skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably depends where you’re based. Ruby is still lucrative in London and there is a healthy market for it both in startups and more established businesses. While I’ve branches out to other languages (not just JS as a full stack engineer) my career is still boosted by my Ruby experience.

I don’t think this makes it dead or dying though. It’s stable and entrenched while JS has taken the place of the golden child.

One complaint I’ll grant myself is that library development is a little less prolific this days. Again, there are well-established solutions to a lot of problems in Ruby so you’ll have a go-to collection of gems, but it’s more often the case these days that something doesn’t have much library support and you’ve got to roll your own.
> If I was in a room with someone who said "I think the world would be better off if everyone in this room except me were dead", I think you'd understand my nervousness around and dislike of the person.

That's not what I said. Bye.
“Formula for an infrastructure startup success”
I don't see how this is a play towards profitability, when the (obvious) outcome of their absurd pricing is a massive reduction in API usage.

The fact is, advertisements pay better than any amount their users or third-party developers would be willing to bear. This change appears to be more about maximizing that revenue stream (or making it more appealing to advertisers), rather creating a _new_ revenue stream in paid API access.
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I didn’t get the impression he divorced his wife and randomly moved to Thailand at the same time. That would perhaps be a little more extreme.

Also didn’t think he was encouraging others to move to Thailand with no research, it seems like he acknowledged it was a rash decision.
The word you're looking for is lying.
Adding "reddit review" to the end of a search query often has resulted in list of informative content (raw input from members of a niche community for a product). Since the blackout some information I want is now behind a walled gardens that I can't access except through cached content on a SERP.
I cringe for the negative karma this one is going to give me …

A simple truth may not be acceptable here (how graphically can I describe rape murder and extortion before you will refuse to hear more?)

So a soft core answer that illustrates this point, with a mind fcuk for you to process.

At the very top of the food chain, those who “nothing can be done about”, are condemned men. Hardened by a life of corruption and treachery in power. These may well be in prisons (even secret prisons), or holed up in personal “safe houses”, protected from the populous. These like to insulate themselves with “hostages” which doesn’t require keeping someone tied up. Ordinary people can be hostages in their own life.

When prisons and the blackest of black ops secret military state has a bastard child, these are their prodigy.

Their captains, lieutenants, and foot soldiers are indistinguishable from ordinary persons. Anyone who wants to keep their secrets, anyone who would be paid by power, anyone who would do “anything” to have access to this godlike power over you.

There were many lines of power, and this secret war has spent the last decade purging honest “lawful” types and replacing them with those corruptible treacherous.

And pit slaves.

Ever wonder what the deal is with the “children under the stairs”, or “gimp” in pulp fiction? Or from time to time news finds out someone was kept tied up in a basement… for years?

Remember in Florida, the two crazy guys where one bit off the face of the other? Bath salts? Escaped pit slaves.

Pit slaves.

As power does not run on silicon, it runs on human brain tissue, our gelatinous lumps may be conditioned to maintain networks and perform “special effects” even outside the control / awareness of the subject.

Keeping a pit slave is a massive asset and sign of power among controls.

In charge?

Power heads don’t like other power heads telling them what to do. They may work together for some ends, and they will communicate like intimate chums who want to play together, yet they hate each other and can only count on each other in so far as they will “cover” or may be coerced by one and other.

And some have networks in the tens of thousands. They can sweep through your mind and that of everyone associated with you in days. Turning yours inside out, and into play things.

And these love their games.

Most of you (yes, you) know them by their games. When not outright extorting or “sacrificing” someone, they’re your buddy mini-me who wants you to play games.
I hate mongo, mainly because of this.
Lol more instances, are you aware this site runs on one core of one server, using the file system as a database (or at least that was the setup last I heard when their entire SSD raid array failed in quick succession). That's why it makes molasses look like water.
He expected better of people he had been working with cordially for years, but kept recordings of important conversations. That doesn't strike me as naive. You do strike me as somewhat jaded though, given your familiarity with the dog and pony show of rolling out unpopular changes
It would look like facebook - less and less content, more and more ads. It would be bad for redditors because modern surveillance capitalism/adtech industries are inherently manipulative, deceitful, and will always place profit before the well-being of those consuming the ads.
99.99% of reddit users have no idea who spez is and probably wouldn't care if they learned about his shenanigans

99% of reddit users are aware that moderators do some nice volunteer work but wouldn't cross the street to save them

its only Extremely Online people who care about this Insider Baseball stuff
The free API is going away
Remix is pretty nice too, and I appreciate it for bringing Rails-style SSR to style in the React world before RSC, but the power of Rails is from having a complete platform to build your apps on. I don't need to string together five different libraries to implement authentication and e-mails, that comes more or less built into Rails.
Tilera itself is owned by NVIDIA nowadays.
Only if it's enforced, which doesn't seem too feasible
> I can't imagine anyone seeing this as a surprise…

It was a surprise to him because (1) his relationship with them was based on Apollo, and (2) Reddit had previously placed him on the "friend" side of the frenemy line based on the community's love for Apollo and the engagement it drove.

