skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did newsgroups work in the days of yore? Depending on which ISP you used, you may or may not have all of the posts within a group if they even had the group. I remember paying for access to specific (can't remember the name) provider that had the most complete listing of newsgroups and had the longest retention of posts. viva a.b.m.a!!
My mom bought us these, too. But she didn't always go to that supermarket (National, iirc), so we had, say: A-G, K, M-R, and XZY. Or something like that. Still, she was soooo excited when it started that it was infectious.
It's far too long for a bridge, which would also then cut the harbor in half anyway.
There are plenty of people, especially in entertainment who don't use social media but have accounts to announce things like a new project they are working on.

I think it's disingenuous to say that someone who only posts to Twitter twice a year, to announce that they are on tour but does not browse Twitter regularly or use it aside from that is an active Twitter user.

>Everybody else will be just as pragmatic

My intention is to only utilize my account to promote my business on subreddits I think are relevant, whereas before I commented regularly several times a week. If everybody makes a similar change, Reddit would lose a lot of commentors.

>If you were principled you would leave.

The multiple threads you and I are going at it in all boil down to the same basic thing: what each of us thinks will be the result of Reddit's changes to allowing API access. What subreddit moderators will do, what Reddit as a company will do in response, how users as a whole will respond, etc...

At this point, I think we have both fleshed out what we think is going to happen in multiple ways and it's clear we disagree so further discussion on that front is pointless.

I will say that I don't feel I have been making an argument that people will (or should) leave on principle. Or that I myself am leaving on principle. I am choosing to leave Reddit because I don't want to use their terrible web application or mobile application.

If that changes, and I'm able to use Apollo again then my stance will change. Because I am pragmatic. I don't think there's going to be some Mastidon alternative that pops up. I think convincing Reddit to change course is the best path forward than trying to get an alternative going.
> Hisashi Ouchi

That was a punishing read
For all intents and purposes, once IRB approval for a study is obtained, medical records ARE ALREADY OPEN to researchers for the purpose of recruitment.

I believe open medical data would have absolutely zero effect on the amount of time spent on recruitment.

Source: Me. I work with clinical trials data management in a medical research institution pulling hospital-side clinical data and patient schedules into systems on the research-side specifically for the purpose of recruitment.
>> " What is [sic] – quietly, because they haven’t tried to launch a major invasion recently – most militaries are probably similarly incapable of the basic tasks of industrial warfare?"

This premise is delusional. The Russian military may have degraded, but the war in Ukraine shows clearly that the only aspect of warfare that has significantly changed since WWII is the vastly increased efficiency in targeting weapons payloads. Which can be unwound at any moment when smart munitions run thin. The idea that today's conscripts are less willing to fight than those in 1940 is ludicrous. Neither wanted to fight and both were ignorant blobs / yobs.

The long peace has been sustained only by mutually assured destruction. That construct has not been slowly undermined by any determined wish for unity contrary to it on the part of the people living under the regimes which are yoked into that system. There is every indication that disrupting that system would lead to one party or another committing a nuclear holocaust, so therefore the balance of terror (including Putin's repression of Russians) must be preserved at all costs.
This was one of the promises originally of Stack Overflow: all the content is Creative Commons licensed so that if they "turned evil" (I believe it was Joel that put it this way) the community could, in a way, create a fork. https://web.archive.org/web/20230203170609/https://stackover...

Unfortunately the dumps themselves are not a legal requirement, just a gentleman's agreement, so realistically exercising this ability was still at the whim of the company.
Valid point. I think people are turning this into a 'crusade' partly because they are just shocked and appalled by the way Reddit handled this whole thing.

In the end, it's their site and their decision to make, but it's understandable many people are upset by their actions and no longer want to use the site (which, btw, even if you were using it for "free" you may have been contributing in other ways via posts, comments, moderation, etc).

It also means losing potential customers - I would have been willing to upgrade to Reddit Premium to continue using Apollo, for example, but now I wouldn't even consider it.
I like the blog, but I wish it were updated more often. Even little updates would be welcome.

Another interesting blog in a similar space is the Daggerfall Unity bloc over at https://www.dfworkshop.net/.
What is there to argue? My view is that asylum seeking is legal, because it is. It is legal to seek asylum in the US. You have to be physically present in the country to make a claim. You are allowed to stay here while your claim is pending. What else is there to say?
I genuinely don't think it's that complicated. There's a perception about that, but look at the wire protocol for a couple devices & it starts to feel extremely rote extremely quick.

There's a very old very extensive USB HID spec for a ton of battery & charger telemetry things, that for no good reason was never implemented. I'm not sure if USB-PD has overlapping way of sharing data like "is the other side also running on battery?" but we have had the technical possibility of answering that (and how much charge is left what the battery voltage is, but getting low power alarms, more) for literally decades & shame on us for never having implemented it.
It was a prescribed fire event called WTREX, which stands for Women-in-Fire [0] Prescribed Fire Training Exchange. Right wing sites haven't been shy about their viewpoint [1].

