skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Time, attention, domain expertise, intelligence: these are all finite resources.

Most worthwhile questions require, at a minimum, a certain level of expert domain knowledge to resolve.

If someone wants to question whether the US
arrived to the Moon or not, let them, dont
discredit them Let them look for evidence and
present their case. What are we afraid of?

Let competing ideas battle it out in the marketplace of ideas, right?

This actually works really well in a lot of instances.

The catch is that it requires the "consumers" in the "marketplace" to have the domain expertise to correctly judge which idea is best.

And this is very often not the case. Particularly when we are talking about the general public. When the public can't accurately judge the merits of competing ideas on merit alone they will (of course) naturally gravitate to the ideas that are more slickly presented, the ideas that simply make them feel better, the ideas that don't challenge their existing beliefs, etc.

There is also the issue of asymmetric information warfare. If you are slick enough you can wage a lopsided war of attrition against your opponents. It takes little effort to spread falsehoods, and it typically takes multiple times as much effort to debunk them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

Same happened with the WMD story... society has
to learn to be more skeptic, and to value those
that question and look for answers.

This is an example of what I'm saying. The public initially largely supported the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan because they were not educated consumers: the public had no way of independently verifying the WMD claims. There was no marketplace of ideas, just a monopoly.
Sama: I feel so bad about advice I gave while running YC I might delete my blog
I’m in Texas and have had the same question.
LA times https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fworl...

Related previous HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34841456
Then segment your market and have an ad supported api and a for pay, ad-free api. Simple.
The issues were "inserting data into ElasticSearch" and "searching data out of ElasticSearch" using their official SDKs and integrations. If this isn't core product functionality, what is?
It works until it doesn't. Do you want to gamble with your business?
Haha, it's already merged. I should have run “git pull” before writing my comment. The “Dumbest possible strategy” comment is already gone, and appropriately so.

This is one reason why invokedynamic is so interesting: it is possible to switch implementations without recompiling everything.
> They developed bespoke line-of-business applications for small companies. Having the complete stack - from the HTML templating through to the ORM - provided by one vendor and designed to work together made development faster than anything I've worked with since.

How is that different then .Net?
> Investing in public transportation is a much more means tested way of reducing traffic accidents.

Selection bias. By definition, you're looking at public transportation that exists. How many traffic accidents have been reduced by the bullet train in CA that has had $80 billion in investment so far? Zero.

> So when you say "investing in self driving cars is investing in saving lives" you are right. It's just a much more inefficient way of doing it.

In the cases in which money can be efficiently deployed, you are correct. But has the $80 billion (let's say that again - $80,000,000,000) spent on the CA bullet been more efficient than $80 billion of spending on self-driving cars? Clearly not.

The problem is that there are limits to how much money you can deploy towards public transit at any reasonable level of efficiency. This is true because of geography, and it's true because of politics. In those places where you can use money well on transit, I fully support it, but once you've exhausted those, you're still going to be left with five figures of traffic deaths a year that can be saved by self driving cars.

Also, you ignored my last paragraph - the comparison of spending money on transit vs. self-driving is not one that makes sense, because the money comes from two different places. VCs don't invest in public transit. Google doesn't invest in public transit.

Self-driving cars are something that will provide a huge societal benefit at no cost to taxpayers. If you're a member of the general public, spending money on public transit is infinitely more inefficient than spending money on self-driving cars, because that transit money could be used to benefit you in other ways, whereas the private funding to self-driving cars would probably just be returned to shareholders or invested in other tech companies if it weren't spent there.
The problem with this line of thinking is the presupposition that Reddit owns the data on its platform.

The users already paid for the service by looking at ads and buying prizes or whatever (not to mention all the free labor that the mods give).

Now Reddit wants to have full monetization control of the data that their users created and moderated.

The users and moderators are then choosing to stop creating and moderating that data for Reddit.

No concern trolling needed.

