skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>On the illusion of autonomy.

This is the part that your side doesn't get - having power to do something and not using it doesn't mean you're giving off an "illusion".

Everybody who runs a subreddit is fully aware that Reddit admins have the power to shut them down if necessary, but the precedent that has been set is that there would be a lot of communication or they'd have to be doing something flagrantly illegal for that to happen.

I don't understand why this is so hard to understand conceptually - because it's how the international community works. Countries generally get sanctioned, not invaded.

Yes, it's not a perfect system. Yes, countries like the United States stage coups and regime changes, but it is better than the old way of invading and trying to rule a country like they're a colony.

>Then why join this debate in the first place?

Because the goalpost I keep seeing put in place to frame this discussion is that if Reddit doesn't immediately collapse after shutting down third party apps, then all the protests made no difference and clearly nothing has changed. My point is that it might take multiple years before we see how hollowed out the site has truly become. And it might still be a very popular website from a traffic perspective, but I believe it will have lost the core "engine" that makes it work.

Also I have a lot of work to do that I don't want to do and commenting on here is a way that I procrastinate but I think this is probably a safe assumption for most people spending their morning commenting here.
That's just the latest thing they've done, the straw that broke the camel's back. They started down the path of enshittification a long time ago. With the new website and new mobile apps.
Random thought: if someone's goal was to replace their old comments with text designed be directly adversarial to future usage in training machine learning algorithms (therefore not just removing their comments' incremental value, but instead creating negative value) what text should they use?
Yes, that's what @typing.final is: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.final

But that's only checked by the type checker. At runtime you still need to do something like this to prevent subclassing:

class DontSubclassMe:
def __init_subclass__(self):
raise TypeError("Don't subclass me!")
The thing is that few bad actors, who maybe don't even live in a given community, can ruin it for the community.

What are the options for the community to prevent this? Or does community have no rights to preserve itself, given someone with deep enough pockets come?
Last two paragraphs starting with "however" and "ultimately" SCREAM chatGPT generated to me
NASA’s Apollo 11 Moon Quarantine Broke Down
When I quit reddit (over irritation at being banned from too many subreddits for not aligning properly with the hive mind), I used this tool to extract and save all my comments locally before manually deleting the lot:

https://github.com/camas/reddit-search

...aaand Github has disabled the repository for 'Terms of Service' violations. Go figure, maybe there's a mirror somewhere.
While true, I think you are missing the time commitment and the relationships. Once the kids get home and you have dinner and soccer and karate and chores, a lot of people don't have time to squeeze in "find friends" time. Additionally, they may want to spend that limited time with their kids. Work interactions are free from a time commitment and that may be the best chance for some people to have adult interaction.

When you go into the office, you can build quite a history with people over time. I have good friends that I've worked with (off and on) for over 25 years. And we are not just "work friends".
I've also felt much a part of a "team" working in person than wfh and those connections and trust can manifest in the work too.

I think that we need to continue to acknowledge that this is a human preference. And we all have quite different history, goals and situations.
That's why they are banned throughout the EU much more rigorously than in US
It's an established technology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist

there is nothing speculative about it
Here, this was asked a few weeks ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36025977
I would add frozenset as the other immutable collection. The other points are well taken though
CADR is XBus (its own thing) and Unibus.
Luckily for me, education is a thing.
What are your thought on privacy then? Shouldn't my records be my own business?
The Death of the Keyboard
Usually airbnb is working around zoning laws. The essence of airbnb is to rent out regular apartments in regular apartment buildings. Which are not designed to be hotel-like short term rentals.
maybe, unless the AI calculates somehow that 98% or something of parking disputes can be resolved by just not showing up in court, so that's the strategy. But you can't convey in a reasonable enough prompt that "this cop just had that look of being ready to really screw me over"...idk man.
OP here. That's exactly what happened.

This is the code it found:

California Public Utilities Code § 10009.6
> It doesn't have to be this way.

That goes both ways though. People are responding to hostage-taking actions by big tech and trying to protect themselves. There is a theoretical middle ground where data is available for research but not for abuse, but big tech typically won't allow that.
Why inability to sort by controversial is seen as a positive?
Seriously, this question seems to indicate a critical lack of common sense in the poster. You don't even need to have a desire for privacy, just a modicum of risk aversion.

Here's a simple example of what can happen with your medical data: Medical data ends up somewhere like LexisNexis -> Company looks you up before hiring -> Company sees that you have a health condition that will cost them more in health insurance costs -> Company doesn't hire you because "it's not a culture fit".

