skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing that will surprise me most is if the mods - who spends tens of hours a week working for free just for their status symbol, will actually remove their accounts and/or shut down subreddits for good, instead of 1 or 2 days

Reddit moderation is not a democracy, there is a very small group of people who control a large number of the 1 million+ subscriber subreddits. They work so hard just for the respect/props, maybe they figured out a way to make money off it buy promoting corporate posts, who knows

If that happens, it really will be a re-creation of Digg, where the power users ending up killing the website by manipulating it

Without subreddits in their full control, what else do they have?
>To date, the rebuttal to these points has been weak,

About once a week I have to post a link to the scientific study that demonstrated that the geography for pumped storage is very plentiful.

For some reason when people complain that it's not (which happens constantly), they "heard it somewhere" or cite what is essentially pro-nuke/carbon-lobby propaganda.

i.e. another anti environmentalist meme, a highbrow version of all the "global warming is a myth" stuff.
So does that imply that the fusogenic potential was properly considered during the design of these three vaccines, or did we just get lucky?
DeviceScript comes with a source-level debugger for the VM code.

Indeed, if you add C code and that crashes it maybe harder to debug than a pure C system, however it wasn't my experience while developing DeviceScript - it was either clearly a bug in C that didn't really depend much on the bytecode, or an exception in DeviceScript which you debug just like in TypeScript.

We also support Jacdac [0] which makes it possible to put the C code on a different MCU, isolating the problem and adding traceability. (You can also run Jacdac server on the same MCU)

[0] https://microsoft.github.io/jacdac-docs/
> I'm not sure there are any solutions other than customized and active management.

I think this is the real issue here. People are not replaceable parts and it's very hard to come up with generalizeable solutions.

Maybe one thing we could do as an industry is switch mindsets from predictive models (i.e. "if we just implement XYZ methodology, the team will do better") to reactive models (i.e. "something is going wrong, we should try to understand it and change something"). This is probably just a roundabout way of describing the customized and active management that you mentioned, but I also think that sometimes these problems can be structural.

For example, sometimes a team member leaving can have detrimental effects because they weren't just a programmer, they were also the social glue holding the team together. Conversely, sometimes adding (or replacing) someone can bring about a situation where it feels like there are too many cooks in the kitchen, even if the overall team size hasn't changed much (or at all).

Maybe one area to look at with respect to people gaming the system is around people's personal values and how they track with the org's. These can be hard to gauge and people will intentionally misrepresent them because they want that job and the money that comes with it, so they are prepared to say what you want to hear. Also in larger organizations, sometimes the values statements are very dilute and not really saying anything. For example, saying "success" is a value is pretty useless because everyone wants to succeed. That's not a value, that's just effectively a no-op generic filler statement.
Cool project, interesting how and where he gathers all the data points about himself!
Even if you don't, you could take a vacation for a quarter of what you'd make from AirBnBing out your place.

Kind of classic economics — some people care a LOT about the olympics, and will pay a lot to be there, so they should trade with the people who would rather be in Mallorca.
> Beatsaber

That's what I'm talking about - this is a clear use case. Another example I can think of would be remote surgery.

You're exactly right though - the big problem is that it hasn't found the killer app yet. Something will probably materialize eventually, but it's not clear yet.
Does this go back further than 2 days?
Volcanic Winter of 536
This comment is fraudulent.

Not only is the style quite brazenly ChatGPT, this part is a huge red flag:

>ChatGPT uncovered state utilities codes...

ChatGPT cannot uncover anything, especially the municipality-specific corpus of codes that the comment ostensibly claims to have access to.
> Managed by "gematik GmbH", a company with limited liability. Because why should the entity responsible for all medical records have some liability.

I think it doesn't really matter in what form the government appears. It's still the government and so its rules apply.
Scheme used braces at least a decade or two before clojure even existed.
Being a good moderator is a lot of work. There will be no lack of people that would line up to have moderating powers in a large enough subreddit.
I can't find any evidence to support that.

High-Temperature, Short-Time (HSTS) Pasteurization appears to be the standard in both Ireland [1] and the US [2] -- 71.7°C / 161°F for 15 seconds.

And I can tell you from personal experience that US milk goes bad in days as well, and has for decades. I don't know where you're getting the idea that it lasts a month in the fridge.

There are real differences in some foods between the US and Europe, e.g. American eggs are washed while European ones aren't. But fresh milk from the supermarket appears to be very much identical.

[1] https://ndc.ie/accordion/what-is-pasteurisation/

[2] https://www.usdairy.com/news-articles/why-is-milk-pasteurize...
/r/ProgrammerHumor will shut down as part of Reddit Protest
Misrepresenting wholly fabricated case law to a judge out of sheer incompetence has been grounds for disbarment in at most US States for over a century.

