skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was in 2021. https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/06/02/prosus-acquires-stack-...

Joel left in 2019 https://twitter.com/spolsky/status/1111267189133316097

Jeff left in 2012 https://blog.codinghorror.com/farewell-stack-exchange/

I'm not sure that it is fair to say that the original founders sold it for that amount.
You say scam, they say calculated risk.

It’s all about getting the general population in on it, so the Bell curve can provide some losers.
Ubuntu doesn't put ads in your environment, and I want snap and cannot understand why anyone wouldn't.

If you can't install snap packages, your distro is useless.
They're testing the water it seems. They must have realized that those leaving Reddit for other pasteurs must have already left by now, so there will be little resistance in monetizing those on the platform. Either that, or they're deliberately wanting to lose their user base as part of some grand strategy as Digg did many years ago!
Because only the highly skilled will be needed and the highly skilled will need CS degrees to distinguish themselves from the now-useless react devs?

Maybe...? But if that ends up being the case, we'll be on the other side of an economic event horizon and we'll all be so thick in the middle of who the hell knows what at that point that whether you have a degree or not, you better buckle the fuck up.
40k was intentionally a satirical setting by the authors. Even so it's legitimate to ask why so many people (including those who understand it's satirical/critical nature) enjoy dwelling in a fantasy world of this sort. It is clearly very appealing - there are books and video games, and many people don't even play the table-top game but still collect and build the figures. Why? What is so appealing about theocratic fascism that people would choose to spend their free time and disposable income to dwell within it?

IMHO it's no coincidence that the first human civilizations were autocratic. It's basically the default form of government. This is a very important, if uncomfortable truth. Too often liberal societies fool themselves into thinking that liberty "just happens" and is "inevitable", a feature of the natural world, requiring no effort from the individuals that compose it. This is not just foolish but destructive. It is why, for example, that fascism rises in democracies like the US even though the vast majority do not support it: the majority doesn't bother to vote, thinking they don't have to.
> So spez acknowledged in the call that it wasn't a threat

its regular bs sugar coating, like you know someone is cheating, and he knows he is cheating but doesn't admit, but you don't have proof and you say "oh it was miscommunication" for the sake of continuing cooperation.
We're bored. We had to get there over an hour before boarding, and now we're just sitting around waiting. No one will make conversation at the gates. And there's probably at least three and maybe seven hours before we step off the plane.
They're not cheap, but Scanpan makes great non-stick pans. PFAS-free, dishwashable, metal utensil safe.

https://www.scanpan.com/haptiq-8-inch-fry-pan-40141-configur...
> Is there a name for this kind of self hating west coast tech liberal yet?

When I was a mouthy teenager, my mom used to call this "It's easy to shit when your butt is full".

Sounds better in Slovenian. It's the same idea as The Man in The Arena – it's easy to have opinions when all your needs are met. If you really believe in what you're saying, get in the trenches and start doing the work.
My misc digital personas have gone to the great /dev/null in the sky many times.

BIX, CompuServe, FidoNet, usenet, dozens of email accounts, voicemails, interviews, chat logs, facebook...

Heck, I have zero trace of the specialty BBS (and network) I hosted. Which was my everything at the time.

Young me thought it'd be great to record and archive my lifestream.

Current me is glad it didn't work out.

Sure, I may have written some clever bits of code & prose.

Now I see great value in forgetting. It's hard to adapt, grow, accept, forgive, and be forward looking while lugging around a lifetime of baggage.

If I ever did say something useful, I'm confident someone will pick up the thread. Whether independently or by quoting me, it's all good.
Zillow already has that. You input an address and it tells you the distance in time by transportation method on each property details screen. You can also sort properties according to distance from the given address. The software labels it a "work" address, but you will face no consequences for using an address that you do not work at.
No offense was meant. It seemed like your post drew a distinction where there isn't one. Even from a non-technical perspective, the Discord server system is roughly the same as the Reddit subreddit one. My point was it doesn't represent a shift to smaller communities or parallel old-school forums at all.
If they pass the Bar and have a license to practice law they become an attorney. With a law degree but no license, they're just a lawyer.
I signed up for a Copilot trial a few weeks ago and so far my feelings on the tool are mixed.

When a code suggestion is correct it’s nice but it honestly feels like a very rare occurrence so far.

What often ends up happening is I will get suggested a snippet that is close to, but not exactly what I need. So if I accept the suggestion, I end up doing a fair amount of editing anyways to correct the suggestion.

Even worse, occasionally I will accept a suggestion and only later notice a subtle mistake.

The place I’ve seen the biggest benefit is with writing comments or user facing text copy.

