skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's an attempt at making sense of that intuition. Let's compute the volume of a pyramid that's inside a cube. Imagine that you're inside a cube room (this will make it easier to identify the faces). You are sitting in a corner.

From your corner draw lines to the four ceiling corners -- a cube diagonal, two face diagonals and a cube edge. This is the pyramid. Now draw lines to the corners of one of the walls opposite you -- it's the same pyramid, but on its side. And lastly draw lines to the other wall opposite you -- again the same pyramid. You have now covered the entire cube with three identical pyramids, so the volume of the pyramid is a third of the volume of the cube. The interesting part is that the bases of these pyramids are on the three dimensions, giving the intuition that the /3 is due to the dimension. This proof might even generalize in higher dimensions.

Edit: I think this is also the gist of the top answer in TFA, but it's weirdly formulated imo.
Notably dramatically reduced for minorities, like many other grim american racial/medical stats, when the doctors are also a minority. Another reason why the supreme court university decision is a direct attack on already vulnerable groups.
There are browser extensions like Reddit Check or What Hacker News Says which will show Reddit and/or HN comments on any website you visit. So it's very similar in functionality. Sometimes it can be useful.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-check/mllce...
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/what-hacker-news-s...

There are more variants of these extensions.
Robert Bosch GmbH would be a good example.
The thing is if the mods stopped modding the site will crumble and fast.
That’s horrible math. You at a minimum get 10 federal holidays and who accepts only two weeks PTO?

That’s not taking into account W2 vs 1099 and if it’s a contract the lack of health care, 401K matching, company paid unemployment funding, time between contracts, etc.
Also of interest is the paper, “A leaky integrate-and-fire computational model based on the connectome of the entire adult Drosophila brain reveals insights into sensorimotor processing”, which discusses the results of simulations of this dataset with the Brian2 spiking neural net simulator. They activate the same input neurons in the simulator and real flies and show that there is similar downstream behavior in the sim and real neural circuits.
I read it that way; it reads as "have fun playing with your broken, useless, toy OS". Traditionally followed by some comment about how they use a Real OS for Serious Work that definitely never breaks (conveniently skipping over the ways it breaks that they have to deal with).
With the ads/news showing up on my computer, I can't imagine any reason you'd want Windows (11) outside some crappy software that is windows only.

Apple was a 'never buy'.

Google has turned into an 'avoid if possible'

Microsoft is now a 'avoid'.

Maybe I need to try harder with Linux and degoogled Android, I have worked hard enough on making Windows tolerable. I can't imagine Linux could possibly be worse(although I still have my USB/wireless mouse disconnect randomly on rpi4 and haven't been able to fix it)
You disagree with the article then, not me, because that's what it's about.
One thing that stands out for me in this article is Figure 3: Europe shows a significant mortality of adults 20-65 drop from 2005 to 2018. What has improved there?

Improvements in cancer treatments seem like it would mostly show up in the 65+ range. Is it mostly lower air pollution + fewer traffic accidents?
I doubt there were many people who didn't already hate the mods who were swayed by an unelected dictator gabbling about the importance of democracy.
I just don’t buy this argument, it’s built on pure anecdote.

Can you provide a falsifiable hypothesis and data that would point to support?

So the hypothesis would be something like: For the population of Reddit moderators, over 50% percent are primarily incentivized by dictatorial ego actions rather than community support actions as measured by evaluating the following moderation actions (ban, delete etc), over the time period 2007-2023.

Can you provide that?
Actually I had no competing offers :P

I did have a job at the time, though.
I use Hypothesis a lot. It works on arbitrary sites by just invoking their javascript bookmarklet which I keep in my bookmarks. It is also very easy to integrate with static sites which is nice.
I don’t follow that Apple doesn’t want people to play games on Macs. Of course they do. But the question becomes “Do developers want to make games for the Mac?” And the answer has been “no” most of the time because it’s expensive to develop for a small platform. You won’t get a lot of sales out of it.

