skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel very similarly. I have mixed feelings on my actions but I just finished running shreddit on all of my comments and deleting my accounts. I wrote content with the (possibly misguided) notion that what I contributed would continue to be openly accessible/searchable. I didn't want what I wrote to end up in a locked up walled garden like Meta's products. Imho Reddit will continue to put walls up around user contributed data. I decided to delete everything while I still could.
Gold rushes and pickaxe sellers comes to mind.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/pick-and-shovel-play.as...
Multi-armed bandits utilize this
"finally"? This was put out in the state department Jan 2021, 2.5 years ago:
https://2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan...

> The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses.
Removed at the behest of powerful government groups and advertising agencies/pharma companies.

Listen to The Zuck on lex fridman admitting (paraphrasing) “yeah we got some stuff wrong, censored things we shouldn’t have when they later turned out to be evidence based.”

I believe this ,”very very minor”, admission of major guilt is in the first half.

Or the Twitter files and FBI offices in social media etc. or the Wikipedia bias and astroturfing.
It makes sense n-sect (rather than bi-sect) as long as these can be run in parallel. For example, if you're searching 1000 commits, a 10-sect will get you there with 30 tests, but only 3 iterations. OTOH, a 2-sect will take more than 3x the time, but require 10 iterations.

There's ofc always some sort of bayesian approach mentioned in other answers.
> if I'm not going to allow access to that content for free, why would you give me your content?

A bunch of reasons potentially, wider reach probably being the main one, but maybe also stuff like ways for your audience to interact with you/the content/each other.

> The ToS might allow for it

"It's in the ToS so it's fine" is a bad argument, but I'm not saying that. I guess there's two things:

a) empirically, do users actually expect that content be available "for free" (in general? just to themselves?) from a platform

b) is there a "good reason" that this should be a social expectation?

a)'s a tricky question with multiple parts but I'm not especially convinced. I imagine a lot of users aren't even really thinking about that kind of thing

b) I could imagine being convinced about, but "they didn't make the content" doesn't feel sufficient.
> No one has ever proven the current moderation teams are any good.

They evaluated themselves and found that they were actually excellent moderators.
The Zig compiler itself is a good example: https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-self-hosted-now-what/

"The new self-hosted compiler reduces memory usage 3x compared to the old C++ implementation"
if BARF becomes a thing I really hope I'll be credited for it haha
Advertisers leaving Reddit permanently, as is the case with Elon's Twitter.
The people working for free are the villains, not the multibillion dollar corporation.

Got it, thanks.
I actually worked for a startup that did this, albeit it wasn't public-facing, rather we'd incentivize people to leave reviews in exchange for a coupon code or whatever

Turns out a lot of restaurant owners would prefer to straight up own the reviews/influence it themselves rather than get legitimate, anonymized ones. There's just not that much of a reason to genuinely improve as a service when there's so much cutthroat competition
The context is a for-profit company. If a third-party using the API is doing so as a substitute for someone using the ad-supported site, the API will be priced to equal the revenue lost from using the site. If the people switching from UI to API are more valuable than usual, the API will cost more than usual.

If the API is being used to support something new -- i.e., not a replacement for a user on the site, but as a new revenue source -- it will be priced to maximize overall API revenue, or overall revenue as an indirect result of growth supported by the API. (Maybe it's one massive customer using it or 100,000 freemium developers.)

The idea that a company "must" do something doesn't make any sense. And the assertion that the company is harming itself is ultimately something the Board, acting on behalf of shareholders, is responsible for.

(FWIW, I agree Reddit is shooting itself in the foot.)
I once had to bisect a Rails app between major versions and dependencies. Every bisect would require me to build the app, fix the dependency issues, and so on.

And I thought I had it bad!
Samsung SSD Failure Woes
My last two Samsung SSDs failed:

1) Samsung SSD 970 EVO 2TB

2) Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB

Their PRO line lasted a mere 6 months. I'm not installing new firmware for X model again. I'm not going to warranty a defective product.

I sadly overlooked the Samsung SSD reliability post[0] a few months ago.

Just wanted to give another heads-up. Thanks.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648149 Feb 2023
That is not correct, the way mandatory gardening leave typically works is that you are no longer an employee but you still get paid. Depending on local laws you can force someone to not compete but you cannot force someone to be an employee, that is slavery and not allowed under the law.
This is a feature the Netherlands police actually uses to track phone locations.
It’s possible to send a “silent sms” to a handset and by doing so you can discover where the receiving handset is located. This is undetectable by the user of the handset unless they use a rooted device and monitor all incoming sms payloads.
My unscientific feeling is that Wirecutter's gotten worse: less rigorous testing (particularly for reliability), more arbitrary reasoning behind their choices and what things are dealbreakers, more products excluded. A lot of things they seem to basically just pick some popular brands, talk about Amazon reviews, etc.

