skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want something related in video form, the lectures[0] from MIT 15.401 Finance Theory I [1] by professor Andrew Lo are great.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP63B2lDhyKOs...

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-401-finance-theory-i-fall-200...
That has not been my experience. Yes, at certain moments, I am pressed to optimize. However, I'm currently wrecking WT3 with my necro. I know it won't last forever as I scale up, but that's fine with me, otherwise I'd have nothing to look forward to.
Was doing some reverse engineering recently and wanted a quick wiki to put stuff on in case others wanted to join in and contribute findings about the same product. Looked around and Miraheze seemed to be the only real option for free wiki hosting (I tried another one first, don't remember what it was called, but it was bad).

Experience was pretty good adding the pages but then I went back 6 months later to try and consult my wiki. It had been deleted per an inactivity policy. Fair enough... they did warn me -- my own fault for not checking the email account I'd signed up with.

Anyway, I'm sad to see them go because it was a great service and I don't know of any replacement.
Banks have a reserve ratio. The money lent suboptimally to you at 5% has an opportunity cost.
That is so wrong. In cases where long input is required, I, for some reason, have a habit of writing things down in plain text editor, and then copying that to forms. Did not know that I need to make this a required step.
Senior people don't "interview" in the way that I think you mean. Someone from HR isn't going to ask about their lack of an online presence. They have a real life network and are having real conversations about mutually beneficial business arrangements, ie working with a company.

LinkedIn is mostly kids table stuff.
That should be in textbooks as an example of how to lie while telling the truth.
Plenty of tech nerds have turned into complete psychopaths when they pocketed their first billion.
I think it would be easier by far to port more things to Android than make Linux work.

A third Mobile OS would create more fragmentation, and could drive more things to either be web-first, or make "Everything is an app" less viable.

Plus, Android is batteries-included. Everyone who works on Linux likes modularity, they will fight hard against adding the thing that makes Android great, which is that there's API levels and every devices with a given level is more or less the same.

I'd much rather see a FOSS Android fork that can run AppImages or something, or just one of the tech companies doing a grant program for writing FOSS apps on Android.
The only people who act entitled to the communities and think they own them when they don't are the mods here. In what twisted way can you argue that a user of a community not wanting some power tripping mods to close down everything, acting entitled?
Worth noting that UK nukes apparently don't have PALs - the crews of the UK Trident submarines have all they need to launch. Of course, being the UK the ultimate guidance on what to do if Radio 4 goes off air (thus civilisation ending) is in the form of hand written letters!
Sorry but what you say just isn't possible. Especially with a browser-based cross-platform solution, you're gonna pay on the performance and native integration front.

What you built looks nice and I'm sure it works well for many classes of apps though.
That's pretty special, though. A free web service without ads or other BS. Please let me know if you find a good replacement for Miraheze.
I am very confused about the name of this particular app. I haven't used it. I always thought it was "Reddit is Fun" (RIF). Then this week I learned it's actually "RIF is Fun" (RIF). Now in this article it's "RIF is Fun for Reddit" (RIFIFFR?)
That would probably be a much more profitable venture - just doing the github model. Public = Free, Private/Protected = corporate account and paid.
How will ai affect facebook? The number of fake news posts, even by ordinary people putting themselves in photos, etc, is going to really gut the platform of its value, won’t it? What about when the flood of ai images flood instagram? It’s going to be a weird decade or two for them
> It's a package spec, just like debian/* and rpm/*.spec.

No. It's not. The interface that Nixpkgs' callPackage expects to find in default.nix within the Nixpkgs source tree is (kinda) like an RPM spec or Debian control file and friends, but that's not what flakes are.

Flakes is mostly about providing mechanisms for distributing and referring to code written in the Nix language, and in that way facilitates the maintenance of 'out-of-tree' (read: not in Nixpkgs) Nix packages. But flakes can also be (and are) used to ship Nixlang libraries, end user configurations, IaC for clusters or fleets of servers, overlays of packages to be composed with an end user's copy of Nixpkgs, etc.

A flake doesn't have to contain any packages at all. And when it does contain a package, the package is always defined with reference to some other package collection that it pulls its dependencies from (almost always Nixpkgs), and the conventions for describing the build come from there. They're not part of the flakes schema.

> Every distro package ecosystem has the maintainers discuss patches with upstream.

Again, not what flakes are about. The situation the GP is describing is where a Nix package's 'recipe' lives inside the upstream repository* and is maintained there directly by contributors to/maintainers of the upstream project. This is more like a project including a Dockerfile for the convenience of new contributors, or application developers directly publishing their own Flatpak images.
> users want them to be waterproof

They also want displays not to crack. That is why lot of them are buying protective cases.

