skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's sad that the advent of new technology is never viewed as an opportunity to reduce violence.

If the police can put themselves out of harms way using a drone, doesn't that help with peaceful de-escalation? A drone opens up options like tasers and pepper spray, that would have otherwise been impossible for police to deploy at a distance. If facial recognition can be done with near 100% accuracy, then what's wrong with it being used to identify the location of someone who has committed a life sentence worthy crime ?

I agree that drones and facial recognition should never be fully automated as a robotic civilian disposal system. But when used responsibly, the tools are much better options than what we have today : Guns. a GTA car chase can be swiftly stopped using drones. Don't need an expensive helicopter and a rampaging maniac to kill someone at 150 mph.

We are teaching kids what to do in the case of a school shooter, and arming school guards to the teeth. Schools have the hardware for facial recognition cameras. A manual "choose target -> hone in -> shoot pepper spray" mechanism is less dangerous and immediately neutralizes a threat. Yes, the rest of the kids are likely to get very painful chillies in their eyes, but you saved their lives. (I'll admit this one is stretch)

Yes, it seems dystopian because movies portray it as dystopian. But in the modern world, the state has total monopoly over violence. We already live in a surveillance state, and the worst case outcome is already as bad as it can get (death). Using tech to sustain the same state with less resources and better outcome (physical pain) is not as bad as it sounds.
Wage growth has been over 6% for the last 2 years, with a cumulative 15%+ increase since the pandemic started.
I can only hope that your level of sanity is more commonly adopted because judging by the replies to you it appears many have just given into the machine. Unwitting servants of Moloch.
I'd say it's "besides ads" just like Search is. It's a destination site that also serves ads, instead of serving ads on other people's destination sites. One could imagine a world where Search and Youtube were separate entities, both using Ads for income. Ads itself is more of a marketplace of eyeballs.
the full potential of opening current telematics systems is devastating.
the collection of data is an issue of itself, the problem of allowing malign operational parameters to be pushed remotely from [someone] is one i dont want, and i would turn it off, given a switch.

what would be good is to assure such mods were benign, and be able to tweak steering, and breaking, based on current performance, and location, be it steep winding mountain pass, or desert straightways. this should have some local override to a safe default.
> The federal government exists at the behest of the states, not the other way around.

That is very fundamentally not true--it is the reason the US Constitution exists at all in the first place. In the US, it is neither the case that states exist at the behest of the federal government (that would be true in a unitary state, which most US states are, incidentally), nor that the federal government exists at the behest of the states (that would be true in a confederation, as the US was pre-1787). Instead, the US is a federal state, which means that the federal government and the constituent states have their own existences and loci of independent powers, and are in some sense co-equal.

And every time states decided they were going to disagree with the federal government by force, it is not the states who won that argument.
They were actually right. This is exactly when Reddit AMA's went from something spectacular to spectacular garbage. They were producing bangers left and right, and what have they done since then?
Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100 above. Thanks!
I was more asking about the interview process they described. They’re typing into a shared text box where the other person sees it in real time. There’s no submission. This is the same as typing into a google document. I don’t understand their position that live shared documents might not be legal.
ASRock is the only company that consistently pushes the limits in smaller form factors
I 100% agree with this. I don't see how the average internal platform-engineering team or "devops" team will be a better platform-engineering team than AWS/GCP etc.
highly recommended to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aUODXeAM-k
Over a sufficiently long time scale, every organization will eventually have a disgruntled employee who intentionally tries to sabotage their systems out of spite or revenge or even as part of a criminal embezzlement scheme. Competent IT managers need to recognize and guard against that threat. Smaller hospitals may not have the scale or financial resources to hire such people so the only practical solution is to outsource their entire IT infrastructure to a larger vendor that can bring in the necessary competencies. It's sad that the situation has reached this point but we have to face the reality that IT security threats will only continue getting worse.
That's funny because I use this example the opposite of you. AMA's completely changed after Victoria's departure and haven't been the same since. There were weekly high-profile AMAs that got large media coverage and it never went back to that.

Ultimately that protest went no where because there was no end game -- Victoria didn't want her job back. It was just done. End of era.
> "The worst mods for the community will be the best mods for reddit's bottom line."

Will it though? Twitter's moderation policies have all but collapsed and the net result is a near-total flight of high-profile high-dollar advertisers.

Like others have mentioned in the thread, the people who will most likely want to take over these subs are going to be some combination of bigots, cranks, and the severely deranged. That doesn't seem like it will do good things for user participation or advertiser attractiveness.

Who wants to advertise on /r/movies if the mod team is exclusively made up of chemtrails connoisseurs and the main topic of discussion is what movies are secret plots by the Jewish cabal?
What are you struggles with SaaS?
I'm trying to gather some more information around SaaS businesses. If you are a founder/CEO, or have even worked on a SaaS business, then I would love to hear some of your obstacles/struggles you have came across and how you got past them. Appreciate any responses!
>Weird to burn bridges without a plan.

