skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a couple of knee jerk reactions to graffiti some years ago. In 2007 I read that Santa Barbara spent $100k-$200k a year on graffiti removal. So I suggested:

Create a graffiti park. Simply choose an existing city or county park or lot, erect some long but cheap plywood walls, and invite taggers to come display their handiwork every weekend, in broad daylight, with no fear of recrimination. Leave everything as-is for a week-long display (even photograph the tags every Monday for inclusion in the city's or county's web site, with appropriate credits to the "artists"), then every Friday whitewash the walls for re-tagging that upcoming weekend.

Put up flyers advertising the park everywhere spray paint is sold, and taggers won't be able to resist. They'll use the park instead of damaging public property, because the park walls will become THE place to show off and compare their work. It'll become a weekly graffiti contest. There could even be judged competitions. Once they use and enjoy the park, they won't want to tag elsewhere, because illegal tags won't gain any interest or attention like they'll find at the park, and taggers won't get any respect if they don't compete at the park. (Besides, anyone will be able to compare park tags with illegal tags elsewhere and immediately know who did the damage.) The taggers will probably even voluntarily do the Friday whitewashing, and you might be able to get paint stores to donate their unwanted leftovers for that purpose. You could use portable panels, and move the whole show to a different location every few months as an interesting event.

For some cheap walls, a few gallons of weekly whitewash, and almost no labor, graffiti can become one more cool thing about a city, instead of being a yearly drain on taxpayers.

In 2013 I read San Franciso spent $20 million (!) per year to clean up graffiti. That's over $54,000 every day. That's $86,000 for every square mile of the city every year. That was $25 per day for every person in the entire city population.

If those figures are true, why not offer a new reward of $25,000 every single day for any tagger caught (both physically and on video) and subsequently convicted. Bounty hunters will immediately start surveillance wherever necessary, graffiti will plummet, and you'll be saving $10 million per year (even if you pay out $25,000 every day).
‘The creative process is fabulously unpredictable. Great ideas cant be predicted
Technically 1 million monkeys with 1 million typewriters could type for a million years and yet still not produce a work of William Shakespeare. In theory (as I understand it), pi at some index contains all permutations of sets of values. I'm not a mathematician and only know this by hearsay.
> the average user noticed no difference

I think the general consensus among Reddit is that AMA's were a lot higher quality back then.
done by a human and not a script.

There have been some discussions here in the past about that. It's tricky because the more advanced bots are using headless Chrome. They look and behave just like a human. To verify a human would require something that only a human could do such as a question that requires critical thinking vs. a database lookup and that brings us back to something similar to a captcha. Even that could arguably be defeated by an LLM some of the time if your site was popular enough.

In the spirit of perfect being the enemy of good I think a decent balance would just be a open ended question that maybe most of the time a human could solve and less likely that a simple database lookup could not easily answer. Maybe something that has rotating data-sets.

e.g. Which of the following should you not put in your mouth And then have a dozen emoji's, ${random_count} from the pool of emoji which should not be put in one's mouth. All of the emoji should have the same name to avoid programmatic determination. This might also keep people away that put scissors in their mouth.
> Would mods be employee

Also breaking out “nothing they’re doing is illegal!!” isn’t exactly the slam dunk many seem to think it is, IMO.
No, I said it will be different and as we learned numerous amounts people hate change. The kneecapped their growth with their redesign and now this shit show.
Which would most likely be violating a law in the process. :)
Add drum mixes panned from the audience perspective instead of drummer perspective and you’ve got my vote.
Everyone is doing 1on1s wrong
While this is true, a significant part of Reddit's appeal are the smaller communities, and they are staying closed in droves [1] [2]. There are thousands and thousands of these that are still dark, and have announced no intention of opening back up until their demands are met.

I understand that the big subs are either no longer dark, or can be forced to reopen. But that is significantly more difficult to force upon the smaller, more numerable subs.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/148ks6u/indefinit...

[2] https://reddark.untone.uk
>I don't think I've never been _happy_ with Illinois politicians

Occasionally, I'm happy with the amount of jail time they get.
There are dozens of alternatives to reddit, the issue is that the vast majority of reddit users don't care at all about this drama. Reddit is not going anywhere.
https://indieweb.org/IndieAuth

All we need for "identity" is a webpage that the world reasonably expects us to control.

For an extreme example, my "identity" is simply my page at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dragontamer.

Because I "control" the page, and because most people have reason to trust dang/Hacker News to not manipulate my "About Page", it serves as an identity.

