skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember using the Barsa[0] encyclopedia as a source for homework. We went to my grandfather's house where this imposing collection of red and gold hard cover books rested at the higher shelf. Even an adult had to get on a chair to reach there. I'm pretty sure is still there almost as a trophy or decoration piece. It's probably useless nowadays and I'm pretty sure it still lists the Soviet Union and Rhodesia as countries. Back when I've used those books they already had the smell of old books.

And yes I would love to have those books for myself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barsa_(encyclopedia)
This one does the rounds on HN periodically: "You can't tell people anything" http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an....
Letting employees set their own pay and its results
Apple’s VisionOS Makes a Bold Leap in Computer Interface
We solve this by not building a company whose sole value proposition is a thousand characters that you feed in an AI that you don't control.
Haber-Bosch was just before WWI, not WWII
> ”USB C is very fragile”

Is it? I’ve been using USB-C Macs since 2017 and I’ve never had any broken ports, despite some significant abuses (cable trips, grime in the port, etc). A few worn out cables, and failed chargers, maybe… but no problems on the laptop itself.
I don't think it's true. This whole office/in office/rto has to do with people being dishonest about why the rto needs to happen and being stuck romanticising the good old days.

There is huge overhead to in person work and the benefits are wildly oversold.

IMHO a professional software developer in a company with good management/clear direction will thrive in a remote work scenario.
tried it a couple of years ago. it ended up trashing my system after a few months of use (i couldn't make it boot). i was only doing a normal rolling system update. that was it for me.
The mod does its job beautifully: it allows players to play The Capitol Beltway with their Fallout: NV crew and mechanics.

F:NV was the better game, but even as a huge NV fan, exploring post-apocalyptic DC and its suburbs was way more enjoyable a locale than exploring the nuked desert. This gives the best of both worlds.
If you order a robot off a cliff, the proximate cause of the damage is the cliff.

If you order a robot to turn on and off too fast, the proximate cause of the damage is the internal power circuitry. Which makes "self-destruct" pretty appropriate language.
What I'm saying is, the protections it provides are overstated, and the damage it does is (greatly) understated. I am not saying lets discard privacy protections all together. I am saying lets not let bad implementations of good intentions convince us to be ok with an extremely expensive system that is not very useful and results in a great deal of physical and economic harm.

> I would start freaking the fuck out if my primary care physician gets to sell my diagnosis for money to Facebook,

To play Devil's advocate, do you think Facebook doesn't know who is gay and who has diabetes? If Target can figure out when you're pregnant, Google can certainly figure out on which day you plan to go the abortion clinic. This information is already out there and used in ways we don't like. So maybe we should consider re-working HIPPA so the information can be used by the good guys instead.
I agree the majority of the value is in the current activity but theres definitely some in the historical data, both for AI training (as you mentioned) and for people looking for information on topics that have been discussed in the past.

My assumption though is Reddit has already done the math regarding the threat of reduced value as a knowledge repository from people deleting comments/posts and decided the value they lose from pissing people off is smaller than what they gain from the changes that everyone is angry about.

Especially because they probably keep backups they can pull from and (as people have pointed out) historical post/comment data is already archived and available all over the internet. Legally that data is still the property of Reddit so if AI companies want to use it without breaking laws they'll need to pay them for it.
I mean the operative word in "Cold War" is Cold. There was a lot of arms buildup and posturing, and some proxy wars in smaller or less developed countries, but no wars waged directly between the great powers. The Cold War was part of the long peace that HST predicted. I think you could argue that America's supremacy was never seriously contested by the USSR - sure the USSR had nukes, but the US had plenty of those as well, it had the better economy, overwhelmingly better navy etc. There were more chips on the strategic board than MAD and most of them belonged to the US.
I don't believe it at all. My unreliable narrator radar is blowing up.
NorthernUI (a mod for Oblivion) allegedly can add full gamepad support, they have a lite version that does this without altering the vanilla UI: https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/48577
I mostly disagree. Like you said, Qt is the best cross-platform native-like GUI toolkit available today. And that is a hard achievement. There are many tradeoffs (some you pointed out) but the open source community seems to find a way around those limitations. There are thousands of open source libraries you can plug-in into your Qt app to overcome many of its limitations (although some remain, like how can't we still not easily change caret/cursor color of QTextEdit??).

Unlike you, I like the direction that Qt is taking. I think QML and Qt Quick are great. I just implemented a feature in my note-taking app that turns Markdown text into Kanban board using QML and the experience has been great (https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes/pull/574). I'm planning to continue transition from QWidgets to QML/Qt Quick.