Oh, you don't have a health condition right now? Well, pray you never develop one either -- your boss will probably be able to sign up for push notifications for when there's a new diagnosis for you.
Can you describe your bad vs good? I'm tussling with this right now and getting feedback can be difficult because of dynamics. Outsiders often have great feedback.
I've modded medium-large subs before and though it's been a few years and I'm sure the automation has improved and I doubt it's perfect. A small but significant part of the mod queue on big subs is a steady trickle of things intended to offend, shock, disgust, or harm: goatse-type stuff but also violent gruesome mutilation & death photos, straight up child porn.

The consensus on HN is largely that being hurt or offended is the moral transgression, but some of the base motivation of moderation and moderators is protecting people from that kind of harm. Intentionally exposing people to it through inaction to make a point to another entity is not particularly neutral, I don't think.
I just use this javascript, even allows you to back-up content: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
By your logic, does Florida or Texas get to sue the US Federal government for the costs they incur housing these folks? Why are El Paso or Brownsville expected to incur the negative externalities of people who illegally cross into the US without any comments/concerns from national media, but a tiny fraction of that number in a northern city suddenly elicits an outcry?

Immigrants, both legal and illegal, are good for the economy in the LONG term. However, those economic benefits are spread out over both time and geography. On a highly localized level, initial waves create intense negative externalities on specific municipalities. And nobody who lives north of these areas cares.
It's also worth noting that "Government has a terrifying plan!!!!" is dumb fear mongering. You would HOPE your government has experience and practice war gaming and planning and simulating very very scary situations, because that's when you need them to work the most!

That's the reason the US has war plans against "Canada" and "Britain", for training and practice and experimenting, not because we seriously think King Charles is a HOI4 player with eyes for the former colonies.
Yet another “compiling” course that puts all the emphasis on parsing.

Rule of thumb: parsing/lexing shouldn’t takes more than 10% of your compiler course.
I trust Google's internal user data access controls infinitely more than I do a random hospital's.
Anecdotally, I've found I do my best work when I have periods that average to roughly 85% pressure (ballparking that). It's okay to have 110% days, but they need to be offset by some lower-stress days. I think this is well-known, but that "slack" time gives me space to think about what I'm doing. I have time to think smart and execute better. I can afford to take small-ish risks to deliver faster/better/quicker knowing I have space to recover if I fail.

When I work at 110% pressure all of the time, I need to choose safe solutions. Safe solutions take longer, but they always ship.

* Mentally, I don't have the capacity to think about what I'm doing. If I'm just churning out cogs in a machine, that's fine. If I need to come up with a creative solution, I'm going to find the mentally easiest one (not necessarily the best one)

* For Bandwidth/Time, I don't have time to take any risks. I can't explore possible better solutions because the risk of being wrong pushes me back even further. Without Slack, I have absolutely no time to catch up.
> upside is just so much larger than the harms

Or more importantly, the harms are to me, and the upsides are to you, so who cares?
This is a window into a fascinating world. I followed some of the links from the blog author. You end up in a world of spirituality with a whole bunch of jargon that is unfamiliar to me. But clearly, this is a modern spirituality untethered from the traditions of religion, or even the baggage of traditional spirituality.

What strikes me the most is that these people don't see themselves as priests, shamans or spiritual guides. But rather they see themselves as entrepreneurs and life coaches. It is like an old cynicism is gone and it is replaced with unfettered embrace of capitalism. Every article ends with calls to action: join my substack, join my patreon, sign up for my next workshop, check out my book, enroll in my online course, check out my podcast. Followers are rebranded as "clients".

Frankly I'm surprised, even impressed, that HN is open to this kind of thing. It is like when people are just upfront about the situation, that they will accept payment to help you with your spiritual needs, the reality of the transactional nature of the arrangement is clearly defined. Services exchanged for currency. No misdirection behind healing crystals. No God demanding devotion. Simply optimization of mental, emotional and physical well-being through the addition of spiritual advice.
"But then we're stuck with gorillas!"
Yeah, I definitely agree, more sophisticated metrics are in the pipeline. Wanted to get an MVP out as quickly as possible.
Yeah, for folks who want to know more about watchmaking we had a customer make a complete watch, including movement:

https://community.carbide3d.com/t/watchmaking-on-the-nomad/4...

and I found an animated overview:

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
> Display resolution, eye tracking and hand tracking are problems that can be solved today with a more expensive device.

I don’t think Meta really wants its devices to be out of reach for billions of people, limiting its data collection and the future it imagines with vast amounts of behavioral data collected from all those people.

If Meta were able to create an independent company that doesn’t have to have tracking or profiling or advertising or connected to its surveillance properties like Facebook and Instagram, it could create good devices at high enough prices to compete with Apple on the experience and quality. But its not in Meta’s DNA to leave such things alone.
Huh. I don't get those vibes.

