skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Id agree that some mods are mostly narcissists with elitist visions on a power trip. Ive been banned from large subs that I have been contributing to for years. When my political believes did not conform with the mods political beliefs, I was perma-banned without warning for a post made in a different sub.

These mods are not democratically voted for, and it shows. r/newjersey is more like r/liberals or r/ilovephilmurphy and that's unfortunate. How can a sub that represents an imaginary boarder only allow for political discussion that aligns with current elected leaders? Reddit is starting to show its true colors through this black out.
John Carmack is very passionate about what he does and you'd likely have a hard time convincing him not to do it. Case in point is that he's still working despite likely being rich enough not to.

Most people are working jobs they wouldn't necessarily be doing at all if they had some other means of paying the bills. This is who people are talking about when 4 day work weeks come up.
Feedback: I've tried the search engine a couple times and just bounced because there were no results for my queries, and it's hard to think of new queries that actually matter to me when I'm just trying something

Hoping this turns into something magical. I dearly miss the old web!
There’s no way reddit has anywhere near a billion users. It has millions. Facebook is ubiquitous, pretty much anyone from any age, gender and a country has heard of Facebook. Reddit is a big site, but it’s still a niche site when compared to the big social media giants. It probably has less users than twitter, which has a fraction of Facebook’s.
You'll want to look at worker's share of corporate income for the full picture of wages and prices, and that has not recovered since 2008.
He asks this rhetorically, but some people get something out of it - the hustle and bustle, and of course brushing alongside co-workers. If there's money to be made it's because people want something and buy it.

But really, money is motivation enough
Ibcap/Dish Prevail in Jadoo TV Piracy Lawsuit, CEO Held Personally Liable
> I challenge the author to showcase a developer platform that handles secrets management and access management correctly and transparently.

In my my opinion Microsoft came pretty close with Azure DevOps.
Pretty much.

Remember, "Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People". <https://np.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_...>. This also applies to powermods, assuming they're not being paid on the side to push some ideology.
It's like "Military-grade" being used to sell things; for some people it conjures images of high standards, for the rest of us we know that just means it was built and designed by the lowest bidder.
I predict that Gen1 will quickly become obsolete, and that there will be a monthly subscription fee for the service that many will stay enrolled in long after the obsolescence has passed.

I have voice commands in my Volvo, they've never worked right since day 1, and now the only time I press the button is annoyingly by accident.

They keep introducing short-lifespan tech features in cars now that nobody wants rather than just making them more durable and reliable.
See what? These aren't arguments, you're linking to the general discussion.
On certain days, I really think this would be not such a bad idea. I like to call those days Monday
(quiet gasp) He's gone? I must have lost track of the time I guess. Anyway, I'm gonna go get some exercise playing a VR game (kneels down and leans head forward uncomfortably to look into a Gameboy Virtual Boy).
What a strange hill to die on. Just don't buy the boards?
That's exactly what Karl Marx said in "Value, price and profit".
Direct link to the paper:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/b8592914-c53a-4c84...
It really isn't? There is no specificity, it also doesn't state that earthquakes _only_ happen after solar activity. So this is equivalent to saying "There could be an earthquake somewhere at any time in the future".
We absolutely do not need laws to prevent wage increases.
Hmm.. I would hope it's deductible if the software listed sponsorship as an advertising service, and put a price on the services accordingly.

I can't imagine this is too different from paying a youtube or social media influencer to promote your product, or paying for an ad spot on a podcast.
Yeah! Why would we be frightened of constant surveillance if we have nothing to hide?

It's not as if states are writing any laws that criminalize women's healthcare, gender identity, or sexuality. And it's not as if law enforcement would ever misuse access to carry out personal vendetta. And it's not as if laws are only being enforced and prosecuted depending on who you are or what you believe.

So let's get going and put all criminals in jail and a bunch of protesters as well.
Please don't bring transaction costs into play, you might ruin the beautiful neoclassical models.

If money saves transaction costs, then it can't be neutral. The introduction of money becomes an essential part of the economy. It's not like there are good alternatives to money.

Don't think this further and wonder if interest is just a monetization of the transaction cost savings. Then it would turn out that interest payments negate the benefits of the division of labor entirely.
Maybe I have this wrong but looking at academic torrents, the entire pushshift archive from 2005 to 2022 is 2TB compressed. Are they really operating at a massive scale that you are describing? Pushshift is supposed to have ingested all of Reddit's comment data no?

(Of course this is assuming pushsift has gotten the majority of comments)
Primary thrust is concerns about bias in the data.