Apple just recently released a porting toolkit to make it easier to get Windows games running on macOS. Frankly, not unlike the work that Valve has put in to running Windows games on Steam.

In typical Apple fashion, they want you to do things their way. Instead of bolstering OpenGL (for instance) or Vulkan they developed Metal.

Apple does want games on the Mac, but games are a bonus for Apple at this point. They’re not going to define the platform, or drive adoption.
> I'm not sure that when my time comes, that I want money to be spent keeping my body alive while my brain degenerates. If one can't enjoy those extra years, what is the point of having them?

Famously an opinion held mostly by people for whom this choice is remote and abstract. In practice what we find is that when this reality is imminent, people overwhelmingly choose to live. Regardless of what they claimed they would want when they were younger and healthier.
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moderation is effectively unpaid voluntary labor and the worst subreddit are the ones with absentee moderation.

over moderation is just as bad too. the best moderation is human, engaged, and flexible.
Nobody that can actually execute on properly dosing it will expose themselves to the liability of doing so.

Nobody? Um, I'm right here? I bought a 0.1ml pipette back in the day for the precise purpose of safely dosing 25X-NBOMes volumetrically, rather than by mass.

And I'm not the only one. Hamilton Morris[0], Nervewing[1], and many others on forums such as Bluelight[2] write about their positive 25X-NBOMe experiences.

trying to pretend that something like 25i-NBOMe is something that Joe Average will safely deal with

Of course it's dangerous for Joe Average to use NBOMes. It's also dangerous for Joe Average to buy a dodgy parachute off of the dark web and do amateur skydiving. That doesn't mean we should ban skydiving and put Joe (and capable skydivers!) in prison. Skydiving is actually quite "safe", with fewer than 8 fatalities per million jumps, but I put "safe" in quotes, because it is not skydiving that is inherently safe or dangerous, but rather it is the way that skydiving has been incorporated into society to manage its risks that is safe.

I take issue with the entire punitive premise of this discussion, namely, that substances should be placed on a continuum from safe to dangerous, or good to bad, or "soft" to "hard", so that we can determine how harshly to punish people who possess them. If anything, drugs should be regulated, not prohibited, and they should be categorized in such a way as to make clear the risks they present and how to mitigate them. Under such a scheme, you wouldn't even need to ban anything, because why would Joe Average futz around with something obscure like 25I-NBOMe when familiar LSD is available from the corner smart shop along with a pamphlet explaining how to use it properly? Why does everyone's mind immediately leap to a carceral solution?

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/researchchemicals/comments/v1oz4j/h...
[1] https://nervewing.blogspot.com/2014/05/25c-nbome.html
[2] https://bluelight.org/xf/threads/the-big-dandy-25i-nbome-thr...
Nope - none of the above.

Besides why would I want “karma” or “Reddit gold?” Worthless pseudo-internet currency
It is, because people’s emotional states are deeper and broader than any particular issue. If I’m upset about one thing I’m upset about everything.
As a person who has taken marketing classes, yes, I make sure my toddlers have close to 0 Disney and Nintendo exposure.

How about the uneducated people? Or those still brainwashed? Those children are sacrificed to Nintendo and Disney?

Lets not pretend we all have perfectly free will and that humans aren't animals.

EDIT: Flappy bird isnt a great example, because it wasnt marketed to children. Nintendo and Disney go to great lengths to find ways to insert them into children's lives at the youngest possible ages.
I'm trying to understand: sending an email is "a crazy amount of work"?

What is your proposed alternative?

How would that impact upon HN's own operations and resource demands?
Latest HARM has a 150km range. Kh-58 has a 250km range.