Are not sealed up phones overrate in this context?
Square space buys Google Domains for $180M
In a democratic system, the point of whistleblowing and journalism is not to expose secrets that could put lives at risk, but to hold powerful people accountable for their actions.

The latter people spend a lot of resources conflating the two. They manufacture the illusion that they are necessarily operating for the public interest, and therefore the only reason why their secret operations are secret is to keep people safe. By extension, guys like Assange are clearly criminals for violating that secrecy.

In reality, in the cases of Ellsberg, Manning, Snowden (et al.), we learned that our governments were not operating in the public interest. The Vietnam and Iraq invasions were insane and wasteful, enriching the pockets and hegemonic fantasies of a tiny elite at the cost of real American lives (and countless other lives).
Until spez backs down or Reddit dies, presumably.
The process is a little arcane, but it's documented here https://www.gov.uk/guidance/buy-intellectual-property-bvc8
Yeah this is annoying purely from a disk space perspective too as I easily go through 200GB of disk space in a day if I'm actively working and iterating on some Nix code
Why don't you try explaining what it is you find puzzling, yourself? That's not clear to me from your questions.
History is littered with examples of policy creating unintended consequences causing more harm than good. Or at least negating the early good it created over time. It’s usually fine at the start until cracks start to show and policies are often a one way street, that only get reformed many years after the problems become apparent, if at all.
I do think this is all deeply blown out of proportion. I asked a few of my friends about their opinion of the debacle this week, all of whom are in the tech sphere mind you, and they all either didn't even know what was going on or didn't care.

Spez is likely right in this regard. This will pass and blow over in short time and people will simply move on. Your average Joe is already using the first party app, and even if he isn't today, he will easily switch over once Apollo et al. are shut down.
I agree with you, but I've never had the patience to make that work in practice.
They technically can record the video by the drone and then later do the face recognition offline just like any recorded video by personal cams. Also, face recognition on drones isn’t the worse, what’s the flight time, max 40min? Yeah that’s barely a threat, are they also banning the same recognition on other cameras like the ones installed on the roads, urban areas, traffic lights that are working 247? Guess not, it’s just a theater to create the illusion “we care about your privacy and security” or whatever.
Ban police dogs, ban the concept of “shooting then asking”, ban hiring the scum of the town and make them go through a very thorough and proper education, not a useless 2 years academy, among other things. But none of that will happen because it’s deeply corrupt.
IP permissions, i.e., copyrights, are not natural rights, they are instead government "grants" of protection. And protection granted by government decree can also be taken away by government decree.

So no "permission" to release would be necessary if government's modified ther copyright laws to withdraw their granted protections after some "event" occurred.

The bigger problem is not the permission, it is actually finding the code so it could be 'released' once the event triggered. To make this work would require some form of required escrow in order to gain copyright protection in the first place where the code would be held until such time as the removal of copyright protection from it triggered, and then it could be released.
Yes, your point makes sense from the perspective of trying to reduce global carbon usage... but that doesn't seem to be the perspective the article is written from, and the title is "Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns" not "Deep Learning Is Not Environmentally Friendly" so I think the point that DL has diminishing returns stands.
What's the percent of moderators who also are top contributors to the subs they moderate?
GDPR request to request your data and then one to delete all data about you.

If they don’t comply, they’ll get fined, and I have the feeling it will not be a small one given how they handle things
I strongly recommend that you freeze your credit. It’s not the end all be all but it’s a good way to keep entities from applying for loans, credit cards or open accounts in your name. I don’t know what is the equivalent measure one can take outside of the US.
Yeah, but they care about reading the stuff written by the API users.

Most of the monetizable users are passive readers of content written by power users. Lose the power users and the readers will follow. Maybe not immediately, but they will follow
Worse yet: Fandom has a policy of not deleting inactive wikis, even if the community has deliberately abandoned them to move elsewhere, and will treat any attempt to advertise that another wiki has been created as vandalism and will block users (even wiki admins!) who attempt to do so.

This means that, if a community does decide to move their wiki off of Fandom, they have an uphill battle to "beat" their old wiki in search results. In many cases, Google will treat the new wiki as duplicate content and suppress it in search results unless pages are substantially rewritten.
What makes you think Reddit is 'evil'? Or that any migration from Twitter has really happened to something that's better?
I find it quite the opposite: what is it that other languages are trying to re-implement, and why they can't?
I think you're right: as a teacher, they clearly have much to learn, and as an instructional advisor, their authority ought to be suspect. But as an EdTech entrepreneur? Eh, let's see what they come up with. They're not instructing anymore; they're building. If they're smart and work with experienced teachers, it might be interesting.
I'll take Anal Bum Cover for $7000
> If shares of companies are valued at fair prices it means that the finance departments for that companies can raise more capital.