She notes that AI is based upon historical data including its biases and the danger is that AI responses will reflect this bias, (e.g. racist and misogynist determinations about people’s place in the world)... and that people are likely to accept AI responses as "truth" and "fact" (my words) which will "... make it harder and harder to push back against those histories and correct them in the present”
Of course it failed. Predictably [0] and unsurprisingly.

Even went Twitter went down, its users would rather wait for it to get back up than to switch around to use something even worse. The loud crickets screaming about 'migrating' were just the techies that pretended that it was the end of times and the rest of the world did not care.

If you really want to know the main reason why this 'migration' failed read everything under:

> "Decentralisation makes the user experience worse"

The moment you tell users to 'Choose an instance' the whole so-called 'migration' failed and normal users just went back to Twitter. If they cannot sign up in less than a minute then they will give up and move back. Even the Mastodon developers knew this user experience failure of finding an instance.

So the Mastodon team crowned Mastodon.social as the default [1] in their mobile app, meaning that it just become the largest and most centralized instance which is a federation failure.

This is not early days anymore for Mastodon and it is almost 8 years of it existing. We have given it plenty of time for it to be an alternative to Twitter which that had well over 50 million users in less than 8 years.

It had it's chance in November and it failed spectacularly after 6 months of this observation since they forgot about what the meaning of the 'network effect' and how strong Twitter's network effect still is with 220M+ daily active users.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34049029

[1] https://mstdn.social/@feditips/110233282251253677
Very likely non-representative due to sampling bias and brigading.
On the thread list.
They appear briefly on Firefox android, then disappear.
A Guided Tour of Iscabbs
ISCABBS is a telnet accessible BBS that has been in operation since 1989. It is the oldest continuously operating free online community on the internet.
$500 is well more than triple the estimated cost per truck, and we already know that at least 400 people are being killed per year in the US. Likely far more, not to mention the grievously injured. Cost per unit would likely come down over time anyway as production practices improve, like with most goods. I understand the logic behind cost/benefit, but the math is pretty damn obvious here.
I liked how SomethingAwful would let you pay to change other users' profile picture and/or title.

People would routinely change other users' titles to a representative quote from one of their earlier posts so every one of their posts was preceded with an excerpt showing how unhinged/biased/reactionary/etc they were.
Am I expected to expend my enthusiasm for programming on my employer?

I find it insulting that I must be a "nine to fiver" if I advocate for labor. My passion isn't building what my boss wants, it's building what _I_ want.
Yeah I have a feeling that that feature may be going away after this all blows over.
My play was always to build big cases with water-cooling + low speed fan radiator sandwich for near silence.

Next gen play is to accomplish near silence in a much form factor because super towers take a lot of space and moving them sucks.
A kamikaze drone can have a variable blast radius that can kill a vehicle's driver but not passengers. That sounds extremely local.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/kamikaze-drones-new-we...
It's super easy to check if any C/C++ code has been imported. Not too hard to get a reasonably good result with static analysis, just find all import statements and see if it maps to a python file or a dll/so file, recusing as needed. You don't need to look at any other code except the import statements.

For an even better result the main python interpreter can be modified with a flag to just list all imported dll/so files. Run your application with that flag and see what it imported and it will catch weird edge cases (like, python code that messes with import paths)

There is no need to check the entire codebase. It's only the C/C++ code that directly uses the cpython api that needs to be checked. Any python code can be ignored, along with C/C++ code that doesn't interact with the cpython API.

This isn't like the 2 -> 3 transition where you needed to touch almost every line of python code. The amount of touched code for most companies should be tiny.

Also, the proposal isn't for a python 4 were everyone is required to upgrade to this new paradigm. It's for an optional mode that allows running without the GIL. The only people who actually need to worry about it are people who want multithreadding.

Your theoretical company can do a quick check to see what c/c++ libraries are imported and estimate how much code would need to be checked. If it's too daunting, they can just keep operating with the GIL enabled.
Except it’s not. Because that’s exactly what happened with sugar. Why are studies funded by Big Food 10x more likely to say sugar is ok? Coincidence, right? Science isn’t as objective as you think.
One wonders if there was some kind of pressure exerted on him. That would explain the stepping down and the subsequent silence about his replacements. It looks like a classic bear hug.

I wouldn't go so far as to call Signal compromised - yet - but I will be keeping an eye out for increased mentions of Signal in DOJ indictment documents, just like I did for Dropbox after Condy Rice joined their board (after which there was indeed an increase in such mentions of Dropbox).
I'll go on the record of being in favor of species-swapping Ewoks and Gungans, with Rancors and Gamorreans respectively.
You've never felt like someone is watching you?
What you're describing is textbook paranoia. People exist, real people, who hold opinions that differ from yours, including me.
Meta is one of the clearest examples of a company that is spending most of their budget outside their main product, so I'm not sure what you're trying to show.

