skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They'd have to hack it, or pay/donate a lot to get all those books, though. Z Lib only allows you to download 10 books a day as a free user. The problem now is that the only way to donate seems to be crypto, or some Chinese gift cards. I'm not sure how much of this is because of US authorities directly vs. how many "high risk processors" were taken down by disconnecting Russia from SWIFT, but either way, it's not convenient to support them anymore. Not that people don't, of course.
This is why Reddit if they want to be a community needs to allow ELECTIONS.

Our MPPs and MPs are elected for multi-year terms.

Why not require that mods be elected for a 2 year term and that they have to campaign to be re-elected? If they are a hated mod, they won't get re-elected.

Instead we have dictator-for-life Eric Cartman moderating multiple subs.
Wealth taxee are the classic example. Plenty of countries have tried
What is a user worth on Reddit?
I'll throw in Cathode Ray Dude [0] in there. It's hard to believe he will get 500K view on a 70 minutes video about some weird 90s hardware but he does.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@CathodeRayDude
> So… you’ve no respect for your former self? You see how this works?

You have the strangest arguments. I quit going to it once I saw CP. I don't even remember why I used to visit it occasionally, probably morbid curiosity, or maybe people on somethingawful linking posts on it. I definitely didn't frequent it and I'm sure I never posted on it.

I've seen comments that it's cleaned up a lot and has better moderation. That's good.
Why Legal Immigration to the US Is Nearly Impossible – Cato Institute
You have to wonder what those mods get out of it, considering they're doing what essentially amounts to a nearly full-time job for free.

There's an unconfirmed but strong possibility that Ghislaine Maxwell was one of the largest power mods on Reddit. https://kirbysommers.substack.com/p/evidence-that-reddit-use...
that just sounds like relief from depression, though?

people would even say the world feels or seems grey when they're depressed.
Yeah they're talking about hardware designs. Chip designers can buy "IP" from vendors for stuff they don't want to implement themselves, e.g. PCIe interfaces, embedded CPUs, etc. It's delivered as SystemVerilog code, probably obfuscated and maybe encrypted (yeah the encryption is theoretically worthless but I guess it is a sort of honesty / deniability thing).
This place reeks of anti-americanism these days.

I hope the US did bomb the nordstream, because clearly Europe is too weak to stand up to Russia.

As a European, this is deeply embarrassing. It's embarrassing that Europe doesn't take its security seriously, and it's doubly embarrassing that it shits on the Americans.
Yes, I love rtings. I do want the "what's it like to live with this?" input I get from Reddit, although perhaps I'm overindexing on it.

Eneloops seem to be the longest-lasting brand, I just pulled out an old eneloop that's been sitting for at least 8 years and it still had it's charge (!!). What I've been looking for is tests like Mooch does for 18650s but for AA/AAA: https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/blog/links-to-all-21700-26...
Let's say it is interesting to hear their advice as they have more life experience. I would however not follow everything said as the context has probably changed, but I try to take out the useful information I could reuse
I'd love to have a social network/experiment where you can see your feed based on 3 distinct algorithms.

Democratic, Founder Controlled, Seniority Weighted.

HN is primarily seniority weighted, reddit is ~democratic with founder (or mod) overrides. I'd like a (laissez|tenure|founder).civreddit.com site that let's me toggle eternal September on and off... and of course they would all have rules of conduct except maybe for chan.civreddit.com, basically you're just adding a co-hort based ranking system.
Apollo sold subscriptions for up to a year, and they would’ve had to burn money to honor those subscriptions. The cost was in the millions.

They did ask for more time for the changes than the given 30 days, and Reddit refused.
For the pedestrian problem at least, it seems even cheaper to just use a button. That also completely bypasses the problem of trying to detect if they intend to cross. Is there really much of a disadvantage? The pedestrian has to be in a specified area beside the crossing already to use it, so likely within arms reach of a pole already. But I can see it being useful for cars and bikes - as a cyclist I've hit a good number of times the magnetic sensors clearly just don't work for a bike, and had to wheel over to the pedestrian crossing to press the button to get the lights to change.

And I expect "person detection" to be much easier with an IR image, there's probably not many places where human body temperature isn't noticeably higher than the background should make it more accurate to pick out. And if you don't need accuracy of temperature reading, an IR camera isn't really any more expensive than a visual camera - it's the same CCD just with a different filter on top. And it completely bypasses any problems of darkness.

I also wouldn't be surprised if the actual camera unit was a near negligible cost of installing something like this, so even if it was multiples of the price, optimizing for that may be the wrong target if it affects accuracy at all.
on a side note: the current ceo steven huffman founded reddit together with aaron swartz ... sad irony.
> Guillermo Rauch tweeted a few months back that SPAs were a zero interest-rate phenomenon

Guillermo Rauch is selling Vercel, whose strategy includes first-class tooling for SSR, convincing people to move their SPA to SSR, and then locking them in on their platform.
It's a first step. I agree that in the longer term it will be necessary for continuing action, but you start with a warning shot, not scorched earth.
Exactly this.