If this were Facebook and the “hook” was first-party moderation, algorithmic recommendation, not allowing posts to be indexed on the open web, etc. then it’s more understandable, but Reddit wants it both ways (free labor, open web indexing, and complete ownership).
What's the endgame here? Why even turn the subs back on? The admins have made their intentions clear enough, I think.
How long until you have SSO/SCIM/IDP support? Being able to provision and manage users and sign in via Okta will be really useful.
I think that preview features are not something that any sizeable chunk of developers will use. So while technically you're correct, I still consider Java 20 to be pretty minor release.
I think we all want a viable Reddit alternative (and Twitter alternative), but the “fediverse” isn’t it. Why?

1. New user experience is very confusing. You have to learn a bunch of dorky sounding terminology right away (instance, fediverse/federated, etc), and there are a whole bunch of instances to choose from, but none of them may be particularly appealing or relevant to you specifically.

2. At least on Lemmy, I’m actively discouraged from signing up. And even if I ignore that, I have to fill out an application for an account that includes a personal statement on why I want to join Lemmy. Great, Lemmy can do whatever it wants, but it’s not a Reddit killer with a process like this.
for use on electronic devices designed for portable use over communication networks.

even in 2012 sometimes articles wrote clickbait
The GP is saying globalization homogenized things. But we've always lived and traded on a globe.

You're saying the Internet did, but I don't remember the "wild west" days of the Internet as anything like that.

I think you're both dancing around "profit motive" being the only ostensible reason both of those led to same same everywhere. No "general well-being," no "public benefit," nothing that seeks to understand and preserve anything except maximal profit. And large corporate profit-seeking entities are global, beholden to no government anywhere, really, to no people beyond their shareholders. So here we are.
Github's Language analysis:

Rust 79.7%
PLpgSQL 14.0%
TypeScript 4.6%
Shell 1.6%
Other 0.1%

It' easy to port (built it maybe 2 years ago (Fedora)), lightweight and fast.

Kind of Anti-Mastodon technically.
Does subreddits going dark for 2 days matter? Seems like an insignificant ampunt of disruption to make much of a difference, or am I wrong?
That's 12% - nothing to laugh at
There is an important caveat here. H1B filings only includes guaranteed compensation, which is your base salary. Stocks and bonuses are not included here. That’s why you’ll see data points like Meta paying 200k for a VP level H1B. I reality they are absolutely not underpaying H1Bs at VP level and the person is printing millions a year.
Wow. That’s a really insightful and funny quip. I’ll most probably remember it for a long while. :D
looks down

What did they do to you?!
You think Reddit is surprised? For all we know, this is going better than they expected.
> I also don't think necessarily that they had the goal of making sleeper agents with the study.

Respectfully, what are you talking about? MKULTRA was the continuation of Project Artichoke, whose explicit goal was to create sleeper agents. And the sleeper agent was one admitted continued focus through decades of these programs.

People really have to read more about the deep history of this stuff before they comment with the intention of adding context.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 has hot air balloons, skydive aviation, and more
I changed my mind about what constitutes a fulfilling life for me. I realized that I personally could not live a life consisting solely of devotion to work and consumption of luxury goods. I started a family and have two wonderful children.

I still believe that investing in work is necessary and rewarding, and indulgences are a somewhat important part of life, but those alone are all kind of meaningless for me in the end. It’s the endless chase of another dragon.

With my children, I feel a greater sense of joy and accomplishment when I watch them grow. I’ve had higher highs raising kids than I ever did finding the next excursion I could go on or the hottest new company to work for.
Let’s hope Reddit consumes itself in this peer struggle.
This clearly is not "integration". There is a delusional fantasy, by all political sides, going on here that migrants will "integrate", like what actually did happen with sub 1% imkigratnt groups.

Why would these groups, which locally easily are a third of the population, if not the majority, want to integrate? German "culture" is literally just doing 8-5 work. Of course they are going to assert their native cultures.