You saw their VR division, right?
> Wage growth is the primary sustainer of inflation,

Except it's not in practice. Yes that's what's taught in academia, but is very often very wrong.

Supply shortages was the primary cause of our inflation two years ago.

Energy inflation then took over and also was the primary driver of inflation in the 1970s.

It's just a convenient short-circuit to blame it on wage inflation.
My understanding is Reddit the company actually already uses openai's moderation api[1]. Not sure they expose that to anyone (even mods) outside the company. It's not an LLM I don't think though, it's just a set of classifiers to give a probability that something violates various categories of their TOS.

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/moderation
"...We curate a comprehensive dataset of 4,550 questions and solutions from problem sets, midterm exams, and final exams across all MIT Mathematics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) courses required for obtaining a degree. We evaluate the ability of large language models to fulfill the graduation requirements for any MIT major in Mathematics and EECS. Our results demonstrate that GPT-3.5 successfully solves a third of the entire MIT curriculum, while GPT-4, with prompt engineering, achieves a perfect solve rate on a test set excluding questions based on images..."
Being a cliché or not doesn't make it untrue. It's not a novel argument but it's still absolutely relevant.

Saying it's not "the capitalism" is a bit of a true scotsman argument. There is only really one capitalism: the one we're living in today. There's no other version of this as far as I can tell. Maybe before we had different variations of it but with globalization, it's one to rule them all.

> it's not necessarily in their interest to get tunnel-vision and seek short-term profits

I wish I shared your hopeful vision because looking at history and current affairs, there's no indication that short term gains are ever going to be replaced by long term ones. The climate change issue is the prime example for that. Everyone knows long term it's bad, but who cares? We need those stocks to go up! [1]

[1]: https://www.derekchristensen.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/...
I used Sensor Logger.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sensor-logger/id1531582925
> will claim the West is trying to suppress rising countries like China from becoming globally competitive because the west is trying to get them "force green policies" on other countries and skip the parts we had the luxury to go through.

What these posters don't understand (and I'm sure certain are paid not to understand it [0]) is that the West didn't have the luxury to just be able to import environmentally friendly technologies and industrial processes from somewhere else; it had to bootstrap itself from nothing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
Do exactly which private API is used to “kneecap” competitors?
Buying a Tesla isn't even close to enough. Climate change activists say amorphous nonsense like "dismantling capitalism" because the changes needed are much, much further reaching than simply buying a different thing.

Transportation is only about 25% of CO2, and cars are only a fraction of that. Even if there were zero CO2 produced in a Tesla's lifecycle (and it's more than that), it wouldn't be anywhere near enough.

You'd also need to turn off all the fossil fuel power plants -- which isn't going to happen without government intervention.

That's not enough, either. Food and concrete are also massive producers of CO2. Again, corporations aren't going to voluntarily stop raising cows or making concrete. Laws are required -- the kinds of laws that make people scream "socialism".

Nor can it end there. To reach net-zero, we're going to have to balance out the inevitable remaining human-produced CO2. Some of that will be carbon capture -- not something corporations do unless forced. Some will be reserving large swathes of fertile land for trees -- probably owned by the government, i.e. socialism.

That's probably still not enough. Try this on for size: we eliminate a lot of bullshit jobs that require commuting, energy, and other sources of carbon. Maybe a universal basic income that drives up the cost of workers, and a lot of workers just drop the hell out. Maybe then we reorganize the economy to stop maximizing "employment" as a fundamental goal, and we stop optimizing for total Gross Domestic Product.

That is what "dismantling capitalism" means. Maybe it's not necessary to go that far. It sure as hell would have been less likely if we'd done something about it 40 years ago. Instead, we dicked around for decades, while believing that capitalism would solve it. Capitalism mostly responded by denying that the problem existed.

The activists may not really understand what they say when they toss around the catch phrases. But I assure you that the people who coined those catch phrases do know what they mean, and you can engage with that if you don't like engaging with the rank-and-file who are rightfully enraged that nothing is being done, even if they themselves don't fully understand the magnitude or direction of what's required.
I toyed with Umbrel[0] but only to try it out. I was unsure of the security model of having all my eggs in one basket. I only self-host things as separate and distinct instances now.