This only true of companies that were underpriced. Overpriced companies, either because of hype (Pets.com), fraud (Enron) or other reasons (maybe Jim Cramer issued a buy) do not benefit from a fairer price.
That depends on the sea level, doesn't it? Even islands are connected to the rest of the world.
Thixotropy
Quick overview - fluids that are more viscous at rest and become less viscous after flowing. This is the process behind quicksand and what keeps ketchup in the bottle until you hit the back and it starts flowing.

Also used in some casting processes.
The difference between what you describe as not runaway AI, and runaway AI, is in whether or not the AI or AIs are able to optimize their own performance. That is, if they're doing any single thing of the following non-exhaustive list:

- Helping design next-gen hardware on which they'll run, or write its firmware;

- Procuring more compute, or making money for or otherwise improving ability of a company/group to procure more compute resources;

- Improving their own algorithms;

- Improving anything upstream in the dependency chain of their own algorithms, for example fundamental mathematical libraries;

- Directing or convincing people to increase the number of AIs in the AI cluster;

- Making profit in general, or otherwise incentivizing humans to work on next-gen AIs;

... then they're already capable of runaway self-improvement.

The term "self-improving" carries connotations of an AI working on it own sources at runtime, as if it was self-evolving Lisp image. However, being a compute artifact and therefore trivial to copy and modify, the AI needs to be treated as a category. With that in mind, GPT-4 helping people to improve code that leads to LLaMA ${whatever-B} that then helps create next gen of Stable Diffusion, which prompts more resources to be put into merging the next gen SD with upcoming GPT-6 into a multimodal model, which then helps make 3D integrated circuits viable, which allows to ... - this is also the case of AI self-improving.
Does honey actually help with illness? Except perhaps for moderate anti-bacterial effects of certain strains of honey.
Unrelated to the software itself, but it is amazing how this website runs http without redirecting to https. You don't see that very often any more. It's probably an oversight, I guess :)
Reddit's CEO says that he was inspired by Musk's “violent changes” at Twitter
I was almost certain that this was the case already, but it's interesting that Steve Huffman is now outright admitting that he's taking inspiration from Elon Musk's changes at Twitter, especially since said changes have been widely mocked by most other people in the tech field and have gotten Twitter into thousands (yes, really[1]) of lawsuits and arbitration claims.

This likely means that there's no way Huffman will reverse course at this point: he's committed to following the Elon Musk playbook to the letter, hence why he's laying off a substantial amount of Reddit staff[2] and is taking Elon's generally bizarre approach to PR in trying to justify them.

My doubts about Reddit's long-term future are now through the roof.

[1]: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/16/twitters-lawyers-admit-t...

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-lay-off-about-5-wo...
Personally I'd prefer a subreddit to subreddit mapping. /r/newzealand is refusing to let you read or post? Go to /r/aotearoa. Can't talk about F1 in /r/formula1? Check out /r/f1 etc.

I'm not interested in Lemmy or Mastodon or any of this stuff.
I think it only lazily copies files that are referenced by your nix expression.

I tested this branch, and a flake-based shell launched in 3 seconds inside a large monorepo (vs 30 seconds before). I don't think it is possible to copy this repo in 3 seconds.
Yes, but why do we intuitively avoid epistemic uncertainty, even though it is something which can only _give_ us an edge here?

To make clear: playing this game with an urn which has an equal amount of red and green balls, is the worst case scenario when you get to pick the colour that wins. The second urn can only be the same or better, whether or not you can figure out any information about the balls in it.
Unfortunately, like Twitter, Reddit is a business. Not a charity or a free forever service. The owners decided that they need to make money or get run over by free loading AI companies for training on their data.

It has always been known that you did not 'own' anything on the platform in the first place. They do not care either way.

Overall, this is a melodramatic ant-hill explosion. Just like what happened with Twitter. with little to no-one other than the news sensationalizing the outrage for clicks again.
The message passing is, IMO, the biggest win you get from the process model. In the process model, you have the LiveView process, which sits there, listening for messages, which it can receive both from the browser client, or from independent going-ons in the backend, quite symmetrically. To the programmer, it looks just like any other process that you'd be used to using everywhere in Elixir, which provides useful interop with things like Task.async, which sends a message back to it's linked process on completion, or other libraries that are completely unaware of LiveView.

You could simulate the same thing with a dictionary lookup scheme, but A) it would be far more complex, because of the lack of native message passing support, and B) the you'd miss out on the symmetries and interop, because the rest of your program wouldn't be using message passing.
Because that's the origin story.

Other examples are _all_ commodities markets like mining, logging, etc.