They also seem to have a much broader range of things covered now, so I think the strategy was to go cheaper, faster, wider.
I remember in 2014 they did a Linux developer survey, and I was a part of it. In it, I suggested porting over Visual Studio to Linux. Apparently the right person read this and so then we had a follow-up meeting with three other developers, and we spoke more about the idea. I think they sent me a $25 starbucks gift card.
The first three, but not Go.
I am reminded of a good business axiom against cultural engagement over local community engagement:

"The only winning move is not to play.” - Wargame, movie, 1983
The title says "sickened by Covid-19", but the text says "developed COVID-19-like illnesses in November 2019".
No, because we're talking about a phenomenon that indisputably exists.
There are quite a few potential replacements for Reddit, but of all the projects I've seen so far, nostr checks the most boxes:

1.) They got identity right. In nostr, your identity is a key pair, which is not bound to a server like in the fediverse (e.g. Mastodon, Lemmy).

2.) They got decentralization right. Everything in nostr is a signed message, published to one or more relays. Since relays don't do anything more but store and forward signed messages, they can easily be replaced without losing your identity or data. Also, no blocking drama ("fediblock").

3.) They got extensibility right. Since signed messages are the only building block, and clients are only views over messages, new functionality can be added unilaterally. Just write a new client, and everyone can use it instantly with the existing identity and data - zapddit is a good example.

What's missing yet are moderated groups and an algorithm to sort your feed. But this can (and probably will) be implemented at any time by anyone, and there can (and probably will) be competing implementations, which is a big plus IMHO.
Building agents that use advanced API's was not really practical until now. Things like Langchain's Structured Agents worked somewhat reliably, but due to the massive token count it was so slow, the experience was _never_ going to be useful.

Due to this, the performance in which our agent processes results has improved 5-6 times and it does actually do a pretty good job of keeping the schema.

One problem that is not resolved yet is that it still hallucinates a lot of attributes. For example we have tool that allows it to create contacts in user's CRM. I ask it to:

"Create contacts for top 3 Barcelona players:.

It creates an structure like this"

1. Lionel Messi
- Email: lionel.messi@barcelona.com
- Phone Number: +1234567890
- Tags: Player, Barcelona

2. Gerard Pique
- Email: gerard.pique@barcelona.com
- Phone Number: +1234567891
- Tags: Player, Barcelona

3. Marc-Andre ter Stegen
- Email: marc-terstegen@barcelona.com
- Phone Number: +1234567892
- Tags: Player, Barcelona

And you can see it hallucinated email addresses and phone numbers.
I hesitate to suggest that this may indicate there aren't that many 4.5+ star Japanese food restaurants. Even great resaurants in my area struggle to break the 4.5 barrier.
I don't know who the other two are, but I sure as hell don't believe a word Matt Taibbi writes after his farcical lack of fact checking in "the twitter files".
I got ill in a way I'd never really gotten ill before, in November/December 2019 -- after having travelled from Mexico to Norway. I was barely out of bed for the month I was in the country. I thought it might be dengue, but one of the first days there I got checked out in the hospital -- and they said I had an unidentified viral infection, but not dengue. After being released I got incredibly ill, but not much you can do with viral infections anyways so I just rode it out.

Having had Covid 3 times since it was named, I've got a pretty good grip on what it feels like -- and I've many times wondered if I didn't have it back then in 2019 as well, as the symptoms lined up too well.
Depending on the method, but generally yes, the physical domain is decomposed into the number of cores. Data is synchronized at processor boundaries at a very high rate to maintain consistency.
It’s much easier to run searches and insert snippets from high-ranking results into the query. There are limitations to this approach, though. For example, how would you summarize a document this way? You’ll get snippets but not the whole picture.

I’ve also found that GPT-4 tends to hallucinate when I ask a question but the search process doesn’t result in a good match. Like making up an author or title for a document I’m asking about.
That’s great for the general case, but it should be also possible for a user to do whatever they want with their own hardware.
Facebook just admitted that the government was asking them to censor information that was, in fact true.

https://youtu.be/ixCKd8lUrKw
That dovetails really well into our other thread about putting an emphasis on listening and understanding rather than trying to lead conversations. Putting attention to properly understanding a problem is very empowering, and often leads to more decisive data points than discussions can.
Why do you say that? What evidence do you have that his reporting is suspect?
Best to say "it is my friend's iPhone, only got the PIN".

