down into it, basically every business is simply a chain of priorities, and the businesses that prioritize better win in the long term. The same goes for scientific discoveries, and really any form of genius. The tricky part is innately understanding how to do prioritization without it taking up more time than the tasks you’re trying to prioritize, a gift, I was somehow temporarily granted by the mushroom.
Serving a social network is not the case where you'd want just one server. Mainly due to reliability concerns, spikes in traffic and different patterns at different times.

But if you like the idea of ignoring best practices, there are EC2 instances with 192 vCPUs that go for several thousands an hour. And taking as example Golang benchmarks https://github.com/smallnest/go-web-framework-benchmark where it's not uncommon to be able to serve 6 digits of 30ms requests per second with just 4 cores. Then the conclusion is, the limit is the sky, if you are stubborn enough.
VC’s (or proxy organizations for government think tanks) are willing to pay for it indefinitely. Why? Because it allows them to shape public discourse at an incredibly cheap bang for the buck.
So, like many other high-profile AMAs that reddit has hosted over the years. I mean, can we please talk about Rampart?
I'm not sure how robust that support is though: https://discuss.python.org/t/requiring-compilers-c11-standar...
Are you implying having your code on GitHub means Microsoft accesses to your IP ?
Except they wanted to build something usable? If I could snap my fingers and make IPv6 deployment and usability, I and I'm sure WebRTC folks would. This entire stance is even more hard to mesh with the real world given how long WebRTC has been in development and use.
That would be throwing out the meaning of the word "fork" similarly but in a different way to denying how Gren started as a fork and thus is still one (though it's not the best way to quickly introduce Gren to its intended audience as a whole). There aren't simple algorithms to determine these things. It's the sort of job an LLM would be good for.
It's just a name; might as well call it a "book", "publication", "article", "website", or "blog post". It's also a name given by the FBI and the media, not Kaczynski himself.
Yes, it should matter, because sane people admit there is a chance they could be wrong. You can walk back ideas, you can’t walk back deaths.

Also unless you’re a government you probably shouldn’t be applying utilitarian ideas of ethics to your actions, you do not have a right to decide on behalf of anyone but yourself as an individual, so even by utilitarian standards you are likely being unethical.
> If Apple wanted to, they could probably conjoin two M2 Ultra's and soundly beat the i9-13900K by a considerable margin and still use about half the same power to do so.

You can play that in the other way too. Use multiple 13700Ts at 35W each.
It’s pretty easy to make a Reddit clone right? Didn’t they release their source code?
If you want to change the world positively, the first step is accepting the current state of the world is what it is.
Yeah, no shit. That's what I'm saying, Peter.
This is hopefully and likely going to be the biggest user revolt in the history of the internet. I'm sincerely hoping the cowards back down or my last favorite big place on the internet is also going to disappear.
No, not just on sound quality. If that was an outro for a Boards of Canada or Ulrich Schnauss demo, I would not have batted an eye.
It might turn out to be one of the largest protests, but it's also one where there's a large gap between how passionate your average mod feels about the issues here vs. your average Reddit users.

spez's recent comments have served to lower this gap, but probably not by that much. My guess is that if a lot of mods end up getting replaced over this, they won't be missed.
Sean recently posted a link to an ffmpeg fork where this work is being done too. Gstreamer already has a WHIP module that flew under my radar. So there should be plenty of good options soon.
> The Large Scale Store Act of 1973

> Now, the small businesses could slow down the large businesses by 4-5 years or even completely freeze them out.

Sounds like the law of unintended consequences caught up with them.

If not for this law, they would have only had to contend with a few large shopping centers. Instead they now have to deal with one (much better) convenience store on practically every street!
Ralf Fücks is a prime example:

From Maoist to Green Party Member and government funded NATO war hawk.

There are many ex-Maoists who have found a home in the right wing of the Greens.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kommunistischer_Bund_Westdeuts...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zentrum_Liberale_Moderne
This is not the path to profitability. This is how you lose the mods and power users who provide and moderate the content of the site leading to it's downfall. That's not profitable.
Define massive. Doubt reddit is going to give him 50 MM.
Yes, I agree. Ramming idiology down someone’s throat in an environment whose purpose is to make $$ is uncalled for. So why did Bitwarden do it? They could have made it entirely optional.
The only difference is if you refuse to pay your mechanic the mechanic can likely do nothing.

The billion dollar company can take the other billion dollar company and procure the money owed + damages.
I was hoping for a fun name like Jellybleed or Man o’ Cyberwar or PolyPwn or something
Can you share a screenshot or if the code is open source the repo and query with louis at bloop dot ai

I’ve seen a similar issue with the syntax highlighter and less common languages. Either way will debug and fix.
A proper cooler won't get loud or hot.

And as far as heating the room, okay that's an extra $50 of air conditioning to remove the $200 of heat.
Even in Italy?

Just now I went to Avis.com , set pick up in Rome tomorrow, drop off in Rome the day after, and it said there are 6 types of cars available, and 5 of those types have manual transmissions.
First, I'm not sure you're using "quick" properly here. There is no trajectory - only individual cases. We can easily consider his actions unjustifiable and yet consider similar actions against a brutal dictator justifiable without straying into hypocrisy.