Of course public company share futures are inherently abstract, but they serve similar purposes, just not to a particularly similar party, depending on your perspective (of ownership, operation).
Also, peer review is not something people go through for the joy of it. Academia and many corporations will literally not hire or promote you unless you go through it. Publishing and conference entities will not publicize your finding unless you go through it and historically without the internet that was the only real way to get publicity. In other words corporate power structures are forcing you to play the game or they will effectively block you from being able to do science professionally. So that seems a pretty poor example of non-corporate power structures.
While I don't even agree that Snowden behaved cowardly - which is what you appear to be suggesting - it's really quite appalling to see that used as a way to undercut the status of "whistleblower". Surely, you take greater issue with our modern surveillance state than ones decorum based on how they perceive their likely ill treatment from the said state?

Tbh it's the rhetorical equivalent of the game of "two for flinching", and just as juvenile.
And yet it doesn't matter.
Why would you need a separate binary viewer / editor?

This reminds me the absurd, but somehow common situation where Java programmers in my office used IntelliJ IDEA to write Java, but Notepad++ to view logs or edit INI files etc.
I'm well aware of how the code works. I was mostly interested in why it was written like that. nwiswell's comment[1] gave me the hint I needed to find that yes, this was part of an obfuscated C challenge[2].

I know you mean well but LLMs are the very last resource I'd turn to for help. Those things make crap up all the time.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36364283

[2]: https://www.ioccc.org/1986/bright/bright.c
This is pretty slick. Unobtrusive prompt and then you get a pretty intrusive drop-down. Pretty it up. It has a wonderful response and flow and I would be interested in using this in future projects.
Yeah this is more like serfdom.

Steve is King, the board is Upper Nobility, Admins are the palace guards / military, Power Mods are the Nobility, lower mods with less control over subs i.e. ancillary staff are serfs tilling the land. Everybody else is basically a tourist.
Mine: https://hypertext.plus

Pure HTML document editor. Open source, PWA, based on TinyMCE, with CSS and markup editing, JS macros, saves to local drive, plus OpenAI integration if you have a key.
It was originally Reddit is Fun, but then Reddit asked a bunch of app developers to change the names of their apps to make it clearer that they aren’t official or affiliated with Reddit directly, which is why most apps are called “X for Reddit”. Reddit is Fun was already usually called RIF, so it became a recursive acronym. Then I assume they added “for Reddit” for search/discover ability reasons
I'm not familiar with that many details of USA political history, I didn't really know who Daniel Ellsberg is (the name sounds somewhat familiar, but I might be getting them confused with someone else?), and I didn't know what the Pentagon Papers are.

But "the Pentagon Papers" sound important (kind of like the Panama Papers or the Paradise Papers, and may even be the trope namer?) and "who leaked the Pentagon Papers" sounds like an interesting story that I might want to learn more about.

"Someone who is famous in some way but you've never heard of has died" is a much weaker pull. Yeah, there might be something interesting there, and if it's someone whose death has hit the top of the HN front page then the odds of me finding it worth reading are somewhat higher than if it was a headline almost anywhere else (hence why I'm here). But there are a bunch of other headlines on HN, and I could have easily skipped past it. "who leaked the pentagon papers" would have been a much stronger signal that this was someone I wanted to read more about.
The problem with your model is that there won't be a community because people wont't see the same view. Reddit moderation is annoying when there are responses to deleted copmments or discussions about where post went. But Reddit is pretty good about leaving markers that something was deleted. The different views with your idea means might as well have two different forums. BTW, any good federated system should be able to handle multiple forums on same topic; the Reddit multi-reddits do this.

Also, it will kill discussion because the positive filtering requires someone to approve posts before they are seen. If the moderators are sleeping, then no one can have post seen until they wake up. The Reddit negative filtering means that moderators delete the bad stuff when they see it.

People talk about Usenet killfile and how each person doing own moderation. But having to do everything yourself was annoying. It also resulted in an indvidual view where could miss stuff. The not-very-good solution was to quote content in every post like email.
It really is. I'm finding that there are some menial programming tasks where I really can just turn off my brain and listen to podcasts while I work and almost let my muscle memory take over.

There are also tasks that require my full undivided attention where having anything on in the background breaks my flow and just lengthens the task. When my brain power is low, it's often from working on these particular tasks and when it helps to switch over to one of the menial tasks.

I also do find, as he says, that it's good time to take on some experimental/exploratory tasks that may use more creativity and less logical thinking.

Seeing when you're depleted in one area but not in another is incredibly powerful and is a great productivity booster. (Of course, there are definitely times where I just cannot muster any energy and those are times where it helps to just step away from the keyboard.)
Seems like napoleon said it too: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/12/27/dumb-and-gets-thin...
Ah, sorry, I didn't understand what this is for.