Where are the F-16s going to take off from (they need pristine runways)? Who will maintain them? How will they refuel without airtankers (they don't have enough range to make it to Donbas and back). How will they avoid the R37M (300km range) when the AMRAAM is not even 200km? And what about Russian SAMs and EW?
Be a little careful here, because different countries count infant mortality differently. Mortality later in life is cut-and-dried, but infant mortality isn't some countries categorize stillbirths differently, for instance.
Writing is thinking.

I know I read that on HN.

I think it was a Graham essay.

But maybe not.

Anyway, it changed things for me.

It allowed me to embrace the part of my crazy for typing into boxes.

To let writing be its own reward (though I can't deny I like internet points, too).

I stopped trying to win arguments.

And started learning to step away from my outrages.

Because I wrote because of the chaos in me, not chaos in the world.

Ah, I feel better now.

Not sure if I will leave this up.

That's how it was with me when I wrote this.

YMMV.
The point ends up being that, even though moderators who built communities with their own two hands understandably feel an ownership of their subreddit, it’s all just rows in the database of Reddit the company, who is almost certainly going to make things more uniform and try to be more like TikTok (dooming “Reddit as we know it”).

He doesn’t side with Steve or find Steve’s statement to be historically informed, but there are some similarities (and differences) to note if you compare moderators to lords and Reddit/Steve to a king.
It's one of the dangers of moderating on the Internet. Back when I was doing it, I had to deal with everything from death threats to foreign police (suicidal users) to white supremacists to the FBI (bomb threats) on a fairly regular basis. It's proportional to the size of the community and how strong the social expectations are, but the interconnected nature of the Internet means that you'll get drive-by attacks just by being accessible. I know more than one mod that had to resign their duties/accounts because someone started stalking them across other platforms and in real life.
I’m pretty sure those are supposed to be moral lessons, not misery porn. But hey, you seem to openly accept the idea of enjoying another’s suffering, and I admire that kind of honesty. I hope it doesn’t end up causing you misery.
> This is the New Yorker, you don’t read it for the headlines

Nor do I read it for the body text!
[Edited per below comment pointing out my mistake about external CSS loading order] -- this is a decent alternative, thanks!
This is an article that is largely about how the life expectancy gap in the US isn't defined by health outcomes, but rather drugs, guns, and, most especially, cars.
Realistically, if you need custom features to your linux distro, you wouldn't be paying for Red Hat, the moment you modify something your system becomes unsupportable and not in compliance and a whole bunch of other things that are the reason you pay for RHEL.

If you're at the level of needing custom operating system modifications you're probably better suited to finding a distro you can fork. Not pay for RHEL.
Another day of this, and this specific event (not counting the other outages) will bring Twitter down to two-nines of availability since the acquisition/layoffs.
Their service also got destroyed by SEO. Google has been at war with the public for decades. They simply lost. The public literally destroyed their product. Then they needed to increase ads. They are on a runaway train to zero.
Ah so that is the case. The company own the warehouse from which the gold was taken, in the case of the crime I linked to above.
The article's point wasn't that Reddit is doomed, it's that Reddit as we knew it (with strong distinctions between sub-reddits) is doomed.

The article basically says "let's play along and say Reddit is like feudalism - then what comes next is early Modern Governments" ie - centralization of power towards absolute centers of power. The article argues that Reddit currently employs moderators because the heterogeneity (ie, strong distinctions of subreddits) are not generally amendable to local control. In order for Reddit to transition to strong centralization that heterogeneity needs to be reduced and managed (in a form similar to how TikTok serves up content in a way that minimizes the ability of 'communities' with heterogeneous norms to form).
For every person doing great work of the sort he describes - original and impactful - there often needs to be several talented people helping to execute towards the newly discovered goal. He hints at this when he mentions the need to manage on certain types of projects. So what of all those talented craftsmen helping get the idea done? Working a job, hard enough to squeeze away time towards significant side projects (if one still desires to maintain good health and relations with family)? Are they suckers? Should they phone it in at work to leave time for their side hustle? What if trying hard at their main job is more impactful? This is the paradox of startup advice. It’s good advice for those aiming to do original work. But it turns its nose up at the kind of work that is a vital ingredient towards achieving great things. And I think Cal Newports advice is more practical in this sense - cultivating craft and autonomy within any role can be equally satisfying and is way more practical for a lot of people.

