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Ask HN: How to keep an online community from downgrading to Reddit like quality
Lately I've been wondering after joining Hn and learning about what it is, is it possible to keep an online community from turning into Reddit or even 4chan? The opposite of that is Stack Overflow, which in an attempt to avoid decrease in quality, established itself as a toxic over moderated community, where almost everything gets downvoted and closed, and if not, edited to be so far from the original post that the entire question changes. As opposed to Reddit, which is so full of superficial fluff and under moderation that it is more of a place were people go for like/upvotes/karma. Not for discussing or creating something of actual value. So I ask, do you think it is possible for an online community to keep itself in that sweet spot between Reddit and Stack Overflow for as long as it is relevant? Also, where is Hn in that spectrum?
"Why would lack of air conditioning be illegal? Sweatshop workers are welcome to find jobs elsewhere."
> At a certain point I think text becomes easier for a user to digest - you don't necessarily want some NPC talking at you for ages about the history of Vvardenfell.

No to mention, this can sometimes become immersion-breaking. Especially with such data dumps, voice actors would forget (or not be informed) about the context in which their lines are being heard by the player, and then you end up with a random villager or space soldier suddenly giving you a TED talk.
If you're on desktop, https://spicetify.app/ & https://github.com/theRealPadster/spicetify-hide-podcasts
I remember when a color scientist that we worked with (she was Japanese), left the company, and joined a direct competitor.

Her name was struck from the lists. It's as if she was never there.

Damn good at her job. I suspect that the "classic Japanese" culture of our company didn't give her the opportunities that the more modern company she joined, would.

I'm deliberately being vague, but both companies are household names.
It seems inherently difficult to define strict categories around the soft constraints that you are listing.

But it would be interesting to try to approximate something like those categories. The project repo[1] contains the following call for idiomatic code:

Please, people ask to see more "idiomatic" programs —

- we already have enough exhaustively optimized Rust and C programs.
- we already have enough hand-written vector SIMD and "unsafe" programs.

Thank you.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame
The cow direction is clearly superior.

Where’s the tail come from, though? That’s the only bit I can’t figure out.
China wanting to have billions upon billions of citizens means it’s only right for them to own up to the occasions when those billions of people cause billions or trillions worth of economic damages to the entire world.

Like it or not, if it’s Chinas fault then they should be forced to pay reparations. At the very least held accountable and change the circumstances that led to them breeding the virus.
An important issue, and thus it's all the more frustrating the the graphic pulled from the report depicts only part of the Y-axis in order to focus attention on differences - which will create a misleading impression among casual viewers, and probably be deliberately taken out of context by some.
Why does it matter? We have multiple examples that virtually certainly aren't lab related. Even if this was a lab oops doesn't make the others go away. This time it just hit the jackpot on being able to spread well: spread before symptoms. We don't have enough understanding of genetics to engineer this.

Covid is actually low in the lethality range for rampages from whatever is the underlying virus, it's just the others haven't spread so well. Finding that underlying virus could be useful, figuring out exactly how the zoonotic jump happened is simply an exercise in finger-pointing that will do nothing about the fact that they do happen naturally.
If you have specific evidence of what exposure to (burned, trace amounts of) vinyl chloride might do, or its denatured byproducts (besides the HCL, which probably killed some fish), feel free to share them. An anecdote about dead chickens isn't that without a causal link (and the current rampant bird flu is a far more likely explanation).

"We don't really know" is simply false. This isn't a mystery chemical; we've been working with the stuff since 1835, we've spilled it into the environment numerous times, and we are decently familiar with it enough that even given experts with vested interests will downplay the risks, I have no reason to believe panic is in order. It's not safe to swim in, I wouldn't spread it on toast, but it's a well-known HAZMAT story with a well-understood mitigation.