I see people on Twitter and Hacker News talking about how much their productivity is being boosted by Copilot and ChatGPT…

But I’m just left scratching my head because I’m barely certain I’m seeing ANY boost from either of these tools so far. I feel like I’m missing something?
So you accepted their mail on first contact? And first contact was 20 min after sent header timestamp?
How many times N will crypto scam before we say crypto is a scam? Hint: that N was exceeded a long time ago.
I think that's pretty close to a "if I can't have it no one can" attitude, and it's a net-negative for the world.
thanks for the recommendation I will check it out
In Which I Try to Become a Swift
Ah yes, classic
That's what I thought when I started working on this, but it turns out the answer is no! This approach - "minimal mapping of character sequences to numbers" - can be described as a greedy algorithm. Using this approach will often produce correct results, but not always. I can provide an example:

Input string: " grabbed"

Tokenize that with the greedy algorithm, you get [17229, 2580] == [" grab", "bed"]

Tokenize that with actual LLaMA tokenizer, you get [2646, 1327, 287] == [" gra", "bb", "ed"]

Note that the correct tokenizer represents this string with 3 tokens, even though it would be more efficient to represent this string with 2 tokens (yes, those 2 tokens exist in the vocabulary).

LLaMA uses SentencePiece Byte-Pair Encoding for tokenization, and it has many weird quirks like this.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Operation Sea-Spray:

Operation Sea-Spray was a 1950 U.S. Navy secret biological warfare experiment in which Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria were sprayed over the San Francisco Bay Area in California, in order to determine how vulnerable a city like San Francisco may be to a bioweapon attack

People got sick and one person died, all from bacteria they thought to be harmless at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray
Thanks for taking my points in good faith - others have not done the same (or to your points either). Upvoted.

>Why is it not the best idea? It's a great idea. Fine them more money and let them go bankrupt.

It's not good politics, unfortunately. The political actors that have the will to do such a thing would get trounced by the next "pro business" candidate, and a lot of Americans would back such a candidate no matter how obvious the problem is. Job losses (albeit temporarily) as well as the temporary supply shock if 3M is the sole producer of any chemical or material that is of strategic importance. Voters who aren't the smartest lot would eat that sort of candidate up, and that candidate would also be backed heavily by other corporate wrong-doers who might also be in the crosshairs down the road. It's a tough situation.

The issue then becomes - if they don't have enough money to pay the fine, who is on the hook for the remaining damages? Think about it - if the company's market cap, assets, C-Suite/board combined net worths, etc.. is worth $N, and the total fine is $X (and N is less than X), who picks up the remainder of the cost to fully help those affected by the toxic chemicals? It's a tough question.

On a personal level, I fully agree with you - burn the company down and punish their board and C-Suite. Those who play by the rules get to participate in the free market, and those who don't need to suffer (and have their golden parachutes shot down). Skirting the rules is hubris at the end of the day, and hubris is not good.

>I don't understand. You think the taxpayer cannot be on the hook, yet you also think we are obligated to bail out the business by nationalizing it? What do you think nationalizing a business entails? It would literally place the taxpayer on the hook for that business. Nationalizing it would not imply any guarantee the business remains profitable, and future losses would be owned by the public.

Fair point. This is where things become difficult - because as I said above, who ultimately bears the responsibility if the company cannot afford to pay the full cost of damages? My solution would essentially be placing the company into a trust owned by the government - and the trust would be responsible for conducting a sale of the company's assets in a timely fashion.

The problem is that the taxpayer eventually foots the bill in one way or another. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

>I do agree that execs should be punished more severely though. We are absolutely on the same page there. And I don't care if the current execs are not the original execs responsible. As far as I can tell, they've allowed the problem to continue if not get worse.

Fine them all. Old and new.
And startups and money losing recently public companies make the same usually false argument. They are false for three reasons.

1. The lifetime value is calculated out to far.

2. Earlier cohorts are usually less costly to acquire and have a higher lifetime value as the true fans. They are going to be your most loyal customers. Look at what happen to all of the prepackaged food delivery companies and whatever the company that was delivering trunks of clothes.

3. They never expected interest rates to rise and easy money to disappear.

An example would be that if Apple thought it would be just as easy to acquire the second million customers of its headset as it would be to acquire the first million at $3800.
What are the odds that Spez replies to the response the Apollo dev left under that?
https://archive.ph/wip/cjTpu
I gotta say, LLMs are an epic solution to things like cron expressions, regexes, and date-time formatting templates.
If your code is written by ChatGPT-n, and you can only explain it to your boss with ChatGPT-n, you will be replaced by ChatGPT-(n+1).
Thanks for the write up.

https://software.codidact.com/categories/38

I haven't used codidact (sorry, name needs replacing), ok just poked around

* too slow
* needs type ahead find search
* needs a GIST experience

The site looks good, presentation is really clean. Lots to like about it. But the think that replaces SO is going to have to be a step function in capabilities. That said, just fixing the weird descend into performative rule following and language-lawyering on SO might be that step function.