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That being said, Hacker News "About" pages probably isn't the best place for a general web identity. But maybe a static-page at "neocities.org", or "Github", etc. etc. serve as an identity in practice.
CVSSv4 Public Preview Announcement
I think this was quite a clear and non-threatening note. How is this threatening?
I heard convex optimiztion techniques are widely used as well, is that true?
Intel to start shipping a quantum processor
That's going to be very costly
I guess so, it just never occurred to me that X86 emulators would be in a legal gray zone.
I agree, it's not about it being "easy" to find the documentation or "easy" to watch the video. This is the landing page for the project, and I'd much rather see the commands in the video listed out on the page rather than having to watch someone else's terminal session.

I was recently looking at nushell, and that website has exactly what I would expect to find: example input with screenshots of the output instead of a video.
While I think there is a definite issue with prisons being used as a source of labor, I also don't see how you can have prison without it being slavery. At the very core, putting someone in a limited area they do not want to be in, forcing them to stay there under threat of violence, and forcing them to behave seems to be a form of slavery.

Even if we were to consider a nice prison focused around rehabilitation and not exploitation, there are still things the prisoner is forced to do. They are forced not to leave. They are forced to follow certain rules. They are forced to move between locations at certain times of the day.
They may be forced to attend classes or do specific types of labor like cleaning their rooms or common areas. Unlike a job where you might be 'forced' to clean, but you can always quit, quitting is rarely a choice for the prisoner and will result in worse punishment. Even if the prison does not directly profit off the labor of the prisoner, this level of control seems to be a form of slavery. Rarely do I see slavery defined as requiring profit to be made off the slave, though slavery rarely happens where it isn't found to be profitable by the person doing the enslaving (based on the enslaver's own view of what counts as profit).

If we were to fully ban slavery even for prisons, then for even nice prisons to continue to exist we would have to define some other non-slavery action which would include having control of where a person lives, how they live, when they sleep, and all the other powers of a prison. In such a case, it would then be possible for a state to allow this non-slavery even for people not convicted of a crime, because it isn't slavery and thus isn't a violation of the 13th amendment. Generally things like kidnapping laws as they currently exist would prevent any private entity from doing this, but exceptions might be carved out. On realistic example would be teen rehabilitation camps which already can border on the legal limits of kidnapping, false imprisonment, and slavery. Some stories from these places already sound like they might be crossing the line, though that might only be allowed as long as they are dealing with minors with parental approval. I could reasonably see a state extending such treatment until the teen is 21 or such.
I post for the benefit of the silly outputs produced by their software.

It is quite possible that those outputs originate from people, but there is nothing in the service to indicate that they do come from people. They could just as easily come from a cleverly designed random number generator (think GPT). There is no real way for me to really know for sure, and it really makes no difference so long as I am sufficiently entertained by the silliness of the software outputs.

Such implementation details are well beyond my concern and not a part of the value being exchanged between me and Reddit. As they say in the world of software, "nobody cares that you used language X". While the developers writing the software may find value in "X", it makes no difference to the end user. The same applies here.

Cleaning out your fridge takes effort. I have never been happy any time I have relaxed on those efforts, though. While I am sure there is someone starving in the world that would enjoy the food about to be tossed, that does not provide sufficient reason to hoard that which is past its prime.
> 2. Unpopular political/religious factions seeking to surreptitiously "move the needle"

How would that be different from the status quo?
Is it not a real strike if the volunteers provide labor? A question for the philosophers, and in the coming years/decades, the lawyers.

In the us it is the national labor relations board, after all! Not employement relations
Driving is deadly. FSD makes it less so.
Broadway musicals were disrupted a long time ago, what is left is crumbs for people who have a niche interest; these jobs will not be replaced by AI because it is already an anachronism that has been replaced by other entertainment for the mainstream.

I do think purely AI art isn't really close to disrupting anything since what is being produced without human editing/selection is generally pretty mediocre, as the copy writer in the article mentioned, and we are quite sensitive to the quality of the entertainment we consume, unlike marketing copy.
Probably not. I checked on a post where someone said something really stupid to me and then deleted it after I responded and it’s still deleted. I’m betting this was directed at the people who recently used tools to delete all of their posts.

Edit: On further inspection, maybe so. It’s possible they’re still in process or maybe I had it cached.
This seems like it's implicitly painting a false dichotomy between an implied autonomous Spez that is causing damage and a subservient Spez that is just a name attached to board action. How about this, if Spez is being asked to do stupid things by the board, he's failing extraordinarily to even cushion them with PR, which is the actual least he can do.
In my experience, whenever volunteer mod positions open, there is a near infinite supply of people that want those roles. For whatever reasons, people want it and those that have it typically seek to hold onto it.

