skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
charging also makes most people migrate off.
It encourages good behaviour. And customers that can't migrate off (for good or bad reasons) pay. Seems like a good model to me. If they made it free, it wouldn't encourage good behaviour.
On Facebook, any time I see someone post with the words 'my account was hacked' they get a dozen automated replies from other users offering services to fix their account. In most cases, the person isn't even hacked, their account was cloned/impersonated. With the kind of money Facebook has, they can't set a honeypot account up and post 'my account was hacked' on it? This has been going on for months.
Meta's plan to offer free commercial AI models puts pressure on Google, OpenAI
> My favorite solution requires a bit of tech work but is very viable. Users can subscribe to a subreddit, but also to specific moderators. If you don't like how someone moderates, unsubscribe to their moderation, and their changes and actions get removed from your feed. Simple.

And then you will find out that most users don't configure their apps. They will complain loudly though. Users also don't know how mods moderate. They would have to see what gets moderated otherwise they can't make informed decisions.

> Or if you see something you don't want to see, click a button to block it, then you get a popup with a list of moderators who have already moderated it, and the user gets an option to subscribe to them after looking at their mod history.

Opt-in is too cumbersome for most users. Most users don't configure their apps (again). That's why good defaults are important.

You can't solve social issues with technology. Technology might help but only so much.
I'm not a fan either, but we demand more and more from the police, yet there is a powerful force ( mostly political ) to curb the resources the police can use.

I get both sides, but this road will have bad results. ( making Illinois into a police state is not a solution either )
Ahh yes. The classic anyone who sees any issue with the current state of things must be in line with Nazi conspiracy theorists. Such depth.
To be fair, most apps on the play store have these one-word five-star reviews...
Meanwhile labor is their primary expense and real wages have been falling at many tech companies over the last 2 years.
>So thank you for staying away.

And this is exactly why Reddit has gone to hell. Mods with that attitude. "I was here first, so therefore I get to unilaterally set the Overton window for all discussion herein. If you don't like it, you're banned."

HN seems to be the last place on the internet where competing thoughts can exist. It's amazing to me that if moderation is so hard, why dang can do such a good job single-handedly with a user-base bigger than most subs.
Concerns Dominion's voting machines: Letter to MITRE [pdf]
All of those fall under "money laundering" and I wouldn't say any of those are worse than human trafficking, which I did mention (ransomware that doesn't care whether it's targeting hospitals and other critical infrastructure has a good case). Does it refute the argument that there are these other crimes which I didn't specify?
Yes, but we're talking about a system in which thousands of 4oz pulls are happening in different directions at any given moment. You model doesn't only have to explain why a particular pull triggered it, but also why the other thousand didn't.

Throwing a cocked handgun into the dryer is different than a leaf falling on it.
>No decision making ability

What prompts are you using? It helps me make decisions every day involving complex and nuanced criteria. GPT-4 (especially 32k API + plugins) is better than 95% of the directors, PMs, and CEOs I have worked under.
Yes. I worked on convex optimization in trading (deeply involved with fine-tuning, constraint selection, utility function construction, etc.).
And yet Tesla is making almost the same profit as Toyota while also building up a gigantic service, sales and charging network. And investing in its own battery research, battery cells and its own battery production equipment.

Clearly they would have preferred to make some of that profit instead.
just gonna leave this here: https://kbin.social
I always hate headlines about "scientists are baffled". The goal is to (correctly) point out how extraordinary this is, but it implies that they are completely out of ideas. They rarely are.

Instead, they have an incomplete understanding, and ideas about how to make their understanding more complete. "Baffled" connotes that they can't proceed, and absolutely they can, and are.

That's nitpicking at words, and headlines are always notoriously bad about it. But it's really doing a disservice to the serious science in the article: an extraordinary event with a range of possible causes, all of them pointing to the fact that additional CO2 in the atmosphere is very, very bad.
I don't like tankies, but what about that makes them a tankie rather than merely authoritarian?
It's subjective I guess, but the AMA content quality on reddit did seem to fall off a cliff after she left. Not reddit destroying but definitely left a hole
I get the argument for federal laws but honestly I think it is misguided to want state laws promoted to a national level immediately. This is how law in the US evolves. The patchwork is a feature. A federal government with the agility to implement this law at a national level would have far too much power. The system is working.
Not sure what you mean.

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Understanding LiveViews as a concept could make it easier to commit to learning a new language. I am not saying one should but that one could and it would probably be easier since you don't have the additional overhead of also learning what is a LiveView.
I see several comments focusing on the ridiculous figure of $127. Please don't make arguments based on that. It's off by at least an order of magnitude:

https://ustrailerparts.com/icc-bumper-assy-no-s-tubes/

And certainly we can have all the same arguments about the cost of a human life vs. corporate greed, etc. etc. at a more realistic price.

