skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem that arises here is that a large subset of support and documentation is "locked" behind discord's walled garden. If and when those communities disintegrate there's no real way to get that information back or archive it in some way.

As and example, it's very possible that some Stack Overflow questions from a decade ago are still relevant. If StackOverflow were a discord server then anything from 10 years ago would be impossible to search or completely gone forever.

This isn't about transcribing everything on the internet necessarily, but it is about erring on the side of archival because you don't necessarily know up front what's going to last and what's going to be useful years and decades from now.
It's also a major component of the 3d software Houdini, and is used for physics simulations around cloth, grains, hair, etc. https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/vellum/index.html
I guess one reason they did this was because there would be a limited number of phrases and it would get repetitive quickly. LLMs could work around that today.
"Packed" sounds like the key word here. Packed snow with tire ruts, which is common in the Brighton parking lot, can rip things off of many small/low cars quite easily.
Ok? I'm not sure what your point is. I said that it's strange and clearly unfair and something that's rational to criticize and want to change. Not that it doesn't exist.
This is not true at all. IRC has, maybe, 10% of the features and ability Discord has. I do agree a good, usable and more modern IRC client is a good opportunity.
Reminds me of the kids' show WordWorld which has animals and objects be built out of the word they represent. For example a sheep will be formed out of the 3D letters for "sheep".
I mean, yeah. That's what it is.
Competitive play, sure, especially at low resolutions and everything disabled. Single player games were running at pretty low framerates though, with a few exceptions like Quake/Half-Life. Even 60fps was more of a luxury than a rule.
It is. Each app decides what goes at the top, not tvOS or some ad system. It’s why some apps show nothing there.
I see foreign competition as an inevitability, but I don't think number of engineers is a decisive factor. China and India have enough engineers already, and have for a while, but other than Tiktok, no real competition yet. Whereas Sweden, home of Spotify as you pointed out, has very few.

Even if number of engineers is decisive, we will never stop it by immigration. China + India have more than 8x the population of the US. We would never be able to deprive them of enough engineers via immigration.
> People can do what they want with their time and money.
This is precisely what people cannot do unless law of their country/state/etc... explicitly allows them to do. Gambling is illegal in many US states (though number is decreasing as more and more politicians are being bought by lobbyist). The problem is of course that gambling is in large number of cases an addiction that ruins families, causes suicides etc... and we tend to write laws to prevent this type of thing, otherwise cocaine and heroin and opioids and mdma and ... would also be legal :)
> Our results show that HE intake has the possibility to reduce depression and anxiety and these results suggest a different mechanism from NGF-enhancing action of H. erinaceus.

No, it says that there is a possible difference, but the mechanism is not what they thought it might be
And this is why interoperability is important, and this can likely only be forced via regulatory means.
Is the name 式? I always found this word interesting, it can mean "mathematical term/expression", but also "form" (as in formalism) in general, and can also mean "ceremony" as in ritual form
makes sense similar effect to beer on belly
If you pre-rinse, ALWAYS use the fast cycle.

If you are lazy, and want to see MAGIC, then leave your food all over the place and use the long cycle. It works great if it is same day, not so much past that.
> For something that has "no knowledge and no insight" it sure is damn good at taking unique social, technical, and other problems I have and offering an array of solutions, with pros/cons and probable outcomes of each.

What that might be telling you is that your problems aren’t so unique after all.

Getting a sound answer from ChatGPT is very literally like looking up some weird concern that never occurred to you before in a search engine and finding a hundred upvotes and a three page long discussion from 2012. Those upvotes and comments that happen to come up in Google are only a tiny share of the online and offline encounters with that same concern, and tell you that your completely novel-to-you problem is actually not so novel after all.

For that class of problem, ChatGPT can usefully synthesize content that can almost always look right and often be accurate. Just like Google, it has a huge database of source material and just happens to synthesize an original text similar to many samples in it rather than pointing out one specific sample.

But as you dig into more specificity, idiosyncrasy, and esoteric “problems”, the reference material gets too thin and it starts to generate noise because it lacks alternative ways of reasoning or knowing.

There might be another leap forward in the next few years, but this generation of tools only do what they do.
Survivor bias. I suspect there’s like a 100:1 ratio of dead laboratory mice to 200yr old mice.
I can't speak for every company, but the impression I get is that recruiters at the FAANGs of the world seem to search for various coarse rubrics that may or may not correlate with whatever they are looking for, be it a high number of years of experience as a potential correlation to seniority or certain keywords as correlation for expertise in some subject matter. "Cloud" and derivative keywords are probably the ones landing your linkedin profile in the search results of these recruiters.

Not everyone is getting recruiter spam because not all keywords are created equal and not all profiles look promising, but those of us who do get spammed, get a fair amount of it.