It's just casual entertainment, not life/career.

That said you are right on the alternatives being in short supply. Which is a problem in itself and another reason to bail.
Can a LiveView process migrate to a different machine/VM?

Liveview makes no assumptions about the client connection or even stickiness of client to nodes in a cluster. If you store critical data in the liveview you could be in for some trouble. Always store important stuff into a recoverable, network aware datastore. The nice thing is that liveview is designed to be tolerant to client or client connection failures, you should design to be able to repopulate state sanely in the on_mount call.

While this sounds bad, think of it as isolating the client connection failure domain from the data failure domain, so you should organize your code in those domains respectively

If you want some sort of ephermal network state that lives on one node and not the database only (e.g. a game), the liveview should connect into that. If you want to store that in a genserver, a strategy like this is doable:

https://youtu.be/nLApFANtkHs
Has it maybe popped though? My only anecdote is the daily Newegg email (the only advertisement I like for some reason) and prices seem to be correcting, at least there.
>We have no idea what he really feels about everything going on

Idk he's made his views quite clear at this point. Although he may edit them and everyone else's comments again.
One of the main hypotheses is that the earth’s dynamo (molten, magnetically active core) is emitting/redirecting the radiation.
> but I assume I have no privacy (as does the law) when I am in a public space.

I think we may need to slightly retweak our concept of public and private. There are very few truly private spaces, from the perspective of an entity that can see every public space simultaneously.
A few related subs, certainly. Someone moderating /r/projectcar is is probably a good mod for /r/mechanics.

But you can't algorithmically determine this. It's also my impression that a few of the biggest subs have all the same mods.
This implementation is probably a little different but we were using long poll in the late 90s and early 2000s. The problem was that you were committing one thread (or worse, one process) to each client. That obviously doesn't scale unless threads are extremely light on RAM and either the OS or the runtime support a large number of them. I remember that a way out was using continuations. Jetty was a Java application server that supported them (random link [1]) One thread -> many connections. I didn't investigate how Django is implementing this now but CPUs and RAM are still CPUs and RAM.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10587660/how-does-jetty-...
I am more interested about critical responses like: "As an AI language model, I can't steer the car nor help you in your upcoming accident. You are on your own. I hope this was helpful."
I don't think there is a single platform for all subset of reddit users - but for the more social sqwok might be of interest:

https://sqwok.im/
I'm doing a similar thing - invite every student who is interested, without interviewing or skill tests: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/42194

It works if you target for ~10% outcome if you have a good CI system with a decent test coverage and a ton of fuzzing.
So who is going to be first to launch earthquake inducing satellite weapon?
Credit card processing system for a baby bell that merged with another corporation. Somehow the combined system had everything of both old systems, plus a data race condition that could not be removed, lest the VRU/IVR have troubles.
Yes but there is no mounting screw for the last screw on the 804 and you have to ditch the SSD tray on the NR200. You can’t say something is like a standard, it either is compliant or not, since everyone else designs based on assumptions from the specification

HEDT is also a make believe standard to run a pricing ladder against desktop processors for those who can’t afford workstation parts
Did they use this up until the 2000's?
It's the kind of software that sounds difficult to replace.
My Google Assistant is so bad now it can't even set an alarm which was the only thing I found it could actually do. It's bamboozling how bad they are.
Counter-argument: 99.996% of Reddit users apparently don't want to be moderators or they already would be, so finding more will be very hard.
Agreed, the M2 chart is a better illustration of what (I assume) GP is attempting to represent. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
Plugins and the newly released API from ChatGPT for driving functions makes it really easy to take very vague requests and turn them into concrete commands.

I find it really exciting - did a few demos of what's possible here for home automation here: https://youtu.be/BeJVv0pL5kY

I think people underestimate just how powerful this is.
> the community is now dead or moved off reddit and it doesn't matter what reddit does with the subreddit that formerly hosted that community.

It's an ongoing situation but I love how you're trying to force everyone's hand to get to "how things were" for you. Funnily enough. That's what the protest is about, in a way.

> And this is why people are mad about reddit threatening to reopen subreddits;

I love how the self proclaimed casuals like you who "don't care" have this specific takes about the motives and reasons for things.

The motives are what they are and have been clearly laid out. The one throwing a conspiratantrum is you.

Go create the sub you want. The community will follow you, right?

And yes, that has happened plenty of times that mods go against a community.
It doesn’t work.

The pauses are built into the script. It’s worse, it’s far worse. It highlights that the scripts are usually pretty bad.

