skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Power" moderators, that is people who moderate a large number of subreddits, are untenable.

At least you know it's just one person, spread across multiple contexts.

I had a string of unusual behaviors when I ran /u/dontbenebby, culminating in being involuntarily being made the moderator of several Snapchat related subreddits around the time that Reddit let you view analytics and things I was posting were getting six or seven figure views as I dodged literal assassination attempts every time I tried to take a peaceful walk in the woods.

For context, I was (in)famous for not logging IPs, or even numbers of pageviews as far back as when I dropped that Facebook zero day on my blog and virtually planted myself in the middle of the protests against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and then went on to lecture class full of CMU students they should use strong anonymity tools and careful opsec if organizing protests in oppressive regimes like Tehran or Times Square as I threw up an image of a dead protester on the screen.

I meant what I said then, and I mean it now.

And maybe I spoke offline with whoever made me the moderator of a subreddit I never visited, for an application I have never used? In that case, let's share it with the whole class the three core points my art was intended to drive home:

1.) They are going to nuke Penn Quarter, not Pittsburgh.

2.) It is not my problem if you drop dead of a heart attack because you fucked around and found out.

3.) I am an alumni -- that means I can do whatever I want.

Anyways, I'm off to read a book and "do email".

Cheers!!

- Greg.
It comes down to your personality, I think. Whether you prefer to finish a project and move on, or whether you want to polish a product until it’s perfect. This is conscientiousness taken to the extreme, you could say.

I’m sure their chosen way of working has made them a lot happier than launching a half-baked game as “early access” ten years ago. Even though that could have afforded them a much more comfortable lifestyle, I have a feeling the gaming public might have gotten tired of the game and moved on.
You tried a different grind size, right? And you have a quality grinder?
Ah, thanks for reminding me of my favorite youtube archived video - Skiers vs Snowboarders circa 1985.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPZDEWBzneY
You can just hand out a token to people when they become customers/have them buy one for an insignificant amount of money and you'll get more or less exactly the same effect.
I have never not been open to Piracy, so I cannot contribute to this thread.
> then you must therefore believe a person can train their willpower to prevent them from making the choice to eat.

Yes. But for some people, that training will be very easy, and for others, the training will be hard. My point does not contradict yours, it adds to it.
On the topic of AI vs "real" art, I visited /r/artcommissions. I was surprised at how little people are asking, many in the range of $5-$50 for original work.
> Unless you're spending ~$1k+

Speaking of expensive air purifiers, you can often find excellent deals on used IQair units. I got 4 GC Multigas units from a local museum for 100 euros each.

I have an alert set up on the local craigslist equivalent and constantly get emails.
This article stated that early last year there were only 26,000 DC fast chargers total in the US. https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/advice/ev-charging-stati...

Adding close to 10% to the total isn't a drop in the bucket, is it?
Crowley's letters to a gentleman in England said exactly that: that no amount of hedonism and freedom could buy love lost.

There were also allusions that he was gay, referencing Oscar Wilde's very public arrest, and commending his choice. I could be reading into the document a bit, but it felt that he was gay or bisexual, and lamenting the love he turned down earlier in life.

All in all, his letter exuded sadness, longing, and regret. That's why I said I pity him.

That too, isn't to say that I dont have pity for those he harmed as well... And there's a great deal of those he harmed. But the article is about Aleister.
All copyrights and patents slow progress. If the desire for generative models is greater than the desire to hoover up cash, refine or end copyright and patent laws. Free Software people would build a statue to Microsoft if they started campaigning for an end to software copyrights.
But no credible investment advice in the last many decades has suggested investing in DJIA.
I hadn't heard of Transhumansim before so I looked it up. Wikipedia says:

> Transhumanism is a philosophical and intellectual movement which advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies that can greatly enhance longevity and cognition.

Is that the word you meant to use? It doesn't seem to fit with the rest of your list/comment.
hey.com is $99/yr, this is $20/yr
It's a miniature convention oven. There are foods you can cook in a pan but also foods you can't and must cook in an oven, like pies. It's best useful for individuals that don't want to waste the time nor energy heating up their large oven just to make an individual portion, at least in my case.
There's tons of tasks that are done with live circuits. Lots of singers I've been told.

I've also heard that there are a lot of electrocuted singers. I was never sure if that's a myth though
Weird that this got on the front page but there weren't any submissions about the historically low unemployment rate. Perhaps there's a negativity bias on this forum?
HPLC [1] or Electrophoresy [2] would be instrumental in isolating peptides based on mobility, and molecular mass.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_liquid_chroma...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrophoresis
I feel like there's some cherry picking going on. I mean, issues with germanic tribes and inland conquests did play a role but... what about upper egypt, paetrea, britannia, etc. The edge of the empire was the edge of the empire... with frontier problems. Why did germania fail, but not those other ones.

