skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thanks to the web, it's now perfectly normal to believe the worst of people for no better reason than to fuel one's own anger issues.

I believe that in this case it's more that Reddit's management has completely lost any sort of trust, it's not so much to fuel one's own anger issues but give the current context there's very little in terms of Reddit's management being trustworthy, transparent. Spez was caught lying in the open, how can one still have any trust they aren't lying in other aspects?

Let's agree that this particular case is not a baseless witch hunt, Reddit's management own dishonest actions have brought a dissatisfied lynching mob to them.
Microsoft scrambles to evacuate AI experts from China
That is a nice first step, but this is nothing quite like I vision. People finding their niche and growing skills while making money.

Although, I find the idea interesting that we could solve a supply issue in a field by training our prison population. Too bad the American Medical Association would never allow competition :P
I was a CS teacher for 8 years and the way I was able to hook like 85% of classes was I was introducing them to Hackits [1]. They all loved it because they use the web so much and this gave them the feeling of being able to look inside the matrix

This was also how I got into CS many years ago. The old tricks still work

[1] https://blog.haschek.at/2014/why-hackits-are-the-first-thing...
Hmmm, Platform Engineer as you describe it kind of sounds like System Administrator.
Kahn Academy is: https://www.khanacademy.org/khan-labs
As others have mentioned, you're referring to Thompson sampling and plenty of testing providers offer this (and if you have any DS on staff, they'll be more than happy to implement it).

My experience is that there's a good reason why this hasn't taken off: the returns for this degree of optimization are far lower than you think.

I once worked with a very eager, but junior DS who thought that we should build out a massive internal framework for doing this. He didn't quite understand the math behind it, so I build him a demo to understand the basics. What we realized in running the demo under various conditions is that the total return on adding this complexity to optimization was negligible at the scale we were operating at and required much more complexity than our current set up.

This pattern repeats in a lot of DS related optimization in my experience. The difference between a close guess and perfectly optimal is often surprisingly little. Many DS teams perform optimizations on business processes that yield a lower improvement in revenue than the salary of the DS that built it.
I don't know how they do it though - I could imagine enjoying teaching a subject once in awhile, but to be "on" for 5 or 6 identical classes a day and then repeat that until the pension kicks in seems pretty tough. Of course, professors have it better than high school teachers since teaching isn't their primary job.
Sounds like some Air Force guy got paid to spitball ideas, seems fine to me. This kind of brainstorming is often effective at generating good ideas. Something like “Stopping the Earth’s rotation would cause ballistic missiles to miss due to their inertia, it’s just impractical to stop the whole Earth’s rotation. What if we move the just thd target instead?” could very well give rise to sensible operating procedures like “once a hostile missile launch is detected, every mobile launch platform must change its course”. I would not be surprised if that is literally a real operating procedure on nuclear launch subs, for instance.

This Ellsberg guy from RAND and this Zimbleman guy from Smithsonian then both engaged in a bit of fun XKCD-style “what if” / “do the math” speculation, that also seems fine.

I don’t know what happened at the final step here that has this writer reporting on it like it’s a real proposal.
I still don't see the problem. So you enable side loading, install the apps you want, and then what's the problem? It's not like other apps will start installing themselves now. I think some people are working under the mistaken belief that a side loaded APK can bypass the OS permissions system, which is not true. Enabling sideloading is a far cry from rooting or a custom ROM
This hasn't been true in my experience. People were very critical of Picard season 2 and the whole of Discovery. I posted criticisms myself and never got banned.
I think your thoughts are completely off. Removing users from power is definitely not illegal.

Digg lost because they changed the website, Reddit has not changed here.

> third-party apps are the only ones that are actually usable

In your opinion. Millions of users just use the site and official app.

> valueless replaceable cogs.

Which they are. Plenty of mods are ready to take care of popular subreddits.

Some users will be lost, but they are the minority.

The only mistake Reddit is making is by waiting too long to reign in the popular subreddits and allowing people to protest on Reddit’s own homepage.
I've had some interesting discussions replying to 10+ year old comments I find in Google ever since Reddit allowed subs to opt in to replies to older threads.
good link. from the title, before i read it, i immediately thought about spinners. and then, as this post is about chess, i thought of putting all the chess pieces in a bag and draw them out as needed black = 1, white = 0 (or whatever - somehow i predict quarells about this) and use the binary number generated.
The correct response to that sort of bargaining attempt is "What are we dropping from the project scope?"
They are not Reddit's.

> The Services may contain information, text, links, graphics, photos, videos, audio, streams, or other materials (“Content”), including Content created with or submitted to the Services by you or through your Account (“Your Content”). We take no responsibility for and we do not expressly or implicitly endorse, support, or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any of Your Content.

