Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and other top executives and board members late Wednesday disclosed share sales, just a week after the social network had in its initial public offering. RDDT stock fell early Thursday.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman sold 500,000 shares on Monday at an average $32.30 price, receiving $16.15 million. CFO Vollero Andrew sold 71,765 Reddit shares for $2.318 million. Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Wong sold 514,000 shares for $16.602 million.

Chief Technology Officer Christopher Slowe sold 185,000 shares for $5.975 million. Chief Accounting Officer Michelle Reynolds sold 3,033 RDDT shares for $97,966. Board member David Habiger sold 3,000 shares for $102,000.

All told, that's $41.245 million worth of Reddit shares sold.

At least some Reddit share sales by CEO Huffman and other key officers was expected.

Reddit Stock

Reddit stock fell 4.5% to 55.15 early Thursday. Shares tumbled 11.3% to 57.75 on Wednesday. Reddit hit a record 74.90 intraday Tuesday.

The RDDT IPO priced at 34 a share on March 20, at the top of the expected range.

Pikesville principal Eric Eiswert was caught on tape going on a racist rant.

People called for his life to be destroyed.

Turns out, the entire recording was fake and generated (using AI) by Dazhon Darien, the school's former athletic director. pic.twitter.com/Qw6J1LPnxD

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 25, 2024

The Department of "Justice" has once again criminalized the developers of an app that restores financial privacy. The way to fix this it to make money private by default. Privacy must never be "exceptional," or they will make it criminal.

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) April 24, 2024

I've been reading some Effective Altruist writings and learned that even if AI had moral goals it could be very dangerous .

Like imagine an AI whos goal was to maximize the number of mosquito nets given to Africa, sounds great right?

NO! Because the AI would be willing to do anything in order to achieve it's goals it might do something like commit one of the largest acts of fraud in history to get the money for more mosquito nets!

Hmm... what does this remind me of?

Look how afraid they get:

Your first ninety minutes rather than days, I dare say. CTO here, you pull that trick and not only are you out of the door but you fly out with a charge of vandalism, sabotage and theft.

Self-Taught Optimizer (STOP): Recursively Self-Improving Code Generation

This is the repo for the paper: Self-Taught Optimizer (STOP): Recursively Self-Improving Code Generation

@article{zelikman2023self, title={Self-Taught Optimizer (STOP): Recursively Self-Improving Code Generation}, author={Eric Zelikman, Eliana Lorch, Lester Mackey, Adam Tauman Kalai}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.02304}, year={2023} }

Abstract: Several recent advances in AI systems (e.g., Tree-of-Thoughts and Program-Aided Language Models) solve problems by providing a "scaffolding" program that structures multiple calls to language models to generate better outputs. A scaffolding program is written in a programming language such as Python. In this work, we use a language-model-infused scaffolding program to improve itself. We start with a seed "improver" that improves an input program according to a given utility function by querying a language model several times and returning the best solution. We then run this seed improver to improve itself. Across a small set of downstream tasks, the resulting improved improver generates programs with significantly better performance than its seed improver. Afterward, we analyze the variety of self-improvement strategies proposed by the language model, including beam search, genetic algorithms, and simulated annealing. Since the language models themselves are not altered, this is not full recursive self-improvement. Nonetheless, it demonstrates that a modern language model, GPT-4 in our proof-of-concept experiments, is capable of writing code that can call itself to improve itself. We critically consider concerns around the development of self-improving technologies and evaluate the frequency with which the generated code bypasses a sandbox.

^ Yeah this thing

Truely unsurprising.

{Its basically just a VNC connection to an android VM with Playwright automation scripts for the 5 services it does. Oh and that VM connection is also how you put in your logins to those services, probably scraping your password}

As I've mentioned 100 times before, the powerusers of StackOverflow are completely detached from the core goals of the site and instead prefer to bicker amongst themselves in the Meta forum.

A poweruser named "M--" (profile: "Engineer by day, G*mer by night. Always in the process of learning something new.") says:

I raised an NAA [Not An Answer] flag on this answer Answer to: Blank space appearing at bottom of all webpages in Google Chrome on iOS [closed] which got declined.

Powerusers don't like having their flags declined because it goes on their permanent record, and god forbid one poweruser disagree with another.

The original question has now been blatted from existence, because just like /r/subredditdrama then whenever a post is linked into Meta then it's guaranteed to be brigaded into an unusable mess, even in cases like this where the question is perfectly valid and the complaint is about one single answer.

