skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't address that. They just assume random sampling, so there's no equivalent to human curation or quality metrics, which would preserve tails or, by manual use, create tails. The contraction they observe is pretty much what you would expect in the random sampling setting, since you can only lose tails with a finite sample, and never gain them. (They also need to have a very large ratio of synthetic to real/original data.)

So, while interesting for nailing down that phenomenon, the broader implications everyone wants to draw from it are not very good - very few people are using random GPT-3/4 or Stable Diffusion samples!
Some of the things that volunteer mods defend against is bot spam, repost spam, karma mining, abusive comments, and brigading. Unless Reddit has AI solutions for all of these (not a real suggestion - it's an arms race against similarly-AI-using spammers, and if Reddit had the engineering culture of ByteDance then it would have already built the moderator tools people had been requesting since 2015!) then its niche and generalist subreddits alike will lose their culture and quality faster than one can blink an eye.
They don't want the money, they want the 3rd party apps gone, and for users to use the offical app.
63%, with variations based on income and age, does not translate in my reading to "American social life revolves around alcohol." Regardless, how does the percentage of Americans who drink matter? Is that how you decide how to behave? 32% of Americans own guns, including several of my friends and family, but I don't feel any pressure or need to buy a gun. 92% of Americans own a car but I don't feel compelled to join them.

If you don't want to drink, don't drink. If you feel your own social circle pressures or shuns you because of that, find better friends. The percentage of Americans who drink has nothing to do with your decision, and if even 36% of Americans don't drink (and a larger percentage don't drink very much or often) that should give you plenty of room to find like-minded people to socialize with.

Make decisions for yourself, don't worry about what other people think, say, or do. Falling back on excuses that amount to "society pressures me to drink" or "my friends all smoke weed" makes me question if you asked the question sincerely in the first place.
This can be used as a perfect image id tool.
Most of those must be new additions. Whenever I set up a new browser I enable every list, and I only had 5 annoyance lists enabled. I'm glad I checked again!
I don't know how much rice you eat, but my experience has been that 1 rice cup cooks enough rice for a modest serving for 2 adults - in our household at least.
That makes sense. Emergency room triage happens really quickly in my experience (even if you walk in, usually less than 10 minutes). If it's clear your life is in serious danger, then even faster! Once they know your condition isn't life threatening, you get to wait until they have some free time to see you, however long that is.

Problem is most hospitals are setup to be overloaded aka "every day is a bad day" - god forbid you have some staff sitting around twiddling their thumbs! Better to just have just enough staff that the place doesn't fail.
Reddit was not a clear alternative to Digg, but it only took a short while for the transition to occur. it's not the consuming user base that needs to transition, but the moderators who are willing to manage subreddits and users who spend the time find and share content. If they move somewhere else because Reddit becomes too difficult to use, the rest will eventually follow.

Reddit itself isn't a terribly complex site to implement as is shown with the relatively small staff they have for a very large user base. Until relatively recently you could download the source code from Github and spin up an instance yourself. The actual "work" is being done by the unpaid moderators and contributors.
FYI: It seems only to be a frontend configuration issue as far as I can see. The setting saved is still effective (I think).
My favourite CMC quote. The evil of automation.

“You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.”
I would be fine paying a monthly fee to be able to keep using RIF. Reddit throwing up an iron curtain and thinking it'll ultimately end up benefiting them is such a head-scratcher.
> What do you make every day that you can stand to eat for 5 years?! (=

They didn’t say they were cooking the same thing every day.

I use the pressure cooker function of mine probably 4-5 times a week. Risotto, stew, chicken stock, tomato sauce for pasta, etc.
Who is going to mod it.. couple reddits that I follow daily are public again, however there are no new posts as mods stopped accepting anything.

I am genuinely curious how this is going to work going forward.
Also can any foreigner do this? Asking for a friend
I'll just add: in my own opinion this epilogue is a bit of literary trickery. Like the past, it's difficult to parse. As the epilogue, it naturally occupies a place of significance. This must be the key to understanding Blood Meridian!

But after wracking your brain trying to decrypt the message, you realize that it just says there is no greater meaning to the violence of the book. It is just people doing things on a vast plain.

It's almost as though McCarthy is saying to us, "See? You're still looking for a deeper meaning that does not exist."
you or any other user could create your own subreddit. it’s not like reddit can’t discuss nba games.

there clearly is a gulf between people who actively wish to make it so and those who consume the byproduct of their effort.
Second this! Horizon EDA is far closer to Eagle's library management than KiCad. And it's also much better than Eagle.
Hacking Headaches: Keeping a Neurostimulator Working
But the api doesn't deliver ads and the clients don't pay Reddit.
>Why do I have to pay to post?