> By submitting Your Content to the Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, power, and authority necessary to grant the rights to Your Content contained within these Terms. Because you alone are responsible for Your Content, you may expose yourself to liability if you post or share Content without all necessary rights.

> You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content:

This applies to all their users, not just EU. Only difference is that US TOS make you waive your moral rights. I grant Reddit a right to copy them, but they're mine. If I destroy them, Reddit no longer has them.

Which is really just one more proof that reddit's added value is about zero and that looking to profit from _my_ content shows really the kind of leeches that they are.
The question as I understand it isn't whether there is a moral uptick from our point of view, but from a contemporaneous one. During Victorian era people still perceived a constant moral decline.
These things happen. At least you didn’t screw your fans - which confuses me even more that you didn’t tell us about tilt5!

I remember there was discussions around people setting up retroreflective walls with the markers - is that possible with the software yet? Feels like that would give some pretty effective cameraless AR for specific use cases
I’m not sure what language you’re using, but I’m pretty sure you have a couple of syntax issues and unintended bugs in your code.

This definitely isn’t passing any reasonable code review.
Two years is nothing. The first year is usually an unmitigated disaster/full time panic, as you learn to teach while you are teaching. Very few programs ever train people to teach before they are let loose. The second year you are just starting to gain your footing, barely doing better all the stuff that didn't work the first year. During that year you start to learn all the skills and tricks you keep in the back pocket to make things work. You are dealing with real live things, so they change and have millions of parameters that nobody has control over. Having a good roster of things you can pull out on the fly to adjust is crucial.
Maybe by the third year you have enough to become a good teacher.
However if you truly care about them and work hard because you care, and they know you care it all works out in the end.
Why must there be an alternative? There's no utility in communicating "this is the new normal" other than to persuade others in a prescriptive manner. It's completely unnecessary unless one has some ulterior motive.

It's the new normal, bro. Get with it. What are you, stuck in the past? /s
> to check as you do the importation of coal, iron, cheese, and goods of foreign manufacture, merely because and even in proportion as their price approaches zero, while at the same time you freely admit, and without limitation, the light of the sun, whose price is during the whole day at zero

But if something is cheap (the price approaches zero) but is widely used, it might still contribute to a large capital transfer. If something is free, that won't happen, as there's no benefiting party.
The point is not to reject this "demi-gratuity", but to ensure everyone benefits from that, not just some select countries.
I would say that it's a way to trade compile-time checks of reference validity for runtime-checks of reference validity.
Prove it with science.

Skills from one area do not necessarily transfer over.
Watch GPT4 Play Minecraft (Voyager Implementation)
And I'd argue that their bad estimate includes their knowledge of how difficult the task is. Unless you're completely broken, you're not going to under-estimate something wildly if you are unsure of what you need to do or have no idea how to do it.
Folks were using AirDrop to send anti-communist files or posters to others in a short range, resulting in a crackdown by the Chinese government on AirDrop and bluetooth file sharing. I believe Apple complied and implemented a 10-minute cool down on file sharing with strangers.
Hospitals are particularly vulnerable to ransom ware.

I don’t think you grasp the hodgepodge of obsolete computer systems that are attached to computer networks to run lab equipment, MRI machines, process pharmacy prescriptions, and manage a patient’s chart. Keeping all of this secure and properly backed up is pretty much impossible.

Seriously, I’ve seen machines in use running everything from ancient versions of Sun Solaris to Windows 95.
> Not sure if you are new to the internet :)

:-)

> to give you one example of many https://supabase.com/ This is how you can position yourself and be understood by the target user if the product is for them

Supabase headline reads: "Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative for building secure and performant Postgres backends with minimal configuration."

Still don't know what it is, other than I should go to the Firebase website to find out. There I read at the top: "Firebase is an app development platform that helps you build and grow apps and games users love. Backed by Google and trusted by millions of businesses around the world."

And right after there's a "Get Started" button.

Since supabase is just an open source alternative (according to their copy) of Firebase (but is it really? it talks about postgres backends not apps?), I'd rather go with the thought leader in this space. Supabase, if you're reading this: what's your elevator pitch? What makes you the leader for building apps or whatever it is you do? Why would I want to follow you?
If they have done this to an EU citizens I am fairly sure they have broken GDPR in some way or another.

For most users this isn't going to be a problem but my guess is there is a rather big chance for a number of the comments that were restored there were really good reason why they were deleted and now Reddit are responsible for them being online again.
"When someone tells you what they think of you, believe them."