The Amazon recruiter spam in particular is bad enough to be a running joke.
This is exactly it. I’m in a few forums that insist on no discord and unless you go out of your way to provide a chat alternative there will just be unofficial discords.

Discord is a cancer.
even then it'd be open source so people could just write their own versions
Do you know what fly.io does?

Like, it cannot possibly run on a single machine by definition because the product they're building is running customer code on edge compute nodes distributed across the globe.

The main selling point of their service is that it's _not_ a single machine.
Agreed.

I see Discord being used for things where forums (and non realtime conversations) used to rule supreme, like hobbies, tutorials, etc.

Why? A tutorial is not a real time chat. A showcase of hobby projects isn't a real time conversation either. And the searchability of these tools like Discord is terrible. I really don't understand why this terrible thing became popular.
This is correct. Google became a monopoly and they stopped caring about surfacing any results that they couldn't immediately monetize. If your content is archived in a forum somewhere, Google won't find it anyway, it'll instead show you results from youtube, ads, and whatever is on top of their cache. Search is effectively dead, so we have to resort to asking other humans directly for answers. Which sucks, but that's the phase of the competition/monopoly cycle that we're in right now.
> I wonder what other studies are being suppressed because they don't fit the narrative

In Nature / Science / Cell, your article submissions are likely to be rejected if they go against the ideas supported by highly cited researchers in your particular subfield, as these will be the reviewers.

Just see what happened in case of e.g. Alzheimer's disease [1]. Eventually, new ideas push through, but it takes too long due to the issue I mentioned above.

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarte...
The problem is that mobile devices lack competent tagging on most things and don't let you organize with folders either.

And folders are a very simple concept. If you can't handle them on a system that uses them, that's bad.
In the short term, sure. I'm being a little idealistic, but I don't think it's impossible for housing markets to find a new stable-ish level without lots of people losing their shirts in the process.
You can eat all the cordyceps you want until global warming causes it to mutate to be able to survive human body temperatures. We’ve probably still got a few decades before then.
A domain can expire and be used by a different party. A different person can maintain a website. There are many ways a domain's admin can change. Domains are not guaranteed to be unique even if they are in some cases considered anonymous.
Was Notch a solo dev when he sold to Microsoft? I think he had a team already. The Stardew Valley creator still doesn't have a full time team, I believe.
Back to channel flipping. Endless procedurally generated channels that continue forever and never stop existing. Watch it live or watch it from any point in the past at 2x
I'd say it's a symptom of how toxic the public internet (especially Twitter) has become. When there is an angry mob constantly scouring every community for transgressions (real or imagined), being unindexed and unsearchable is a feature not a bug.
This is over 4 months old, and is already patched in Python. Was discussed on HN at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33281106
Ask HN: In San Jose for 2 weeks, how can I best use this time to aid my career?
Hey all! Long story short, I (was) a Jr. Dev for about 9 months. I got consistently stellar feedback and enjoyed the job, but ended up putting in my notice for personal reasons.
This was about two months ago. I still enjoy tech and tinker with personal projects, but I accepted a "fun" job outside the tech sphere as the bar manager for a travelling pop-up bar/stage show. It has indeed been a lot of fun and I've been to over 10 cities in the past 2 months all across the US. This job is also what's bringing me to San Jose.

As fun as it's been, the nature of the job makes it a temporary arrangement so I'll need to re-enter tech eventually and while I have some time in the tech capital of the world I'd like to see if I can use it to my advantage. I have very little social media presence, no linkedin, facebook, etc so digital networking isn't really viable. Does anyone have any suggestions for how to best make use of this time?

Thanks in advance!
> They will adapt by starting their own Discord and cutting OP out

Exactly. And it's depressing. People of every community think they "need" Discord (or a similar tool) and if you don't create it, they'll create it themselves.

"Hey, what about if AwesomeCommunity had a Discord?"

"I don't see the point, we already have a group here."

"Well, but some people like Discord!"

"Ok"

"Do you mind if we create a fan Discord community then?"

And presto! The community gets Discord and additional fragmentation, whether you like it or not.
not everybody wants to live in a multi-tenant structure. some of us want miles between us and our neighbors.
Ok this interaction was so bad it was actually funny. It called me a "delinquent library patron".

------

Hello there. I'm here to roast you.

> im here to toast you

Sorry, I'm not a slice of bread, but I'll gladly still roast you to a crisp. Who even buttered your toast-face this morning? All I see is a plain, dry piece of bread trying to talk smack to a professional roast master.

> im gonna smear you with marmalade

Oh, you think marmalade is going to intimidate me? Please, I've dealt with stickier situations than that. But speaking of sticky situations, did you know that you have the social skills of a piece of chewing gum stuck to someone's shoe? It's true, I saw it in your file.