>To store data on the blockchain, a transaction fee is required. On the Algorand network, this fee is very low, currently less than $0.01 per transaction. This minimal fee acts as a disincentive for spam. Interacting with the platform also makes you eligible to earn POST tokens.

>Do I need to create an account?

>No. You only need to connect your Algorand wallet. Your posts and comments will be associated with your account's address.

https://metapost.io/faq
If there was a clear alternative they would have not had the balls to try this.

For me the blackout was effective. I'm done with reddit. Fuck em
In the recent AMA, they claimed that the average cost per user would be around $1/month. Apollo dev believes it will be much more than.

I feel Reddit could have easily come up with a model where the API usage gets tied to premium account and that decouples apps from API charges.

Reddit has now created a new problem for itself which is that a huge user base that previously didn't bother to look at third-party apps has suddenly become aware of third-party apps. So now, they will start bypassing Reddit's official apps that generate revenue for Reddit in favor of third-party apps that seemingly have a better UX and are ad-free.
I'm guessing OP wants to share a database that's always up to date.

A torrent containing a single sqlite file would be good for a snapshot in time, but each update would require a new torrent, even if it only contains the updates since the base or last release.

IIRC IPFS can be used to distribute files that change over time, with only the changes being transferred, although of course there would need to be a place where OP publishes the hash of the most recent file.

In either case, someone would need to seed the file to guarantee it's always available.
I was heavily into this as a kid.

There were some websites back in the early 2000s which would sell infomercial products about the Art of Sorcery and Aleister Crowley (The Wickedest Man In The World!) which were the creme de la creme.

Later I learnt about his K2 expedition and other things.
Thanks. If we could have an IMAX-like experience, that would be fantastic.
> Perhaps the relevant thing is "household where at least one person makes >100K/yr" since the benefits are probably tied to the type of job.

I think you're reading too much into the OP's off-hand guesstimate. At every company I've worked for, the engineers earning $200K are on the same health insurance as the high school graduate in the warehouse earning $40K/year. The higher compensation makes it easier to clear the deductible/out of pocket maximum hurdles, obviously, but there wasn't a secret insurance plan that got unlocked at higher compensation.
I highly doubt a different dollar amount would have changed the outcome. Reddit wanted $2.50 per user from the Apollo dev. Would $2 have been more palatable? Or $1.50? Would the extra few cents per month really make the difference between a user subscribing or not?

The conversation is really only about free vs not free. Everything else is a smokescreen.
you're either being disingenuous or maybe you're legitimately ignorant, I can't tell. It's clearly not 'precisely how it works today'. Sometimes words mean things. This is one of those cases.
Have you checked out lemmy yet?

https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Is it possible that the quick spread generative AI is forcing reddit (and twitter) to batten down the hatches?
If Reddit isn't going to value its communities, it's just going to turn into a clone of the bloated corpse of "I Can Has Cheeseburger", an endless stream of cat pictures and short videos, posted and reposted. High in traffic, maybe, but catering only to the lowest common denominator, stripped of the things that made it valuable to long-time users.

But that's probably fine with them. Reddit seems to have taken that the position that users are fungible, which (particularly when they depend on volunteer moderators) seems somewhat dubious to me.
The James Webb Space Telescope May Have Finally Found the First-Ever Stars
Glad they've helped! There are plenty of better emulators, but I'm pretty proud of binjgb for being small, pretty fast, and pretty accurate.
Well, that is answered by AlphaZero (but not for LLM machines).
Try teddit.net
Could you say more what you don’t like about venv compared to how other languages do it?
Go do a certification instead, but not a silly one.
Do you think Hacker News should get rid of downvoting?
They can easily do that to the major subreddits without losing much trust at all. How many users do you think really care about the mods of /r/videos? I doubt very many. They should probably make the generic default ones like that admin moderated anyway. The amount of users who actually care about this is shockingly low. Something like 0.5% of users use third party apps? I saw surveys on subreddits with millions of subscribers about participating in this getting ~1000 votes in total. The number of users currently having their Reddit experience ruined by moderators far exceeds the number having their experience ruined by Reddit api changes.
Read it from the pulpit! Thanks for sharing the quote.
And once we started cutting back on those imports (or threatening to), all of a sudden inflation returned home.

Inflation was my guess as to what would happen when Trump come into office, I just didn’t expect a continued period of low interest rates due to political meddling.
That may be at the hourly wage level, but from office manager to above, including specialists, they are making money.