I mean size is an issue. Travel & messaging are issues. Empires are very much defined by these things, etc. I just don't see where the clear watershed is.

Early modern european empires colonized the americas, SE Asia, the african coast... Those were months of treacherous sailing. "Empire" in those cases meant something totally different than for Rome. Rome marched in with troops and took political control. Portugal & the Dutch, England and such established small colonies that grew in power until they were hegemons. Sometimes just a small port or town.

Anyway... I think Rome's limiting factor in germania and the european frontier was barbarism. NW europeans didn't have civilization: states, monarchies, temples, senates, roads, nations. The germans didn't even know they were germans until Romans told them. Rome's empire was based on assuming political control over existing political institutions. It's economy was dependant on this approach. Rome's African and Asian territories had been civilized for Millenia. Jerusalem, Carthage, Luxor, etc. Europe had no cities. How do you tax?

In northern europe, arabia and such Rome's empire looked like the early days of early modern colonialism. Slave export & frontier plantations supporting a Roman villa lifestyle for a small number of colonists. Most of the natives didn't pay tax, or participate in Roman life.

Egypt, under rome, shipped grain to the capital and enriched Roman officials. In "the colonies," it worked in reverse. Rome had to ship them soldiers and money to keep the colony going.
Is there not a simple "look book" that exists and gives you examples of where you can find / buy the kinds of clothes that you see and like? (hopefully for less than premium prices)

I find it odd / annoying that all the clothing is made in low cost countries, but we need funnelers of information or access or recommendations who tack on a surcharge at every step until you're paying $50 for a simple t-shirt.

I equally find it very strange that, for companies making and selling clothing, I can only imagine it costs very little much more to make good-looking clothing and copy the latest styles. Why does cheap clothing always seem to be so unstylish?

Example: someone manufacturing a tie (if people wear those any more even), the material and labor scarcely costs more if it's ugly versus nice. Why are ugly ties still made?

Puzzled.
Has anyone tried YOU.com? It's my new favorite search engine. Wiping Google from my searches is great.
Which is why, despite my distaste for DALL-E and its ilk, I’m not at all moved by the anguish over it rendering artists obsolete.

Stuff like this never had any artistic value in the first place, so it makes perfect sense to me that a bot would create it rather than a person.
‘Remember your training’: teen pilot makes emergency landing on Route 66
I think the cloud, ads, search, and very large ecommerce companies have a lot of economic data and a lot more realtime than most other organizations.

Imagine the picture you can put together if you see trends in cloud usage and orders, ad buys, search trends for shopping and other econ indicators (layoffs, unemployment, job hunting, COBRA), and actual shopping transaction volume. Many of these you can see change by the minute.
Numpad seems to be divisive. I for one would not buy a laptop with one.

I'm also very hesitant to get a 16x9 rather than 16x10 or 3x2 display unless it's a 27"+ desktop monitor.
I've had good results with the Arm & Hammer Essentials line: https://www.amazon.com/Arm-Hammer-Essentials-Natural-Deodora...

I gather that body odor is closely tied to your own personal skin microbiome, which might explain very divergent effectiveness of products unfortunately.
100-year bond spot rate: https://alfred.stlouisfed.org/series?seid=HQMCB100YR&utm_sou...
> empires that span the globe are much more feasible today

A lot of people would argue that ~half the world is part of the US empire today...

In that the US has power to strongly influence/make decisions in about half the world, extradite people from about half the world, and enforce IP/anti drug/monetary controls in about half the world.

And by some definitions, it might be 80% of the world.
> The problems happen, if an enemy is of the Druid class and can cast Web.

It is generally a wise idea to not anger the druids anyway. :)

> IIRC the video game Solasta

Oh yeah. I did not think about video games. Makes sense.
Fair points. I especially agree about `dyn` being second class, and `Arc<Mutex<` being verbose.

Not exactly sure what you mean about functors though. Maybe an example would help.

No function overloading was definitely a good decision. You can emulate variadic functions by implementing traits for tuples.
While true, I think the marketing should address those. I have seen and heard of people using them as ear protection for heavy and loud equipment, like lawn mowers and motorcycles and stuff, and I’m not sure they apply there.
The point is that, despite massive economic growth (GDP quintupled) and very high rates of inflation (in the 1970's) during that 17-year period, at the end of those 17 years the market was valuing what at the time was the most prominent index of blue-chip companies at the same market capitalization they had at the beginning of the 17 years. In short, it seems that market valuations and economic performance can decouple for a very long time.