ChatGPT told me that. It might be true.
i don't use apps other then a broswer for the most part, so not that broken up about these api issues. i also don't use reddit as much after they removed the .compact templates.
I recall vividly when the "Red Bull & vodka" craze took off in the UK; it makes sense, Red Bull alone leaves you too cranked, the vodka calms you down a bit. Nightclubs became a bit more tense and so sticky that everyone was forced to dance in a different way, nothing which involves sliding your feet on the floor.
I haven't said I favour that. It does seem inevitable however. How would you expect humans to end up? In 10 years? In 50 years? In 200 years?

People are already out of their natural habitats, and they will be even more. Is there going to be some sort of magical future moment where people achieve what they wanted to achieve and will they be happy?

How could it happen if environment is going to completely change? What once gave rewards to humans, in the future can not, since there wouldn't be similar events that have built humans throughout the evolution.

People are already addicted to smartphones, people are depressed and have issues with their mental states, despite World being more comfortable and safe to navigate than ever before, people are overall not necessarily more happy.
I think you mean more like a "thieves have stole the horse! quick close the barn door"
Sure it can, if you assume that Reddit doesn't actually care about keeping third party apps alive and just made up the 20 million dollar figure.
For those who are interest I maintain a small open source library to use type safe monads in python https://github.com/sammyrulez/typed-monads
While a funny visual image, my self-image is too fragile for that and my knees not quite that flexible (and even my daughter didn't ride the frilly pink bike we bought for her long --- it was eventually donated to a daycare center).
I don’t think open issues is a very useful metric because an open issue may stick around for 10 years and just stay low priority. So number of open issues doesn’t really mean much. Maybe instead show issue velocity of how many created+closed each period to show activity. Or show commits.
easier just to file a CCPA or GDPR deletion request.

I don't even think they check the geo of the ip you use
Just curious, but from a pragmatic view, what is the advantage of using anonymous functions instead of named functions for any mildly complex code?
It's me or the data they get is not in a searchable format nor indexed ?
A decentralized system will never work because 99% of users do not care at all; the centralized systems are easier to sign up for and use. It's been demonstrated over and over and over again.

Even if the underlying tech is decentralized, the community will settle around one or a few big instances (for example, Gmail and GitHub) which often end up having significant control over the trajectory of the entire ecosystem. If you run your own email server and you get put onto Google's spam list - you're fucked.
> As an example, consider the practice of selling exceptions to the GPL, as is done for Qt.

There are people who do not consider that "open".

See the whole debacle about what exactly constitutes "open source"
> changed some element of their life and This Changes Everything...at least during the initial period. Then it fades and they abandon it

This is basically the essence of life

It’s sometimes called Hedonistic Adaptation

And it’s also almost the same concept as the endless arising and passing, the source of “suffering”, in many eastern spiritual traditions
Which in this case is both greed and also bad
A naïve question, but why is a backend needed and why couldn’t the app call the APIs directly? Just curious to learn!
What I don’t like about commenting on the ’net is that even if I was 100% sure that no one could reliably find me based on my comments alone (not counting the metadata), I have no idea if that will be the case in five or ten years. (Using analysis like writing style and interests to cross-check.) So nuking everything once in a while might be a good idea.
Cat's of out of the bag already with that one.
I always wondered how you might be able to extract energy from the expansion of space. It's particularly interesting because conservation of energy does not hold on such large scales.
Context drilling: a state-management pattern for building large-scale codebases
I'm excited to introduce context drilling, a special form of prop drilling preserving its advantages while substantially reducing code duplication.
Show HN: Vectara-Answer
At Vectara we are exploring what GenAI user interfaces should look like. Vectara-answer is an open source package with our first iteration for question-answering. Would love to hear the community's feedback and would love any contributions to improve.
This is a problem people have with macro, large scale data, the problem you are exhibiting in regards to "value".

Ill use a simple example to illustrate.

If you (yourself) were to write a song that sounded just like a Beatles song and was in effect a lift or "copy" of it and it went to #1 on the charts. You would expect a Beatles lawyer to contact you pretty quickly.

Thats called "one to one" copyright infringement. Lawyers and court systems are setup to process these claims and do so from time to time.

However, if you were to copy and make available with no royalty ALL THE SONG EVER WRITTEN AND RECORDED, the legal system, and lawyers have almost no way to get their head around it and the judicial system can barely assign a plaintiff to the defendant.

This is more analagous to the situation Google created when it scanned "every book written in the english language" and made it available via google search.
At the time the courts and the law had no concept of such a thing and couldnt process the mass copyright violation.

Google didnt scan all the book s because they had "value". Google scanned all the books to "devalue" them to zero, to serve its purposes. Google as far as I know never paid to this day a cent.

