skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realise your question is more of a commentary on MaTN's voiceover, but can't resist answering..

CouchWarrior on youtube has a vast oeuvre[1] of Bethesda letsplays with varying degrees of in-character narration and meta commentary which I find highly non-excruciating.

Most of it is (variously modded) Skyrim - here's one where a high level assassin mage gratifyingly takes out the Black-Briar household by commission which contains both a "silent" and a separate commented version: [2] (skip to 18:30 if you want the commentary).

There's also a partial Fallout 4 playthrough, mostly done with engaging in-character narration as "Saint Billy" [3]

It may not be for everyone, but the thoughtful, relaxed and character-based roleplay-centric approach beats out the squeaky-voiced minmaxing of standard letsplays every time as far as I'm concerned.

1: https://www.youtube.com/@couchwarriortv/playlists?view=1&sor...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OADtS8yAsCk

3: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq3QdWvJDnh024UmnWHvK...
It is literally just a goddamn electric motor. it is very good at converting chemical energy into mechanical energy. It is not a universal engine, it is not your horse, it is not your servant. It is not designed to create movement which is correct, it is designed to create movement which is similar to a piston engine.

It might move you forward most of the time! But that is purely incidental.
Because most of these startup ideas are rubbish and won't be viable in the marketplace. That's the real reason they can't raise money. Really, if the people with the startup put their own money into the product or took out loans in their own name then it would show it's serious. But most startups should just die.
All those faux real world analogies is what keeps normies afraid of computers.
These are far from perfect, but still something:

https://github.com/andrei-markeev/ts2c/

https://github.com/evanw/thinscript

If you aim for 32 bit microcontrollers then you can go with assemblyscript to wasm and then with wasm to C transpiller
I wonder if some of those commenting actually used USENET. I did, for years. Don't remember how long.

USENET had many excellent corners as well as places where you could witness or, if desired, participate in, full-on fecal matter throwing contests. Not sure why people think it was some idyllic environment different from anything seen today.

The key thing to understand is that people are pretty much the same. The masses have some really unique personalities that seem to come out and flourish in front of a keyboard.

I used to think that anonymity was the culprit. It obviously isn't. I have seen some awesome (not in a good way) feces throwing contests on Facebook in groups devoted to our neighborhood and town. In other words, people who are not at all anonymous and very likely run into each other and even send their kids to the same schools.

Mark Twain's observation still holds true today:

“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
How Voat went may have discouraged them.
> It has nothing to do with being "perfect". Archiving billions of Reddit posts isn't free or necessarily of enough value to be worthwhile in my opinion.

No one's making you pay for it.

And my understanding is those billions of blanket-archived posts have been instrumental in training the current crop of "AI" language models.

> If the Archive Team, instead of blanketly archiving stuff off Reddit, devoted that effort to releasing archiving tools that make it simple for a 90+ IQ person to back up a Reddit community, that would be more worthwhile and far less wasteful. It would even potentially make communities less dependent on Reddit no matter the outcome of the recent controversy.

I suppose you can go onto their IRC and let them know your thoughts about how they're doing it all wrong: https://webirc.hackint.org/#irc://irc.hackint.org/#archivete...

Honestly, you seem to just be really confused about this whole archiving thing. Like you have it backwards about what's cheap (bandwidth and storage) and what's not (human effort), so you're advocating spending expensive resources to conserve cheap resources. Furthermore, you have some strange preference for isolated individual efforts, which are totally unsuited for actual preservation, which really requires long-lived institutions to be successful.

> How so? Scraping old.reddit.com is not hard. Even snapshotting whole pages of the new Reddit can be done if that becomes the only alternative. Given enough motivation to archive valuable information, even a junior developer could do it. If a community is valuable enough, someone will archive it. People don't devote effort to things they don't find valuable.

That's twisted logic. People do find these communities valuable and they do devote effort to archiving it, but that's not actually good enough for you. You deem that only certain people should archive, and if they don't do it (maybe they want to, but are busy with other things) it shouldn't be done. Either you don't realize the flaw there, or it's just a way of indirectly saying "I don't like it, so don't do it, period."
Given that they're attorneys, we know what their next course of action may be. I've noticed that ChatGPT's new onboarding includes a screen with a big disclaimer where there wasn't one before. I can only assume that it may be related to cases like these.
In the Ukraine conflict, I was surprised that the military is more reasonable than the politicians.

(Vad and Kujat in Germany, Milley in USA).

Who want's to fight? It doesn't seem to be the military.
Oh, that explains why i abandoned the game. Terrible design. It doesn't even tell you what's going on.
Or fake “beyond” meats. Highly processed, who knows what. The opposite of fresh vegetables and meat.
It isn't practical to make every space as sterile as a clean room. Outside air also carries pathogens.