Naive people don't record every phone call.
Well, all my machines use Arch Linux with custom Secure Boot keys and unified kernel images (essentially, the kernel, the initrd, the command line, and the splash screen fused into one EFI executable and signed as a whole). So on my machines, the initrd is definitely verified. Thanks to Foxboron who made this easy with sbctl.

An entirely different matter is that the default Microsoft keys allow running all other distros, with their GRUB which allows to load initrds without authentication - which would allow evil-made style attacks by replacing the whole boot chain and the kernel. So in my world, all builds of Shim and GRUB are malware, and keys that allow booting them are not allowed in the DB.
I hate MSFT, like any other reasonable technologist, but if this results in laying off redundant & administrative bloat from the federal workforce, I'll support it
A highly profitable Reddit would be one whose product was reader-paid moderation service.

https://stratechery.com/2019/a-framework-for-moderation/
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Nonsense. There is an abundance of people across the social status Spectrum that ignore others. Sometimes doing so comes with cost, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.

Hello status person being rude to a high status person is not prohibited by the laws of physics.
If you like that, a variant that I enjoy is Monolisa: https://www.monolisa.dev

I think it sits between the submitted font and Monaco in terms of "seriousness".
Spectroscopy imaging of the prefrontal cortex during a naturalistic comedy movie
Kinda violates "justice is blind" trope, no?
> A corporation is merely a legal recognition of a group of people who have decided to work together towards a common goal.

I don't think so. There are tons of corporations that consist of one person, after all.

Corporations are legal entities that are distinct from the people that are involved with them. That's the whole point.

But a lot of this depends, I suppose, on what you mean by "community". People who are part of a corporation are a community by the strict dictionary definition of the term, but they aren't necessarily a community in any meaningful sense. A community works together, collaboratively, to support each other. Typically in a corporation, the people are working to support the corporation rather than each other.
> I agree that there is a significant sliver of a philosophical problem which remains stubborn (how precisely does physical activity produce qualia)

But that IS the definition of consciousness! This is like saying "We understand practically everything about airplanes, except how they stay in the air."

Nothing discussed in neuroscience is relevant to understanding what consciousness IS (which is the question posed above). Finding out that stimulating such and such a region makes us sad, or that this bundle of nerves activates before we're consciously aware of a decision doesn't tell us anything about consciousness itself. We've known for hundreds of years that there is a relationship between the brain and consciousness, finding out more details doesn't answer the question.

(Now, whether consciousness is necessary for AGI is a separate question.)
That actually looks more normal than Cascadia Code [0] to me. I’d say CC sits between Fantasque and Comic Mono in playfulness

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code
That’s assuming that you want people to use your API for third party apps.

Reddit has made it pretty clear they aren’t interested in that, despite the things they say.

In that sense, it makes perfect sense to jack up the price to a shocking level to force everyone to stop without outright banning them.
I'm not sure why you are replying to me, and not the person that said that authors can't update their own work?
Mercedes-Benz Drive Pilot is the only true self-driving technology available to individual vehicle buyers today, and it uses LIDAR. This is only a limited form of self driving and not human equivalent, but it does work at least in limited circumstances.

https://media.mbusa.com/releases/mercedes-benz-worlds-first-...

So far no one has demonstrated an equivalent system without LIDAR. As you state, it might be possible but no one knows how or even has a clear path to doing it.
I'm messy, I like being messy.

I cannot follow any of those organizational, rigidly structured methods. They make me anxious, I much rather live in my mess and let it automatically prioritize stuff for me.

Things I don't know where I left are likely unimportant, and no energy should be wasted on them.

I think I finally made peace with my mess.
I love Reddit, but the constant ads are getting worse. It's like they have no internal controls here.

Would someone really be interested in He Gets Us and Seeking Arrangements at the same time.

I'm also a bit confused as to why Reddit would target 3rd party apps like this. Most people, myself included don't bother with 3rd party apps. Unless the adds are going to get even worse soon...
>Ad tech has been around since before the internet.