Now brace yourself for a harsh rubber-hose treatment.
Paid non competes are also banned under the proposed law (and currently banned in California).
They don't, in full, but does create leverage for settlement, and anything repaid months later in court is an aid to cash flow.
The article even says that they stumbled into this more or less accidentally, but I guess the author didn't want to give up such a great clickbaity title.
More a very timely but practical demo.
> "If you knew that this was likely a lab-enhanced pathogen, there are so many things you could have done differently"

I'm curious - if we knew in March 2020 that covid came from a lab, what _would_ we have done differently?
Not this, but using the token selection restriction approach, you can let LLM produce output that conforms to arbitrary formal grammar completely reliably. JavaScript, Python, whatever.
there was a new chemical introduced into the black market supply chain in 2019 causing lung injury
> As for free will, anyone saying we don’t have it is doing bad science since every person knows they do.

Free will: the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one's own discretion.

A known side effect of Parkinson’s drugs is the development of compulsive, (hypo)manic behaviors like gambling and hypersexuality — people who have been very straight laced their entire lives can change drastically. Are you suggesting that we should hold such patients equally accountable for making poor choices, as they are just as free willed as anyone else?

What of people with crippling, general anxiety, of no fault of their own, but simply as a result of genetics or exposure? If they aren’t as productive or let things slip, is that because they simply aren’t trying hard enough? (Even there — if we say one is trying harder, does that not imply an impediment to “act at one's own discretion”?)

Perhaps we should consider banning ADHD medication altogether — given everyone has free will, what practical difference does it make to put a substance into people’s bodies — they can just choose to make good decisions, right?

Of the decisions you regret, and knew that you would before acting, why did you make them? Why haven’t you just made the meta-choice of choosing to choose the right things from here on out? You can see the utility in making such a choice, right? So can you make that choice? Your discretion would likely be to make that choice, so all that’s left is to act on that discretion, which should be no problem because you have free will and you are not constrained by the natural chemical processes occurring in your brain and the physical laws that define them.
That was found to be black market vape cartridges using vitamin E acetate, which you don't want in your lungs.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/s...
I wonder if parallels to the HSVrelated viral infections and association w/ Alzheimer's and other dementias...leaky BBB?
I was vaguely aware of this practice, but not the "evil bit" gag. The funniest thing I'll encounter today!
Not really. The service itself can just close at night. It doesn’t have to operate 24/7 and accept all people working at all times in order to exist as a “marketplace” or whatever they are calling themselves legally.
The most popular human origin theory was a lab leak. It was easier to argue against the crazies claiming a bioweapon so that's what most did and that's what got the most press. But the primary human origin story was an accidental release.
I agree.

Good resources:

https://books.google.com/books/newspapers

https://books.google.com/books/magazines

https://archive.org/details/texts?query=magazine&sort=-added...
I recall reading credible scientists talking about a lab leak from day one, and I always considered it a possibility. Yet many of the people pushing it on social media were pushing it as a 100% certainty and even that it was some kind of intentional bio-weapon attack. The people getting banned for this were conspiritainment grifters and people pushing fascist politics.

The most effective way to cover something up is to have Alex Jones and Steve Bannon talk about it. If Fauci really is running some horrible conspiracy maybe he's paying these people to talk about it to make sure nobody takes the idea seriously.

Then there were the people pushing the Ukraine bioweapons nonsense, which is a transparent Russian attempt to copy Bush II's "WMDs in Iraq" bullshit.
Attention is Turing complete (2021) [pdf]
Ultimately this is about DRM again, or at least on the same spectrum of motives and behavior: The corporate middleman wants to be able to force restrictions on how consumers manage or view the content that is being produced by other users.

Either forcing you to run a proprietary closed-source client--like their official smartphone app--or else making the desktop rendering so gnarled that you pretty much have to view it exactly the way they intent while having their code pierce your privacy.

It's not just about making sure ads are displayed anymore, I'm sure there's some executive who has asked about preventing people from copy-pasting text...
No you misremember.

Here I was ridiculed.

Specifically remember a columnist at Parool, a Dutch local newspaper, talking about it how he was pressured by colleagues days after just mentioning a column it might be from the Lab.