Besides, humans and our ancestors have spent millions of years exposed to all sorts of things. It is why we have an immune system.
"Murdering or enslaving the population of the conquered country is a lot cheaper as a way to maintain control of it."

Depends on what you need the country for.

Nazis crushed the Czechoslovak state and executed any guerrillas caught fighting them, but they didn't mess with ordinary Czech workers, who were needed to keep the factories running. Mistreating qualified workers would decrease total industrial output and harm the German war effort.
I can't comprehend how a crisis PR person would see the comment asking about Apollo and make the suggestion Steve pointlessly double down on the same accusation.
The Youtube channel Drachinifel covers those war games, and the lessons the US learned (and didn't learn) from them in pretty extensive detail here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMK9a-vDE5zEmzgruoWAy...
> When I heard the news, I realized I'd be upset if I wasn't able to access my contributions anymore.

Clearly all I’ve put on Reddit is dross. I can’t think of anything I’d care about losing.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36259930#36261641 for my suggestion (forum aggregator where you can view and post on arbitrary sites via arbitrary APIs)
Maybe just a gentlemen's agreement, but a nice canary too. Once the dumps stop, it's time to start waving middle fingers and GTFO.
Sorry for the ambiguity, you as in you, the designer/manufacturer of the product.

The owner has no way to know the thermal limits of some unknown internal switching component, and even if they have who says the radio signals are emitted by the owner?
I have been using a remote workflow for more than three years.

I don't use remote desktop. I just SSH into the machine and use tmux sessions for terminal stuff and the vscode remote package for editing. To help the workflow I have some nice aliases for easily opening projects, forwarding ports, sleeping/waking the server etc.

I'm aware that this workflow cannot work for everyone - for instance it won't work for developing desktop apps, but for web and app development it's really nice to have a powerful machine doing all the hard work.

I think many would be surprised by how much faster desktop hardware is. Especially when you put price into the equation.
Then the question should've been "is it ok to perform experiments on uninformed participants" or "would it have been ok if they splashed water instead".

The doesn't try to explicitly link their question to the article and instead its prose is a hypothetical.

Instead, the guy ask if its ok to splash water. I can't think of any reason why splashing water would be the line at which its no longer ok to have an experiment. I certainly can see uninformedness being a reason not to have an experiment but that's a different question and so it would get a different answer.
I certainly remember when everyone complained about that
There was a recent thread titled something like "How do I serve 5TB of data" (I can't seem to find it now). MANY of the responses said that bandwidth in Cloudflare is 0 cents "until you reach 100TB, then they want to talk to you about their Enterprise plans". This was echoed by 5+ responses, so before you go relying on CF's free bandwidth, check on this.

We were looking to migrate a small photo service over to Cloudflare workers and R2 storage, partly because of the Bandwidth Alliance, but squashed that when we heard there might be surprise charges.
I'm extremely lazy, the commute "forced" me to do some exercise and I promptly stopped when the WFH lock downs started.
Wrangling verbatim text in a Doxygen/Breathe/Sphinx docs system
It may solve some problems, but it also cuts off the possibility of a GREAT deal of good. I get that it's hip to bash social media et al and its problems, but I believe that it's been instrumental in exposing and combatting a WIDE range of endemic problems in the world, e.g. police brutality.

"Big" spaces are important too. Maybe more important if we're trying to avert global disaster.
RLHF and fine-tuning! While these methods make prompting more accessible and approachable to people unfamiliar with LLMs and otherwise expecting an omniscient chatbot, they make the underlying dynamics a lot more unstable. Personally, I prefer the untuned base models. In fact, I depend upon a set of high-quality prompts (none of which are questions or instructions) which perform similarly across different base models of different sizes (e.g., GPT-2-1.5B, code-davinci-002, LLaMA-65B, etc.) but frequently break between different instruction-tuned models and different versions of the _same_ instruction-tuned model (I think Google's Flan-T5-XXL has been the only standout exception in my tests, consistently outperforming its corresponding base model, and although it's not saying much, I admit that GPT-4 does do a lot better than GPT-3.5-turbo in remaining consistent across updates).
NATO expansion is a scapegoat for Russia's imperial conquests. They will latch on to any reason to justify the invasion of Ukraine. If I recall correctly, it was to take care of "Nazis" in Ukraine, right? But then they kind of stopped promoting that angle. Also they took Crimea, which understandably made a lot of Ukrainians very nervous.