Said differently - how many devs out there are screaming "I really need to send transactional email via React", when most apps are sending it via Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, and (back-end) JS.
> Some subs held polls, and in every one that I saw, the strike was quite broadly popular.

These polls have an insane selection bias though. The ones who feel strongly for the issue will be the ones commenting and voting.

It's why stickies/sidebars/etc. rarely work because most of the users simply don't care enough to view them.
I can't wait for vision model access and the massive new opportunities that presents!
There's a lot of space between "buying nothing" and "buying the biggest game developer in the world" that Microsoft could have explored if they felt they needed to acquire more studios. You know, like when they bought Bethesda for $8 billion and had no trouble. But chose not to repeat that, and went for the throat instead.

There's only a handful of remaining game developers/publisher so systemically significant that a platform owner buying them should get serious antitrust scrutiny. (Activision, EA, Take Two, Ubisoft.)
Would you mind sharing what are then good prompt structures? Seems you have a grasp
Has Time Cube vibes.
I don't think that Apollo's lunch was free. Apollo gave Reddit free content, free content reviews (voting) that can be used for sorting, and free moderation, and all Reddit had to do was handle anti-bot mechanisms and host a centralized database. Maybe Reddit should have been paying Apollo.

If the roles were reversed and there were multiple database backends that people could choose from and Apollo was the only available front-end, it would be Apollo that could demand money from Reddit.
> reporting

Wasn't reporting handled by the mods?

> You might argue with no moderation the subreddit would turn into a cesspool of reposts and memes - but who really cares?

Presumably the people who used the subreddit would care. It seems like you think Reddit was only for shitposting, that wasn't my experience. It was a collection of forums, each with their own norms.
Problematically the concept of “tipped wage” (and consequently tipped workers) is a legal one in the US.
Yeah. This is a little half-baked, so bear with me....

It seems to me like tools like bash, lmorg, nushell, and PowerShell exist in some kind of continuum (which I think is, from left to right as I've indicated them above, the amount of "smarts"/type information objects returned from commands have). Perhaps not coincidentally, the further right you go, the more what you have starts looking like a programming environment than a shell to execute other programs.
Since the purpose is to be a minimum wage to live in, it means a wage expected for low-skill jobs.

$18/hr is also a typical American salary for a new teacher [1], or $25+ with more experience, and I don't think working in an upscale restaurant should pay better.

[1] Many hits on Google.
If you use Microsoft Edge browser and go to bing.com, you can use chatGPT4 for free. Bard is also AFAIK free, albeit not as high-quality (yet).
Using it that way requires intention. Developing that intention is hard to do if all you ever do is pull the one armed bandit hoping for AI to produce what you want.
Fish autocompletes kill, fg, bg, killall, etc out-of-the-box already.
Tip culture became popular in the American South during the slavery era, as a way for former slaveowners to "employ" former slaves without having to pay them directly.

https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurant...

The sooner the US can move past that era of its history, the better.

EDIT: I didn't expect "let's move past slavery" to be such an unpopular opinion on HN. Yikes.
I no longer eat out because of this.
An "average" person is not someone who knows how to call an API. Perhaps only on HN
Starbucks just added a mandatory tip screen one has to navigate thru to pay when tapping a credit card to several of the locations near me in the last couple of months when using the drive thru. It's bonkers.
Hm, still don’t see the 32k context in the Playground
This attack scenario doesn't make any sense. If your phone is out of your sight and unsecured for long enough to take it apart and replace the fingerprint sensor, it's unsecured and out of sight long enough to be entirely replaced by a clone that will steal all your credentials and send everything to whatever bad guy you are imagining
Or there’s a trade off between more complex schemas and logit bias going off the rails since there’s probably little to no backtracking.
Not an expert, but my understanding is that the end of the last ice age led to an overall global average temperature change of +10°C.

For the current climate change, we've been calling +2°C catastrophic.

It is catastrophic: millions will die, species will go extinct, trillions will be spent updating infrastructure and rebuilding. But I believe that it's survivable.
Nice how some people try to justify Apple here.

I think the problem lies in this point:

>No warning is given ... Just straight to a permanent bricking.

There should have been a warning, at least, but there was none.
>We need to remember that five minutes invested in reading an article – even a mediocre one – will almost always offer a better payout of emotional energy than five minutes of gambling on a slot machine with only one reel.

This is not true. You cannot trick your brain into enjoying a mediocre "healthy" thing more than the enjoyment that you actually feel.

This a recipe for burning out and relapsing. Your brain will always know the actual ratio of effort/reward over time, and will prefer the skinner box without question.