So ChatGPT didnt scan the entire internet (reddit was a rounding error), because it HAD value. It scanned it to form english grammer out of tokens and to get away with mass theft. Just like google.

As an AI assistant, I hope I answered your question to your satisfaction.
I strongly oppose this kind of law. HIPAA is a massive burden on medical and research organizations of all sizes, I've personally spent hundreds of hours navigating both human and technical bureaucracy related to HIPAA and I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

Ultimately however the worst part of these laws is that they are so harmful to research in the long run. With easy and ready access to medical data we could be decades ahead of where we are today. There are legitimate concerns about health privacy (especially for women in the US) but the upside is just so much larger than the harms. It could be 10x less costly and time consuming to do both epidemiology and longitudinal intervention studies if we only had access to data. We could be directly tackling disease causal factors in ways that researchers today only dream of. It really is tens of thousands of lives lost each year that could have been saved if we could only have moved faster toward interventions.

I believe medical records should be open and laws should address how people use the data, not trying to make something so valuable to all humanity secret from the beginning. For example you can download my genetic code here: https://www.openhumans.org/member/iandanforth/
How are Wine, CrossOver and Proton related?
I would argue that the whole "IBM PC clone" phenomenon came about more by chance than by design: IBM certainly didn't want it to happen, but since they cobbled their PC together from standard off-the-shelf parts, and outsourced the OS to a third party (Microsoft) who was more than happy to license it to others too, there wasn't much they could do to stop it either. The other platforms you mentioned were ultimately undercut by these cheap PC clones and by their own failings, not necessarily by the fact that they were proprietary. Actually, IMHO Apple only narrowly escaped joining the Atari ST and Amiga in the mid 1990s...
It's both? I have the attention span of a gnat so whenever I'm forced to wait in one place for more than 10 seconds I pull my phone out. I don't pull up TikTok, but I pull up HN or similar. Theoretically HN et al can be educational, but it's mostly functioning as an alternative to TikTok.

This behaviour is normal today, but 40 years ago people other than me had the ability to wait patiently.
See the part where it’s trivial for a responsible pet owner to not get their dog knocked up.
Wow....... I'm speechless. I wasn't expecting to see actual working software like Infini-D. This is the real deal. It brings back so much memory.
Is there any reason to think a court would entertain that lawsuit?
It says in the article:

>> The company says it uses Weltrend WT6676F, ON Semi NCP1622, and JoulWatt JW1556 controllers, as well as GaN switching parts from both GaN Systems and Navitas “peaking at an amazing 93% efficiency” for this 180W adapter. Both those parts and Chicony’s assistance as a power supply manufacturer are obviously there for other companies to use as well.

So likely even less efficiency for the higher rating. I'm very interested to see how they're venting this heat passively.
Thanks for the summary! It helped me scan through HN faster and get back to work ;)
We all should try to do this more often.
Thank you! fix coming https://github.com/microsoft/devicescript/commit/a59e8aafce2...
IIMU this is the ROM expected by the Mac Toolbox, but I am not that familiar with the guts of NuBus Macs. I haven't touched Explorer emulation in years, when it dead-ended I moved on to LMI stuff and then gave up on lisp stuff completely when working on the LMI stuff attracted a bunch of outrage.
100M seems like an excessive budget for a website.
I've been using https://www.inoreader.com/ for reading feeds for years and I'm pretty happy with it.
With all these protests and shutdowns it seems there's a decent chance of reddit dying very soon. It's a shame because adding "site:reddit.com" to my Google queries was the only way to avoid (most of the) SEO bullshit and get opinions by real people.

Hopefully it gets replaced soon...
This scenario seems functionally similar to a FaceTime call or other form of video communication. Both parties know they’re not literally gazing into each other’s eyes, but the technical medium creates a pretty decent long distance approximation of doing just that.

A video call will never replace the real thing, but I don’t think I’d say it’s dystopian.

And I don’t find the tech in this headset all that different, the exception being that there isn’t a 2nd set of cameras and screens on the non-headset side of the conversation.

On the other hand, maybe it is dystopian, but if so, I’d argue that dystopia is already here and has been for awhile.
Mostly, C.

Then if it doesn't work, primarily A and secondarily B.
The lawyer said: “I did not comprehend that ChatGPT could fabricate cases."

I wonder how many other people using ChatGPT do not comprehend that ChatGPT can be a confident bullshitter...