Russia should have just not invaded Ukraine. I find it incredible that people try to justify that action on increasingly flimsy grounds.
Neat idea, but some of it is made out to be unnecessarily complex and esoteric.
E.g. giving it your name, and now it becomes 'aware' of your name. I guess in normal programming that would be like saying once you declare your variable the program is 'aware' of it. It's not wrong to say that, but unnecessarily makes it more complicated. The tacking of multiple such instances makes the overall post more complicated than needed. The core idea is neat though.
This is absolutely what I imagine using Copilot for and also exactly why I don't understand the rapturous praise for increasing productivity. I have no doubt it will speed up the tasks I only need to do once or twice a year. I look forward to it! But until then where are these productivity gains people are talking about?
Hopefully one day we can redeem it for cash with all that API money they're making off the posts that generated it :)
For most consumer products there's no fee transparency at all. When I buy a cabbage, I just get a price, not a detailed breakdown of how much money goes to the farmer, delivery truck driver, and grocery store. It might be higher or lower depending on where I shop, and I might be willing to pay more if the store is nicer or more convenient or I think they're more socially responsible. But I don't get the idea that transparency as such is an imperative here.

If market conditions change and consumers have to be more diligent with their money, or funding conditions change and the delivery apps all discover that their business models are unsustainable, presumably customers can simply start ordering directly from restaurants again if that's the best way to get the food they want. It doesn't seem like there are any structural barriers to that.
I coded an upvoting platform in the late '00s. I mean, these things are very simple to build, and if you actually put some thought into sharding they're not that hard to scale. (No offense Dan but I have no clue what route HN has taken and I'm almost terrified to know).

The simple problem is what it's always been: Good moderation and building a community. See me, I was literally just bitching about being kicked off of WSB. Or the many times I've been banned or limited from HN. And I consider myself a mildly obstreperous arguer, sometimes a bit of a jackass, but certainly not the worst.

The answer to why there are no Reddit clones is simply that Reddit owns the market for all forums in the known universe which are not specialty forums, which usually run on PHPBB or some other ancient janky software and charge $5/mo for subscription to keep their servers up. A single ad on Reddit reaches millions. It's simply the economy of scale.

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This does get into the more interesting question of why people keep building startups without asking themselves "hey, what's our moat to prevent someone else from..."

The "moat" for Reddit is only volume. Period. Same with all socials that have existed more or less since the collapse of Friendster, Myspace, LnC and Suicide Girls [edit edit: I guess suicide girls still exists. That makes me feel even older].
Workers protections have nothing to do with consumer prices.
My college professors said that an encyclopedia article can't be cited because it's a tertiary source of information. That's considered too far abstracted from the original source of the info to be used as a citation. Primary sources are original documents like the U.S. Constitution; secondary sources are books about the U.S. Constitution that offer some kind of analysis by professionals; tertiary sources are aggregate articles citing multiple analyses, aggregating them together like a Reader's Digest but not contributing further to the discussion like a viewpoint or stance or new info.

All of the above is explained in this article[1] (I just lazily searched for one).

Sources:
1: https://crk.umn.edu/library/primary-secondary-and-tertiary-s...
I've sketched a few ideas for what you'd need to make Usenet, ah, usable given modern concerns (primarily spam and spoofing). The biggest takeaway in my explorations is: you could probably never really get mass adoption of a Usenet-esque system these days. Oh well. Anyway:

I'd start with the basic idea that identities matter. For any given message, you should know what user posted it and from which server. It doesn't matter if the user is Robert Smith posting from smith-family-server.net, or Leet Hakkerman posting on darkweb.io, every message should be signed by the author ("the person who owns this public key wrote this) and counter-signed by the server ("my user, who owns this public key, did indeed submit this message to me"). Separating out individual identities (user's key pair) from the server means you can switch to another server and say "hey, it's me, i'm over here now" and it's verifiable -- but of course requiring people to manage key pairs is a tall ask.

Once you've got that, you can start doing things like setting up your server to just drop any messages from a server you consider abusive, or configuring your newsreader to drop messages signed by a particular user. "Nymshifting" is still possible, but it takes the cooperation of a server owner to do it, and it means the server might find others unwilling to peer with it.

Ideally, as people proposed with Mastodon, servers should be small; the admin should never answer "who??" when you mention a user on their system. But like a lot of decentralization/federation ideas (see Mastodon), these schemes fall apart quickly as soon as the usual thing happens: one server goes up which makes registration easy & anonymous, thousands of users flock there, and everybody else has to decide if they want to drop the server which generates 50% of traffic on the network.

edit: part of the idea of making it look a lot like Usenet except that your servers are verifying signatures throughout is that you can just use regular existing newsreaders to read it. The servers might exchange messages in the "native" format via a slightly modified IHAVE command, but when a newsreader connects and asks for an article via the ARTICLE command, the server can parse & rewrite the article to present it in RFC1036-compliant format.
Wish to use GPT-4 without bringing your own API Key? Here is how YOU can do it
All of you have been waiting to use GPT-4 for all your content day in and day out.

Although it is one of the best things to use these days, it comes with a price that even makes me hesitant to use it for a longer term without looking at those costly API bills with a sigh

That is where the discovery of 'Magai' takes place.

It is like a cold breeze in the hot desert.