If you are truly consciously aware of yourself while scrolling, you might find (to your disgust and dismay) that just being in front of the slot machine is a reward to your brain.

The unfortunate truth is that you can "cargo cult" yourself into all kinds of debilitating addictions and behaviors with their own twisted, undeniably sound logic that you can't "mindset" your way out of.
The Nord Stream pipelines are majority owned by Russia and the attacks happened in international waters.
I think your average local brewery has trouble making a good tasting New England style IPA. If you found any NEIPA beers like Heady Topper or Sip of Sunshine, and are widely available, honestly let me know. Other beer styles are easier to recreate, but the NEIPA style is hard to get right.
Was it intended to?

I know it's useful for dyslexics but I've not seen anyone claim it was intentionally designed with that intent and I'm pretty sure that has been explained to be a happy coincidence in the past.

Ref2 doesn't state that, and I can't do video right now.

Edit: And neither does Ref1
I really like, but now I'm wondering how much of this is because of the beautiful colour palette on the blog. Does anyone know what colour scheme is being used?
Reading up on this now. From the Wikipedia page:

> While the term "cultural Marxism" has been used in a general sense, to discuss the application of Marxist ideas in the cultural field, the variant term "Cultural Marxism" generally refers to an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

I spent longer than I care to admit diffing "cultural Marxism" and "Cultural Marxism". I think this is the problem though; they're two different things, that happen to be written the same.

Page titled "Cultural Marxism":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th...

Page titled "Marxist cultural analysis" that has some notes about how probably, the term "Cultural Marxism" shouldn't be used to describe "Marxist cultural analysis":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxist_cultural_analysis?oldf...

He could have just used the term lazily, rather than actually meaning to refer to the antisemitic variant.
No, I would know moss instead of grass, and I would know it consistently. I would simply have a different label stuck on it than everyone else used.
Who do you think receives and handles the reports?
There is a concept of a sacrificial feature to prevent customers from becoming fixated on other aspects of the design that would actually create problems if changed. I prefer to avoid that sort of dark pattern though because it erodes trust.
"I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will." --Warren Buffet.
neurotoxicity can be a thing (excitatory neurotoxicity too! is also dose dependent.), but that regards research of the substance and so on. these are measurable things.

with drug use, harm reduction in the modern era is essential. pushing it away from the legal sphere means that people will not manage to reduce their harm as much.

all of this authoritarian shit doesn't stop people from doing things, it just stops them from doing it safely and getting help without being arrested.

diet sodas have aspartame which contains phenylalanine which can increase dopamine levels in the brain.

in this argument, tea, alcohol, diet soda, everything like that gets illegalized.

there's nothing wrong with intoxication, just being irresponsible with it and not reducing the harm you cause or suffer yourself through intoxication.

furthermore, amphetamine does the opposite of "lost productivity". so we should make that OTC by this merit? :p

everything meaningful is going to contain chemicals including those of a psychoactive nature or a nature that changes biochemistry, nothing will stop being chemicals.
Part of the problem with this logic is what you determine to be POC

Culturally, someone as white skinned as me could have grown up in Mexico in a Latino family with very Latino culture, and they would be a POC in everything but visuals. Meanwhile, my buddy is “Caucasian” and from San Francisco but his skin is dark as hell.

If you look at POC entirely from skin tone, facial shape, and hair, and no other metrics whatsoever, the “westernization” the US has on its citizens, as well as racial intermixing over 100+ years means that people that may very well be POC look white to a computer. So think of what the computer can figure out, I would argue probably 80% of the US is white to a computer, and the remaining 20% is a much smaller sample size so it is understandable that the computer is getting it wrong.
Do you have code for this (or pointers to what you used to set this up)? I'd love to set up something similar!
> With these updates, we’ll be inviting many more people from the waitlist to try GPT-4 over the coming weeks, with the intent to remove the waitlist entirely with this model. Thank you to everyone who has been patiently waiting, we are excited to see what you build with GPT-4!

What about the rate limits? The docs say that it's 200 RPM and "We are unable to accommodate requests for rate limit increases due to capacity constraints."
Tipping is stupid, and it now exists (in the US) solely to offset shitty wages.

When I waited tables in college, I treated it as compensation for my work above and beyond the status quo. Now it's simply an expectation, regardless of the quality of work or experience.
I think the point of sales systems are to blame. I think gratuity should be banned from debit and credit cards, and only allowed as cash. Unworkable I know, but how else would you get rid of the prompt to tip?
> I believe moderators on Reddit like to think that they're that important and integral to the site functioning smoothly, but I think the reality is upvoting/downvoting/reporting works perfectly fine in nearly every subreddit.

This seems very naive, since afaik the mods also deal (thru 3rd party apps or extensions) with the large amount of spam that reddit gets. And, of course, who is going to deal with those reports?