I do worry of the continuous friction with open source development and hate the online installers as well. I can recommend this useful tool https://github.com/miurahr/aqtinstall that allows you to easily download prebuilt Qt binaries. I hope they can revert their approach on that.
Incentives in this structure go both ways though, ideally keeping everything in symbiotic balance. Companies that alienate their users tend to not do well shortly after.
ESP32 Embedded Rust at the HAL: SPI Communication
Cats suckling on things (usually wool shirts or blankets) into adulthood is a sign they were removed from their mother too soon, but I've never heard that about kneading. I just assumed it was normal for a cat that's happy, safe, and comfortable.
in the meantime checkout covve.com
It is another tax but without the tax label. Now we call it "Closing a loophole for the greedy Tech companies".
> software idea cases if I won't bootstrap it, then I don't believe in it enough, and/or can't get others to believe in it enough.

On the flip side, if you can't convince someone whose job it is to give out money to give you money, do you feel confident you can convince someone else to pay for your product? For me, getting VC buy in is proof that someone else thinks that there is money in the idea.
This is not an accurate story. Monticello had for a while been concerned about the legality of growing the plant and selling the seeds. They first contacted the Department of Agriculture and the Virginia Attorney General regarding this question. They didn't receive clear guidance, so they then reached out to the DEA regarding the legality. The DEA told them it was illegal but also released a public statement that no enforcement action would take place if they grew them solely for decorative purposes on the estate. Monticello made the decision to go ahead and remove the plants anyways on their own.
i like the license
One day per week, maybe two, really broadens your living options though. The approximate two-hour commute each way at commuting times I have into the nearest major city is pretty doable once a week. I have a colleague who routinely flies in for a day or two of customer visits. (He actually doesn't take all that much longer than I do to get to the office.) From personal experience, much more than that and it's not really sustainable.
If the think tanks ran everything there would be no war at all, just a race for extracting minerals, creating products people didn't need and finding markets for them, and like, skinning otters and bludgeoning defenseless animals. How bad is that really compared to all-out nuclear war?
I've never heard it called kneading, locally we call it milk-treading. I've always assumed it had something to do, therefore, with kitten behavior while nursing from their mother.
I don't think an amendment was required. Alcohol could have been banned at the time through legislation, it just would have been easier to reverse and maybe less universal.
"During nursing, a kitten rhythmically treads its paws on the mother's body to stimulate the flow of milk."

But adult cats use their claws, which kittens presumably don't do, otherwise they would hurt the mother. So this explanation seems questionable.
I've built those simulators and testing equipment. You test assumptions in simulation, verify and improve it in the tests, and ultimately on the track in Barcelona.
Between gmail and your own email server, there are thousands of medium size email providers that work ok, so email is a bad example, decentralization still works there. As for GitHub, the coders of all people should have known better than to pile into one site and sell their s̶o̶u̶l̶s̶ code to devil for a little bit of convenience.
That doesn't stop grumpy admin of a federated instance to just do exactly same thing.

> run by people we trust

People change, or retire, just like corporation goals change.

Focusing on more independent is not enough. If you want truly unbreakable stuff first part of the puzzle is saving user's handle and identity in a way that can't be removed.

Then finding out a way to link that to their content so when place of hosting it goes away people can follow to the new place

Then just have all of that content be signed by that identity so users can verify that it is really that person.

And I can't believe I'm saying that unironically but blockchain might just be the solution for that.

Something like immutable log of:

* user declaring "I'm jeff@example.com, here are my public keys". Servers then validate via DNS record or some .well-known location entry whether user is allowed to declare they are from @example.com
* user declaring "behold! jeff@example.com stuff is <here>, and <here> and <here> are addresses for various federation systems". Only passes if that request is signed with above privkey of course
* user declaring "behold! My new public key is X and Y. And Z key is revoked!"
* user declaring "behold! I am now george.effluent@company.com! Re-does checks but for new domain and users previously subscribed to jeff@example com get served redirect".

etc.

Then when server admin inevitably goes rogue you can take your posts and subscribers and go somewhere else.

And when @example.com owner decides "well I'm just gonna to redirect stuff to ads", you can just change your handle and direct people to right place, and other handle is forever taken.
Missed it by this much.

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/142l1i0/archiv...
Bookworm has been an alias for testing on apt repos for a while now. I think it's releasing very soon though.
Find out how many moderators it takes to keep things under control at Reddit, and the actual infrastructure costs to keep it up and running.

I assume much of the moderation work is unpaid. It would be good to figure out a monetization strategy that doesn't involve advertising at all to pay the bills, and possibly allow moderators to have a strategy of their own that works to pay their bills.

Distributing it as open source would be a good idea, but it has to be built on a secure foundation, and Linux ain't it. I'd start with Genode, and leverage capability based security to allow far more robust management of information flows.
I agree with your driver assessment as someone who's used Zephyr quite a bit. If you're working with a new sensor, writing a new one is super straightforward. I don't have much experience picking sensor devices for embedded Linux, but I didn't think they had a ton of drivers for those types of devices. Bluetooth, networking, and SoCs, sure, but not so much for I2C/SPI sensors and displays and whatnot.
Not a chance, these numbers are so heavily quadruple counted and biased, and even if they try it once it’s not an active user. Again if you think it’s that common you live in a bubble.