But what this really speaks to is the level of honesty and accuracy of this article. It's a hit piece and is extremely one-sided propaganda, regardless of what anyone thinks is the right thing to do about better bumpers.
AI Startups Have Tons of Cash, but Not Enough Data. That’s a Problem
AMAs are basically dead on reddit these days. Scroll through this listing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/top/?t=all

I had to scroll for pages and pages to find one that was recent. The heyday appears to have been 5 to 9 years ago.

It looks like this sub got established as the place to go and then it slowly lost momentum over time.
But a clean fridge provides benefits, because space is limited for you. And food rots.

Deleting your comments provides no benefit. Comments don't take up space of yours. And comments don't rot.

There must be a reason you're deleting comments, but it's doesn't make sense that it's because of a flawed fridge analogy.
> Much like you can volunteer to be the leader of the DND club at a local hobby shop.

A DND club with an IPO?
During 1978-1979 single-handedly writing all of the data processing programs necessary to automate all departments in a 150-employee manufacturer of computer terminals on a 32KB RAM 50MB HD multiuser Pick O/S Microdata: order entry, purchasing, shipping, receiving, payroll, accounts receivable, accounts payable, MRP, QA, work orders, etc, etc, etc.
Mods should engage in malicious compliance. Historically, Reddit has done absolutely nothing to help communities suffering from malicious moderation, including banning users and censoring posts without good reason. Mods can just open up their subs, but start moderating in such a way that they drive away users. Reddit would look very hypocritical removing mods who do this now when they have been fine with that sort of behavior historically.
Revenue still up from before price increase.
Peplum: F/OSS Parallel Computing and Supercomputing with Ruby Infrastructure
working with LiPo battery packs just isn't my thing though. I've taken apart the camera battery and can clearly see the type of batteries in it, but they are all glued together in the shape to fit the case. Maybe I'm a just a wuss, but trying to disassemble the pack without piercing a cell is a bit more than I am willing to risk at this time. I'm hoping paying someone with that skill to make the replacement will still be cheaper than buying new. ~$400 for a 14.8V 98Wh 12A max battery.
I mean it makes sense to moderate a reddit that's mostly bots with other bots /s
This person is either really playing up their Ayn Randian philosophy or they are deluded. I think you can be somewhat relieved knowing that the comments which are deleted are probably in line with the ones made by the person today -- worthless.
That started with IM/Skype style VOIP calling and has nothing to do with social media.

From a utility standpoint, social media seems to have largely filled the same role email used to among distant family.
If you think that's high, you should see what inflation on bicycle parts has been like over the past three years.
I wonder what reddit means with "retaliation attempts". This all sounds very threatening. Are they going to pull a wizards of the cost and start sending Pinkerton agents after mods who dont play ball?
> appendix removals

Pretty odd to cite something that has always mostly affected people under 30.
I usually interpret it as "scales geometrically and not arithmetically".
"Reddit represents one of the largest data sets of just human beings talking about interesting things," Huffman said. "We are not in the business of giving that away for free."

Hey Steve, you got that data for free in the first place. That sound you hear is users telling you that if you start charging ridiculous fees for serving that free data, your source of free data is going to dry up.

I know it's tempting as Reddit's CEO to think the two issues (acquisition price vs selling price) are orthogonal, but they aren't.

One possible solution is to offer your contributors something like a penny per word written. If you're going to charge for the words we write, we want our cut.
Show HN: Typoas – TypeScript OpenAPI client generator
Hi everyone, I started a couple years ago a new TS OpenAPI generator that would work for any complex OpenAPI specs.

After trying the official openapi generator, I saw that it wasn't capable of generating complex schemas and was generating a lot of skeleton files that could be extracted to a separated package. That's why I started working on an alternative that would handle any complexity provided by OpenAPI specs while still being easy to setup.

Typoas uses the TS AST to generate complex TS types and bundle everything in a single file. Because I wanted to have something as small as possible, I reworked it to be fully tree-shakable and only keep needed parts on bundling.

Like, the official openapi generator, it will transform "dates" to JS Date, handle local refs (even circular). Moreover, it is capable of handling oneOf, allOf or anyOf schemas.

There is more features (like JSDoc of every schemas) that is embedded that I'm eager to discuss!