Powerful advice.
> It's the dilemma of the maintainer

Why not publish some stats every week/month about what kind of content/users were banned/suspended etc.
I would be only mildly surprised if some group of channers would plan that. Despite their toxicity, they are the most focused and determined group I have ever seen. So bad it is always for destructive purposes. They could have been great people.
> One thing that led me to start creating Pickcode was the number of bugs I encountered in existing tools for coding education. Fifteen minutes of lost time to a minor bug or incorrect instruction step doesn’t seem like a big issue, but when those fifteen minutes represent some of the first minutes a student is programming, they have an outsized impact in changing the student’s attitude toward the subject.

As a young CS student who had self-taught before taking a formal curriculum, this was one of the things I found the most disgusting about the state of high-schools CS ed.

When the exercises and grading code have bugs, that's a major problem. When the instructor can't recognize those bugs when you point them out, that's even worse.

I moved on to tutoring and teaching CS later in life, (on the side, as a mentor with a FIRST Robotics program,) and encountering bugs in the curriculum like these were some of the things that set my students back the most.
Excellent, well done on the quick turnaround.

I hope no one had to have a hard conversation with their boss just now.

(for the curious, the link was previously *NSFW* http://macrobase dot io *NSFW*)
Running Stable Diffusion on Apple Silicon
What was the probability that one of JaneStreet’s alumni, Sam Bankman Fried, would use JaneStreet’s brand name to build up credibility and then pull off the biggest ponzi scheme in human history?
Microsoft: Russia sent its B team to wipe Ukrainian hard drives
Vast majority of those businesses ultimately serve consumers in one way or another. Some are deeper in the supply chain networks than others, but still you shouldn't pretend that industy somehow exists as completely isolated sector.
AI is going to eat itself: Experiment shows people training bots are using bots
I do wonder about treatment of people who already have long covid. I don't know if long covid is just lingering damage, or is the result of continuing low-level infection
Section 230 does not talk about ownership.

A freight company is generally not liable for contraband shipped without its knowledge. That does not mean that all shipments become the property of the freight company. Same thing.
I wish software had a “quiet start” mode
I wish that software, in particular email clients and operating systems, had a quiet start mode.

The challenge is that I often open up my laptop or my email client with a certain thing in mind, and then I get shown all the stuff in my email inbox, or whatever window I had open last.

It'd be really nice if instead, I could enable quiet start.

For email client, that'd look like that my inbox wouldn't be shown - it'd just be a search bar, a compose button, and a button to show my inbox (perhaps a button to show inbox as of when I last opened it, and a separate button to show all new emails. Or even the default is that no new emails are shown in the inbox until I click 'load new').

For desktop, it'd be that I could set it to minimize all windows and tabs when it wakes from sleep.

How do you feel about this?

I suppose I could build a script for MacOS that'd minimize windows. I think email is the bigger challenge for me. There are things that'll prevent gmail from pulling your new emails every few hours but that's not quite what I'm after. I use Superhuman and I wish it'd be blank on open rather than showing me new stuff that makes me lose my train of thought. Otherwise what I do is I make a note to myself about what I'm about to do, then open my email client, but I wish it was easier.
If Epic wants to sell you a piece of software to run on your computer, and in order to do so you need to perform special actions (special with regards to all the other software you use on that computer), and you decide that the software is worth it so you perform those special actions, this is somehow a worse scenario than if nothing else changes but you're not able to perform those special actions because the computer doesn't allow you? How is Epic a bad actor? They're selling you a piece of software that (presumably) performs as advertised. If there's a bad actor, I'd think it's the manufacturer of the computer that doesn't let you use it however you prefer.
> it was quite hard to explain

Was it actually hard to explain? Or was it hard to explain in a way that didn't risk coming across as condescending? I'm "fortunate" in that I never needed to be motivated to study and learn computer programming, so I have about 40 years of computer programming knowledge now. Some of it (cryptography, networking, recursion, pointers) was hard won and took me a long time to grasp. Now I find myself frustrated by the Braeden's of the world who assume that every question has a two-word answer that if I don't know, I'm either incompetent or worse, deliberately hiding something from them.

I can explain memory to anybody, but I have to start from the basics of computation - and if somebody doesn't know what "memory" is, that's where they need to start! But if there's an art form to starting from the beginning without pissing off the person who asked to start from the beginning, I've yet to master it.
Seems to be there since October 2021[1], and US-only. As so far there was no big rage in the last 2 years about this, I would think this is not such a big deal for most remaining users.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/firefox-now-s...
This also makes fruitful grounds for scapegoating. 1.5 years into the "6 month" project, they can reorganize because of the catastrophic failure.

Then the new organization can say it wasn't because they misestimated, it was just the poor organizational structure before.