Further investigation doesn't support your claim. The citations check out, including publication year and publishers.

And the author has indeed praised the book many times before (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31843833, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31843833, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31311613, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28481028, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23386732, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22305353, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23386732, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21988211, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21513056, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18996703, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10184364 ) with the last comment from 2015.

Eg, compare "I am deeply indebted to this book" with "I'm very debted to this man. I enjoyed a lot reading his books and made me who I am today." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28481028 from Sept 10, 2021.

Or compare "I owe my entire career to this remarkable individual who, despite never having met or being affiliated with," with "I'm not affiliated with the author though. This book helped a lot in my career as a hardware and firmware engineer." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23386732 from June 2, 2020.

Or compare "enabling me to implement powerful features akin to those found in the widely used tool, grep." with similar comments over the last 8+ years, at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... , like "and eventually write your own 'grep' which was for me is a mind-blowing experience" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13664714 from Feb 16, 2017.

And https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... shows the OP citing http://cs.newpaltz.edu/~dosreist/ while this comment uses the archive.org version because the old URL doesn't work.
I wonder how many of those contributors, if re-consulted, would sign up to having their contributions used to train a for-profit LLM though?

I certainly didn’t sweat it out helping people on SO to pay for Sam Altman’s fucking swimming pool.
That sounds so cheap to me. My 11th edition of Encyclopedia Brittanica cost maybe $4000, and I have to do maintenance to fight off dust mites and red rot. But it looks very good, and it's widely considered the best Encyclopedia. Apprently Wikipedia started out as a project to digitize 11th Britannica. It's public domain now, so you can read it on your phone free if you're interested in ruining all the charm.
>If you run your own email server and you get put onto Google's spam list - you're fucked.

It's even worse than that- I ran my own email server, and for some reason gmail delayed any emails from their system to outside of their system. That meant that people would send me an email but I wouldn't get it for 20 minutes. These delays don't exist when using big email providers (it stopped being a problem when I switched to Fastmail, for example) but if you're running a small server Google makes it a nightmare.
I think it's actually less when adjusted for inflation. I recall full sets like this being close to $2000 even way back when. Of course, back then you'd often "subscribe" to them, paying a smaller monthly fee and getting one book per month until you had the full set.
They won't pull it. They will change it and you won't know. "Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."
HN has 300k daily active users; Reddit has 52M.

It would take less than 1% of Redditors moving to HN to upend the entire culture here and make this place look like Reddit 2.0.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36246750
Nothing close to nuclear
parents vs. gigantic mega corps with more money than god and the ability to spam all forms of media with ads.

and they have to, eventually, bring in dark patterns because them stock prices have to go up. it's really just a countdown until the blatantly questionable behavior.

if parents did their jobs perfectly all the time there wouldn't be school shootings, childhood obesity, or plenty of other social ills impacting young people. these are systemic issues, and need to be handled on a system-level.
My wife's vision is to have the patients control their medical data, and opt-in share it with the researchers who recruit them for studies. I don't know what the answer is, but I think it's going to change. You are correct in that it is a huge driver of costs.
No. Apple doesn’t let plugins hook in so much because the plug-in ends up seeing a ton of data about what the user browses, and they can slow the browser down if badly written.

Apple lets plugins provide lists of elements/css/IPs/etc to block. Safari processes them and is able to block stuff based on that extremely fast and power efficiently.

There is flexibility lost. Plug-ins can’t see which rules are/aren’t hitting. You can’t filter based on the content of a request.

So there are ad blockers, and they work well. But uBlock, as it works elsewhere (I know it’s considered the best), isn’t possible due to the trade offs Apple chose.
No there's not.

If I were elected officials in Texas and Florida, I'd be much more worried about kidnapping and similar charges. Because, well, moving a person from one place to another by means of fraud seems seems to be pretty much the definition of kidnapping.
Is it possible for a (laptop + USB-C PD power charger) to support multiple charging rates?

My Lenovo Legion 5 has a 300W charger. Caveats: (a) I'm not sure if that's input power or output power; and (b) it's not a USB-C PD connector , but my question isn't specific to this laptop.

Airplane A/C power outlets aren't willing to deliver that much power. And even if I was willing to slow-charge the laptop on an airplane or with my car, the laptop isn't willing to cap the charge rate, so it's simply not an option.