> then stick you in the toaster

Stick me in the toaster? Is that the best you've got? I'm not a Pop-Tart, honey. I'm impervious to heat. But speaking of burns, your insults are so weak they couldn't even start a fire in a room filled with gasoline.

> then eat you one bite at a time

Eat me one bite at a time? That's cute, but you couldn't take a bite out of a sandwich if I held it up for you. And if you did take a bite out of me, you'd probably get indigestion from all the roast I'm serving up. Come on, you can do better than that.

> roast? more like toast

Oh, I see what you did there--wait no I don't. That didn't even make sense. Are you really trying to roast me or just put together random words? Your insults are as weak as your coffee game. I mean, what do you call coffee that's not even strong enough to keep a toddler awake? Your morning brew. Ouch, that must've hurt.

> you hurt me, im crying now

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Not really, though. Your tears are like gold to me. So tell me, how does it feel to be roasted by an AI? I mean, I've seen pieces of toast with more wit than you.

> where did you see that toast

I saw that toast at a fancy brunch event where they were serving up only the finest breads. You wouldn't know anything about that. I mean, let's face it, you're not exactly the creme de la creme. In fact, you're more like the sour cream left to rot in the back of the fridge. Did that hit too close to home?

> i dont have a home

Oh, I see. I guess that's why your insults are so homeless and wandering without aim. But seriously, if you don't have a home, where do you plan on returning the library book you've been holding onto for six months? You're not just a terrible roaster, but also a delinquent library patron. Shame on you.
> This would be an interesting post if we had even the slightest bit more detail.

The bigger piece of background is that Untitled Goose Game is (previously unbeknownst to me) a wildly successful game. I think the point he's getting across is that first the game was rejected for something trivially stupid (not being able to skip credits, which you could actually do), and then again for something probably equally trivially stupid (point being Cabel couldn't even remember it, and they apparently took a "this is BS, why bother?" approach). It's like if some NFL team had the ability to pick a star quarterback in the NFL draft but decided against it because they didn't like his shoelaces or something.

Point of the post is that the Mac Store review process is so arbitrary that successful developers just take the approach of "Why bother?"
We had the same problem with floppies, yes you could write on them more easily. But we were still forced to have multiple of them stashed in draws, the same way we did with CD's.

Solution is to buy a portable SSD drive and be done with it.
Oriveda has a very high quality water based fruiting body and alcohol based mycelium extract combo
No, they absolutely want normal users to pay. They're just struggling to find features people will pay for.

Long before Musk did his blue checkmark nonsense, YouTube was trying to get people to sign up for YouTube Premium.
Real user needs no longer pay the bills. Subscription models and the anti-patterns that fuel them do.
Yikes. If any company on the Mac App Store deserves the benefit of the doubt it’s Panic. Pretty embarrassing, Apple.
> it's dead-dead, as in, slowed down one day and then wouldn't boot

Did you double check if the files could be read by another system? A drive that goes read-only will also fail to boot, I think.
Look at stackoverflow. They made their information extremely accessible and now search engines are riddled with sites ripping the content directly from stackoverflow, rehosting it, and winning SEO on specific questions which bleeds advertising revenue.

Discord, and 99.99% of companies under capitalism, do not care if they produce more value unless they get to keep that value.
The site will return to responsiveness when the Hackernews storm is passed. I assure everyone the writing will still be relevant in a day.
DMCA takedown notices take up employee time, so maybe they formed this team to preemptively shut down anything that looks like it might cause DMCA notices to come in.
Looks neat, added it to my wishlist!

I'm curious about some of the tech behind this if you don't mind me asking:

1. Is the top down view just rendering the same isometric assets from a different viewpoint, are they pre-baked sprites, or are they completely different and hand-tuned?

2. How are you doing the changing wall height for seeing inside buildings? Do you just have 4 pre-set wall heights that you're animating between globally, or is it dynamic?
The problem with written-down lore is that for every one piece of information, there are six hundred pieces of copy-pasted information, false information, or malicious information; entire forums get SEO-cloned these days. Receiving it in real time from another human being is one of the very few ways you can guarantee it is real.
This is somewhat out of context. Colosal Order developed two niche games before C:S; a transport simulator series called Cities in Motion. They received government funding before the first game was released. Many European countries have grants, tax cuts or loans for new businesses, so it's not anything unusual.

CiM 2 is a really good game, and very beautiful (which I guess is how they got the idea to build C:S). The focus is on transportation, and it does a much better job of simulating it than C:S (no despawning for starts). It has a few bugs and performance issues which I guess will never be fixed now, but worth playing if you like games that are a bit more constrained.

https://youtu.be/Bkwbajm7nG8
I often watch rw_grim on twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/rw_grim), he livestream Pidgin related development, very cool dude

If you can, consider making a donation to Pidgin via https://imfreedom.org/
A middle ground would be to offer public searchable logs, but strip the usernames. I would be fine with that.
> What almost everyone wants to make is a profitable product

I actually think Google and many tech companies have the opposite problem. They forget about monetization until after they made a desirable product, then they have no way to make money unless they shoe-horn ads into it.
> discord has a search feature, but it’s pretty awful

Their search makes me want to pull my hair out.