>A mixture is to be expected and is a necessity for human and society evolvement.

A mixture of what? Speaking German + fundamental Islam + LGBT rights + driving a BMW + putting Gyros into bread. Is that "integration"? Completely laughable to be honest. These migrants group are doing what all otuer groups would do, forming their own parallel society, with their own shops, their own spaces and asserting it in the face of integrationist pressure.
The deal with reddit is that the users contributions are their payment for using it. Without the efforts of the moderators (who work for free) and the contributors (who do it for free), no one would even bother using reddit. Anything on top of this is cream for management. A revenue sharing deal like Youtube would be a good idea especially for the more popular sites.
On the other hand, this comment shows the clown car of HN discourse: everything that doesn’t make the trade offs that you want is a literal dumpster fire end of discussion.
I’d go a little further than that. If you enact a Pigovian tax (i.e. a tax intended to reduce some unwanted behavior), there’s a conflict of interest in relying on that revenue for anything because then there is an incentive to try and keep the tax rates lower in order to protect the revenue source.
Debugging errors with dynamic scope would make web work much worse.
Sony contributions to FreeBSD shows how well it works, or the various compiler vendors thar now have clang forks, yet clang is now 3rd place in ISO C++ support.
Reddit wanted 2.50/month/app which is like $30 ARPU, Facebook is $200 ARPU in the US.

The app they’re burning down Reddit over is already charging $1/month and was ready to sell out and shut down for $10 million.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but we usually don’t give out API keys to allow users to wholesale reproduce, redistribute, resell our data for free.
They of course know (at the time of the mass Digg exodus Reddit specifically changed their alien icon to welcome Digg refugees), but the difference is that they are betting on the fact that right now there is no immediately obvious alternative, like Reddit was to Digg a decade ago.
At normal DRAM module operating temperatures and assuming you want to stick to JEDEC specifications, retention times may typically be 50uS[1]. This low number is due to the standard having an extremely low tolerance for errors, and the inevitable problem of some MOS transistors/capacitors (a cell) being defective and having a much higher leakage rate than typical cells. Hence the standard has to cater for the weakest cell due to the extremely low tolerance for errors.

In [2], the authors used readily available compressed gas[3] to chill (probably to approx -50oC) DDR1 and DDR2 DRAM modules during operation, then whilst the DRAM modules remained chilled, cut power to the computer, waited a period of time and then read out the DRAM module data for comparison. With power cut for 10 minutes, a read error rate of just 36 bytes per megabyte was observed. This increased to an error rate of 1700 bytes per megabyte at 60 minutes when chilling to a lower temperature using LN2.

The authors of [2] tested DDR1 and DDR2 DRAM retention without use of cooling, and results varied between different DRAM modules (different sense amplifiers, different MOS transistor/capacitor fabrication methods, different DRAM module heatsink designs, etc) but generally it showed 5 minutes unpowered would generally erase all data, but some remnants could still remain (e.g. enough to make a faint outline out of a photo stored in memory).

Note that like the 2008 paper[2], this paper also uses DDR1 and DDR2 DRAM chips. The main reason for this choice is DDR3+ specifications and modern memory controllers implement "data scrambling"[4], originally not for security reasons (that's just a bonus side effect), but for electrical reasons to reduce di/dt noise on the data bus. "Data scrambling" means that data is XOR'd with a pseudorandom function, thus if you write 11111... or 00000... you'd expect on average the data bus to have the same average electrical characteristics. Since row hammer, the pseudorandom function has been improved to provide security against cold boot attacks. It's possible for the memory controller to use low-latency strong encryption such as ChaCha8. AMD "Memory Guard" uses AES128/NIST SP 800-90[5] and Intel's "Total Memory Encryption" uses AES128/256-XTS[6].

[1] Page 19 (PDF), https://www.egr.msu.edu/classes/ece410/mason/files/Ch13.pdf

[2] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec08/tech/full_papers/h...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze_spray

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20190616183914/https://www.eecs....