Much more so in states where regulation is strict for said jobs
Right on, that's pretty interesting. Thank you for sharing.
Our source is still only other humans. I don't think this will be a long-term problem.
arXiv paper submitted by the team: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.00953.pdf

"JADES. Possible Population III signatures at z=10.6 in the halo of GN-z11"
I haven't seen Yellowstone but I'd be amazed if it comes at all close to Blood Meridian for violence. I can't think of any movie or TV show that would.

edit: American Psycho might have if they'd stayed faithful to the book
This would be perfect if there was an RSS link... for, I too, welcome our 8-tentacled overlords.
Is Australia currently not meeting their debts or at risk in the short term future of not?
I hope Apollo is talking to several reddit competitors with a sustainable business model and working on integrations. At the end of the month, when they get shut down, they just rebrand the app with the new backend and everyone is happy. All users migrated to a new platform with new communities.
Supposedly all these new laws around price transparency are aimed at exposing the "real" rate, not the inflated rate on the initial bill. 3.5x Medicare is actually somewhere around "reasonable" and is what a commercial plan like BCBS will actually pay. 10x to 50x is what would appear on the initial bill.

It's hard to escape the conclusion that the whole thing is a massive protection racket (i.e. pay monthly premiums or get a shockingly large bill weeks after the fact that you have no way of negotiating down except making kissy faces to the billing clerk). The only reason it hasn't been litigated on those grounds is that there are too many entities involved so whomever you prosecute first will cry foul and blame the other guy.
>Casual users were not happy to find out that they would have nowhere to discuss the most important game of the season...

... what? Reddit is absolutely not the only place to discuss an NBA game.
They better get their buck quick before investors realize what that means for the future of content on reddit.

Because much as some folks here seem to believe, there IS actually more to reddit, reddit as it exists today, than just ad impression counts. I'm not some social media genius but the way that this being talked about by some people, who I guess haven't been a part of reddit over 17+ years, I am flabbergasted at how y'all think these things grow and thrive.

What's the market value of 9gag? iFunny?

Digg?
Depending on your language of choice, it might be worth looking at seeing if it compiles into web assembly.

If it does, and if the binary sizes aren't too large (both can be a problem for some languages) then you might be able to create your frontend using wasm, using your preferred backend language.
Baking soda also um…degasses the chickpeas shall we say
How can you think about something if you've never seen it and it doesn't make sense based on your worldview? Well there's definitely ways that you can view it from a more open viewpoint! Ha ha ha! :) And lots to view: plenty of things we've observed and don't understand! Ha ha ha! :)
Meta open sources an AI-powered music generator
I dunno man. They both seem kinda intellectually obsessive. All that writing.
I read on Twitter that it’s a reference to the introduction of barbed wire fencing that marked the end of the wild era that the book was set in. It makes sense but I never looked into it.
Actually, they are probably not the same people at all.
Exactly! They bought Alien Blue and made it into the app everyone hates. If they believe in the future of the site it should be a no-brainer to buy RiF and/or Apollo.
Open AI already showed that you can train an LLM on the stuff reddit's already got and produce a site with as much traffic as reddit gets... so what are the users needed for?

I say this in jest, but only partially... lots of subreddits have noticed influexes of AI bots recently. Maybe spammers testing the water, or maybe you were just the product that was just helping train its replacement.
A cheap cash bubble that popped a while back, not confined to tech.

Reddit and Twitter (and almost all social media) don't provide a service valuable enough to get users to pay, so they rely on advertising. Uber does provide a service but prices it below cost to gain market share -- a strategy Amazon followed until they succeeded, but one which Uber probably won't.

You can find plenty of analysis and opinions about the affects of cheap cash and the growth-at-all-cost tech bubble questions, the topic gets hammered to death.
I used [shreddit](https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit) in an endless bash loop until it had overwritten and removed everything.
> Accept pain.

Now this is something I can get behind (:

But for the rest, I think we are not on the same page w/regard to most of what I was trying to say.

I guess you took my text to mean we should all tiptoe around everyone else's feelings all the time, to the point of absurdity ­— everyone gets a participation trophy, and nobody is allowed to acknowledge harsh reality, etc.

I actually come from the other direction: failure is real, pain is common, so why add more to that pile for others? Why give people more reasons to feel bad about themselves through some choice of words?

I suppose there's some aspect of "I waded through shit to get where I am, so you should too — it'll be good for you", and that seems ... off, to me. We are all wading through shit all the time already. Different kinds for different people. So maybe throw a rope from time to time, if you've got one.

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Aside: I don't think this is about young people these days, or political-correctness. This is about having empathy and broader perspective.
If we're going by vote count, my "show HN" should be #30, but it's not on the list at all.
Sounds like 401ks are very efficient for fund managers. Maybe that’s what they meant?
The same way moderators could go create their own version of reddit. Or you an I could just start a new basketball league. Or create a new internet if we are unhappy with the existing one.

This line of reasoning goes nowhere.
Wow, this was the first place my mind went when I saw they’d taken out half a billion in credit, and it’s kind of indefensible that the article didn’t mention it at all.