* "Tipping" or actually giving money to a question answerer would be cool
* Having a question asker being able to put a bounty on question would be cool

On the face of it, I am not getting scalability (in many senses) vibes from codidact.
I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. We've built a place to monetarily incentivize ownership over the communities created on the platform and have been specifically targeting content creators to get them to offer their communities as a product alongside their content.

The communities that form around content creators tend to be high in engagement and are a sort of naturally occurring beacon for connecting like minded people together online. That is the core of social networking after all.

https://sociables.com/creators
No, it describes 2 options for running Windows: Streaming it from the cloud and virtualizing it via Parallels.

Windows lacks the drivers to run directly on M1/M2 Macs.
Well, then choose one or more open source projects which interest you and start to contribute (start with reviews or documentation if you don't directly want to start coding).
I've known a female cat that would knead on your belly and nurse from your finger while doing so. #1 is definitely it.
https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/

https://yosefk.com/blog/dont-ask-if-a-monorepo-is-good-for-y...
A lawsuit is about harm. If it's a civil lawsuit, you can absolutely be sued for doing things which you know to be harmful to others, even if they aren't crimes. That's what a tort is. The purpose of such private lawsuits it to give people a legal mechanism for redress that doesn't involve physically attacking each other or trying to legislate everything.
What reddit data do people care about?
Doubly so when he later apologizes to a 3rd party app developer who has been trying to get in contact with Reddit for the past 3 months over the changes: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/_/jnkd694

> Apologies for the delay. We are responding now.
>
> If others have apps they would like to be considered for the paid API tier, please reach out here and select “This is a partnership request.”
By prompting differently, you can get it to avoid the "The article discusses..." and "The author discusses...".
There's playable game in playing what essentially amounts to no longer "legal" rule sets, but that requires finding a niche partner in an already niche game.
Yes, I'm sure in 2-3 years I'll be finding plenty of regexes analogous to that cron expression, like one matching balanced parentheses.
Skimming over Wikipedia's account of Epstein... His activities were very widely known - including to the police, FBI, etc. - for a decade or two before his final arrest. It looks like the the top official decision makers - especially U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta - were more interested in protecting Epstein than in ending his "activities". And plausibly he'd still be at it if he'd been a bit less inclined to loud bragging, and a bit more inclined to basic OPSEC.

Beyond "get rich by going after the non-celebrities with deep pockets", I can't see any possible good coming out of this lawsuit.
Coal minors union was fantastic for automating nearly everything.

Autoworkers union managed to return much of Detroit back to nature.

China and Mexican have blossomed from unions efforts.
The Tolkien estate blew it.

Amazon could only use Silmarillion, NOTHING else. They were seriously hampered on what they could touch without getting sued.
Why do you think this is the case? The audio by the Apollo dev doesn't support this, and spez has not published anything that would prove there was a threat. The audio doesn't sound like what you're describing, it sounds like what the Apollo dev is describing.
Ok, tactical vs total solution. That really could work. Folks would quickly find a new solution that replaces the problem that your solution causes. I could see this working.
The gov't doesn't have a great track record when it comes to treating the citizenry as unwilling participants in their Bond villain-esque nonsense:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
David Hume said[1]:

> For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

and also:

> I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their sockets without varying our perceptions. Our thought is still more variable than our sight, and all our other senses and faculties contribute to this change; nor is there any single power of the soul, which remains unalterably the same, perhaps for one moment

To be fair, he was from Edinburgh, in the East of Scotland.

1: https://schoolworkhelper.net/humes-bundle-theory-of-the-self...
Yes, so the argument is, if the main token influencing the posterior is the prior rather than the likelihood, then in the presence of such highly unequal priors, presenting unequal posteriors as strong evidence of unequal likelihoods is disingenuous, or weak argumentation at best.

OP simply adds on top that it is also less useful (or even actively harmful) in the discussion, and does a disservice, because it serves to weaken the argument pool and desinsitize/polarize people to the topic in the long term.

The quotes you quoted don't seem to contradict that view in any way.

Having said that, I didn't feel that the article struck the wrong tone in flagging the inherent racial bias issues here. Specifically, they were very careful to avoid a "racist cops" / "racist cards" wording/angle, which is probably good reporting in this case, and I would argue should go some way towards alleviating OPs concerns.
This has been my experience as well. I cannot understand how people are saying it has given them order of magnitude speed improvements in shipping.