Classic example of a completely unfunny basic show https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jKS3MGriZcs
Recent and related:

Learnings from kCTF VRP's 42 Linux kernel exploits submissions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36350693 - June 2023 (87 comments)

Past discussion of current article:

Put an io_uring on it: Exploiting the Linux kernel - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30605356 - March 2022 (22 comments)
Like dumb TV's without any network connectivity, I also like my vehicles to be the same way. One less thing to fail, get exploited, or phone home and change behavior. I have a little Alexa app on the infotainment of my truck and it makes me cringe whenever I see it.
Looks interesting, not sure what "deep" MicroATX is other than being out of spec for MicroATX by about 19 sq. inches. I like the high core count of the Xeon processors but 15x price premium over top of the line desktop/or enthusiast CPUs is hard to justify for anything outside large corporation or research activity.

Old hotness: Building a computer in a huge EATX case with lots of room to work, multi-gpu SLI, and massive airflow for overclocking that fits (12) 3.5" HDD.

New hotness: Building a computer in custom mini/microatx form factor w/ watercooling and massive amount of cores and memory running nearly silent
Actual title is “Requiem for a bank loan”, we don't need to repeat the domain name.
Yeah, 100 Days of Swift is actually an introduction to UIKit, not the Swift language (aside from the first 10 days or so), so anyone starting fresh should do the SwiftUI version. I do wish Paul (or anyone) would write a good intro to Swift the language without any of Apple's frameworks.
It's fine if they account for the number of tests they have made when they calculate their significance levels. If they just kept on trying different options until they ended up with p < 0.05 it's almost guaranteed to be noise.
They forgot weapons-grade encryption!
Sharkdp is also responsible for some fantastic tools like hyperfine for micro benchmarking, fd for finding files, bat which is a colorized cat replacement and many more such utilities. https://github.com/sharkdp is a real treasure trove of user-friendly CLI tools.
Activist’s goal is to change policy from government, when an activist campaign is successful, the politician takes the credit.

Here is an example of an actual climate activist reacting to an actual policy which he helped influence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw5zzrOpo2s
The Food Satiety Index Score (Updated 2023)
Possibly much more harmful to the users.
Digg was much smaller than 2023 Reddit, and it had a competitor (Reddit) that was already leeching some of its userbase.
I agree with the first paragraph. As to the rest, the finance people could dump the stock on someone assuming there will be a period of (un)reasonable optimism not far from the IPO. This is par for the course with overhyped stocks AFAIK. They even can have some semblance of profitability from running Reddit completely as a Skinner box internet chum feeder with brand recognition.

I think the best scenario (globally) is that a new generation of internet power users, at least 5-20% of them, would learn federation and forums. This could be a lesson for... half a decade, maybe. The ones foolish enough to stay in their pens will be only having it worse as time goes on.
How many engineers should it take to maintain domains.google in a steady state, maybe fixing bugs and patching security vulnerabilities that come up, doing an occasional release?
bitwarden for sure
Spectre as a general vulnerability class is NOT fixed. And you can write perfectly vulnerable-to-Spectre code in Rust, or anything you like. As long as there are "virtual" privilege separations under the same hardware privilege level, which is extremely common nowadays (hey, it's called sandbox). It would be vulnerable on ANY processor with speculative execution, including past, current and future Intel, AMD processors, M1, M2 and you name it. No need for JavaScript in browsers. Please just read the page, it's not browser specific.

In this case the only thing one can fix is, surprise, the vulnerable code!
The API changes don't impact Mod tools but many (most?) Mods use Apollo or other apps because they have far better moderation tools.

Steve's statement about this really pissed me off, due to this ommision.
This is one of my favorite HN adjacent projects and I use it with some frequency. Glad to see you are committed to it for the long term. Good luck.
I don't see how that addresses any of the three points in the root comment.
Thanks to you both! I've macroexpanded these links at the toplevel: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36361124
What software is that?:-)
The social media site cycle iterates again. I hope Discord takes a while to go to fall apart, it is nice for small group chats (just a couple old friends); it will be a pain to replace that platform.
I agree with this sentiment.

It feels so nice when I think of something that I know someone needs or will use.

That's very difficult to do for everyone I know closely all on the same date.
Thread parent posited an axiom. I'm just interested how far people are willing to carry it before they admit it isn't viable.

"Work sucks" is great as a relatively common shared experience. It is not, however, a great presumption to carry around as if it's a natural law.
In mid 2021, looking for a rental in W.Cent.Fl was brutal. Listings typically received ~400 applicants, each day. We beat out 50 applicants to score our current rental, which was listed for 2 hours. We are fortunate that our rent is only 70% higher than our last place.

It got worse after our move. People with stable jobs and money in the bank had nowhere to go. Homelessness has exploded in this region.