Second, the "imagine you truly believed X" defense is a good argument for sympathy, but not a good argument for justification or credence.
Might be a selective bias effect? A lot of hardware stuff has crashed and burned. Most famously fusion has been 20 years away for 60+ years, and there's always new rechargable battery tech that's going to replace lithium ion in a few years. For computer hardware, mram, feram, and optane/crosspoint memory has all been pretty disappointing.
It's also somewhat easy to plan a party. The problem is getting people to show up.
There is SOME secret sauce. The admins _do_ play a crucial role. The history plays a role.

Everyone says this about reddit and Twitter and yet it's still not true that twitter has been replaced in spite of the shit show going on there.
Its unfortunate for Reddit, they have been forced in between a rock and a hard place.

They need to become profitable asap since the markets have dried up but users have gotten so used to being subsidised.
The interesting thing about BEAM languages is that they naturally treat the gpu as an asynchronously communicating resource. No other language gets that abstraction correct.
"There's a fine line between genius and insanity."
He tried that, if you had read the article
All these darkening will do nothing.

For a large, Chinese invested corporation, the best way to act against, is to ignore it.
Mods can be replaced. Do the actual valuable users rely heavily on Reddit's API or 3rd party apps? I doubt they'd leave over pure moral outrage on this issue, although a large amount of generic brand damage could cause some attrition.
It’s like he’s implying it’s the third party apps fault he can’t make money on a user base that big with that much engagement. Which is an…odd take.
> The real question is why any consumer would need that much compute, and the target market for such a niche is probably very small which is why Apple didn't do that

This is a lazy argument. Why did they make the M1 faster than other CPUs? I would argue that most people don’t need even that performance. Why do they put M chips in iPads - they can’t even use it optimally.
Seeing as how 3D NAND is already using quantum tunneling for charge trap flash, it's gotta be hard to beat that, right?[^1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f2xOxRGKqk
The contribution of content is very lopsided. I remember about 10% of the users writing at all and maybe 2% writing prolifically. You don’t need much to move the content somewhere else.
They are asking people not to join because they can't handle the influx. Not a good sign.

It also looks like I can only post and vote on my own instance, so hosting my own Lemmy is worthless, unlike email where I can host my own without any fundamental downsides (although there are some cultural downsides, for lack of a better term).
What does that have to do with the ridiculous api pricing or the lies about the Apollo dev?
You reminded me of the biggest annoyance I have with the systems that work in stop-and-go traffic that I've tried -- they often leave too much space before they 'go' and where I live, that's just an invitation to have someone from the next lane over jump in. So the car waits too long, takes off quickly to fill the gap, and then has to brake suddenly because someone else already took that gap. You end up being yanked around, and if the driver behind you is a bit of a leadfoot can result in you getting rear ended. I've seen it happen a few times when I still commuted.
https://archive.is/pfkql
> What do we want from self driving cars?

Security, by not making human mistakes. But this won't happen for a long time and probably never with people like Musk leading the way.

Autonomous vehicles are a poor substitute for long-promised flying cars anyway.
I'm surprised reddit even allows moderators to change the public/private settings for large subs, especially default ones.
> how few bad things people can point to that he actually did..

I'd encourage you to read The Power Broker, if you haven't. Some examples that aren't "policy decisions" we can disagree with given our knowledge of how it turned out (eg, building or not building public transit in a given place), but rather things that were clearly morally wrong at the time:

- repeated wholesale destruction of low-income neighborhoods through a variety of bridge, park, and highway construction projects

- evicting farmers and poor rural landowners through opaque legal methods to build highways and parks atop their land

- running a "slum clearance" program that primarily evicted people from slums and demolished them without providing any real place for the humans to go afterwards

- funneling vast sums of money into the pockets of collaborators, friends, and, in the end, himself

The Power Broker paints a nuanced picture, but he did some pretty terrible things in his time.
He has said in the past that no one uses 3rd party apps and they're not a meaningful amount of their traffic. Non stop contradiction and lies.
>Reddit is a good experience because of unpaid moderators who care a lot.

Arguably they care too much, and a bit of humbling will be good for Reddit. If the powermods had their way Aimee Challenor would still be working for the site.
The Reddit CEO's negative karma (-111,199 at this time) during the recent Ask Me Anything (AMA) session indicates an overwhelmingly negative response from the community.

You have to assume that the leadership team is not completely inept and that there must be a valid, urgent reason for willingly taking so much heat before the IPO.

What could it possibly be?
The "Libertarians are like house cats" meme comes to mind
The API pricing is a way to force users to see ads.
Should happen on IPO day as well.
Love the idea of this - but it'd be great to have a list of the languages supported (I'd be wanting C# - it's not listed in the 'treesitter bindings' you've linked to, not sure if that means it isn't supported)

And of course, yes I'd need to be able to provide my gpt4 api key.
They cost a little and then you have to retire the systems. My understanding is that there's not a zero marginal cost at that point. I am not sure how much it cost per kilowatt hour compared to decommissioning a nuclear power plant...
Excuse me, tow hitches are commonly used for practical purposes. I'm really interested in the case for making tow hitches illegal.
What hoops? Your comment makes it sound like the author is hacking together some libraries that happen to exist just to do ML in Elixir. Numerical Elixir is a very real thing being actively worked on by the creator of the language.

https://github.com/elixir-nx