[0] https://umbrel.com/
Regarding underestimating qualitative methods: I'm actually all for them. It may turn out, it's all you need. (Maybe, a quantitative test will be required to prove your point, but it will probably not contribute much to a solution.) It's really that I think that A/B testing is somewhat overrated. (Especially, since you will probably not really know what you're actually measuring without appropriate preparation, which will provide the heavy lifting already. A/B testing should really be just about whether you can generalize on a solution and the assumptions behind this or not. Using this as a tool for optimization, on the other hand, may be rather dangerous, as it doesn't suggest any relations between your various variables, or the various layers of fixes you apply.)
Who "has to"? The meth tweaker on the street still eats every day. But participating in society is a vector validation/belonging and cash for other niceties.
The Powerful Weirdness of Cormac McCarthy
So rumors are wrong, or even worse, AMD lied.
> I guess they’re just taking it at the manufacturers’ word that there’s just no way to implement this feature securely

I think it is more that manufacturers say, and NHTSA agrees, that there is no way to securely comply with the state law quick enough to do so by the time the law goes into effect. At least that's what I recall from another article on this.
> they're actively hindering others who might wish to take up those responsibilities.

Isn't that literally exactly what a strike is? No one crosses the picket line if a sufficient majority agreed to undertake the strike?
Apple has a really good first party book about the Swift language.

https://www.swift.org/documentation/
>I have a feeling they won't have a hard time finding deranged weirdos who want to mod and will remove anything that could in any way raise an eyebrow of advertisers/payment processors/etc

Remember, "Most of What You Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People". <https://np.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most_...>. This also applies to powermods, assuming they're not being paid on the side to push some ideology.
You can only keep so many things in your head at once. The trick is making sure they're the right ones.
> per capita levels

The thing is, from the planet's perspective, per-capita or whatever made-up metric don't matter.

A ton of CO2 is a ton of CO2 no matter what.
No intelligence, no screens, no -tainments, thank you.

I want just a stupid electric car with a stick, pedals, speed/battery meter and parking sensors.
Ironically he invalidates his whole point in the second sentence by admitting that there is indeed such a thing as overwork. The rest is an argument that underwork is a thing, which no one denies.

So its really just a debate on ideal hours and the post fails to make an argument there.
"Shifting maze of smoke and mirrors" is a surprisingly accurate description of the digital certificate mess. It looks like everyone just trusts the governments and corporations involved. I'd rather not even think about the implications and just assume it's better than literally nothing.
If you install Linux on your work laptop because it allows you to work more efficiently, then you are doing your job better and making more money for the business; they have no right to object to this and you have a very defensible position for exercising agency in this respect.

From my experience, this is becoming an area where you have no traction. Companies have increasingly complex security and record retention policies, your choice to use Linux (when the company is a sea of Windows machines) creates more work for your IT group to support. So guess what their blanket answer is going to be?
Can you learn from other human beings? So can AI learn from other AIs.
Slick designs
I’m not God by any means, but if you don’t know how to change a tire (even if you physically can’t), you have no business driving a car.
500mg twice daily, but I usually forget in the morning and take 1000mg before bed.

At least for my body, the troubled GI side effects faded over time. I never noticed any lightheadedness or fatigue by it unless I overdosed. But as I mentioned, I never changed my lifestyle and eat America-sized portions, so I suspect there's plenty of sugars and energy sloshing about and all systems have power.
I hope you're not flagged for this great bit of satire, considering Poe's Law and all.
I would only work more if that means more money (overtime pay, promotion etc). Otherwise that's a no
Atomic bombs don't simply assemble themselves naturally though.
Carmack since the 2000s mostly always worked multiple jobs at less than 40hr. Working 30 hours on software at Id and 30 hours at his rocket thing is about like a half-time employee who does a hobby wood working job on the side. At Meta he eventually became part time CTO less than 40 hours and worked on his AI stuff on the side until fully moving to it.

There is some difference in that he was probably doing lots of programming at all the different jobs, rather than an unrelated hobby (maybe not that different than the woodworking analogy though, he began talking about lathing rocket parts a lot), but 40 hours at one place tended to be too boring to him through large parts of his career more than he lets on in that comment, though the AI stuff came later.

There's also a big difference in working on assigned tasks you maybe disagree with vs deciding which tasks are needed, having power of delegation, etc.
Four times. I can't (won't?) help a person who doesn't ask clarifying questions about things they don't understand and instead just digs their heels into the ground dying on the fallow hill of "I never misunderstand anything, so you must have meant this thing you did not say, and here let me blandly quote this thing I did not understand without asking any clarifying questions about it to address my misunderstanding".
The subterranean geology of granitic shield provinces doesn't change much over the course of ...human-accessible timescales.
Well, I definitely wouldn't use for actually driving the car. But thing like air conditioning, playing music etc...

Being able to say things like "make it cooler", or "play that song that has these lyrics..." will make life a lot more convenient.