True, but it was never this granular on this mass of a scale. I remember joking as a kid about the Nielson families that would kill a TV show because they went out to dinner instead of watching TV that night. The extrapolation that was applied to those kinds of numbers were always ripe for bad interpretation. The same thing can be said about polling numbers. The granularity is what makes modern day "ad tech" or tracking in general so damn dangerous in its accuracy
For starters not having all our communications scraped into a data center in Utah
Reddit has greater than 0 value, but year over year it feels like there’s more noise and less signal.
The obvious places to start are:

1. Do charge for API access. But be reasonable. Nobody is calling for free api access. Charge like 2-5x their cost of operation. Not 20x.

2. Serve ads to third party apps through the API. This is a no brainer. The fact that they aren't doing this speaks volumes about their true motives with this move.
I was curious why it seems so much nicer than Comic Sans (and many commenters here seem to agree).

Many of the letterforms have been dramatically "straightened" -- a Comic Sans "m" is kind of hideous, with the three vertical strokes intentionally all at different angles... whereas in this one they're all essentially vertical.

Comic Sans is ugly because it's terribly proportioned (intentionally) to mimic the way a child would write. But when you straighten everything and the letters necessarily fit into a grid... it's just much, much nicer aesthetically.

Just a gentle "handwriting mono" font, rather than the original which is (again, intentionally) horribly kerned and where half the letterforms feel like they're about to topple over from imbalance.
Interesting project. Is there documentation of the use of backticks as seen in the SQL example?

https://github.com/lmorg/murex/blob/master/examples/inline-s...

Doesn't seem to be valid quoting?

https://github.com/lmorg/murex/blob/master/docs/tour.md#quot...
Came across an intriguing paper recently. It postulated that consciousness might emerge when an organism can form a predictive simulation of both its body and surroundings, an approach akin to model-based reinforcement learning (RL). This is distinctly different from merely reacting to the environment, a characteristic of model-free RL.

> What insects can tell us about the origins of consciousness

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1520084113

Maybe consciousness is the self&world-simulator.
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>at least 90% of US adults would probably get better results by passing their writing through ChatGPT, than not.... In fact, a large majority of readers in the US would probably benefit from passing what they read through ChatGPT

Bullet list -> AI text generator -> AI text summarizer -> Bullet list

Perhaps OpenAI can optimize the process by storing the original prompt and just giving it back at the last phase.
There is definitely a market for craft soda, it’s just hard to get the same or even a small percentage of the distribution. The 2 cola companies have done a great job of pushing other competition out.
> then on top of their for their CEO to not only get caught in a major lie but for him to then double down on it.

> Even spez complaining about Christian recording the calls seems hollow when those recordings are what proved that spez was lying to the community

Were the calls ever posted? For the way Reddit has handled this and previous issues I definitely believe Christian over spez, but unless I missed something, right now everyone is just believing what Christian said, right?

Edit: I missed it, transcripts and recordings were posted to apollo sub. Thank you to everyone who replied with links
> What did you have in mind for hacking them?

Everything a young child can imagine before constraints of reality prevent us :)

Would love to use it to learn and teach about controllers, embedded software, GPS, and more object lessons.
The idea that an entity can't be sentient because of a lack of senses has the problem where it invalidates the sentience of humans though. Do you consider a blind person having less sentience than a person that can see because they lack the sense of sight? Even if we consider sentience as an on/off switch, what about a person that has no senses at all (whether someone like that exists theoretically or in reality)? With no way to tie back thoughts to the real world, are they no longer sentient?

Obviously we don't know for certain if other humans are sentient, but it seems necessary to establish the premise they are in order to get anywhere in the argument for sentience of AIs. In this case, we need an argument about the sentience of AIs that coincides with our experiences of the sentience of humans, which this argument doesn't seem to do.

Even if we limit ourselves to thinking about people with all of their senses, there's still information that we cannot tie back to the physical world with our senses. Take someone who sits at a computer all day. They read news and talk about it online, without ever interacting with the news physically. Take someone who theoretically has never done anything outside of read and type on a computer all day. Are they not sentient because they've never physically interacted with the world outside of their computer?
macOS’ window management experience is sad. How do people work like that?

I haven’t ever lost a window in the background before on any Linux WM/DE or Windows.
I’m just following Christian’s good faith interpretation.

But it’s absolutely clear it was done to kill 3P clients. It’s hilarious that certain bots would be exempt and free from the price hike. Spez called out the Haikubot by name.