[0] https://womeninfire.org/

[1] https://freebeacon.com/politics/burning-down-barriers/
No the kill the API thing came after Elon. It was one of the things he did, but indeed this specific thing does not seem to have hurt user engagement in particular. In fact it was probably one of the things that was good for their ad revenue and probably why they did it.
Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
I'm not sure it'll be possible to create rich archives of your own data once Reddit's API changes go through, so I made a tool that creates a SQLite archive of everything (that you can update over time).
> when all they did is provide the platform, and store the data

And all Google did was build a search engine.
> The main difference in semantics between DeviceScript and JavaScript is that DeviceScript programs run in multiple fibers (threads). In practice, this behaves like JS with async/await but without an ability to manipulate promises directly (that is fibers can only interleave at await points and at most one fiber runs at any given time).
Woo! Correction incoming that the Sample app and SDK are open source, but the app itself is not yet. We ARE a 501c3 non profit so rest assured incentives are aligned, but keeping it closed source allows us to iterate quickly. Long term plan is open source.

Would love to have you playing around with the SDK, and feedback/improvements can be made as we don't have any production apps using our sdk yet. I hope you find what you're looking for!
"robust" doesn't mean "immune to every possible variant". An inability to protect against the wrong voltage doesn't imply you shouldn't bother to protect it against wrong commands.

Why should it specifically be built that way? Because it's bad for devices to self-destruct with no attempt at mitigation whatsoever.
I have no numbers to back me up, but my impression is that the majority of Reddit’s revenue comes from people browsing recently submitted posts, where they can inject ads.

Old posts/comments with technical or insightful information are surfaced via other search engines, not via browsing, so Reddit makes virtually no money from them.

Deleting these posts and comments won’t hurt Reddit, only the people seeking information.
You don't have to pick one. Venezuela has approximately zero capability to wage any flavor of warfare against the USA, and certainly didn't provoke the current hybrid war by threatening USA national security.
It's going to depend on your definition of not-war, but according to https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-has-been-at-war-93-of-..., which counts things like the late 70's/early 80's CIA involvement in Afghanistan as war, it would be 1976, 1977, 1978, 1997, and 2000.
Am wondering the same thing. I have yet to meet anybody that does aside from Microsoft themselves.
"Made for IE 6" -- TRIGGER! I remember back in my design days all the IE specific overrides for proper rendering.
> One in 10 people do NOT have asthma.

You are incorrect. Current prevalence state-wide is 8%[0] and lifetime prevalence is 14%, indicating that many people are expected to develop asthma but have not yet been diagnosed.

Incidence is more concentrated in the city due to a strong causative relationship between asthma and certain measurable factors: poverty, childhood exposure to vehicular-generated air pollution, and the tendency to have highways located near poorer neighborhoods.

If you look at a map of asthma incidence in the city by neighborhood, this heterogeneous distribution is even clearer.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/asthma/stateprofiles/asthma_in_nys.pdf
Verso: Modern Binary Program Analysis in Rust
I believe it. That really sounds typical of Reddit.
LMQL helps a lot with this kind of thing. It makes it really easy to swap prompts and models out, and in general it allows you to maintain your prompt workflows in whatever way you maintain the rest of your python code.

I’m expecting there will be more examples soon, but you can check out my tree of thoughts implementation below to see what I mean

https://github.com/LachlanGray/lmql-tree-of-thoughts
I like the idea of decentralized but I'd suggest you don't need to go fully decentralized where every peer has a full copy. Actually I kind of like the Bitcoin approach in that you have the ability to create a full peer, but most people do not. This would allow some decentralization and reduce risk, but not burden everybody with running a full peer.
>Email is a great example where most people wouldn't be interested in a version of email that only let's you email other @gmail.com users. Having a email address that can contact anyone, a phone number that can ring any other phone number etc instead of being locked into a single corporation network is a clear value add that people care about.

That is only because those technologies predate those companies. Normal people don't care that you can't DM a Reddit user on Twitter or that your Instagram posts don't automatically show up on your Facebook page. People are generally fine with centralized corporate platforms as long as it isn't a restriction of a previously free technology and the network effect has done its thing to attract enough people to the platform.
I had different encyclopedias at home, most of them targeted to kids. There were two which had specific subjects. One, science and the other, the human body. I believe they would have been more helpful than the internet – I did not have the internet, or even a computer at home at the time – because of the tactile experience. On a computer, everything blends together, and you have to do a more conscious effort to recall a particular fact. Later, I had access to Encarta but, I still preferred reading the physical books.