While NPR reported there were concerns from citizens, they also went looking for people who would provide causes for concern in their reporting and found none: not only from the rail company (where you wouldn't expect to find them), but from anywhere. The largest concerns expressed were from an OSU professor that said to wash surfaces and look out for low-lying areas. Plenty of chemical experts would have plenty to gain contradicting the party line if the party line were untrue; the fact we don't see them really should indicate in this case that there's (no pun intended) no fire here.

What is your goal in this exchange?
It successfully messed up a bunch of stuff on my machines, and successfully got me to stop using Python entirely.
FTA: “The Savannah's 74-milliwatt cylindrical reactor”

Reminder: SI prefixes are case-sensitive.
drop it down to mems mirror like dmd
Can you even downvote on HN?

E: For reference, I wouldn’t downvote this because it ain’t wrong.
>The bigger problem is how practical is it to use PV at all on much of the moon.

I think part of the solution will involve using "regular stuff" (which can be sourced from lunar atoms) like batteries.

Don't use lithium batteries to continuously power an oxygen generator. Instead, have an enlarged oxygen generator and store half the flow for use at night.

Don't use lithium batteries to power a heater at night, instead "pre-charge" heat in a dirt thermal mass during the day.

Don't use lithium batteries to power a continuous CO2 scrubber, instead use a liquid amine scrubber and recharge the fluid tanks during the day.

Etc etc

Obviously you need to do in-depth tradeoff math for each case, but my napkins say "the system is the battery" wins in many cases.
I think the goalposts here have shifted a bit.

> That's not, as the article puts it, "for the rich".

I agree with that statement. But

> You can walk onto any Nissan dealer's lot anywhere in the country and drive off in a brand new Nissan Versa…

Does not support the first statement. Avshalom posted a link to a Nissan dealer where new Nissan Versas are not available to drive off the lot at all. I looked at my local dealership and it also does not have any new Versas available. As both of these dealerships are indeed in the country and neither have new Versas available, the assertion just isn’t true. I think you’re overestimating how well Nissan is stocking their affordable models and trims.

But to your point about new cars being solely for the rich, I could drive off my local Hyundai dealer’s lot with a new Elantra for something like $23k which I also consider within reach for those not rich. I also looked at my local Honda dealer, but they apparently want to play games and refuse to show prices on the web without jumping through additional hoops.

Regardless, I would probably buy a lightly used car again.
This kinda reminds me of Terence McKenna talking about his experience with DMT.

He met "self-replicating machine elves". One of them told him, "don't be stuck in shock/wonder", and "do what we're doing".

Then he noticed that these 'beings' were creating various 'physical' objects in front of him with sound. Like they were "singing" these objects into existence. He called it, "glossolalia", or "speaking in tongues".

Through his DMT trips he apparently learned to use different sounds to create objects in front of him. Slight changes in the sound changed the appearance of the object.

Not that I necessarily believe him, but it peaks my imagination in fun ways.
>a few narrow examples

It's Microsoft's own advertisement.
Concretely what are you imagining here? US/WHO/UN says "there was a covert bioweapons program" and China says "no there isn't" and then... we invade? We embargo China?
Yeah I'll pay for something that is just slightly better/faster than writing it myself but will practically speaking steal my code and give it to others that pay for the same product. /s

I'd say no thanks. I think programmers using Copilot is paying for something that'll hurt them in the long run for a tiny benefit in the short run.

I don't trust Microsoft, and neither should you.
Setting aside the "active research" one, which is rather different than the rest of your list: given the amount of things we (earth-level "we", not a specific government) know increase risk of cancer or other health issues, but that we willingly tolerate for lack of alternatives... what changes do you really think would happen around things like cave exploration, wet markets (farmers markets too, or do you mean specifically just more unusual foods?), cooking practices?
@permo-w

Get lost.

My disclaimer was written as is and means exactly what it says, i.e. making clear it was pure speculation and that I knew nothing of the Pharma industry.

In other words, I was openly inviting people to dismiss the comment as worthless.