[5] https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/amd-memory-guard-...

[6] https://cdrdv2-public.intel.com/679154/multi-key-total-memor...
...or Lemmy or kbin...
Mr Feynman was obviously crazy. All of his opinions should be disregarded as nonsense.

But wait, he's a famous smart guy. so we have to take him seriously.

Oh it's tearing my science-loving brain right in half I tell you.
Reddit is basically successful despite itself. It's wild.
yes, we are waiting, the main thing would be their content and their communities. it's definitely not about the platform, but how it would be built and govern by the creator.
I don’t think Reddit being replaced is as much of a given as everyone seems to think. People might simply get tired of the concept altogether. Nobody needs a vote based link aggregator thingy in their lives, and there is no shortage of social media in sight.
Using "Assigned by God" is as immature as filling in "Yes please" beside "Sex" on a form. Anyone with a scrap of professionalism would not do such a thing. It is clearly a case of malicious compliance.

This has nothing to do with groupthink, it's just being a crap employee/colleague. I, for one, wouldn't want someone prepared to make an overt challenge to authority about something so petty to be in charge of security at my security product organisation.

If being asked to state your preferred pronoun is the final straw for you, then I suggest you have it better than 99.99% of people in the world and should grow up.
The rationale I've heard is "weed out people that can't handle high stress and separate them from service very early".
It's an award for sites that "embody the idea of a small, playful and heartfelt web", not for who can code the most minimal and efficient HTML. I don't know what these commenters are trying to demonstrate other than that they missed the point of this entirely well-meaning effort.
> The designers either haven’t noticed or don’t care.

You seem to be discounting the possibility that you’re subtly degrading their experience, sufficiently slowly that they’ve yet to revolt en masse. The blind spot of A/B testing is slowly building resentment for a slowly degrading product. I couldn’t tell you every single specific way that in which Duolingo has slowly become terrible over the years, but I can tell you I am no longer a paying subscriber.

> Feels comically large to me.

I browse the Internet at between a 125 and 200 percent zoom, so I guess it feels comically small to me. I don’t understand why I should strain my eyes to “fit more content in” - scrolling is free, and I can only read one thing at a time anyway.
It’s a great title for the blog post introducing them! I just feel the CVEs each deserve their own unique name to further confuse anyone even remotely involved with IT :)

Just wait until people start reusing CVE names and we get collisions! It will be glorious!

You can even name the first one PolyPwn and the second ons PolypPwn
It's a demonstration of power; a sampler. This is a common strategy. You want to show them that you have the power so that serious negotiations can begin anew without disrupting the service you want to provide.
> Again, that is a fire in a data center that has no reported mention of machine learning.. you do realise data centers existed before machine learning.

And clearly it has gotten worse as evidenced by the waste of resources caused by the increased popularity of AI as a service products like ChatGPT. My point still stands.

By now, there should be far less (not more) data centers needed for viable AI operations instead of building more of them as AI continues to scale up. This tells us that there is little to no progress in creating alternative and efficient methods in training these deep learning models.

> Here is a claim from DeepMind they reduced Google's cooling bill using ML 7 years ago

That ‘claim’ doesn't mean anything other than complete green washing nonsense from Google, especially when they have collaborated with oil companies to claim to ‘reduce’ their emissions. [0]

Other than more greenwashing, little to nothing has changed.

[0] https://theintercept.com/2023/02/17/google-cloud-saudi-aramc...
I don't know if it's inevitable, but it's clear at this point that people are unwilling to pay $ for access to the content in the forms we know now. I think until we find a better way of having people pay for content and curation, we're likely to see this happen again. That said, Reddit has (so far) lasted a decade on the throne, which is a third of the life of the www. It's not like there's anoter competitor sitting there ready to dethrone it so I suspect it's here for another while.
Yes: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

First, platforms are good to users to attract them. Then, they abuse users to attract advertisers. Then, once they think they have a moat, they abuse both sides to extract as much money as possible before it all crashes down.
It doesn't make sense to go all-in all at once. You need to have leverage afterwards as well.