That said, I still really like PG’s advice for how to think about being original, and I suppose I shouldn’t expect someone trying to convince more people to become founders to be completely even handed about assessing or recommending other kinds of meaningful impactful work.
That's not quite the same. I'm not required to make an account with Google to go to the library. Being registered by a government agency and being tracked by multi-national that is famous for abusing tracking data are on a different planet imo.

The problem, for me at least, is that I do not use google products. I do not have an account and do not want one. So for me, this is not openly available. We could argue about the merits of being so principled in not using google, but that seems besides the point :) I should be free to no do business with Google and if that precludes me from accessing something, it is not openly available I'd say
"Texas' climate, never forgiving, has gotten significantly worse as the average temperature rose...

"Several of the large agribusiness corporations bought large tracts of Texas
wasteland at inexpensive prices and
have, at great expense, developed and
installed underground irrigation systems..."

--Cyberpunk 2020: Home of the Brave (1992)
I've been sitting on that list for what seems like forever. I guess I need to make more friends. ;-)
In the old days we used to call those hobbies.
To be clear, its a Factorio visualizer, not a client or anything. But its still super cool.
What do you think is important for relationships to work out long term?
I am happy to hear anecdotes as well as evidence based stuff.

There are stories where people say love fades, sex fades, but the relationship still goes strong for a long long time.

But, the thing is what make you fall in love with someone? To choose them as your life partner? What kind of assurance does one need to be totally free and secure mentally and physically in front of (with) one another?
Figma co-founder Dylan Field facilitated an enlightening discussion with Brian Chesky, the CEO of Airbnb. The dialogue focused on the unique blend of product management and product marketing in their business models.

In the course of their conversation, Brian Chesky articulated his philosophy in these words: "The designers are equal to product managers. Actually, we got rid of the classic product management function. Apple didn’t have it either."
Set safe.bareRepository = explicit.
If it truly is "the end of cheap money" (which I believe is the root cause) we can clearly see which management is competent, and which just flailing aimlessly.

"When the tide goes out, you see who's been swimming naked."
The problem most people have including the author of this article is not being able to distinguish between different types of cognition or related characteristics of animals such as humans and accept that some may exist without the others.

Sentience, subjective experience, the ability to reason or understand abstract meaning in a functional way, emotions, self-awareness, autonomy, being alive, fast adaptation to environment, spatial understanding, etc., are all different things.

GPT-4 has proven that you can have useful reasoning ability without a lot of the other things. It also shows that some spatial/visual understanding does not require eyes or a body.

GPT-4 probably doesn't have the same richness or level of understanding of some concepts as even a dog does since it's world model is mostly text and some static images, but functionally in many contexts it can still understand and be an effective problem solver.

It's true that LLMs are not close to simulating digital humans and are missing all kinds of basic capabilities of animals. Still, the leading edge LLMs do have a useful type of intelligence.

Actually, people are eventually going to find out the hard way that it was a _good thing_ that all of those animal characteristics were missing from large multimodal models. Because not only are researchers going to keep finding ways to make them more animal-like (most if not all of the missing characteristics are those shared with other animals) but also they will keep making them faster.

Eventually they will be dozens or more times faster at thinking than humans and quite lifelike. Again, GPT-4 shows the lifelike characteristics are not necessary to get useful intelligence. And we have enough movies and TV shows demonstrating why it's a very stupid path.
Matches my thoughts, in particular I want to discuss the following quote:

> It can’t be that you want your org to run without numbers. And it can’t be that you eschew quantitative goals forever!