There is no reading between the lines to be done.
Again? Windows 10 did a very similar thing to me.
I never hopped on the Spotify bandwagon. I wrote music streaming off because their players are consistently inferior to foobar2000, and I don't usually spend more than $10-$15 a month on new music anyways. I'm glad their play at capturing the podcast market seems to be failing. As much as people like the unlimited cheap music, I think Spotify has been a net negative for the industry and their plans for podcasts are nothing but bad news for everyone other than their shareholders.
> Are you sure that the study you read isn't just reporting this wavelength as ideal because we have a convenient source of it?

Studies, and yes. Mercury vapor's spectral emission is just a happy coincidence and why mercury vapor lamps are used for germicidal applications. The germicidal LED's they make are 255nm. But 254nm, not 255nm, not 253.7nm, is the most efficient wavelength for germicidal applications, in that it kills the most bugs the fastest. Please don't make me dig up the studies, please find them yourself, there are plenty, and it'll mean more to you.
Right, I meant to suggest that this was an old data sampling algorithm. My point is that if this is already the low quality they were serving before, it is hard to see how adding a hallucinating algorithm in to the mix is going to help anything.
Americans view politics like sportsball, I.e "our team good everyone else bad"
> If you have enough entropy to fill a high entropy RNG, why not use all that entropy to generate the output in the first place?

Problem is the entropy generation rate. PRNG even with large space typically is running at 10 or better Gbit/sec. PCG with 256/64bit could generate decent numbers at 50Gbit/sec
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Wonder is this also on airbus and whether this is a new requirement after the loss of the Malaysian airplane?
> We have two external units that serve to both heat and cool, one for each zone / floor.

All else equal, a heat pump in the Bay Area should cost about the same or slightly less to operate as a natural gas furnace during the heating season. Natural gas is 3x cheaper than electricity per unit of energy, but heat pumps run at near-optimal efficiency in the local climate. Over the heating season mine achieves an average COP of 4.0 (4 units of heat for every 1 unit of electricity input).

> Bryant is the manufacturer, if memory serves.

It's a worthwhile exercise to look up the expected maximum efficiency of your unit to see if it is achieving that.

> Even with my error, the price of electricity in California is exorbitant and the grid is easily stretched to the limit => both will be exacerbated by increased demand from EVs and housing without gas lines.

Prices for electricity are absolutely high in California compared to other states. This is for many reasons, not the least of which is the cost of natural gas itself, which sets the spot price paid for all other sources. It's also because of the utility maintenance issues brought to light by the wildfires.

However, according to PGE's own data, the average household gas bill this January is $195/month. That's on top of what people are paying for electricity. 2 years ago, it was $114/month [1]. That is a 72% increase. In the same time period, average annual natural gas only rates went up by 27%. The reason for the discrepancy is that natural gas pricing is moving toward more closely matching seasonal price variations, so much higher price/therm in the winter and lower in the summer. For 2023, winter rates will be 40% higher than summer rates, whereas in 2021 that difference was only 10%.

Therefore today, you would probably be paying more to heat the same house with a natural gas furnace than with a heat pump. The vast majority of people who use natural gas for heating are discovering that reality right now.

Furthermore, there's not much of a future in which natural gas gets cheaper as an energy source during the heating season. That's just the reality of that energy source.

Meanwhile, peak electricity rates have increased 22% since 2021 (when peak rates were $0.40/kWh), but the seasonal variations in electricity demand are currently the opposite of natural gas (lowest in winter, highest in summer).

In the long term, we can expect winter electricity demand to rise as more heat pumps are deployed. However, even if we exclusively burned natural gas (which we won't) to generate the electricity to meet that demand, it makes far more sense to do so in a combined cycle plant that is 50-60% efficient and sending it to heat pumps getting 3-4 COP, yielding a 200%+ "efficiency", than to burn it in furnaces that achieve on average 80% efficiency.