It's borderline inexplicable to me. How could someone want this in the first place and how could they be willing to do it in a volunteer capacity?
This is terrifying that we need this kind of regulation.
Take the battery case apart and see which cell is tripping the protection circuit?
Maybe. I started using in July 2005 and made an account around when comments were introduced.
Wouldn’t not having a distinct sound be a good thing? You’d want the artist to shine through I’d imagine.
Somebody told them AI can do it?
Anything that would help build a strong probability theory background.

Assuming you have some freshman-college math literacy, here are a few great introductory books to Probability theory:

Introduction To Probability by D. Bertsekas & J. Tsitsiklis

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Probability-2nd-Dimitri-...

Elementary Probability Theory: With Stochastic Processes and an Introduction to Mathematical Finance by K. L. Chung & F. AitSahlia

https://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Probability-Theory-Introdu...

An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications Vol. 1 by W. Feller

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Probability-Theory-Appli...

I'm sure there are some great video lectures on the subject as well, but unfortunately I can't point you to any relevant material since textbooks is what I used when I was in college. But if I had to guess, the latest relevant MIT OCW course that has video lectures available would be sufficient.
Too much of that here on NN. "The state of x is terrible... so here's my new startup." "Increasing the performance of y tenfold.... with our new product."
UNICOR at my spot did CAD work for McDonald's remodels (along with a textile sweetshop). With COVID they made UNICOR only dorms (something they are not allowed to do) with of course special privileges (which they are not allowed to do, they can't 'treat you better if you take this job that makes us money'). Also, the UNICOR cops got bonuses based on the local UNICORs performance. But yeah, that whole things doesn't get abused, people don't get forced into it. Why would a cop do that, just because his bonus depends on you 'volunteering' to work overtime... or in dangerous situations. His compassion DEFINATELY overrides greed for that sweet sweet bonus money. And if you quit you are still in his dorm until transferred, and of course he doesn't punish you at all for putting his bonus at risk.
There were (are?) A/B tests being done to lock people out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36287411
I used to moderate a support subreddit, we eventually moved to Discord and encouraged everyone to move there as well. Behaviour such as only supports our move.
I don't think an infinite amount of monkeys with an infinite amount of time are guaranteed to write a work of Shakespeare. If they acted completely randomly it would be, but they don't. They're monkeys. They follow certain behavioural patterns. Just because they have an infinite amount of time doesn't mean they're going to try everything there is to try.
Having old reddit history show up repeatedly in your search results is part of what creates perceived value to get on the treadmill and follow things happening now.
> If people are using it, it matters

Can they purchase food with a printed out list of all the companies that use OpenSSL?
I've done that research, and companies like JPay have incredible monopolies, and make a good amount of money.

But that isn't what people refer to, and not the point I made. The common misconception is that private prisons themselves are the issues. Sure, the ancillaries are terrible, but relatively small by comparison. Sure, the government isn't providing those services, so private companies stepped in and monopolized. Regardless, they are providing a service for money. Not as shocking and horrible as it's made out to be.
If the higher up mods clearly don't want to run the show anymore it is natural, just and right to rely those who do.
The AI Mona Lisa Explains Everything
I have to say that definitely makes me happy!
Rather paltry number of comments in each of those given the magnitude of what happened and HN's usual love for taking large corporations to task for picking on the little guy. Looks like some are self-censoring.
If #1 were true, literally _anyone_ in spez's position would shut up and get on with things. The fact is that he initially did that — and then as the week has gone on, he has begun giving more and more unhinged interviews with the press. He's not saying "it blew over", he's blaming anyone and everyone he can think of, making objectively false statements about history and his own actions, and making overt threats to his perceived enemies.

It is very plainly having a much bigger impact than spez anticipated.
Yeah, no...

Everybody I know that once ran PhpBB stopped using it because they would always get overrun by spam bots.
Take your partner to an estate sale, where the next-of-kin are trying to sell their departed parents' stuff. And just wander around contemplating. We're not taking any of our "stuff" with us when we go. An entire lifetime collecting all these knickknacks and tchotchkes and stuffing your house and storage units with them and at the end... It just becomes a burden to someone else.

I think this activity can be good therapy to help people to stop and think about their "stuff accumulation".
For the people who get fooled, it's not that simple. The landscape of apps and the way people use them change quick enough that there is always a significant non-zero number of people who aren't aware of which situations are safe and which aren't. Scammers will always show up in the places where people can be fooled, even if you suggest that someone completely disconnect from the internet.
It's a good point. I would hope there's an exemption for bomb disposal robots, because functionally there's not that much difference between these and (basically) Killbotz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSkYxW5Ii28
It's a treasured Illinois tradition
Is it a good experience for folks with high latency internet?
Weird take. Policing is hard, sure. I don’t think flying guns with facial recognition are the solution we need.