Half the population is above 45, and it’s not above 2% for that cohort they barely hear about it on the news and have no idea how to even sign up for it.
You can do that on something like the Quest 2 for $399, yet that didn't take over the world.

That "feature" just isn't that enticing.
The animated elements are line drawings. The drawings are transferred to transparent sheets, and the shapes between the lines are then colored in with paint on the back side (so as to not overpaint the lines). You wouldn’t call the result a painting. Background art is often painted.

Look up “cel animation”.
snapchat isn't a replacement for IM apps. They serve different purposes and most people still want the ability to send lasting messages.
We just needed enough data to awaken the mega mind, now we may rest and the mega mind shall bring an era of peace, prosperity, and scientific achievement.

Praise the mega mind.
It didn't require an amendment in the past either.
We used Front Door for a while for our SaaS application, but actually had to turn it off because of a large customer whose janky internal IDP broke because of the mere presence of IPv6 on the Azure Front Door CNAME records. It worked well for about a week for everyone else.
> If they are trying to pivot to just become a site where you can infinite scroll memes and focus on the big subreddits

...
I suspect both Russia and the US militaries have planes that could deliver the engine but that’s also somewhat problematical right now. FedEx might as well assuming 747 freighters. More problems. They need a non-aligned country that can get the engine and doesn’t sweat anything coming from the delivery.
I take it you haven't seen how forums deal with GDPR notices? It's exactly how I described. The profile is anonymized/emptied and the posts stay.
Surely there must be a way to automatically migrate users upon login, but that still doesn't help the people who don't sign in - 2 weeks is not much time
All good points, thanks. I had a horrible nightmare about being trapped last night after discussing all this right before bed! I’ll take a bag of em to my local hacker space and try to entice people to use them.
Assuming that the linked post is accurate and that the "approval from senior leadership" to turn the dump back on does not come...then yes, I would say so. Actually there is already Codidact, although if I recall correctly they explicitly ruled out importing SE data when they started up. https://codidact.org
Trying to attribute intelligent intent when there is none. Human brains are just an amalgamation of 20 amino acids and other organic molecules that some bunch of DNA produced to copy themselves. Or: Human brains are ultimately just particles following the unavoidable rules of Quantum Mechanics.

My point being, we are the result of a bunch of DNA molecules selected to make more copies of itself. Our neurons, whatever their internal structure, still reduce to just chemical and physical processes. Yet, here we are. Reductionism is not the way to dismiss emergent phenomena like intelligence, sentience or consciousness.
I think we saw this in some Hollywood studios - they find a movie that worked and treat it as a 'playbook' to just rinse-and-repeat it in all variations.

Eventually, audiences just become fatigued and the 'business creatives' lose to some other genuinely creative theme that takes hold. Then they return to exploit it :-(
Please don't hurt the community over this.
> How does someone weaponize your information?

This is so easy to recognize that I have to wonder if you've ever met a less-privileged person than yourself.

1. A fully functioning, treatment-compliant schizophrenic is now at risk of being passed up for jobs or promotions because their medical history is up to be bought by employers.

2. A local concerned citizen will be much more afraid of protesting or publicly being against a politician if the politician can buy their history of getting PreP, an HIV preventative drug that is popular in the homosexual community.

3. A religious private school starts to buy the medical history of their young girls, and reveal which girls are taking birth control, had had an abortion, etc. by expulsing them from the school.

Or simply put: You first. Put up your hemorrhoid surgery photos up on your LinkedIn.
I was so bitter about the experience that I wrote a script that crawled the top 10000 subreddits looking for possible takeovers, and my friend and I took over a few dozen lucrative subreddits*. Think generic words like r/skateboarding (not one of them). Just add a spammy automoderator account to your modlist so it can't get taken back over.

It goes by the "last activity" timestamp of your creator/modlist, so even if you are actively moderating your subreddit (like attending to the mod queue), your subreddit can still get taken over if you aren't posting.

The system is so, so stupid.

* If you search the takeover requests subreddit you could even see that we weren't even stealing the subreddit from the original owners who did all the work to grow the subreddit, but rather from other takeover bots.
I love pompous comments like these. I'm not part of a "nutrition community" and I'm actually pretty open minded to these things. Hence why I asked. But you seem to be unable to have a civil conversation without being an asshole. Congrats.

Let's throw around studies like pokemon cards then. I have a study too: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955571/
Couldn't agree more. Until you work in the healthcare field, you don't realize how much time and energy is wasted following HIPAA protocols. The doctor can receive your results, know your results, and still force you to come in because they can't tell you your results over the phone per protocol.