There was a consensus in the West it didn't came from the Lab, and those who suggested otherwise were non-scientific lunatics.
Be wary of their support. Their services are hit or miss (and the misses are REALLY bad) and I experience complete incompetence on their side in both CA and PL.
I don't think it's prestige; I think it's the lack of (for landlords) alternate paying customers.

I suspect if that we were in a pre-covid real estate market these evictions would have gone way faster. As it is, it's not like the landlord has potential customers waiting in the wings, so treating this as what it is (ie a price negotiation) seems like a value-optimizing strategy.
> The problem is that the open internet is dying. What used to be blogs and forums now is Reddit. Tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of communities that had their own wiki, blog, forum, ... are now reduced to be a Subreddit.

try rdrama dot net, one last bastion of the old "bb board". style forum. and good OC discussions.
Stiffing your cleaning staff is a real nasty thing to do. Moral condemnation is entirely justified.
100 requests per minute per what?

Like if there's a third party app built against the API, is it 100 rpm for each user of the app, or across the entire app's usage?
Appreciated the How is Babby Formed reference in chapter two:)
I don't think that is true, or at least I have not seen that anywhere. My understanding is this bill removes any kind of non-competes. It was already basically unenforcible to have an unpaid non-compete in New York (through common law)
Robotics and custom silicon stuff. I used to do consumer electronics, but that was pretty terrible.
None of the results are surprising if you simply read what OpenAI writes about their own machine. It's an autocomplete engine.
Yep. Though they're already going right back to the platform and crying about the ordeal on said platform.
I'm curious. Do you know of a class of "illegal images" that aren't also "child porn"? Or are you just listing this twice?

To be specific, I'm referring to in non-crazy western countries with something resembling freedom of speech, not PRC "Winnie the Pooh is banned" places.
I'm wondering if introducing a system message like "convert the resulting json to yaml and return the yaml only" would adversely affect the optimization done for these models. The reason is that yaml uses significantly fewer tokens compared to json. For the output, where data type specification or adding comments may not be necessary, this could be beneficial. From my understanding, specifying functions in json now uses fewer tokens, but I believe the response still consumes the usual amount of tokens.
The actual story is a much better read: https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-w...

Edit: scrum-treats beat me to it!

Also, this looks like it dupes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296250
ByteDance Wants to Build an Everything App to Rival WeChat
there are definitely browser extensions that will call the API to check account age and highlight suspicious accounts, that's how "checking" generally happens except in egregious cases.
There's a problem, covid was in Italy as early as September 2019. (see Dr John Campbell's video on this)
Cases in November 2019 aren't early, it started probably six months earlier.
Yes. We don't have swabs that we can perform PCR on.

On the other hand, this report, if true:

- Sickened about a month before COVID-19 was formally detected

- In close proximity to where COVID-19 was formally detected

- While doing research on gain of function in coronaviruses.

This is strongly suggestive circumstantial evidence.
Chair is as high up as it'll go. Footstool is a good idea, I'll look into that
I haven't looked into this much, but saw someone do a talk on it at ElixirConf maybe two years ago. I bet it's much more robust now.
The most brutal of social engineering. Social engineering hammer
Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Attempt Autonomous LA to NY Drive 'Soon'
Observable doesn't have TypeScript support, which is a real drag. Their embeds also don't show code, so it's not very useful as a teaching tool in a blog post for example. However, they don't charge for embedding, so that's not a problem per se.
> What motivation do I have to spend money to, build, design and host a website, deal with content moderation, work on distribution and SEO optimization and potentially buy ads

Betterment of the shared social world of the web? Not everything has to make a profit.
The more you learn about a subject the more you areas you discover that you do not know about. Learning has three basic stages 1) You are new 2) You think you know everything 3) You think you know nothing. I think at stage 3 impostor symptom can kick in. The dangerous stage is stage 2 where you feel very confident.
I despise Google Maps for this. I can know that a restaurant exists, zoom in on its block, search 'restaurants' -- nothing. It'll zoom out the map and show other stuff. Worse, I can max my zoom and hunt for it on the map and it will outright show a blank space. Only searching for the restaurant's actual name will bring it up.

But there's not really any alternative. Apple Maps can't show me things because it's missing the entries entirely. Yelp became useless years ago. I feel like we're going back in time because the best way to find local restaurants has become walking / driving around the neighborhood to see what's there, or getting word of mouth recommendations.
Why not Go? Not very comparable due to GC and goroutines?
All the ways to Exit Vim