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> ...it's best to think of RedReader a bit like a web browser -- even though usage from RedReader as a community is high, it's really just a bunch of individual users accessing Reddit directly as if through a browser.

I find this to be a particularly cogent point. What is stopping someone from making an app that just displaying the normal site, ad free with extensions such as RES?
Labour are regularly referred to as Tory-lite and with the way it's being run by Keith people feel it's just the Tory party but in red.
> it's unsightly.

Personally I think the burden of unsightly-ness is usually far overblown. I just don’t think it’s that big of a deal if my neighbors don’t maintain their lawn as long as it doesn’t spill into mine.
> I chose to be a pirate - yarrr! I might watch your content for free!

At least you are honest that you are stealing the content. And you don’t care what the creators think about it. Respected!

> You want money for your videos? You are free to sell them! Don't upload them into public!

Can anything that are public be taken away? Can I take your backpack if you leave it next to you in public? How do I know what your intention is if you don’t hold it?

> another thought that entertains me: as you might have not noticed - you didn't pay me for reading my comment.

I doubt you can comment on HN with an ad. Unless you do product placement, perhaps being a shill. Are you? (I’m only joking of course)
They're playing up that it's a myth to make you assume he doesn't own the swans at all, then assert that in reality, he doesn't own all the swans, so they're technically correct.

You could claim that he's really just licensing the swans to anyone with a swan mark, so it's really just the Shetland and Orkney swans he doesn't own.
You'd have to think 90% or more of lawns are not irrigated or only occasionally watered by residents. I don't have actual numbers, but irrigation systems are an expensive luxury and not really needed in many parts of the country.
Does a spider desire to build a web? Maybe, maybe not, but it takes actions to try to build one. Is human desire a real thing, or is it an illusion? Some think that consciousness itself is an illusion. What is human sensation but the world sensing itself?

Does a country have desires? An economy? Do the millions of transactions and price changes and signals going between people and companies mean that an economy has thoughts, in some sense? When an economy reacts to a war in a foreign land like an ant flinching away from something hot, is it feeling pain in some very primitive sense?

Sure, it's entirely possible that there's no real sensation behind an LLM, or rather, it senses and reacts to text input like a bacterium reacting to chemical nutrient gradients or an ant reacting to food. But at what level of mental complexity does consciousness and true desire arise? I think it's a continuum, and to think that there's something special about biological intelligence vs machine intelligence is to believe in the supernatural. We wouldn't say that aliens don't have true desires because they have genetic material based on something other than DNA, or use something other than glucose for energy in their bodies.

I do think you're right that current LLMs proclaiming love likely don't understand what they're saying. But at some point we're going to build machine intelligences that do, and it may be hard to tell when we cross that line. People used to worry a lot more about the ethics of that.
HOA doesn't have an opt-out, and does have a monopoly on homes within a geographical area. And often nearby areas have HOAs also.
And HOAs can be kept secret from home buyers until after they sign a purchase contract.
So meaningful consent is often absent.
People should start with building a voxel engine as performant as possible that would allow for player count to scale with hardware to eventually allow for millions of players on the same map.

What makes games like minecraft great is the gameplay that naturally emerges from player interaction. This aspect of voxel engines should be actively pushed to the absolute limit.

People in the gaming sector tend to apply new tech to improve old overdone gameplay (like making games more hd) instead of enabling previously impossible experiences.
What about behavior modification? There are a lot of social issues of power in this.
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Long grass encourages insects which encourages rodents which encourages snakes.

Also, grassses tend not to survive the summers here, so there's an increased fire risk which is probably not then covered by my insurance policy as it would arguably be negligence.

I left my back yard go one spring, my partner wouldn't go out there sue to snake risk, grass was over 5ft. It's now back to something approximating the standards implied by the surrounding houses.

Launceston, Tasmania.
VLA indeed were made optional with C11, but C23 bring some changes to this:

* automatic VLA (i.e. stack allocated ones) will stay optional

* VM types (e.g. VLA in function parameters) will be mandatory feature again
Yes, I think Gwern might want to look into practical animals such as sheep not luxury animals such as racehorses. Just getting those big, strong, docile racehorses required selective breeding!

Edit: And amusingly he does talk briefly about sheep but is not interested in where the types of sheep in 18th century England came from because the people who bred them did not leave records and get praised in a book on early modern history :)
Speaking of Maggie...

> What we are now doing to the world... is new in the experience of the Earth. It is mankind and his activities that are changing the environment of our planet in damaging and dangerous ways. The result is that change in future is likely to be more fundamental and more widespread than anything we have known hitherto. Change to the sea around us, change to the atmosphere above, leading in turn to change in the world's climate, which could alter the way we live in the most fundamental way of all.