If this is what “defund the police” means then sign me up. Defund all their armed face scanning drones.
A videogame that runs at 60fps with a custom engine in c. And it didn't even use real physics. Only hacks and approximations but it was lovely.
When you walk into some store, why don't you just take whatever you want and walk out? Perhaps you have some virtuous reasons: maybe find stealing ethically wrong, or maybe from a philosophical point of view since if everybody stole at their discretion that society would collapse, or maybe you just don't want to have a reputation as a thief. But what if somebody didn't care about anything at all like that? And try as hard as you might, you simply couldn't convince him of your train of thought. What then?

All that's really left is deterrence. In the past (and in the present in many places) if you steal then the first time something like a finger gets cut off, and the next time the hand comes off, and the third time - well don't steal three times. But of course that's barbaric, so we need to do things that aren't barbaric, but what? And so enters the idea of prison. Rehabilitation is of course ideal, but in reality some people simply can't be rehabilitated. So what do you do then?

Separation of those who can and cannot be rehabilitated would ostensibly be ideal, but it's interesting to consider that in doing this you'd effectively be going full circle and recreating the asylum type systems of times long since past. It's unclear that this would be desirable even in the best of times, and we're certainly not in the best of times.
I am currently doing part time contract work to migrate an organization from a managed hosted LMS (learning management system) that went from $30k a year to $250k a year over the last 3 years.

The vendor has essentially rug pulled them.

Even paying me $120k to prop up the OSS solution (Moodle) + build out migration software is profitable within a year.
The problem for PHEVs is that as BEVs cross 50%, there will be more electric vehicle infrastructure, and the hybrid becomes moot. Either you have access to cheap (overnight, at-home) charging, or you don't.

The hybrid extends the range of batteries, but the use case is small and becomes smaller. The vast majority of people will plug in overnight. Very long trips use quick chargers. The hybrid case is reduced to places where you don't think you can plug in (which will be few when BEVs become the majority).

There are corner cases: "Yes, I like to haul my enormous boat to the lake hundreds of miles every single week and so the quick chargers still require hours". But in the end I think that such corner cases will be reduced to "Fine, go buy an old ICE car, and plan your trip around the diminishing number of gas stations".
> More importantly, most users seem to want the subs reopened

Hard to prove one way or the other at the moment since the subs that vote to go private are now inaccessible, but almost all polls I've seen have been in favor of the blackout. r/all consistently has highly-upvoted protest messages from the restricted subreddits.

> it isn't fair or just to punish the users because the mods can't mod the way they want to anymore

That a protest against X results in inconvenience for the customers/users of X is pretty mild. If that crosses the line into unacceptable, you'd be against the vast majority of protest/boycott/strike action.
I find this interesting, because "Sending commands to <systems>" is how aftermarket self driving works. I'm specifically thinking of George Hotz's venture. It connects up to OBD and can control steering, brakes, and gas if they're drive by wire. I know at least Toyotas allow this, and to a lesser extent Hondas.
He stated as much in his recent Lex interview - paraphrasing "I get paid for my taste... and besides just saying what I like or pointing out what doesn't work, I'm aggressive at removing what isn't necessary to get the point across".
"You are a bad user. I am a good Bing."
Have there been any subreddits that voted to open instead of stay closed? All the ones I’ve heard about were in favor of maintaining the protest
Dechlorinating the Moderator
Actually this is a great example of wht they're going to get. AMA's used to be a GREAT use of Reddit when Victoria ran them. The questions were fresh and it was a very broad pool of people they interviewed. Since then they've either been 1) terrible 2) obviously pimping something or 3) a combination of both. They're not even worth reading and I stopped looking at them years ago.
It's really interesting. A bunch of news came out today about Reddit doubling down on their position which is what I expected. I was thinking about the MAU problem, and I think the problem is not so much the ability to handle that scale from a tech perspective, but the cost of doing it. It really isn't hard these days to handle that kind of scale, but it comes with a big cloud bill.

From there I started wondering if there was a way to distribute the costs to the users, and I think there is a way to do that, but will users really pay because of abstract ideals? I don't think so, and I think this is the fundamental problem. Users really want these types of communities and social media, but the vast vast majority will not pay for it, so you get forced into the ad model. Overtime that turns into what we're seeing with reddit, in order for reddit to grow, they have to find ways to grow the ad model and locking down third party apps becomes an existential thing for them. Not sure how we get out of this bind, or if it's just noise, people will complain but they won't pay directly so the complaints will never affect any change.
More to the point, the problem here is if it could be done by someone not authorized by the vehicle's owner, rather than by someone not authorized by Ford Motor Company.

If the vehicle's owner wants to modify their car's code, or pay someone else to do it, there are many legitimate reasons to do that and it's no different than the mechanical modifications that people have been doing since cars were invented.