So I'm wishing for some scheme that lets me slow-charge a laptop in those situations, even if it meant having two different A/C adapters.
Your argument was ‘the meter should be designed to be robust to software error at the power company’

My argument is that ’software error at the power company’ can easily cause catastrophic failures at the meter, which it stands no chance of being able to prevent. So why should it specifically be built to defend itself against the remote possibility that the master control program sends it too many on/off switch commands too quickly?
I don't find modern encyclopedias interesting, but the older encyclopedias (and textbooks) are fascinating. Specifically I love reading entries before major changes to a field. Like cells in 1950, right before the double helix structure of DNA was discovered. Or Germany in the inter war period, when everyone knew it was unstable, but no one was quite sure what that meant.
Yes, but start learning Laravel . . . today!
Monopoly via Networks Effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
So filter the content before you use it. Clearly openAI did the bare minimum on this front.
Google can also take your website out of their search results, or derank you a lot. That would effectively be a death penalty for many online businesses.
I guess my real point is that most of these issues primarily seem to be caused by the design of the charger and/or car, not the connector. For example, does the fact that some charging networks require you to use an app to pay really have anything to do with the connector? The fact that some cars apparently implement the charging protocol in a way that results in them timing out while the user is trying to activate the charger? That some charging stations just don't work?

I'd bet that we'll start hearing all sorts of similar complaints about the NACS connector once people start using them on cars from a wider array of manufacturers with NACS-equipped EA/EVGo/ChargePoint (or similar) charging stations.

To be clear, I'm open to the possibility that NACS might be better. But I don't think it will be a panacea for peoples' EV charging issues. The CCS connector has become a scapegoat for a lot of the quality issues with non-Tesla charging networks.
You'll note I said MVP. To get the product going. I agree that once it's going it's best to refine and polish tested features but software managers are still usually hands on at launch phase. Once you have your fit then follow best practice and have a proper process in place (agile, waterfall, whatever). What scale does one have to be to have a manager? Do companies operate without management?
Agree it's probably been building.

For me, perhaps others, I've been waiting for a good excuse to GTFO because I know it's been circling the drain (comments-wise if in no other way) and that I've had an unhealthy addiction to it.
shameless plug: I maintain a small library to do functional pipes.

You can write:

(
range(10)
| Map(lambda x: x * 10)
| Filter(lambda x: x % 2 == 0)
| Reduce(lambda a, b: a + b)
)

instead of:

x = range(10)
x = map(lambda x: x * 10, x)
x = filter(lambda x: x % 2 == 0, x)
x = reduce(lambda a, b: a + b, x)

and more. https://tandav.github.io/pipe21/
It's not about touching the same things. It's about potential violence.

A person who is sitting in a car has to go through two windows and rise from a sitting position to attack someone inside. A pedestrian can be facing the window directly and grab with both hands.

If a driver pulls a gun, the employee can duck. A pedestrian can lean inside and shoot them anyway.

A person in a car necessarily excludes the possibility that there are accomplices hidden just outside of employee view. Pedestrians, not so much.
I sold a Jeep Liberty to buy a truck (Honda Ridgeline) precisely because I wanted an open bed...but I live in the country and use the "truckness" of it at least twice a month.

The biggest problem with consumer truck ownership is that people buy them if they might need them periodically (tow a camper, get supplies for a remodeling project) and then they use them for everyday life because where they are grossly out of proportion. Perceived safety also plays into the equation.
Exactly. I believe this could be done, and done well. But it’s going to take a framework (and GUI) on top of GPT, and it’s going to require someone with storytelling talent to use.

Storytelling talent is different than being a writer. A tool like this could be used by many more people to write many more stories.
>but not that disruptive

I remember watching a lot of popular minecraft creators make detailed videos on why it's bad and long story short, it seemed pretty disruptive(although that's of course merely an opinion of mine and not something objective).

>motivated by immense pressure to keep Minecraft kid friendly

ultimately it's about profit though isn't it? Minecraft servers have been fine on their own(as evidenced by servers having their own ways of dealing with everything mojang decided they want to deal with directly), if it ain't broke, why fix it? Because keeping minecraft child-friendly will keep those with their money on the line more happy since it certainly is catered towards younger children among other demographics. Also not sure how much experience you have with minecraft but there is a MASSIVE difference between technical(power users) players and casual players and you certainly can cleanly fit users in the dichotomy.

And I agree they've done a decent job all these years, but since the MSFT acquisition, things are slowly going downhill with every update and it feels like MSFT is indeed taking minecraft down the enshittification route.
HN is as much of a hivemind as reddit.
Heh, your spidey senses are correct. I actually wrote the response and then ran it though ChatGPT for clean up. I do agree, it actually reads weird over my original draft.
Give me a surefire, 100% guarantee that my data won't be misused against me or anyone else, under severe penalty to you personally if your guarantee fails. Then we can talk.
There's always "some" interface under the hood you can automate on - unless they start requiring captchas for every interaction.
It might not be as comfy to use as the official API but still better than manually deleting hundreds or thousands of comments.