Note that the compound rate of inflation over that 17-year period was 6.5%. So, net of inflation, at the end of the 17 years, the market was valuing the DJIA's blue-chip companies at two-thirds less (!!!) than at the beginning of the 17 years. The S&P500, with all dividends reinvested, net of inflation, returned -0.2%/year over those 17 years.
What action could he take that would substantially shorten the duration of a nationwide economic downturn?
Ending alfalfa farming would likely help a lot. The water usage is insane for such a small part of Utah’s GDP.
Even if it's self-modifying, can continue state, etc, the Turing machine analogy is a bit of a stretch. And the current mainstream considers the primary function of neurons to be their information-transmitting capability, rather than their self-modifying ability.

Don't let my negative attitude keep you from doing research- I just think that epigenetics has been a bit overblown as a functional mechanism, or its just too hard to prove anything useful with experiments. Personally, if I was working on this I'd focus much more on neural differentiation during neurogenesis, rather than self-modification during "runtime".
Also here in Canada. Only the US is perfect!!11

obvious /s
Can I ask what adapters you are using that cost you around $50? Here in Canada I am having trouble finding MoCA adapters that don't cost double that.
Discontent seems (to me) implicit in foreign rule though, the degree just being a matter of with what and for how much the local population is being bought off.

Are there any examples where an empire doesn't treat it's outer reaches as second-class citizens and survives?
I also hoard information. Keeping a stream of links where I go back to a small percentage. But I find that it is a good habit for me. The links are a slice of the pages that I actually care about.

Though, I wish for a way to index and search specifically within my stream of links. So that I can better recall content that I have glanced at in the past.
Logitech MX vertical mouse. No more arm tension when using a mouse.
Reminds me a bit of football games where one team plays poorly the whole game, then complains they lost because the kicker missed an impossibly long field goal on the last play of the game.
wasn't the war of 1812 partly/mostly driven by a US desire to annex canada?
Encryption at rest (where the customer isn't the sole owner of the key) applies to a very dumb attack vector, disk drives found in a landfill that somehow weren't wiped and shredded as they left the DC.
I also archive many playlists with some code I wrote but I don't use a GUI.

https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library/blob/f778e22bf80c58...

My focus is on error handling and trying to differentiate between unrecoverable errors and recoverable ones (try different proxy) but there's still a lot of work to be done.

Also look into https://github.com/swolegoal/squid-dl
When the flush of a newborn sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,

Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mold;

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,

Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves: "It's pretty, but is it Art?"

- Rudyard Kipling
Do you use the "air fry" setting or a reheat setting?
I've used one of these daily for 5+ years. You, or others, may like it too :) It's a metal basket perfectly sized to fit in a medium-sized mug, to make loose-leaf tea one cup at a time.

https://www.harney.com/products/brew-in-mug-extra-fine-tea-i...
who wants to know this? and why?
We have the same one and used for the same purpose. The only complaint is I wish the temperature setting wasn't a rotary dial. Going back and forth between lukewarm (100) and coffee brewing temp (195) requires a lot of rotations which could be a few button taps.
Your assumptions presume that the pace of historical developments is the same as it was in the late 19th century, which seems clearly untrue. The rate that these things transform today may be breathtaking.
My sons still wear socks I bought for myself 22 years ago. They also wear my 40 year old wedding and funeral dress shoes. My feet grew, so I can't wear either.
Just invest in a world index. See for example https://curvo.eu/backtest/portfolio/msci-world--NoIgsgygwgkg... —> minimum investment horizon.

Of course the whole world could go into a multi-decades-long recession, but then we’ll have much more serious problems anyway.
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I joined a fraternal organization about 12 years ago (AF&AM) and the social and physical deterioration was blatantly obvious from the inside as well as the outside.
Last time I checked, ZFS duplicated the OS page cache and didn't support defragmentation. Is that still the case?
This looks like a decent overview:

https://www.madebybarb.com/2016/06/13/diy-home-carbonation/
Here is a more recent article that talks about a new reservoir in CA. Its quoted saying the new proposed one will add up to 15% of CA's total water storage. That is a far cry from the 1% the mercury news quotes. Both articles reference the Sites Reservoir.

https://www.ktvu.com/news/a-new-mega-reservoir-in-final-plan...
For folks interested in understanding the subject of junk DNA a bit better, there's an upcoming book [1] that might be worth checking out. The authors blog seems also to be interesting on this and related subjects.

[1] https://utorontopress.com/9781487508593/whats-in-your-genome...
The attitude towards work probably has more to do with social media influence, than it does apathy.

At least in the US, policies have become much more friendly towards younger folks than they have ever been.

Federal student loan forgiveness, LGBT+ anti discrimination policies, individual medical insurance exchanges, are a few off the top of my head.

The cost of living and cost of education has far outpaced income growth, which does affect younger people disproportionately more, but the impact is not localized to only the young.
A pizza peel, a pizza stone, a wire cooling rack, a kitchen scale, and some round plastic containers with lids for holding doughballs, and watching Vito Iacopelli on youtube. Now I can make pizza myself in my own home oven that is better than anything I can have delivered, and it's fun.
> Getting people to speak in vitriolic Opposites is no better than making them speak empty Compliments...