1. https://www.pge.com/tariffs/Residential.pdf
same. I hadn't cancelled until it was all podcasts (and clearly money was their only focus so I decided to take mine back)
Nanosats Database
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
AOPA: Normalization of Deviance in Aviation

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2015/december/0...
The parent comment addressed that if you read it carefully.
thats also true if the fallout from wrong usages is less in cost then the savings, which for huge coperations is often the case for situations where it shouldn't

also you can't just use this tech to "get the truth" but to generate things in which it sometimes is rather simple to identify and fix mistakes, and where due to human error you anyway have a "identity and fix mistakes step"

have most of this kind of usages likely negative impact on society? Sure. But for adoption that doesn't matter because "negative impact on society" doesn't the main adopters money, or at least not more then they make from it
Thank you, I was starting to question my sanity.
Tesla goes down across Europe leaving some drivers unable to charge cars
Yes, thank you this is exactly what I was looking out for in the announcement.

Was looking for a way to instruct CodePilot to abide by the following rules:

- Only use Apache v2, MIT or BSD licensed work for its recommendations. (Or a specific license set)

- Only use code trained on public repositories.

- Provide code attributions of the source code where the recommendations originate from.

I'm not sure if the last point is possible given these GPT type architectures but it would really help during code reviews.
The point is, I lived through the times you're citing as "a time of large layoffs". I was hiring in at least one of them (actually, all of them, in different contexts). It was very hard to find engineers. By no even semi-objective measurement were 2012, 2016 and 2017 lean times for the industry. Virtually every tech company was hiring like crazy.

Maybe they were bad for someone, but that's always true. I'm sure a brand-new coding school grad has a hard time in most markets, for example.
I agree. Typically when it comes to UI issues features and being first to market tend to win over speed. Simply put the slowness of the average human interacting with the software is a much larger factor then the software itself.

Of course this is also to a point. 1 second versus 10 seconds to do a major software operation isn't going to affect most users. Now stretch that out to 100 seconds and priorities start changing. You get in the 'really annoying to people' zone.

I think one of the differences when looking at performance is how many times it is executed. I might pull up some customer record/ticket in SAP 50 times a day. If its 1 second or 10 seconds doesn't matter that much because I can generally interweave it with other operations I'm performing. Now, if for some reason I was executing that a million time a day, like a single database query, suddenly we're talking about an issue that's worth fixing.
Why reply?

I called out your comment because it too is rude. You think you're making a statement about character and moral building, but then you slip in some archaic statements about work ethic and job tenure and seem to expect that the false dichotomy you're building is universally applicable to all distributions of laborers.

It's the weird regurgitation of concepts that managers and leaders say in order to prey on people.
It's down to curation and self-policing. I regard both of those as motivation led and requiring periodic re-inforcement.

Hn is mostly in a sweet spot and moves between brilliant and worrysome.

Some people dislike it intensely, and semi-troll about both "dang is a dictator" and "you are hive mind, you have no freedoms here"

This isn't a free speech channel: its a private domain, it's used under terms, and we respect that to achieve an outcome of mutuality. If you don't like the terms of the mutuality, or the outcome, you probably don't fit, but you arn't excluded as much as you get signals of disrespect and occasionally get told you aren't being heard, noting that there are ways to see everyone, the flagged included.

I don't entirely understand the shadowban method as applied here, I don't even know it exists: It would not necessarily be wrong because its a method, a mechanism which has immense power.

In the forward life of Hn I expect a couple of things. Firstly, it will change. Secondly, it may not change for the better: it's not a given. Thirdly, it could even break down entirely.

It's not a forum, but ALDAILY is an example of an individually curated space which changed hands. An interesting question: can Hn survive a change of hand on the tiller?

George Megalogenis is an Australian political commentator who ran a blog with comments for while which had this header: "My house, my rules" and he admonished posters in public (which is rarely considered appropriate) saying "nope: you're a mind-sucking troll. good bye" and the like. It was a good non-snarky conversation under his house rules.