I created an example with Github, Stripe and the classic Petstore API. It's also used successfully at work in a production environment since the first release.
You can try it just using yarn (for example: yarn dlx @typoas/cli generate -i https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/rest-api-descriptio... -o src/client.ts )

Thanks for checking it out!
To be clear, I _also_ would strongly prefer the facial recognition prohibition be national (and also apply to non-drone-based cameras that police have access to). But clearly literal killer drones are worse than mere spy drones.
I would say it has devolved. It is unusable to me without using old.*.
Sort of like how Naperville has APC's, but also somehow is "The Safest Place in America". (That title is a fraud, btw, and the result of systemic non-prosecution, non-reporting, and reduction of felonies to lesser crimes. But they indeed don't have much of a gang violence problem - just major drug problems which go unaddressed.)
Ohhh, it's a new version of The Wonder Years... I had never seen the original show, but I was vaguely aware of it, and it was playing in the gym the other day and I saw the main characters being black and I felt like I was deep in the Mandela Effect or something.
Problem easily solved: start your own instance, or find one that doesn't block other instances...
> It also shocks me that so many people don't know how to repair anything -- though the rational part of my mind wonders if they might be making the right call.

It's a hard line to draw. Consumerism/throw-away culture isn't (and can't and shouldn't be) a historic norm so participating in it will ultimately alienate people from most people who have and will exist across time. On the other hand, not participating at all will alienate you from a lot of people now.
"Probably"

It's in that sliver of doubt that the big scientific discoveries lie...
No one is claiming to be irreplaceable, although if you have evidence to the contrary you're welcome to provide it.
> Spez is wrong, and is comfortable misrepresenting the situation to the public at minimum.

I don't know if he's right or wrong, but it's pretty clear that he's comfortable misrepresenting things to the public.
Defund the police is about demanding less from the police. Policing is hard and necessary but armed drones aren’t a solution.
> No, no way does a serious paper go to print with a source like that. There's room for argument about the use of anonymous sourcing, but there's a huge difference between "someone involved in the decision process" or "with knowledge of the events" (commonly used descriptions) and what the authors did here, which amounts to "someone who works for the US government anywhere, but we won't tell you their expertise".

"Anonymous sources" is a superior attack vector - it is well psychologically established as "normal/righteous", and it allows one complete free reign on weaving a believable tale for the public to update their local simulation with, no risk from your sources being exposed as bogus.

> But yes: a lot of it is about trust. We trust editors at NYT and WaPo to make sure their journalists know who their sources are and not to lie or spin about them.

Some people believe this, but I don't.

In fact, I think it is rather interesting how so many people have been trained to think this way, and no one notices how weird it is.

> And while, sure, sometimes this process breaks, on the whole it's worked very well for a very long time.

"Measured" (but not actually) on a relative scale.

> Throwing it out the window so that someone can get clicks on substack posts, or (worse) because you don't like the political implications of the trusted journalism, is a really bad idea.

You predict that it is a bad idea, you do not actually have any way to know this.

Imagine driving a car that is modified such that the front window is not a window, but rather a screen containing an extremely well known to be inaccurate simulation of the road - would this not make you nervous?

> A world of Fox and Substack, where "sincerely held opinions" take the place of "truth", is sort of a disaster.

The problem isn't just Fox and Substack, the root problem is humans/consciousness/culture.
> One of the properties that π is conjectured to have is that it is normal, which is to say that its digits are all distributed evenly

.(0123456789) has this property too.
In the absence of persistent identity (it's unclear whether this is a feature of your application or not), this is basically an impossible task. With persistent identity, there are a few options.

If you can afford invite-only growth, then tracking invite trees like on the other site works remarkably well. When you find a spammer, you can nuke an entire subtree of accounts, because it is rare for bad-faith users to invite good faith ones, and the opposite (good faith users inviting bad faith ones) is rare enough that it cuts down on the number of bad faith users substantially anyways.

Another "codification of trust"-type system is having comments by new authors hidden to most users by default, except to a random sample trusted users, who can choose to vouch for the message or actively reject it. Users with abnormally bad taste in vouches/rejections can be removed from the pool of users who randomly get assigned approval duty. I used a web forum that operated like this back in the day.
Why is that a problem for software but not other licensed professions such as law and and *actual* engineers.
That's how The Reign of Terror was invented.
> You don’t like agile/scrum and want to interact with it from the other end of a six foot pole and/or replace it with another system

Honestly, if you disagree with fundamental ways your company operates, it’s usually a lot less effort and a lot less stressful to find a new job that is aligned better with how you like to work.

I think one mistake a lot of job candidates make is accepting offers too quickly before making sure there’s a mutual culture fit.

The same mistake is made by a lot of employers: not making sure there’s mutual culture fit from the employer’s perspective prior to extending an offer.
Submitter and author here. If you're building with LLMs like those offered by OpenAI and are worried about how to improve over time after you've shipped, I'd love to talk with you!