Metrics are used by experts to enhance their ability to reason about a system. You should use metrics, you should not rely on metrics. Metrics don't mean anything onto themselves. Given the depth that the author is thinking through problems with them it seems very likely that he is using metrics in this manner. But once that intuition of how the team is doing has been accomplished, they have done their job.

The issue in this article is less that it describes a good system, but more that without those actual insights and ability to tweak them as Goodhart comes into play, giving out this system in the form of this article is harmful to anyone who tries to use it who isn't an expert already. Anyone who does not understand how to manage a team and build software who is using metrics to decide what to do without attempting to learn the underlying dynamics is focusing on the wrong thing.

Side note: I'm really curious how often he puts out tasks with an essential complexity of 0 with a high accidental complexity. I'd imagine in any decent team that should be a decent number of tasks. In the ones that track metrics sloppily, a majority of them.
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He does, they just don't care about each other anymore. By thr end of the book he has been permanently defeated, he could do whatever he wanted, and he didn't want to anymore.
Doesn’t take too many people to build a website like twitter. It’s not really hard and there are tons of mvc frameworks in pretty much any major language.

Only one good programmer could probably create a clone.

Of course the scale matters, but it’s not like you’d be writing an OS.
>How about the uneducated people? Or those still brainwashed? Those children are sacrificed to Nintendo and Disney?

Who are you to decide who is "brainwashed" and who is merely enjoying something? Who are you to feel entitled to "protect" other adults against themselves?
Moderators can "earn" money in many illicit ways.

For generic subreddits, they can censor submissions & posts about certain products, while looking the other way at brigaded posts related to some other product. I dont even mention the most blantant things like stickying some topic.

This was made to eleven on all those crypto subreddits where there was tons of drama for mods pushing a certain crypto, or point of view, while ignoring other (e.g. drama between /r/bitcoin and /r/btc).

In gaming subreddits mods often get the chance to fly to some event hosted by the company that makes the game, or get in game things. So they arent "paid", but they certainly "listen" to the company (if they dont listen, they wont get a plane ticket and a hotel room + other "benefits).

Not to mention power mods, that are hungry for power and trade spots to moderater. There was that person who "moderated" 300 subreddits by trading spots and they could ban you from those 300 subreddits. Imagine that person got bribed to ban you? The new rage is trading spots by sock-puppet accounts, so it is not so visible.

The worst is, that we could easilly make a "better reddit" with multiple solutions: public and semi public subreddits, where users can vote on rules and vote on mods, public mod queue, super-mods reviewing it, users reviewing it and finally admins reviewing it. To have multiple methods to constantly chase for cliques (wikipedia in theory has it, but it's a complete parody - if 2 admins defend each other an user cannot do anything + admins selectively enforce rules: they use them on you, but not their own -> again this could be solved with anonymization of posts for review). Also to make it work it would have to have reviws by admins to ban brigaders (old style attacks with sock puppets blocking or allowing everything - like upvotes/downvotes worth 0).

I dont understand why apart from HN, there isnt any rich person who makes a board the way 'it should be'. Users would pay money for decent discussion.
That's what mods have been saying the past few weeks, but somehow the site is working fine without them. It turns out that most of them don't add a lot of value and are easily replaceable.
AFAIK, many BASIC implementations worked in-place: each input line was replaced by its tokenization, then by the bytecode, then the labels would be resolved. Consequently, printing the program listing was not a matter of simple "print all earlier input lines" (those are gone), it involved actual pretty-printing.

In fact, replacing the program text with its tokenization as the first compilation step was a very popular strategy back in the day, due to memory constraints. IIRC the early IBM FORTRAN compilers, being quite large (they performed quite a lot of optimizations), would not even fit into the core memory together with the source code of any reasonably useful program. So they were instead written as a series of passes (about fifty or so, I believe) each of which took the output of the previous pass and transformed it into the input for the next one; the tokenizer was quite tiny but it freed lot of space (text is quite redundant) so the next passes had room for the auxiliary structures and could themselves be larger, too.