It is already doing great by having customers who are paying every month to access it without using their own API key (yeah, you don't need to bring your own API key to use Magai)

Here is why I think Magai is getting traction + generating a growing MRR:

It helps you stay organized effortlessly. Create chat folders and keep multiple brands separate. Magai helps you maintain clarity and productivity.

Real-time URL comprehension. Magai reads and relays website content to ChatGPT. Just paste a link and let Magai handle the rest.

Save and access powerful prompts. Your most valuable prompts, product descriptions, and more are instantly available in your Prompt Library.

It Perfects your AI responses. Magai can Edit ChatGPT’s replies to correct errors or provide clarifications. Enjoy more accurate and refined conversations.

It Never loses your history. Even if ChatGPT encounters issues, the chat history remains safe and accessible on Magai’s servers.

It has Multiple AI Models and not just GPT: another reason for Magai to have more customers are multiple AI Models and not just OpenAI model, you get to use Claude AI, Google's Bard (when it comes out) and the list will go endless as more of them roll out.

Plus a lot moreeee features that make it tempting to try out!

On top of that, to generate more marketing buzz and onboard new users to gain feedback, they have launched a lifetime deal on RocketHub (one of the amazing growth hacks even your SaaS can do to get traction)

Here is where you can check it out: https://www.rockethub.com/deal/magai

I had a conversation with the founder on Twitter and he has been a serial entrepreneur from the start, making my belief in this product reach great heights to stay!

Check Magai and let me know what you guys think about it in the comment section.

I will keep sharing more tools like these as I explore this gigantic and valuable forest that is the 'Internet'
> A webapp isn't a company. If you have a company, you should have at least half a rack of hardware in a colo.

is the quote I was replying to. The parent doesn't mention startups, they say the word company so of course I'd have taken it as all companies as a whole. There is no hard and fast rule that every company must have "half a rack of hardware in a colo" or otherwise they're not a "real company." This is basically the No True Scotsman fallacy in action.
Yes. There's moderately successful precedent: Wikivoyage is a fork of Wikitravel, which was went evil after it was sold to a content farm.
This works, and I certainly respect your choice to do so, but if we ass start doing this it removes a huge amount of the value from the platform.

For example I just recently went searching for a solution to a problem, and found 3 reddit posts with what must've been solutions because there were "awesome, works great!" responses, but I'll never know what those solutions were because the user had deleted their posts.

I mean, we could all just use Signal with disappearing messages enabled I suppose, that would keep anyone from utilizing "our data"... I fear we'll just doom ourselves to asking the same questions over and over and over and over if we can't build lasting, searchable, repositories of knowledge.
Well... the old UI is perfectly good at it. The new UI not so much.
Because none of that matters for the point of this story?
the cache also stores the source code used to create the build. there’s been numerous cases where upstream code has been deleted on GitHub or elsewhere then rescued from nixcache.
So in other countries when tackling immigration, your leader doesn't sign an 'Excecutive Order' that he will build a wall, the most beautiful wall, without the support of nearly anyone else except his rabid base? I'm shocked.
Well, you've got two wrists: https://www.theverge.com/23522956/double-wristwatch-apple-wa...
Usenet is still alive and kicking. Mailing lists still exist. Go subscribe to some and start contributing.
No, BWT is largely unused in modern compression codecs.

Lempel-Ziv is the basis for almost all modern general purpose compression, and works more like having a hash table mapping 3 or 4 byte fragments to their positions, and walking through the input byte by byte checking the hash table for matches and inserting the latest fragments&positions into the hash table.

BWT has nearly identical speed compressing and decompressing, but searching for matches to compress is much slower than simply copying data according to instructions to decompress.
The person that pushed for the leap second should be flogged very hard!
SSH IoT devices from anywhere – even behind CGNAT
That is some pretzel logic right there.
Yes, I knew this, and it's beside the point.

Which is that, despite loving Lua, I can recognize that it features several 'improvements' which are going to cause Surprise for a lot of coders. Which is bad, following the Law of Least Surprise.

Personally, I agree with you, but I can also see why Lua initially turns a lot of people off; it took a good year of meeting it in my Neovim config before I accepted that it wasn't some horrible corruption of JavaScript. Now I tend to think of Lua as an improvement over JavaScript: spare, elegant, and almost perfect.

But I remember that first year, and I can still empathize with people in their first year of Lua.
While forums are fine, their UX is usually inconsistent at best, and often just bad. Plus you lose out on a few quality of life things, like a single login, cross-posts, and saved posts.
Sure, that's what the EU claims. Doesn't make it so.
> if they don't have enough money to pay the fine, who is on the hook for the remaining damages?

No one. The remaining damages go uncollected as there is no one to collect them from. Shareholders, bondholders, and junior creditors are wiped out of their ownership stake in 3M and the 3M company would cease to exist.