I'm surprised that this one case is getting so much attention because there must be so many instances of people using false information they got from ChatGPT.
Everyone wants to be "smart" by web scraping, harvesting data, building models. No one bothers to build and sustain platforms where quality content can be crowd sourced. Parasitic arrangement is slowly starting a new era of the internet. Question how long until existing data dumps will become outdated and fall into irrelevance.
Texas Instruments also sold Personal Consultant Plus, an EMYCIN-like expert system shell, which was implemented in PC Scheme: https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/personal-consultant-plus-0...
Discord is so awful as an information resource, though. It can't be indexed by search engines so if a server ever gets deleted, that information is gone forever. Not to mention Discord's search is terrible anyway and you'll probably never find what you're looking for even if it was discussed in the past on a server. I also find that most of the messages tend to be pretty mundane chatter; people are just filling space.
Nice post. Thanks for the info. I was bothered that "genotoxic" didn't have a reference.

For other readers, I didn't know what "in-vitro study" meant. Google tells me:

In vitro is Latin for “in glass.” It describes medical procedures, tests, and experiments that researchers perform outside of a living organism. An in vitro study occurs in a controlled environment, such as a test tube or petri dish.
> There are people who do not consider that "open".

Who? Even Richard Stallman is okay with what they do: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions
> Sorry I don't have a source for that.

History is the only source you need. It would have been considered heresy to to otherwise, and it was common at the time for Christian scholars to reframe pagan gods as wicked sorcerers or demons and the like. In the Prose Edda, Snorri Sturluson states the gods are human descendants of Trojan heroes. It's also likely the descriptions of "light elves" and "dark elves" (basically angels and demons) along with Ragnarok (Apocalypse) and Baldr's death and resurrection (Christ motif) were retooled if not fabricated entirely to turn these 'dangerous pagan lies' into useful Christian metaphors.

Unfortunately we'll never know how much was changed, but we can be absolutely certain things were changed.
This GitHub page was the starting point: https://government.github.com/community
The Tragedy of Foreign-Policy Realism
Random Gen Z-er: "Oh look, there's a dead tree version of Wikipedia."

Gen X: Dead stare, mouth open, winces, grips Encarta CDs tightly
That’s what they’re saying. They aren’t saying that’s not how it works.
That fire did happen, but was extinguished about a month ago:
https://www.albertaprimetimes.com/beyond-local/banffs-out-of...

The 'urban legend' remains because it is constantly mentioned on right-wing 'news' sites as proof that DEI programs are dangerous to society.
Came here to say the exact same thing.
Manjaro has a history of issues and oddly provide their own repos (with differing packaging version to mainline Arch) when arch's repo + aur more than suffice.

On the endeavouros side they only have their DE customization packages + nvidia helper packages + ZFS + small helper applications (I'm assuming wgetpaste and such are for users to easily upload error logs, etc)
https://github.com/endeavouros-team/repo/tree/master/endeavo...
This data dump was part of the compact between users (whoc reated the content) and the platform (who host it). The data dump was insurance against the company going the CDDB/Gracenote, Experts Exchange or Quora route and either paywalling or even just gating that content. We don't need a repeat of that.

If the data dump is gone, that compact is broken and honestly it's time to stop contributing to SO.
That's worth remembering, yes - without that we wouldn't have had Reddit in the first place.
Kink-shaming on HN. Wow.

Man, I miss when the web was dominated by counter-cultural weirdos.
It’s fun when you’re working for the robot manufacturers but traditional software engineering is a lot funner to me. Robots are either programmed with a proprietary language that abstracts anything interesting away or with a joystick. PLC programming is funner but the tooling is still garbage and most of the fun things are also abstracted away unless you are doing servo motion. Things like ROS are typically used in industry. Worked in factory automation for a few years until I realized that software paid better and had better tools.
Don't give? Excuse me? Most bigtech firms already have access to that data.
Bingo.

With or without ChatGPT this is easily malpractice and potentially even fraud. My (cynical) guess is not only are they lazy and sloppy, they likely (fraudulently) over billed their clients in terms of representing billable hours spent drafting this lawsuit. They're almost certainly billing their clients (or in the case of contingency, keeping the cut they normally would) as though humans (with high hourly rates) are drafting this while having ChatGPT generate their supposed work product in seconds.

If you remove ChatGPT from the picture and look at this as if it was actually drafted by them the fraud argument strengthens. They essentially made up case law and citations that artificially (fraudulently) improves their argument before the court.

At a minimum it's grossly incompetent and when you consider my prior paragraph it strengthens the fraud angle, as they likely skimmed over the generated ChatGPT results and submitted it because it (again, artificially) strengthens their case. It seems as though ChatGPT (with whatever prompts they used) was more than happy to prioritize pleasing them vs actually being accurate.

They may as well have prompted ChatGPT with "I'm a lawyer and tell me anything you need to so I can win this case and take home the money". It's a disgrace.

What a mess - these lawyers should be disbarred and investigated for what is also likely fraudulent billing practices at minimum.
You need champions, not checklists
Allen Institute teams up with AWS to build first-ever map of the brain
>Once the platform is complete, scientists could better understand links between genetics and different cognitive functions, as well as insights into diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.