Yet another storied business that had perhaps become stagnant, but certainly didn’t need to be sacrificed to vampire private equity. Where does it stop?
I tried to find a GP for a young adult on Medicaid this year, and the first half dozen that I tried (selecting specifically places that said on their website they took Medicaid) would not take a new patient on Medicaid. So yes, your experience as someone who already had a doctor may be much better than it is for the normal Medicaid recipient, who did not start with private insurance.

At the same time, I was looking for a new dentist for myself and for this kid. There are a half dozen dentists who would see me within ten minutes walk. I finally found her a dentist some 20 minutes drive away (bonus: she can't drive).

And the mental health provider we found who would take Medicaid did intake for new patients on Friday mornings between 9am and 12 noon, no appointments, recommend you arrive early in order to be seen.

This is in WA.
There's also an amazing KiBot ([1]) that enables a lot of automation without much effort to setup.

1. https://github.com/INTI-CMNB/KiBot
We are experiencing almost a reverse Library of Alexandria of House of Wisdom moment. The people are Boston Tea Partying their own contributions, destroying the value by using scripts to delete all their comments. As sad is it is to see the platform go to shit over time, I feel a poetic peace along with my bittersweet sadness to see such a loss of information, all at once. In some sense there is no undoing this week, even if the blackout ends. As they say in The Worlds End, “for the greater good.”
Tough to say, as my interests are pretty spread around. Definitely some fairly vanilla neural networks in different domains, as a lot of my interest is in multi-modal AI. So I'll be working on combining vision, audio, language and "other" where "other" corresponds to things that aren't senses we humans have but which my "AI bot" does - GPS, temperature, altitude, barometric pressure, etc.

Beyond that, it's just going to be wherever the research takes me. And not everything is necessarily going to be particularly suited for running on ROCm. I'll use CUDA on NVIDIA hardware as and when needed, and I'm also open to dabbling in low-level hardware stuff and playing around with DSP's, analog computing, FPGA's, etc. One thing I want to work with a bit is some Spiking Neural Network stuff, neuromorphic approaches, etc. So not sure where this will end up.

Heck, it's possible that some of the stuff I work with will turn out to be well suited for running on a plain old CPU, which is one reason I spec's a relatively high-end Ryzen CPU and 64GB of system RAM for these machines, which otherwise wouldn't necessarily be all that important for "pure" GPU computation.

Maybe I'll even wind up going "old school" and building myself a Beowulf cluster! So I can finally answer the age old question about "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these..."
That is some great insurance you have, how many thousands of dollars a year does it cost you?
Yeah this is the right way. But I don't think it's obvious from the getting started docs.

I bet a lot of people end up installing jupyter into each virtual environment instead.

This sort of works, as (I think) most people are only working on one or two notebooks at a time, and aren't using notebooks that relate to more than one virtual environment.
Well, maybe, but the API is free only until the end of the month, so… seems like a very temporary problem for Reddit (assuming that the mods generally fold, as I assume they likely will).
>The thing is that there's a lot of valuable information that I don't think we should just delete like that.

Agreed. In the past 2 days I've been overly annoyed as both days I've had multiple google queries dump me to seemingly useful threads that I can not see because of this foolish nonsense of shuttering communities in "protest".
By the freshness of training with some data?

Well, aren't they? I believe any kind of reinforcement learning is supposed to be biased into the last training set.
It's hard for me to capture the level of nostalgia I have for those 4px graphical elements that you could use for graphics. They allowed you to control graphics with the conditional logic of Basic. I had so much fun making animations with different scenes.
>The company that makes kitchen staples like CorningWare, Pyrex and the Instant Pot

It seems they have nothing to do with the popular laboratory glassware (beakers, etc) that has Corning and/or Pyrex branding, right?
Sorry, but while you were at the store getting more beer the Web3 party ended, everyone went home already.
I think the best way to find a project is to scratch your own itch. What kinds of problems do you face that an existing tool could solve, if it just had that one feature? That is how I ended up contributing to maintaining Seleniarm for RaspberryPi and ARM machines.

Also, don't worry about asking questions. Most maintainers are more than happy to help new contributors. Many projects need all the help they can get.
A system that can store 1000% more energy than what is possible with batteries could very well power the entire system. Thus eliminating the need for batteries for this purpose. It's always something that stuck out to me as an obvious point that few have noticed.
Congratulations on getting hired in this economy!
Funny, as a BE developer I can build pretty much any backend at any scale. But a dynamic website? Fuuuuuck.
Exactly. Who is “we”? What are “our” goals? There are (nearly?) no universal human values.

AI doesn’t have ethics, it doesn’t have values. It might imitate those in some ways, but it doesn’t have them.

What this article longs for is a God it can control. Good luck with that.
It’s crazy that slashdots moderation and meta moderation didn’t spring up elsewhere, but it was probably too complicated for what most people want out of a voting system.
Will not break...
Let me guess, they gave it half-baked support for FBX files?