Most code on github is by definition average, which is usually a few levels below the quality of an expert programmer. So it's not surprising the output of code LLMs is poor to average quality. For any larger block of code it outputs, a non-trivial amount of editing is required if a higher bar of quality is wanted.
Lada officially supports mounting its engines on Mercedes.
Tangent opinion: going dark will do nothing long term. The mods should walk away, remove all moderation bots and let their respective subreddits be over-run with un-moderated garbage that drives everybody away and makes reddit lose ad revenue. Going dark for a couple days isn't going to hurt reddit financially bad enough for them to reverse their API fee plans.

Making a statement online isn't typically terribly effective at causing change.
Employment is a global market now. Unions will just cause cheaper more desperate employees overseas to have to wear the headsets while the union members collect unemployment.
What I don't understand about both this and Twitter's dislike of third party apps is why they don't just require third party apps display the same ads as their own app, and maybe support whatever paid features they have. It seems like that would be a win-win for both them and the app developers.

More people use Reddit because of Apollo because the experience is so much better than their own app. They should take advantage of that by coming up with a mutually beneficial solution instead of killing it. They would make a lot more revenue by requiring that Apollo display ads than killing it and losing some percentage of users or traffic in the process. Are they that confident that all of the Apollo users are just going to switch to their own app on July 1st? (they won't)

I understand why the status-quo isn't sustainable. Reddit has to figure out how to be profitable eventually, but this seems like a tone deaf way to try to get there which probably won't have the intended result.
I personally don’t use copilot. Sometimes I ask chatGPT for help on small, atomic functions. It has saved me lots of time, and the fact that I have to explicitly copy+paste makes me more aware of the code I’m potentially copying over
Why the change? What lessons were learned?
> Is nearly everyone using Copilot at this point?

I think the big difference is what type of programming people do. LLMs are great at handing you code that is routine, but I find them problematic when I try to do anything even a bit uncommon. I spend more time debugging than it would take to write it myself. I think a lot of this confusion is coming down to treating coding as coding and not looking at tasks. The same way writing a fantasy novel doesn't make you good at writing poetry, or a legal document, or a technical report.
Benson Leung who is fairly well known for his USB C reviews is now a moderator of /r/UsbCHardware/ and through him I was able to fix a bug in the USB C specification. I have no idea how I would've done it without the connection Reddit provides. I posted the bugfix at https://superuser.com/a/1536688/41259
Plus #1 has a human analogue: Human's are known to thumb suck for comfort. Some continuing the behaviour into adulthood - perhaps even 1 in 10, but I don't really believe that.(1)

(1) https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/an-adults-habit-that-really-su...
I mean that'll happen with literally any website, forum, BBS, subreddit framework out there. The idea here would be to create a forum stack where users can confidently contribute to knowing that no single entity has full control over all of its contents.

Obviously there's nothing stopping from some instances from creating closed or gated content, but the public facing ones with like 10-20 years of gardening input freely given by end users can never be taken away from the community, which is what's happening with Reddit and has happened with IMDB and countless others.
He could always covertly edit their comments if he's upset that people don't have the right opinions. It wouldn't be the first time.
It wasn't early; v2 desperately needed to be phased out. The crypto was obsolete and the protocol had known flaws. Over a year's lead time was given (see timeline: https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline/).

However, links live on in a million places, and it's hard to motivate hobbyist webmasters of niche onion sites to migrate. On /r/Tor, we regularly get people asking why some onion site doesn't work, and it's a v2 site. That's two years after they stopped working. (I wish Tor Browser would detect a v2 attempt and give a nice explanation instead of an opaque error message, though)

The truth is that whatever schedule they could choose would cause allegations of it being too early.
> Deleting all my comments out of every conversation I had on reddit and destroying all the value is the point, I don't want Reddit to have that value.

So, "if I can't have it, no one can"? That's something parents typically try to teach toddlers _not_ to do.
Same feeling. I use GPT sometimes to get a reminder of a usage of a certain command or part of what I am doing, but for anything beyond that it usually wastes my time.
> this is also in part due to the way people use the subway in NY -- nobody looks at a timetable and says "i'll head down to the station to catch the 6:37 express" like you would in some cities with reliable timetables/schedules. in NY, you just go to the station and wait and hope the train you want shows up next/soon.

That was true 15 years ago, but it's less true today now that there's a multitude of apps (both the first-party MyMTA app and many third-party apps which are much better) which make this easy.

Even Google Maps gives train times in their directions, and they're mostly accurately updated as delays happen, etc.
I don't use it and have no interest in it myself, but I recognise the value it has for many others.