This has shaped my current learning process. I liked to explore a subject instead of getting a direct answer right away. Even when I'm googling, I click on a couple of results first before I'm satisfied. I'm not comfortable with ChatGPT for the same reason.
Outside of "programming muscle memory" (for lack of a better phrase) maybe interfering with your thought process when you're working through some random algorithms, what about 1-based indexing causes problems for people?

I've never gone too far deep into 1-based languages, but it seems like it would avoid a lot of off-by-one errors once you get used to it.
> anyone who conducts in an (unapproved) war (such as Russia right now)

you're actually saying that any war is OK as long as the USA starts it.

it's an expression of: "do as the USA tells you to do; do not do what the USA itself does"

the 'grown up view' is that there are trade-offs. the USA is an empire... I define the essence of an empire to be: a group of people from one place telling people from another place what to do. the most often thing they're told is to pay tribute (which by this point is part of a semi-obscure system of taxes, tariffs, technological transfers, and other hidden things)
The blind spots are entirely your own. The very first paragraph of the article includes:

"the period since WWII which has had a low and indeed falling level of war, both inter-state and intra-state. Normally, when I say this is something that has happened, I find I encounter a great deal of incredulity among the general public. Surely they can list off any number of wars or other violent conflicts that happened recently. But the data here is actually quite strong (and we all know my attitude towards certainty on points of real uncertainty; this is not one of them) – violence has been falling worldwide for nearly 80 years, the fall has been dramatic and relatively consistent."

> standard American exceptionalist propaganda-speak

"the USA’s record as a neighbor to Central and South America is not one we ought generally to be proud of"
I have 3 cats still living with their mother and they all do it. She had a strong maternal instinct, but lost it once they grew up, and now she hates all of them, which is apparently the expected behaviour.
I love me some xkcd
Mark Zuckerberg on Apple Vision Pro – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips
What makes you think they’re swapping charging outlets for existing customers? We’re all getting adapters friend (well, maybe my Kona will, otherwise we’re just screwed outside of Ford/GM).
So it's time to community fork?
> If you expect the models you use to change at all, it’s important to unit-test all your prompts using evaluation examples.

It's mentioned earlier in the article, but I'd like to emphasize that if you go down this route that you should either do multiple evaluations per prompt and come up with some kind of averaged result, or set the temperature to 0.

FTA:

> LLMs are stochastic – there’s no guarantee that an LLM will give you the same output for the same input every time.

> You can force an LLM to give the same response by setting temperature = 0, which is, in general, a good practice.
> For those unfamiliar with the concept, the ‘long peace’ is a term we apply to the period since WWII which has had a low and indeed falling level of war, both inter-state and intra-state.

There's an alternative view is that there was a long war essentially from the beginning of WW1 to the collapse of communism [0]. The so-called long peace also included the Korean War, the Vietnam war, various Arab-Israeli conflicts. I've seen it stated that there were only in fact a few days of peace in the entire 20C: the very brief period between Japan's surrender in August 1945 to the start of conflict that gradually ramped to the Vietnam war, when an Anglo/French force supported by rearmed Japanese took on the Viet Minh[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shield_of_Achilles:_War,_P...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Vietnam_(1945–1946)
(e) People spearheading this initiative are terminally online Reddit addicts that finally feel like they can achieve something in their life by "sticking it to the man", without realizing that they can't survive without "the man".
Ask HN: Is “Imagined Communities” by Benedict Anderson Good?
I heard this book recommendation on NYT podcast with guest Fareed Zakaria. He said that the book investigates how imagined communities are formed around religion, nationalism etc. Sounds very interesting topic. Has anyone read this book, is it good?
On top of what 'sempron64 said: there was a plan to construct a subway tunnel between Brooklyn and Staten Island[1], but construction was canceled nearly a century ago.

The Verrazano Bridge itself was designed under Robert Moses's eye, and he shut down the idea of a subway link early on[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island_Tunnel

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/1956/04/09/archives/moses-bars-train...
"Normally, when I say this is something that has happened, I find I encounter a great deal of incredulity among the general public."

No, not just the general public; the 'long peace' is a hotly contested idea amongst academic and professional circles too. And, it's arguably a rather large amount of hand-wavey bullshit trying to paint certain nation states in a particular light and narrowly define 'war', 'peace', and 'violence'.
There is no functional society that does not impose massive limitations on property owners for a simple reason: What you do with your property significantly impact the ability of others to enjoy their property.

Maximising the utility and liberty for all requires limitations.
Kind of like OpenStreetMap's community. I would guess the same can be said for anything like there where it's a free, open, global, community-led effort. There will always be a hard-core niche of people who live and breathe the thing and are naturally protective of it e.g. picky with other people's contributions.
I 'm trying it right now with Gnome in a live session. Getting pretty good vibes, and I have read good things about it.