I mean, sure, Reddit could close everything but the top 20 or 30 most popular subreddits, hire some offshored mods, and start the content moderation speedrun[1] anew. But, why? And how bad will it get before the IPO? Reddit has spent the past two decades washing their hands of any moderation tasks, as their first party mod tools show. Starting now, with a pissed off power user base, seems suicidal.

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[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...
> What still has not been explained to me is... well, how does the LLM actually become interactive, in the sense that you can then prompt it and it spits back an answer. In other words, how does the LLM actually "know" it's supposed to spit back an answer in the first place?

The model is a function that produces (simplified) a new state and an output from an initial state.

Its called from a program that has a loop that on the first iteratiom feeds it an initial state, then captures/displays/transmits the output, then repeats but using the new state returned, until the output is a designated stop marker or a specified numbeer of iterations or some other stop condition is reached.

IOW, it “knows” to respond because the non-AI part of the computer program is structured that way; its completely unrelated to AI.
> There are tons of corporations that consist of one person, after all.

That can be true. Certainly communities have to start somewhere and not all efforts by one person will see a community form. While this is a fun point for the sake of pedantry, it doesn't change much. One person running the service and a different person using the service results in the very same competition of interests. It's all just people at the end of the day. Even the legal system itself is just people.

> Typically in a corporation, the people are working to support the corporation rather than each other.

Typically people work to support their own interests. This is true in communities of all shapes and sizes, including communities which have been legally formalized as a corporation. In all cases one's own interests may help another's, but that's ultimately incidental.

No different in this community. When we write comments we are doing it because we derive some kind of individual benefit from it. Most likely the entertainment value in thinking about something and putting it words. If someone else takes something from a comment, that's merely a bonus. It was never really for them.
I can't speak for the OP, but for me, the problem is the obvious arbitrage on the used games by GS. I think I can say the market agrees with us, the company has been slowly dying for years and would likely be in a position like Bed Bath & Beyond and the many other large physical retailers who didn't find a way to pivot were it not for a weird group of anti-investors pwning short positions and then the ensuing media pile on.

(Your metaphor is also flawed as the theater and home theater experiences are very different, where as "playing a game for the first time, in my own home now" vs "playing a game for the first time, in my own home, 3 months from now" are pretty marginal differences, especially for single player games. It's why I rarely buy games at launch, but I also don't care about video game "spoilers")
Idk, I've taken more than one 6 month break in my career and I'm fine. If you've got the skills nobody cares. And besides, it's easy to fudge it in tech. Say you were working on a side project or a startup idea, or did some volunteer work for local non profits.

Lots of options.
>Every decent OS in 2023 should provide a method for this.

Yes, that's rather the problem—there isn't just one way to do that, which makes it a portability issue.
Likewise. But idk if I'll have much of a choice come June 30th when 3rd party apps get shut down. I don't really use a browser anymore to engage with reddit, and their official app has been complete garbage.

I'm fine with not providing them with content or ad views anymore if they don't want to work with 3rd party developers.
It would require some very careful system design and lots of trust of the third-party apps.

(It's been a while since I was in the middle of this, so stuff may have changed a bit. But in general...)

Ads are usually not served up by the application provider (Reddit). Instead, they embed URLs given to them by their customers (ad agencies). If the app is browser-based they'll wrap them in some javascript that also calls app provider endpoints and manages clicks on the ads. They do this for a few reasons: 1) There's a huge amount of overhead to the app provider if they try to manage and serve the customer's ad creatives. 2) There's a lot of hassle for the customer; they have to go through the app provider to make any changes to the ad media. 3) Nobody trusts anybody else; this way the customer knows exactly how many times their ad was shown (and if video possibly how long it rolled), and the app provider still knows how many times the ad was displayed vs. just offered to the end user's device, and what the click-throughs were.

The app provider could pass the customer URLs and the provider's wrapping endpoints to third-party apps. But they'd need to think good and hard about all possible fraud games, and would need to trust the third-party app to perform the complex dance properly. Examples:

1) what if the third-party messes up and doesn't call the click-through endpoint? Or sometimes does? Or calls it when they shouldn't? Click-through accounting is a huge deal with very large financial ramifications.

2) How do you enforce that the proper ads are shown in the proper context? If you control the app then you can sell above-the-fold vs. below-the-fold spots etc.

3) How do you control that the ads are actually shown when they should be? Not every link given will result in an impression (below-the-fold again).

4) Even if you completely trust the third-party app's motives, how do you monitor and debug the end-to-end flow?

5) How do you convince your advertisers that's everything is under control? A customer is probably going to have fewer warm-and-fuzzies with third-party impressions, and very well might discount their value.
That probably won’t help with their quest for profitability.
Yeah but they don't seem to be thinking about it very much. People keep spouting "stochastic parrot" nonsense!
We’ve opted out and couldn’t be happier. Just do things at home, better quality, less money and no pressure.