Obviously this new structure would have achieved the result in the time allotted.
Microsoft dabbles in self-repair with Surface devices now DIY-friendlier
Triple therapy is a treatment that proceeds it. Metformin isn’t a treatment, it’s a prophylactic.
Restore Database Backups in Laravel
This is basically spamming, but with a time delay so the moderators won’t see it.

Worse, the data is already archived by the data collection services. The people who suffer are going to be average users trying to find some answer to a question by searching Reddit, only to discover jumbled messes of words that don’t make sense.
I have worked for some pretty arrogant, business types who fancy themselves “data driven“ but actually they knew nothing about statistics. What that actually meant was they forced us to run AB tests for every change, and when the tests nearly always showed no particular statistical significance, they would accept the insignificant results if it supported their agenda, or if the insignificant results were against their desired outcome, they would run the test longer until it happend to flop the other way. The whole thing was such a joke. You definitely need some very smart math people to do this in a way that isn't pointless.
That's metaphorically like stepping on the gas and the brakes at the same time.

If we really believe we need the masses to reach a level of acceptance in order to reach sensible conclusions, perhaps that whole step could be bypassed by doing away with the frequent alarmism and "i fucking love science" attitude in the first place.
The problem is that in practice a significant amount of this “work” is criminal activity with very real victims.
The Destructive Myth of the Universal Genius
Is there any widely used and public web or mobile app with its entire UI built with LiveView?
I used to think that the older I got, the easier it would be to knuckle down and get an hour or two of meaningless work done so I could move on to something more important or interesting. But actually the opposite has been the case, possibly due to overall declining energy levels.
It is more common than not, but it is still best to avoid such places.
That 20gb dump doesn't include history afaik and probably doesn't include images and other multimedia.

I don't think it invalidates your point, but I just wanted to clarify.
Where I get confused is what is the extra kW doing? It has been at least a decade since I did any intense projects but doesn't 15kW represent the power of an average American household circuit. The entire Mac Pro only supports 3 8k displays with built-in hardware. One would need to add SDI cards to add extra displays but the computer only draws 300 Watts. I could get 50 Mac Pros and give up which would give 150 8k displays without expansion. Maybe one gives up the convenience of a single card solution but there maybe other advantages.

I'm mostly curious as to what this work load consists of?

but when I read the number 8k encode and decode streams 15 kW represents

How much of the power is just getting the data in and out of the card to the processor. Apple Silicon doing the same work on die is going to use less power. I don't doubt that there are faster processing units.
I mean, how do you propose getting a quorum then? What is your definition of a community? What about lurkers, they're ~90%?
Because reading Harry Potter is more fun than reading an economics textbook. And eating pizza is more fun than chicken + broccoli.

tl;dr FUN!!
I don’t want Apple to allow sideloading, that would be harmful to all the kids and grandmas. But allow booting another OS, there’s no way kids or grandma will want to flash Linux into their iPhone. I guess they just don’t want competition, maybe because some gaming company will make a gaming-OS for them.
The exact reason being unable to do something you weren't going to do anyway, rendering the difference moot? You're not required to leave the garden because the wall has been removed. How is an extra option harming you?
Project Kuiper urges regulators to focus on satellite maneuverability rules
Demystifying React Hooks: Usage, Examples, and Common Mistakes
That's not confidence in science, it's trust that they're not being lied to. The phrase "scientific community" is loaded, especially in a poll.
Seems like it'll be both - some transformative use cases (e.g. ChatGPT), as well as lots of small productivity improvements inside existing things (Notion AI, Copilot)
Your realtor doesn't fully "know the law" and you can get in trouble assuming they do.
I like to use https://tld-list.com/ for registrar shopping. It has a lot of data on costs and features for many registrars.
What's a mutation bug?

In react, mutating a model is a bug. It's left up to the developer to remember not to do that. Outside of react, mutating a model seems like a natural fit for the way stuff actually works and it's not considered a bug.
At least with chess (and plenty of other games) it’s a structured way of participating in cooperative competition/competitive cooperation. Your peers are your adversaries when you’re actually playing, but they’re also the people helping you get better. Work doesn’t teach that, or at least not explicitly, but the ability to navigate social spaces where you’re both cooperating and competing is critical to getting anything done.
I understand the point, but would this mean people would just have a single instrument or two? Certainly people play their favorite and do not regularly cycle guitars on a schedule.
> The people who suffer are going to be average users

I already notice this just with the blackout. Some stuff I find on Google is in private subs now, so I can't view it on Reddit. Sure, there might be ways around it, but regular people won't know that.
The current IPCC report is readable and pretty comprehensive: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6...
fly.io dashboard use LiveView
Can you say more on recipes? I had always heard that it had to with copyright - that one needed the copy above to create a copyrightable work.