I 've been happy with Arch for years though, but had to try another distro due to a certain large piece of software not working very well there.

Let's see...
The actual sticking point is that nobody actually wants "ready player one", even people who think they do.

VRChat and RecRoom exist today and are available to anyone, anywhere with an internet connection. They do not have millions of players because "meet strangers in a virtual environment that can be ANYTHING" is a novelty, not something you want to do every day.

I say this as someone who literally spent hours every weekend during the pandemic raving (yes really) and socializing in VR chat. Your average person doesn't want to be spammed with half naked Anime Waifu avatars and dinosaurs with boobs
Why not an extension that makes the "save" button cancel instead?

How can you put effort writing a comment if you know it will be deleted before people read it? How can you bear to keep your deleter enabled after you just posted a comment you thought interesting?

And quite frankly, how do you justify going into other people's threads and littering them with useless "[deleted]" comments on purpose?
It's not possible to defend Crimea from land attacks, as demonstrated multiple times in history. Russians lost the hope to keep Crimea in their hands.
This is cool. I’m a radiologist. Do you have PACS?
Then there would be no research and advances. Nothing is free.
Well, it's manifestly false, and I don't think there's much danger of anyone in DC believing it.
Spending isn’t just individual choices it’s a tradeoff. I can guarantee you want a lot of government spending that I would be happy to cut. If I argue for canceling all weather satellite funding you can bet many would object and so it goes.

I personally think the CIA, NSA etc are a waste of funds let’s slash funding by 90% and see what happens. But that doesn’t mean everyone else agrees with what I think is worth funding.
> A decentralized system will never work because 99% of users do not care at all

Maybe, maybe not. It's worth a shot, though, isn't it?
This almost makes sense to me but I think that characterizing it as "stepping up" to "enforce peace" is part of a fairytale.

This hegemony is not actually so different from all of the empires that came before it.
No problem, you’re welcome :) I’ve made the same mistake and it was dang who told me to calm down, so I understand.
Every year, Paris and large parts of France empty out ~July 15-Aug 15, which overlaps nicely with the Olympics. A ton of French people, who would be going on vacation anyway, will have their vacation paid for by people coming in for the Olympics.
Wild guess: somebody came up with a business plan to monetize all that data for future LLM usage.
We're all young once! And I'm certain most users are traceable. Systematic flaw - guess it should be like 4chan.

Edit: I'm also a little overly paranoid and assume that it's probably trivial to link anonimised usernamed comments to some individual, from times where comments are made and connections in subject and style of writing. I now assume all interactions that are not encrypted are public and not anonymised
https://archive.is/8mVcB
> There are already reports of some large subreddits shutting down permanently, such as programming humor.

Great example, that one already has a possible replacement at programminghumour.
This is an example of the same thing being worth different amounts to different parties, and the equivocation leads to comments like this thread.

If Apollo's userbase was actually generating $20mm/yr, acquiring Apollo for $10mm is a no-brainer. But if that were the case, keeping Apollo running as it is would also work.

Obviously this is not the case. Apollo is confusing costing $20mm with generating $20mm.
I always thought it was because they were checking out the safety of the thing they wanted to curl up and sleep on. They wanted to first make sure it wouldn't give out underneath them.
> have a hard time reacting to fully formed ideas thrown at me thrown at me over a table. The other side coming with fully prepared for the discussion, while on the receiving end you need to do your homework realtime also doesn't help.

That's the feature, not a bug. It gives the meeting initiator a better chance of steamrolling their way to approval.

Notice the difference between meetings where people share agendas and docs ahead of time vs those where you show up and they walk you through the doc.
Sure those are very hight DPI screens I agree.

So then take the price of ipad pro 11. Even cheaper than iphone 14 pro and has most of those components I mentioned above (excluding 3g/4g/5g). 2x ipad pro 11 == 2x $800 = $1600. Does it really cost apple ~$1000 or even $500 per such 3400ppi screen to justify such price?

And regarding screen resolution very old Sony Experia 1 (from 2019) had 4k resolution (1644 x 3840 pixels at 650dpi):

https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_1-9543.php
I might be misunderstanding, but charge pumps are already a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_pump

Obviously there's stepping up and down happening on both ends up this cable (since it's probably a 19V lithium ion battery in the computer), but at the end of the day you still need to decide on a safe and practical volts*amps number, and then spec the cables and connectors accordingly.
For certain things the individual owners shouldn't be shielded from liability. Medical privacy is one of those.

Otherwise you end up with people who can create as many harmful businesses as they want and just walk away when it explodes, ignoring everyone caught in the shrapnel. I'm 1000x more concerned about the effects of harmful companies than whatever friction it creates for starting new companies. Everything already moves too fast, it would be far preferable to have fewer corporations if it meant they were of higher ethical behavior.
I don't think it has been released.

0.48 is in RC phase.