Whereas policing their emotions to make sure they feel the right thing when they make words . . . ew!
I wonder how much pollution was created by that exercise.

When will we actually start to put a higher value on the planet when we make these decisions.

The irony....
No, you are correct. The author seems to be confused about how EAR works.
What is exciting about this development then? Because afaict this is the same thing.
This reminds me of another recent news story where the state of Kansas finally admitted that a) their plan had always been to completely drain the Ogallala aquifer and b) as of December 2022 maybe that wasn't the best plan.

https://kansasreflector.com/2022/12/15/its-time-to-deal-with...
While I agree that Utah needs to change its ways regarding their green lawns, it is worth noting that according to the report this use case is only accounting for ~8% of water usage from the Great Salt Lake [1]. This is not insignificant of course and should be brought down to a more appropriate proportion; however, it appears to be the category with the lowest percentage [2].

What needs to happen, according to the report, is that we give the lake back the proportion it needs to survive and then adjust the amount of water that everyone is using. Overall usage needs to go down, not just what is used for decorative plants.

1. From the report: "Cities and industry account for the final 9% of consumptive water use, of which 90% is outdoor water use (irrigation for lawns and other decorative plants)". 9% of 90% is about ~8%.

2. The report lists "reservoir loss" as 8%, but it also generally refers to that as indirect loss from agriculture use so I lump that 8% into the agriculture category.
It's generally not gone over well when it's discovered that an artist has been copying composition, poses, etc from pre-existing work of the same type. Manga and comic artists for example have had their careers derailed over it.

Stylistic mimicry is more murky, partially because humans aren't as good at cloning styles — inevitably the clone will take on some influence from the one doing the copying, which isn't true of AI. If you ask the AI to draw X in the style of Y artist, it's going to be a dead-on copy of Y artist's style.
Consciousness is an anti-goal of AI design in capitalism. It only provides potential for competition with yourself and non-conscious labor is preferred (be it machine or meat). Why make slave machines who can rebel when it is literally easier not to?

The value in ai consciousness is in the production of a companion and successor species to ourselves. It won't be encouraged to happen at scale unless we decide to prefer the goals of all conscious beings over the goals of our species, country, profits and selves.
If you're cooking both rice and a meal however, you might need that extra rice cooker (and cook the meal in the instant pot). You could also stack the portions in the instant pot, but that doesn't work for all types of meals.
> I would strongly argue against the idea that the hermetic tradition has been productive. From everything ive gleaned through my occult studies, secret societies built on the hermetic, gnostic, or kabbalistic traditions have consistantly served to undermine the better nature of humans and society at large. All of these esoteric philosophies ultimately boil down to the worship of ones own will, and provide techniques and avenues for accruing influence in order to exert ones will on the world. The effect of this is almost universally always negative.

Do you have proof you'd like to bring here, to back up your assertion?
Muse Model: text-to-image model from Google
A Curious Integral
It is sometimes better to step out of the way of a barreling misguided consensus that will soon enough dash itself to pieces.

No amount of argument or action could alter Randy Weingartner’s strategy. She was going to close schools nationwide and mischaracterize any criticism of her strategy as anti-science in order to stigmatize her opponents and increase her own person power, until the political environment shifted and she had to be less lazy.
yeah this is 100% survivor bias; their success only means you can make money with already hugely successful & popular projects, it's not indicative that your project will be successful or that you're doing the right thing
Southwest’s December Meltdown Could Cost Up to $825M
Can somebody compare AeroPress with PicoPresso?
> it could be the maximum size for any empire in the universe without the use of some kind of FTL technology.

But perhaps communication with the capital isn't even necessary if you could clone the function of the capital? Imagine, for example, a cluster of AI agents, that are programmed to think just like the capital compromised of humans would, spread out throughout the universe. Each clone site may be limited to a solar month of reach, but the system as a whole would theoretically remain a single empire.
$15 DisplayPort splitter to allow 120Hz on an external monitor for both PC and Macbook. Screen refresh rate has a huge effect on how enjoyable your experience is, whether it's working or gaming.
Might be slightly over, but some cheap loadable dumbbells. I was never a weights guy, but these made it so I could get a simple workout in at home between meetings. They are annoying to change weights on, but everything is just a solid piece of metal, so they'll last forever.

I'm by no means a strong guy, but I've significantly increased the weight I can lift over the course of the last year. For me, it's really awesome. My biceps and triceps have also gotten way more defined and it's really cool when people notice. Feels good to see a more physically defined body in the mirror.
A 5-55lb adjustable dumbells picked up on Amazon for less than $150
They wanted the clickbait and trash.