Look those bots are cute. But it has to query every single sub and every single comment every few minutes to work. If Reddit truly cares about waste and inefficiency those would be the first to go. The value vs cost calculus is negative.
https://old.reddit.com/r/wholesome/comments/148aw58/radvicea... - https://archive.ph/3qMMA

The worm is turning and the top power-mods are going to get Caesar'd.
Fair enough, perhaps the guard rails in public on LLM are creating a serious false sense of security. But absolutely you can inject a persona that is intentionally deceitful.

I would however stop stick with “lying requires agency,” even if the model evaluation is crafted to be deceitful. The intent and the agency lies with the prompt creator, and therefore, IMO, the lie starts and ends there.
yeah, they failed to boil the frog properly on this one. if they wanted to go this fast would have been better to just shutdown the api all together on like a week notice.
Have you tried loading it faster?
Why judge it by it's worst qualities and worst case behavior?
This attitude is uninspiring and worse the luddistism.

Every new technology initially has its own shortcut comings.

Steve jobs in his inaugural iPhone launch, used four different phones because each phone was capable of only one feature.
I love how software engineers think they have a clear understanding of what should or shouldn't be patentable, yet cannot come up with words to describe the delineation more accurately than "good" or "bad" or "weird", or other ways of just facially repeating patent requirements like "non-obviousness", yet don't seem to grasp this is the exact challenge that the law has to deal with with regards to patents. It's not an easy challenge. It turns out, it's actually incredibly hard to come up with a law that describes what should or shouldn't be patentable, with regards to anything that has yet to be invented.
Devils advocate: isn't this just the same rural/urban divide illustrated through a different lens?

It could be similarly portrayed as rural agriculture water rights vs. city dwellers water rights. Both want cheap water. Both point to the unsustainable practices of the other regarding water usage.
Windows 7 was the first version that Microsoft was allowed (by the US/EU antitrust decisions) to have Defender installed out of the box in Windows. They were trying to do that as far back as XP and "Security Essentials" (the name before Defender) was a free and easy download on XP and Vista, but without the protection racket style marketing it was easy to miss and not everyone realized that there was a nice, quiet Windows anti-virus tool from Microsoft just a click away. I still think bundled anti-virus was one of the stupider things the antitrust decisions blocked and it gave the protection rackets a few more years to solidify power that they didn't need.
Google has been providing user data to the US government since at least 2009:

https://transparencyreport.google.com/user-data/overview?use...

And this is just the stuff they're public about. Also interesting to note that while they classify some of these as "warrants" or whatever else, they don't actually say whether it simply originated from a warrant, or whether they were legally obligated to comply due to the warrant.

Over the years it's been millions of accounts, and the data they gather from those millions of accounts also creates a vivid image of tens or hundreds of millions of other accounts.

Can't get the warrant to get the user data for some given person? No problem, get a reason to have a warrant for all 5,295 people she's ever communicated to over Google services. It effectively services as a warrant for her data specifically at that point.
It is not possible to translate a work without adding yourself to it. There is no neutral or flat translation option. "Traduttore, traditore," as has been said for centuries.

You can think that a particular translation is poor, but there isn't a choice between a translation that does and does not add the artistry of the translator.
On topic of alternative shells: recently I learned about rash[1] and I’ve been absolutely delighted. I really wish it’d gain some traction as the project seems to be moving very slowly (if at all)

[1]: https://rash-lang.org
(2015)

https://archive.is/2019.08.06-012000/http://jsomers.net/blog...
> america has no friends or enemies, just interests.

Who said that and where and when did they say it?
I would figure that, over those 8+ years, he likely dealt with developer relations and/or reddit's development team directly. The API changes aren't technical as much as they're business, and he's probably dealing with a different group within reddit.
This idea is popular, but controversial. After looking into it a bit with the help of historians on reddit, I no longer believe this conclusion, but I recommend everyone curious looks for themselves.
That's where I'm at, too.

Scanning a doc into DT and then immediately shredding the paper is one of life's little pleasures.
> A custom built drone is like a manual sports car with the added bonus of more complicated controls because they are completely, manual which means you have to be able to fly it in all 6 degrees of freedom. But you can definitely get the hang of it, you just have to crash a lot of them first.

Depending on price point, we might be okay with this. Great to be informed, however!
Nice article. This is basically in the article when they talk about email responses back and forth, but not explicitly called out: if you are fast, people that interact with you get faster, too. Toyota figured this out with kanban (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban) and revolutionized process thinking. So, if you are thinking about how to get your team to work faster, focus on what is making slow team members go slowly.