[Edit: I should add, I've penalised here for being off topic and unhelpful, for being random, reddit-like, for being silly and abusive. I don't approve of my own behaviour all the time, the point is not to be driven away, the point is to learn how to adopt the mode which works here. If that kind of conformity to norms displeases you, then it can be hard to sustain being here, but I don't personally regard it as an onerous burden any more than being asked to be civil in public discourse is. I was also a heckler in my student days, fun times, but I wouldn't do that now]
I hate to break it to you but all human activity is the problem. Viruses will jump species and eventually hit pandemic levels. Research is required to minimize their impact. The bird flu could mutate and broadly infect humans killing millions. Swine flu likewise.
There's a reason it's called human "resources". You better believe that if MBAs could kill or renice employees the way you might do computer processes, they would.
>If you have it configured right

Yeah, no, I'd like to unwind and have fun instead of messing around with config files and drivers
Love the app. However on Debian 11 host with xfce desktop the deb package binary manages to crash XOrg when one resizes the window! Just FYI, I might dig into how it accomplishes such a feat as your app is absolutely amazing idea, ver helpful.
Short of basically stopping any contact between humans and non-humans we aren't going to stop it. Finding the exact route this one took (which is probably impossible--the local officials destroyed as much possible evidence as they could trying, as local officials tend to, to not take the economic hit) says nothing about the exact route the next one will take.
Deals with the idea that friendship, while supportive and kind, can also be extremely dull. At least that was my takeaway. What makes any relationship worth it?
It doesn't matter whether it's nukes or Colonel Sanders' secret recipe, the fact of the matter is they tried exactly what you're proposing and it didn't work.
168 bpm :)
this is the single most disruptive event on the planet of the last 80 years. understanding how it happened can help us prevent it from recurring
Wow, this is really fun: I pasted your prompt from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/baobabKoodaa/future/8d2ae9... into ChatGPT and now it's acting exactly like I'm stuck in a weird future.
No they don't. Look anywhere else besides tech and you'll see. How people were so naive for so long is amazing. High salaries, RSU, whatever plush perks, blah, blah are just love bombing without the romance.
Wasn't that a package deal? "Buy all of it or we won't sell you anything!"-style? IIRC they were shopping only for some tech not those brands.
I came here to post exactly this. My team has budgeted for CoPilot, but we’ll only pull the trigger if copyright liability is resolved. I think it’s hilarious Microsoft is doing this, of all companies; it’s like they’ve forgotten that big businesses are run by risk-averse general counsel offices (often for good reason).

I can’t even imagine the hilarity that would ensue if I went to my GC right now to ask permission with so much in limbo; it’d be suicide by conference call.
It seems like what you need is perhaps a developer writing code for you? Maybe in exchange for money.
I delved into LFE, and I was a proponent when Elixir was just catching on, but Elixir's momentum just washed it away. I believe Elixir earned it, but I think it had a heavy kickstart from all of the Ruby programmers who took to it. And they say syntax doesn't matter ;)

It is my understanding LFE makes a lot of compromises as a list in trying to work nicely with the Erlang VM (BEAM). I really wish Gleam kept the more Haskelly/ML syntax instead of shooting for the popularity contest by becoming more Algol or C-like. Slim Whitman allegedly sold more records than the Beatles, but I would rather listen to the Beatles!
That doesn't mean it was the brake. The bearing contains the brake. The axle contains the bearing. The train contains the axle.

Not enough information to determine what caused the bearing to fail, bearing failures account for 5.9% of all train derailments[1].

Though we can look at common train bearing failures to get a likelihood...

Most likely it was a simple lack of maintenance. It's possible to prevent this with more sensors[2] and tighter maintenance checks.

[1] https://www.wisnerbaum.com/blog/2016/september/the-most-comm...

[2] https://www.southampton.ac.uk/engineering/research/projects/...