Europe gets to use their free and open medical data freely for research. The US gatekeeps that information. It's a huge competitive advantage for Europe.
Should petition Daniel Gackle et al to CC-BY user-generated content on HN.
uh... if USA is helping ukraine in building their factory, that's seen as worrying but if iran helps russia or vice versa, then its a problem? right?
Isn't VR porn just a stereoscopic look around? Google cardboard gets you 90% of that experience.
Neat but does not account for possible transfers - and maybe thats not a bad thing?
The difference is fidelity and accuracy of experience are ONLY important to simulation turbo nerds.

Call of Duty would not be a bigger franchise if it gave you trenchfoot for example.
My only quibble with this article: it fails to apply its own conclusions to the US. The balance of evidence (Pentagon procurement processes and cost overruns of major projects) shows the US military too has a significant paper component.
Yeah, this is a baffling part of this—you can still scrape (for now, I guess), if you have the time and effort to do so. Disabling the dump makes it harder only if you have e.g. a shoestring budget.

For example, my hobby search engine got started because I found out about these dumps and decided it would be an interesting challenge to try to work with them[1]. If I’d needed to build a scraper first the project would never have gotten off the ground.

[1]: https://search.feep.dev/blog/post/2021-09-04-stackexchange
> >How many times do you get a Discord server in your Google results when searching for something?

> What does this have to do with what I wrote?

You are suggesting that those users will go away from Reddit to form separate dedicated communities, and I am saying that they will try but fail to attract people.

Reddit allows the vast majority of the subs that participate in the blackout to survive simply because they are a part of Reddit and benefit from its infrastructure and features.

You really think a website dedicated to cute animals will attract 34M subscribers like /r/aww? And another one with the exact same theme will attract 4M subscribers (with a lot of overlap) like /r/Eyebleach?

Those communities exist and strive because the barrier to entry is literally non-existent. It takes one input to create them and one click to join them.

> Odd because I get the impression you prefer the communities those little dictators create to be on a google crawlable site over discord.

I would prefer if there were no little dictators, with elections every 3 months, showing detailed stats of the moderators actions, and most of the moderation to be in the style of StackOverflow, so community driven.
My quiet, somewhat socially anxious mother sold World Book door to door in the late sixties to get her family a copy for free. I really think those volumes were greatly responsible for the positive trends in my life.
I loved reading the World book and following where the bread crumbs led. As I write this more comes back- I remember "E" was probably the best starting point with all the electricity articles. Amazingly, although not detailed, the recipe for gunpowder was there. Ah the memories :) Thank you World Book and most of all Thank You Mom!!
It's very odd because it's only new page loads. Existing metrics pages I've been refreshing keep showing new data.
That's a cool source that contradicts the article posted originally. In yours they say they won't prosecute, but in the article it claims they were low-key threatened into getting rid of the garden. Odd.
Temperature = 0 will give deterministic results, but might not be as “creative”. Also it’s not enough to guarantee determinism , hardware executing the LLM can lead to different results as well
The full quote is "they have real security threats from revanchist powers (Israel, Taiwan, Poland, Finland, Ukraine, etc.)". The listed countries aren't revanchist powers, they're under threat from revanchist powers.
Even setting temp to 0 retains some nondeterminism.
"Just sorta stating the obvious here, but the timing of this is unbelievably terrible; I actually can't fathom a worse time for this call to be made than in light of this week. –zcoop98"

Or, it's exactly the best time to do it. Doing it now allows your news to get blended in with the Reddit news. Doing it later after Reddit chatter settles down means all of the chatter is directed squarely at you.
Interestingly, https://preview.portal.azure.com/ is up.
Yes, that's true! Which is a way of affirming my original point, that biking to work is for the most privileged.
Not to mention that even in-person workplaces (especially at large companies) still involve plenty of remote interaction due to the global nature of the workforce. Plenty of Googlers being required to be in-office will actually be working alone in-office, with their teammates far away...
I notice that my cat really enjoys doing it. She gets into a euphoric/hypnotic state purring more loudly than she does when stroked. Just totally lost in bliss.

It may have a real function in other situations (milk production) but I believe the proximal cause for her nightly kneading is simply how good it feels which puts her straight to sleep afterwards. I expect it releases a lot of oxytocin/opoid type neurotransmitters. It makes me feel a little.... used. Not to mention the pain!
If anything, they need to be completely anonimized and I don't know if that's possible
Why? Because they just want to maximize profits which is inherently peaceful because <repeat points from the article>? I don’t know what assumptions you’re using.
Sharing a source linked below that confirms this comment and seems to disprove the article posted - https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1991/rt9...
sry if I have reservations about the opinion of a non technical person about a piece of software they don't know how to use.