Tougher still is the insurance crisis playing out. Biz and homes that are financed are finding the mandatory insurance is skyrocketing. Their monthly payment has recently doubled or tripled and the rate of increase has yet to slow.
In my view, all they really need is to allow read-only data display through the OBD2, or via an authenticated web portal assuming the manufacturer has the data already. If you remove the wireless part of it (which the law doesn't say you mush access it wirelessly), then the remote operation is a non-issue.

Really seems like a lot of fuss about stuff that has plenty of possible options. I might even call it FUD or a miscommunication it's so sloppy.

Personally, I don't want a car sending data to anyone. I disconnected OnStar in the one vehicle that had it. Pretty simple to remove the bridge between the cell board and the rest of the electronics.
I never understood the appeal of Discourse. It feels heavy with an overutilization of negative space. The D programming language forum is a good example of a well-designed forum in my opinion.
Electronics Device Search Engine
I give it six months tops before we "officially" find out M-B is using all conversations in the car as new "training data" and/or basically that ^ exact situation happens.
> It’s interesting that a car manufacturer is faster than Apple, Amazon, or Google at offering a voice assistant with a generative LLM.

I really thought the personal voice assistant was dead (see Amazon below) but your comment makes me wonder if maybe these generative LLMs will revive it.

Amazon seems to have taken the tack with Alexa for which a generative LLM makes sense (a broadly-scoped personal assistant) and indeed seem to have dropped the ball. They also recently cut way back on their Alexa development and team so maybe they have realized that the personal assistant path isn't that useful, at least right now.

Google I don't know...whatever they do they will abandon, of course, but I suspect they will find a way to jam a generative LLM into their voice assistant thingy just because they need the branding. This is where your observation is particularly on point.

Apple junked most of that from Siri after they bought it and, given how poorly it was received, doesn't seem to have been particularly interested in the "personal assistant" whether in a standalone device or as a built in feature in their handsets. They seem to be (slowly) pushing their models into product rather than having a "primary entrance".
A few-shot prompt should be able to do it. Now, I will admit I have not tried; but you could have the prompt be some posts that are considered "on topic" (of the sub) and others that are "off topic", and let the LLM rate these posts. Limit the number of new posts to a small number to prevent probing and spamming.
Is there any option that could auto-categorize some 10+ years worth of compulsive bookmarking?
They have all regressed terribly and I cannot fathom why except using “machine learning” which means GPT will make it even worse.
Saying that the fatality rate is around 1% is pure fear mongering.

Maybe 1% for highly at risk populations like elderly and immune compromised people but nowhere near 1% for the general population.
Statistical correlation between earthquakes and cosmic radiation
I think it’s a complete mistake to think Maxwell who definitely was a Reddit powermod gave a single shit about pedophillia or the girls she trafficked.

It was a blackmail operation. I am certain it was a means to an end.

Same as being a Reddit power mod. It’s about control.
Reddit mods are often terrible and exploit their position of power.

A sub's popularity is invariably because it covers a topic that is popular outside of reddit and through whatever reason (often fortuitous or unrelated to current mod behaviour) that incarnation of it got the most users which lead to monopolisations.
>hacks and approximations
Otherwise known as "heuristics". Otherwise known as "making a damn good guess".
You don't always need precise math to get something done. I once wrote a program to estimate the average volume level in a WAV file. It was just a process of taking samples at different points in the file and then making a good guess. I compared with another program which used complex math to estimate the average volume. Neither approach achieved 100% accuracy. Maybe 80% overall.
> I stopped looking at them years ago.

Same. I loved AMA back when it was new and was a mixture of famous people, interesting jobs, or just people with unusual stories. Victoria did a good job of balancing those and making the ones with famous people still feel fairly authentic.

After she was fired, AMA became almost entirely famous people shilling stuff like a generic forgettable late night interview show. I unsubscribed.
>Who the hell is going to want to mod in that context?

Who would want to instantly have status over millions of people? Hmm, that's a hard one...
That seems confusing. If I say my new service is orders of magnitude more efficient than previous services, I don’t mean any thing about scaling but current performance, and I wouldn’t say orders of magnitude if it was just twice as many calls/second/core, but more than ten, or really more than 30, halfway between ten and a hundred, logarithmically.

Something that scales geometrically might well have some giant constant so it isn’t useful until a specific performance regime.
> ab testing is almost pointless

Except you can never be certain that the changes made were impactful in the direction you're hoping unless you measure it. Otherwise it's just wishful thinking.
Reddit doesn't seem to be ok with that either as there are reports they're undeleting content users delete in protest. The basic message is: "we control every aspect of content you put on here".
I really don't think that's the case. If you want to mod r/politics, you don't just raise your hand and then get mod powers. Moderators are a closed group.
Authoritarian. I think I may have had a bad understanding of what a tankie is.