> The environmental challenge that confronts the whole world demands an equivalent response from the whole world. Every country will be affected and no one can opt out. Those countries who are industrialised must contribute more to help those who are not.

-The Baroness Thatcher
The King does not personally own the swans, but rather the institution that is The Crown. The King, cannot for example, build and sell a private mansion on Crown land. Presumably he cannot sell swans either. Or at least that is my interpretation.
100% agree. Also I bucket "free" into "data harvesting", "actually gratis", or "libre".
Gift cards can be later rescinded or restricted and you'd have to spend your credits on their plantation. I get they're trying to make it hard to immediately spend your money on better guns at the gun show over in the next hall but they might just be encouraging desperate people to produce and horde dodgy unsafe firearms to be made in preparation for the next buyback scheme.
These changes seem to be in preparation for Reddit going public later this year, right? They're trying to make their financials look as strong as possible in the short-term even if long-term it fatally injures the website.

It will be interesting to watch! I see a lot of people saying they'll go to alternatives, but what alternatives are there to Reddit? Back to Digg? Voat? Here? I'm not aware of a good replacement.
20V is not a 'stock' DC/DC output voltage, so we're going to look for something roughly 24V and find something that has an adjustable sense line for reducing the output to 20V.

Note that the absolute voltage limit is likely due to 25V electrolytic capacitors in the input circuitry (find a schematic for a model that uses the "20V nominal" PSU and inspect it to be sure), so 24V should be OK as long as you're aware of how far the tolerance of the output of the PSU you're using can be. I suspect the fact that laptop PSUs seem to come in a wide variety of very-close voltages around 20V (I've seen 18.5, 19, 19.5, 20, 21, even 18.75 or 19.25) is more for vendor-lock-in reasons than anything else --- 19V is only 5% less than 20V, and a PSU rated at 20V may even end up at 19V or less under full load from resistive losses. Due to using DC-DC converters, a slightly higher voltage may even increase efficiency as there's less I^2R losses with the lower current that results.

I did check the stock laptop power supply and it came in at 20.4V, which was somewhat curious.

That's only 2% high, and if it was measured unloaded, I wouldn't be surprised.

I explained the reasons for the ~20V standard for laptops in this comment from almost a decade ago, and not that much has changed since: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7594383
> The Ukrainians are inflicting heavy losses on the Russian side (including Wagner mercenaries) without taking losses that are nearly as heavy.

Have in mind that

1) These numbers are unreliable (although most likely in Ukrainian’s favour)
2) Numbers are not equal: 10 poorly trained Russian soldiers are not comparable to 1 elite Ukrainian sniper
I will never understand lawn culture. It doesn't make any sense to me what so ever. (Grew up rural Australia)
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I would definitely take issue with ordnance on my lawn. I wouldn't want my children blown to bits by accident.
> The "safe" recommendation is to keep all planes in the sky regardless of suspected safety issues because alternative transportation is not safer than a dangerous airplane.

You're presumably taking the average deaths per miles and applying it in the sense of "those people would drive and that's more dangerous."

...that's....not how that works.

You assume:

* they would take alternate transportation, instead of canceling the trip or booking another flight not on a MAX. At the time there were just 387 MAX aircraft in the world in service.

* that said transportation would be passenger cars. Trains and busses are 10x (or more) safer than passenger cars per passenger mile. They're so safe that the danger to a passenger is basically insignificantly higher compared to commercial jet flights (and by the way, the industry very conveniently separates out "commuter" flights, which are FAR more dangerous.)

* that the overall safety of the commercial jet fleet is applicable to flights on a specific model of jet, which were clearly more dangerous, with not just two crashes in close proximity, but several close calls and almost certainly numerous other incidents that went unnoticed or unreported
When pointing to another country in a discussion about policies, the point is never "we should be absolutely 100% like them in every single ways". There will never be a path for a country A to absolutely follow country B's path anyway.

In that respect, unless you believe over polluting the environment is an absolute necessity to avoid malnutrition, pointing at NK's economic policy issues in this discussion doesn't help us much.
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It almost sounds like you are bragging about being environmentally friendly. I think most people with a yard that big would just mow a lawn for their needs and let most it ]grow in with trees or whatever comes up. For the record, I have no problem with what you are doing and I think it looks cool.
Which airline does he fly for? Hopefully one of the ones already on my shit list and I don’t have to add a new one…
I've heard that whatever benefits you get from Thiel's vampire transfusions also just come from removing blood via donation
There's definitely ways to shrink this down and I tried to address that in the initial DC-DC selection. The minimum supply that certain P-Series Lenovos require is 135W, while this module is rated for 150W, it is available surplus for relatively cheap (40$) without requiring building a full enclosure.