Now what is the answer that so annoyed this poweruser?:

THANK YOU! Disabling smooth scrolling took care of this problem on my iPhone 14 Pro on iOS 17.2.1.

Note that this answer includes the exact steps taken to solve the issue and the version on which it works. M-- just dislikes it because it starts with "THANK YOU!".

The rest of this Meta page totals over 5000 words of comments and arguments.

Some people just seem to love getting into involved debates of how should a particular turd be classified and how to correctly dispose of it, instead of, you know, just getting rid of it. Meanwhile dozens more are deposited around them... Someone spends ten seconds mashing the keyboard, and then bunch of other people take few man-hours figuring out what to do with it

comments one user with no self-awareness whatsoever.

Another user writes an essay explaining the workflow for handling answers and discussing the intricacies of:

You are the latest victim of a problem Stack Overflow has had for years; there are conflicting rules about how NAA and VLQ flags are supposed to work.

I'll let anyone else who wants to read through all of the answers and comments for pure

Donald Trump's social platform Truth Social trades at a slight premium to other social cos

• Truth Social 1860.3x
• @Reddit 9.8x
• @Meta 9.2x
• @Pinterest 7.7x
• @Snap 4.1x
• @tiktok_us 1.9x (parent: Bytedance)

If this valuation holds up, Elon will be happy pic.twitter.com/7hEx2YCdkh

— Anand Sanwal (@asanwal) March 30, 2024

TELEGRAM FOUNDER: THE U.S. TRIED TO HIRE MY EMPLOYEE TO HELP THEM SPY ON USERS

Tucker:

"The US government tried to secretly hire your engineer?"

Doruv:

"That's what he told me. They wanted him to code open-source tools into the app that would serve as backdoors."

Tucker:… https://t.co/ClERJeTG7R pic.twitter.com/6WWCcmZsd3

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) April 17, 2024

It stopped working many months ago, when Reddit started redirecting image links to their www.reddit.com/media links. The image viewer thing is kind of helpful in that it tells you which post the image came from, but this is overshadowed by the fact that it prevents you from viewing the image directly. Thus, the Wayback Machine cannot archive the image.

I sent a wordswordswords email to the Internet Archive about it, and they unfortunately said they couldn't change it.

Hi,

No... I am very sorry but Reddit is much harder to archive now than it was in the past.

We are doing the best we can.

• Mark Graham, Director, the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive

ArchiveTeam also had difficulty archiving Reddit due to bans and paused their project. (Does anyone here know if there are logs of their IRC channel #shreddit?) At least PullPush works (for now), but it doesn't archive images. Luckily, archive.today and ghostarchive.org are still able to save Reddit images.

If you are annoyed by Reddit not letting you view images directly, here are some extensions I have not tried at all. They work by modifying the Accept header sent by your browser.

• Firefox: https://github.com/nopperl/load-reddit-images-directly

• Chrome: https://github.com/MonsterMannen/reddit-load-images-directly-chrome

• For large screens, centres text so it's not way over on the left (some subs have custom html styles, hence the two sections)
• Expands images automatically
• Hides the image hiphopcirclejerk stuck over their sub (thx j cole drama)

// ==UserScript==
// @name         old_reddit_improver
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      2024-01-26
// @description  Make old.reddit.com more usable
// @author       You
// @match        https://old.reddit.com/*
// @icon         https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=reddit.com
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';
    console.log('---- tampermonkey initiated ----');

    // Remove hhcj pic.
    let earl = document.querySelector('a[href="#EARL"]');
    if (earl) {
        earl.style.display = 'none';
    }

    // Centre page body.
    let body1 = document.querySelector('div[id="siteTable"]');
    if (body1) {
        body1.style = 'width: 70%; margin: auto;';
        console.log('body1:', body1);
    }
    let body2 = document.querySelector('div[class="commentarea"]');
    if (body2) {
        body2.style = 'width: 70%; margin: auto;';
        console.log('body2:', body2);
    }
    console.log('ran centre aligner');

    // Expand images.
    let xpath = "//a[text()='<image>']";
    let iter = document.evaluate(xpath, document, null, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_ITERATOR_TYPE, null);
    let array = [];
    let text_elem = iter.iterateNext();
    while (text_elem) {
        array.push(text_elem);
        text_elem = iter.iterateNext();
    }
    array.forEach(i => {
        let img_tag = new Image();
        img_tag.src = i.href;
        img_tag.style.maxWidth = '500px';
        i.parentElement.appendChild(img_tag);
        i.parentElement.removeChild(i);
    })
    console.log('---- tampermonkey complete ----');
})();

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