It's in the blog post as well, but if you fill out this super short survey I'll reach out to you: https://forms.gle/k974x59a8UMBT1bV8
Reddit and Twitter will be interesting to look back on as case studies
Reddit management is in the process of learning from what had seemed the boon of unpaid labor, that the struggle of management and ownership against the unpaid moderator workers is over control of the means of production and the relations of production.
They work for reddit for free. You can work for someone without an employment contract or official relationship.
You're asking in the context of me personally, rather than in the context of the topic.

That answer is "no". The importance I give to a topic is mostly based on what is actionable, which for this topic would seem to be limited to posting my resulting opinion on social media.

Just like I never bought into the "China virus" narrative, I also never bought into the "no, it's definitely not from a lab" narrative. I am comfortable with leaving a topic undecided in my mind.

Contrast with say masking, where I looked at the details and decided to start wearing a P100 respirator in public in February. That was something I could do, where the downside was really small (oh weird looks in a store, boo hoo), and the possible upside was much larger.

In the context of the topic, I didn't find my skim of this article particularly compelling. No smoking guns stuck out at me, and it would seem that other ways of the main claim happening aren't as uncorrelated as one would think at first brush (eg virus circulating publicly in Wuhan, these researchers get it, which is then noticed and recorded because they care about such things for lab workers). But in line with what I said above, that isn't a rejection of the article and "no that definitely didn't happen!", rather it just didn't move my needle much, and I am comfortable with it remaining ambiguously unknown.
My understanding was that they can still sell cars without collecting all that data, and still satisfy both.

You know, all that data they were hoping to make money on.
Twitter is very much dying. It just doesn't happen overnight.
But many subreddits took a vote before taking action, so it's not like the moderators did this out of the blue.

The subreddit model seems to me to work as a combination of moderators setting and enforcing some rules, users submitting content (hopefully good) and users upvoting and commenting on content.

If the mods are wrong on all of this, then the users who voted to blackout either weren't contributing much or will back down and things will go back to business as usual.
But it's also possible that replacing the mods will just lead to many of the users who voted to blackout taking further action. A subreddit without content or with protesting users posting spam isn't fixed by adding more mods.
We should promote this patch to production ASAP
your suggestion isn't a problem, you can have defaults based on popularity and then the defaults get controlled by what most of the users who do configure their stuff choose.

Don't make the mistake of thinking a mod is above people and needs to tell users what they are allowed to see.

I included in my suggestion that you can see what gets moderated, obviously. Any website with non-public moderation logs tends towards horrible abuse of moderation powers.
My local subreddit has become a proxy for /r/fuckcars and is also pushing a strong pro-new-airport narrative, among other things. There is a subreddit rule against “creating drama in the community” and any comment against the hive mind on these topics is interpreted by the mods as creating drama and removed, sometimes including a temporary ban. They more or less enforce the echo chamber. Disagreement is futile.

Meanwhile, reporting comments that clearly violate the subreddit rules for things like ad-hominem attacks and spam in turn get the reporter reported to Reddit admins for abusing the report button.

From my perspective a few of the elder mods stepped down and were replaced by activist mods that are moderating with strong, shameless ego to reinforce their preferred viewpoints and narrative.
Show HN: An attempt to make IMDB _more_ honest (using user reviews)
While working on our main business SaidThat (saidthat.com) our team noticed that IMDb's star ratings consistently seemed to disagree with other major review sites (RottenTomatoes, MetaCritic, TMDb, etc). We found that IMDb only tended to match those other scores when you took the simple average of the user text review ratings as opposed to the normal star rating.

To show case this we built a fun little demo site that will quickly calculate the simple average for you and then show you how "inflated" the quoted IMDb star rating is. You can do this for any movie or tv show!

We fully recognize there are numerous legit reasons for these discrepancies (we wrote a whole page about it on the website honestimdb.com/about), but we will leave forming an opinion up to you. It's just interesting to note the difference seems more extreme and frequent on Amazon (who owns IMDb) originals...
If the Reddit admins don't want mods to have the ability to set a subreddit to private, then why did they even give them the option in the first place? Couldn't they just disable the "private" flag for all subs and be done with it?
It could be self-selection happening after you randomized the groups. For example a desktop landing page advertising an app, which might be installed on either mobile operating system.
it is easier to produce hits when you already established yourself, because then you get the top talent and have more money and media attention for subsequent records . they are not totally mutually independent events.
Honestly no body should use PhpBB when Discourse exists.
Second City has been busy this month.

What’s goin on there?
> With the result that Reddit lost a popular, interesting feature and a lot of cultural relevance.

Looking through /r/IAMA, and I can't say that I'm seeing that. If you look through the top voted AMA's of all time there, the vast majority are some years after Victoria's departure. Comparing those to the few on there from prior to her departure doesn't seem to show much of a difference, at least from what I can tell.

It does seem like the sub peaked a few years back, but again, that was still several years after her departure.
(Cough) Linode