Looking forward to taking a second pass at this and shrinking it down.

at the moment it's somewhat smaller than the stock 'brick':

https://transistor-man.com/PhotoSet/lenovo_dc_supply/P113071...
If I recall that promise only applied if they ever stopped working on, which they clearly haven't.
In a sufficiently expressive language, do-notation isn't that important. Consider the following pieces of (equivelent haskell)

f1 = do
fd <- openFile "/file/path"
contents <- readFile fd
let result = process contents
closeFile fd
return result

f2 = openFile "/file/path" >>= \fd ->
readFile_ fd >>= \contents ->
let result = process contents in
closeFile fd >>
return result

Sure, the code for f1 is easier to read, but not by that much. You have a bit more noise in each line with the explicit operators being added. The only big readability difference I see is that you have moved to bound variable to the end of lines instead of the start. I've never actually worked in a codebase that regularly did this, but I suspect you would get used to it frequently. The inconsitency with let statements putting the bound variable on the left would be a readability drawback; but I can easily imagine a language that allows for putting the bound variable on the right hand side of an assignment, such as (not Haskell):

let process contents -> result in
I played for a while, and eventually found a nice collection of mods that were all compatible with each other and made the game really fun. I can't remember all the details, but it made the game a bit more fun. Some were additional items (more complete carpet selection, mobs, biomes), some were functionality enhancements (crafting guide), some were for automation (digilines), travel (elevators). It was pretty fun and whatever "game" (set of rules/textures/etc) I did had some very deep caverns to explore.
There's good evidence that indigenous people along the whole east all the way up from the SE to the NE were managing forests with deliberate fire, too. For the purpose of maize agriculture, but also by keeping underbrush at bay they encouraged open grazing areas for the deer they hunted.

Also long before that, there were now-extinct species like mastodon that cleared forest floor, etc.

Anyways, all that is side-ramble. The reality is that in humid temperate areas the things you replace a lawn with end up being just as much or more work.

Nature is not the self-maintaining self-balancing paradise that it is often sold as. It is a world of constant intense competition (Say this in a Werner Herzog tone). If you leave ground bare, and there's water, something will grow there. That's fine in the woods. In the city, it's usually something you don't want that takes root.
The current dev instructions for the Deck could use some improvements: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/testing

Then again, emulating the performance may be very tough because a lot of it depends on setting the right TDP on a very specific chip. I like the recommendation to make sure it runs well on a slightly slower CPU, that should help with battery life on the actual Deck.
Cops don't have their budgets systematically cut. Quite the opposite.
So now that he has a competitor to the platform I guess Musk is no longer "the singular solution" to the twitter problem.

I really dislike how the media will just pick on these comments and write whole articles about them with barely any criticism at all of previous failures of judgement.

Like, whatever, the real headline is "Dorsey does a 180 on his views on Musk, now that he has a competitor platform running".
there’s definitely a difference between a meadow (and the suburban front yard conversion thereof) and an unkempt traditional grass lawn. the latter suggests a resident that doesn’t keep up their property.
Given the long and controversial history of bloodletting [0], this might do more harm then good.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting
I can't tell you the relief that came, in Portland at the height of the insane and wanton deployment of chemical weapons by a wide range of "police" forces in 2020, from the 'leaf blower dads' showing up to protect the crowds.

Those things worked wonders!

Since then, I've often wondered why people use their spare tear gas dispersers to blow leaves and dirt around, but that's another story.
Thanks. This may be exactly what I need!
I used to get Byte magazine back then. The cover date was three months in the past by the time I got it. Before the internet the News section was still relevant even after three months. Some books I ordered took 6 months if they arrived at all.

This was Invercargill, New Zealand in the 80's.
I don't have any advice other people haven't covered.

I just wanted to say I'm really sorry you're going through this, and I hope the best people in your life are able to stay close to you, and that you'll find some more best people along the journey.
This sounds like a principled take. Can you explain the under-girding principles that drive you to hold this view?
But they are writing for an audience that is not as knowledgeable, so “simply” isn’t accurate for the audience, only the writer.
cURL and netcat are gopher clients, of course ... but it's likely easier to start with a chrome extension, eg:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/burrow-gopherspace...

(via OverBite: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ )

and reading up a bit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

then dip a toe into the community forums.
The answer here is for reddit to make an actually good app and win the market back by simply being the better alternative. The fact that they've decided they can't compete with apps written by individual developers and need to resort to crushing them by fiat is sad and ridiculous, especially for those individual developers who have painstakingly carved out their niche over years.