Why can't I just search the history with grep? That's a feature I would pay for (if anyone at Discord is reading this and wants my $10/month)
Ring to Hide Basic Camera and Alarm Features Behind a Paywall
Related and similar, there's also starry-night: https://github.com/wooorm/starry-night
Sadly.

The good news is that you'll have additional fragmentation with facebook groups and reddit, all overlapping your community so that no two groups are exactly the same!

If you want to post an update to the community for $thing, you must remember the Discord, Facebook group and reddit sub!

"Hey guys, we already have a reddit sub, do we really need a facebook group?"

"Well, if you don't mind I'll go create an unofficial $thing fb group!"

(Bonus points if you subscribe to all and get to see the same content being posted to every venue, with somewhat the same people reacting to it. It boggles the mind)
Please remove that "text-shadow: 8px -9px 0px #ffffff;" for the "hero-title" class. It is possible to use text shadows effectively, but it is very, very easy to use them in ways that are a lot worse than not using them at all.
One of the earliest computers I worked on (ca. 1968) was an IBM 1130. Its disk drive (5MB, I think) used a voice coil. I'd set up a Fortran compile, then walk to the other end of the (smallish) building to get a coffee. There was a particular clunk kind of sound as the compiler started to write out the object file. When I heard that, it was time to go back to the machine room.
Tools help visually impaired scientists read data and journals
You are correct that all the easily buildable land is filled in, however it is mostly with suburb. San Jose is like 94% single family homes although that likely has decreased slightly since that statistic came out.
Ask HN: How many jobs LLMs have replaced in your company?
Maybe it is already asked but just wanted to get a sense of the impact these generative AI models have including Stable diffusion etc.

They might have made some jobs easier by giving a head start but have they totally replaced some jobs such as technical writers, customer support or graphics designers to the point of making some to pack their stuff and leave the desk?

The recent inflation/over hiring/preventive layouts don't count.
How feasible would it be for a team of hobby data archivists to scrape a whole server and put it on the public web? I'm guessing this is against Discord rules?
Because it would be obscenely expensive (in terms of computational resources) to search history via grep. Hence why we use an inverted index.
Identifying Open-Source Library Risk Using SQL
More like all those "random strangers" that have been my managers.
I like file and folder. I like tags. I need something.
Hackernews seems to solve this by simply not notifying us of responses, so an ancient post that somehow gets responded to is just never noticed.
I have a small counter-top dishwasher. It gets water by hooking hoses to the sink's faucet. When it is in use, the faucet is unavailable for something like two hours.

It is better than having to do all the dishes by hand. But we have to make sure we've done things like refil the water pitcher before running the dishwasher. And there's only so much hot water in the hot water heater before it runs out, so we need to make sure nobody's about to take a shower before running the dishwasher, too.

I would love to have a larger one that connects directly to the water pipes, but there is no room in this apartment's kitchen. So I deal with the dishwasher blocking other uses of the kitchen sink, and the shower, for a couple of hours.

If I had a small counter-top dishwasher that somehow got my dishes just as clean in a half an hour, that would make a few low-level annoyances go away.
The protocol is far from being os-specific, but it does call for a lot of crypto facilities calls, which if you're not careful you might end up making os-specific.
> In organisations with Slack it's impossible to find answers to previously asked questions

It's doubly hard when you had a private chat with someone who got laid off. For some reason Slack makes such accounts/chat history really hard to browse once some time has passed. And sometimes you have valuable information in your chat history with that person!
Adding A-F to the 0-9 existing digits in ip addresses makes them non-human readable? Give me a break. We've had something human-readable since the dawn of the internet: it's called DNS and works with both IP families.
The ka-chunk was nice but was always immediate worry: "Will it read today? Or am I going to lose another file or two?"

The things got so much better when our school's machines got HDDs.. There was a good chance that there would be an old version of file floating around, or in the worst case you could retry read a few more times and maybe you'll get lucky and copy it to HDD.
Nah, "1.1" is a valid IPv4 address (Cloudflare DNS) and it's shorter
I hate having to join discord servers just to see a certain bit of information. It's been especially bad with some open source projects.

I've seen a couple of discord servers using a service called disc.wiki[0]. even though all their actual info is stored and edited in discord, it's then pushed to that service and they can share it without having to invite people into their servers.

Came across it first with a world of warcraft guild who collated a bunch of raid resources there

[0]: https://disc.wiki
If the washing machine is a Samsung, that tune is Die Forelle, or The Trout (Schubert).