Also you have to think about the media coverage. This way you have two times the possible media coverage instead of just once and then everybody forgets about it.
> facebook.com / max-age=15552000; preload

That is a really weird value. It fails two of the three requirements for the HSTS header value specified at <https://hstspreload.org/>:

> 1. The max-age must be at least 31536000 seconds (1 year).

> 2. The includeSubDomains directive must be specified.

> 3. The preload directive must be specified.

It doesn’t even comply with their rules for grandfathered entries, which only lower the minimum max-age, but still require includeSubDomains. Yet it’s still in the list. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As soon as I have the time I'm gonna install my own instance.
It’s honestly better for subreddit discovery than anything reddit has made in the last 5 years.

Off topic, but giant lists of things are seriously underrated. I’d speculate that a large majority of the sites with a “Recommended for you” section would be much better served by a giant list.
??? I'm not seeing a ban; comments are visible to me. Perhaps mixing up with someone else?
I control-F'ed 'MK Ultra' and did not consider that they would use a dash. Shame on me....
But GPT 4 can easily do predicate logic, at least much better than most humans if you do chain of thought prompting. Do you have an example where it fails?
I don't know if you ever experimented with not paying an AWS bill. If you haven't: they will let you run your services and accrue new charges as if nothing happened. It's a well thought-out strategy.
Lemmy, probably.
I'm clicking on some of them, and can still view the posts?
Because they are guilty of doing these things for decades is the precise and only extremely solid reason that anyone needs to assume. Anything less is the behavior of the type of person who frequently gets victimized by sociopaths, and likes it for some reason. The pattern means that it isn't an assumption at all.

If you need an ever so slightly deeper history of it, here's a brief history of the Spartan equivalent engaging in parallel behavior:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypteia
Its one of the big three out there, along with 7-11 and Family Mart.
Point #1 is accurate, but #2 is actually just you getting confused by #1—lemmy.ml is discouraging new signups by encouraging you to use one of the many other instances.

I agree that the whole federation thing is way more confusing than insiders understand.
Your point is that managers are more upwardly mobile, which is fair, but that doesn't mean when you make the switch it is a promotion. G9 IC -> M0 will not increase your salary. It does grant you more power, but that is not a promotion per se.

The other thing to watch out for is manager growth over the last 10-15 years was a result of the structural needs of an unprecedented tech bull run. Now that the industry has moved into belt-tightening mode, the heaviest scrutiny is falling on managers. The type of political games a typical 35 year-old EM (5 years coding, 10 years EM) may not be as effective as they were in the previous environment. There are a LOT of EMs getting pipped or knocked back to IC these days, whereas ICs with a bit of product/UX sense, ability to think a bit beyond their silo, and willing to work on "boring" business applications will continue to be highly valued, especially given the amount of dead weight that has found its way in by grinding leetcode.
Airbnb Bedrooms Without Windows
> our content

Tech people ought to think long and hard about whose content it actually is.
If anything, the HN guidelines need to be updated to discourage "AI use case-bro" comments.
> ... about his quest to finish his own Commodore 64 CRPG from 1984. He will be able to do it, too, because he kept all the disks, tapes, notes, and hand-documented assembly code print-outs ever since his teenage project.

Nice! FWIW during the lockdown I happened, by chance, to be in alone, far from my family, in the house where I grew up. Well, not alone... My C128 was there. After watching tutorials on Youtube as to how to clean and grease the disk drive, I found out that a good 1/3rd to one half of my 5"1/4 floppies from the eighties could still be read 100%.

So I'm not surprised he could use old disks, in addition to his printed listings, to get back on his project!
And everybody knows Musk's antics, so they're not going to blame it on Google.
What power? Reddit can just takeover the subs and turn them back on.