Presuming they cannot make better software, surely the answer is inserting ads in the API feeds instead of destroying the 3rd party ecosystem entirely (and potentially losing thousands-millions of users)?
It's not about risk taking. It's about not leaving people with the natural consequences of their own decisions. We are afraid to let things ride, and it creates this environment where we are held hostage by people who have no incentive to be cautious.
The intent isn't to brag but to show that something nice-looking and achievable outside the norm is possible. I think a lot of people want the feel of open space, so they go for a manicured lawn. In other words their desires are largely aesthetic. I think if you try to keep things field-like, its lower-effort for (IMO) a better aesthetic. It also seems to be environmentally better, but you don't even need that argument.
I'd host my own blog or mail if it were easier.

More to the point, I find it absolutely bizarre that one couldn't come up with quite a few reasons to have this be more private, whether personal or business.

Your personal or business stuff in other people's hands is generally not optimal or preferable, especially when more private options exist.
The _entire issue_ is capture of those who regulate making planes by those making planes. Disallowing transition from one to the other seems like a good idea.
If I can't use a good app (Relay for Reddit), and/or old.reddit.com, I'm done with Reddit.
Going through the game UI has some advantages, like the Steam native controller rebinding for individual games.

All this tool is doing is adding a bunch of .desktop files in the right place and setting up the folders necessary for the emulator. It's not touching the root partition that gets updated with the rest of SteamOS.
I feel like Commodore 64 had better sprites than the Atari 8-bit.
weren't there some intelligence operations during the vietnam war where "benign" peanut butter orders predicted troop movements?
80/20.
An advantage of having voted with my feet is that my adoptive country's constitution contains an equal rights clause; I strongly doubt the Old Country will see the ERA (or equivalent) ratified within my actuarial remaining lifetime.
I think the biggest faux pas here is telling people what to do with their money, who to support and to suggest that only human endeavors that are worth supporting are those fitting some kind of arbitrary spur-of-the-moment usability criterion.
Delta makes planes?
> Even in the mid-1980s, Black had noticed how hours spent on a computer were changing him. ‘I noticed that my thinking became more refined and exact,’ he wrote, ‘able to carry out logical analyses with facility, but at the same time more superficial and less tolerant of ambiguity or conflicting points of view.’

Well this skewers the worst tendencies of the HN comment section…
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The point of juries is to decide whether or not disputed facts are true. They don't need to know anything about the law because the jury instructions given to them by the court will deal with that.

The jury instructions essentially break the law down to essentially a flowchart, with the decision points being questions of whether or not some specific fact is true or not.

Both the prosecution and the defense will have geared the arguments and evidence they offered toward convincing the jury as to whether or not those specific facts or true.
Takes a lot of time to maintain. Or like $300/m.
I think tall grasses would filter a lot more than turfgrass.
> While third party app users don't directly contribute to revenue, Reddit is highly reliant on its community to produce and moderate content for free.

This is an important point. Reddit gets its content and moderation for free by their users (who often steals that content from elsewhere...), yet they consider them to cost them money?

There's another thing I haven't seen many people bring up. Like a lot of Reddit users with an older account, I use old.reddit.com together with RES. RES uses the .json endpoints for a lot of functionality, and those are considered part of Reddit's API according to them. So this is not just about third party mobile apps, the desktop experience might get seriously degraded as well. I hope it does, because the worse it gets the easier it is to quit.
I doubt the reason is morality, it's to hamstring 3rd party apps so they are baseline inferior to the official client. It's sabotaging the competition so anyone seeking a 'full' reddit experience is forced to use the official client, regardless of whether it is the best app or not.
Roughly 0% of my feed is full of that kind of talk. Why would you choose to have a feed like that?
In my case the text to speech software I use to interact with my computer doesn't exist in the same form in modern operating systems. The modern installable version and voices are much worse. So I stick to an old OS that supports my text to speech.

But this means my glibc is also an old version. And this OS was released before docker existed in repos (and has no docker support). So I'm using an older brower with JS completely disabled. It displays HTML, text, images, etc pretty well. It's just the for-profit sites that used to cause problems. But now everyone is cargo culting the for-profit stacks, devs are expecting updates to browsers every 2 weeks, and it's getting harder for me.

So yeah, I expect it to be hard. But also, people have legitimate reasons for using old software.
Yes, the author of that library knows more about that library. That doesn't mean they are generally more knowledgeable than me, and in fact they may be quite ignorant about the specific problem that lead me to investigate and learn the library in the first place.