skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Johnny here.

I was mid-reply and I realised I was typing out my problem statement, so I’ll just paste it here. This is a work in progress.

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# The problem

When we kept everything on paper, organised people had these things called filing cabinets. They stored all of their documents in them in a structured way so that they could find them again.

Now those same people store all of their files in arbitrarily named folders on their company’s shared drive and wonder why they can’t find anything.

## Information wasn’t always free

When we kept everything on paper, generating information came with a cost. Paper cost money. Typing out a document took real effort. Duplicating a document meant a trip to the photocopier.

Every document produced was a tangible thing. It was there, on your desk. You couldn’t ignore it.

Now anyone can duplicate anything, instantly, invisibly, for free. We assume this is an improvement.

Is it?

## You had to be organised

When we kept everything on paper, you had to be organised. There was no other option.

If you weren’t organised, the information was lost. Not lost as in ‘it’ll take me a while to find it’: lost as in ‘gone forever’.

Now you can be disorganised, but at what cost? The cost is the time it takes you to find a thing; it is the risk that the thing that you find is a duplicate or an old version. It is the constant frustration that comes from knowing that something exists, but having no idea where it is.

We all feel this every day and we have come to believe that it is normal.

It is not normal.

## Why aren’t we given training?

When we kept everything on paper, it was someone’s job to organise it. This was an occupation: you were trained. You became an expert.

Now we employ Gen Z’s who didn’t grow up with the concept of ‘a file’ yet we expect them to navigate the byzantine hierarchy of the company’s SharePoint.[genz]

[genz]: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc...

You work at a keyboard all day, so we make you sit through a module so you know to bend your knees when you lift a box.

But when it comes to information management: you’re on your own.
On one hand, claiming threats or violence is a typical strategy to ban speech you dislike and it's usually dishonest.

Reddit let it go for a long time until they couldn't any more.

On the other, the acceptable mainstream US centric democrat leaning subs are vitriolic, threatening and all that jazz against many political leaders and that's A' OK.

Where is your evidence for this?

Because it's acceptable to want do so against republican's or Putin or "the new designated evil guy" because "it's a response to THEIR violence".

Putin is a war criminal committing genocide. No one on an internet forum is going to be able to threaten him, but most of the world hopes he dies. This is a bizarre stance to take.

It's the whole "I claim your speech is violence therefore I can actually be violent against you".

No one has to claim it, people are putting it in writing and leaving it on forums instead of deleting it.

use ad homs

Show me one. An ad hominem would be something like 'you're fat' instead of addressing an argument. I don't think you understand what it means.

To me, you're terrorizing anyone who has a different opinion. Semantic bs.

Threatening violence against people is terrorism.

Me explaining reality to you is not terrorism.

A company not wanting to broadcast threats and hate speech is not terrorism.

You aren't entitled to everyone hearing what you have to say.

You're an authortiarian wanted to shut down others with different ideas

I'm not doing anything, I just explained to you why you can't say whatever you want on reddit.
"In the year 2145, humanity had successfully established a colony on Mars, an unforgiving yet fascinating red planet. Among the brave pioneers was a unique hamster named Kepler. Engineered with advanced intelligence, Kepler was no ordinary hamster. Equipped with a high-tech suit designed to sustain him in Mars' harsh environment, Kepler scurried through the tunnels of the Mars colony, his tiny paws leaving delicate imprints on the red soil. [...]"

- ChatGPT
Maybe that is the secret sauce of this service. They render the email with react and automagically convert that to something that works for email?
This started with a reference to a small group of Nazi flag waving protesters
outside Disney World and an assumption that that group represents the population
of Florida

And yet groups like the Anti Defamation League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People are showing a rise in hate groups. Go figure.

confirming my comment about the small sizes of these neo-Nazis here in Florida

Time for you to get some perspective. What you consider to be a small group of Nazis and "people you don’t agree with" is far larger and more widespread than in for e.g. New York City. What you consider small is pretty damn large for anyone on the outside looking in.

you have now decided to expand this nazi group to all sorts of people you
don’t agree with

And there it is. That old chestnut. No. The klan is not simply a group that I "don't agree with." Gerrymandering voting districts to eliminate any black pluralities is not simply a disagreement it's an existential threat.

Florida is diverse and growing.

I'm not quite sure why you're harping on diversity. These diverse people that you seem to love to trot out are being persecuted. They're also leaving because of the persecution that you seem to think doesn't exist.

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2023/05/31/families-...
I've been in multiple organizations now that have the redefinition of whats appropriate. Many times there is training sourced from a third party company that does this.

I've had one organization call the "confederate flag" a form of racism. (For those who haven't been in the US South for a long time, those who display it aren't racist, but many are)
> A doctor knows what his practice is worth and wants every cent he can get out of it - but the next generation of doctor is not going to be able to compete with debt financing what a PE cash-buyer can get.

In my opinion, the physician in this example is a monster. Profit maximization is a choice, not some kind of moral imperative. Am I supposed to have any respect for somebody selling out their employees and patients to vampires so they can retire to a beach or whatever?

The solution I'd want to see for situations like this is to find a way to sell to the people who have a continuing interest in how the business is run: employees and customers. The "exit" that does right by all interested parties would be something like having a newly formed employee coop gradually buy out the founder's ownership stake. To make a tech analogy, you don't have to sell your 0-day to foreign government just because they pay more than the bug bounty program! You don't have to sell out your community to vampires because they're the highest bidders! This is a choice that somebody is making.
Tangential: check out “Yelping with Cormac”, a tumblr that I think did a great job of capturing his style with humorous results.
My point is backed up by what I can see posted every day in a community of 18,000 email marketers.
If you are new to development, I advise you to do not to use any framework, give time to yourself use vanilla CSS and JavaScript so you will learn them the right way. I know some people who can't differentiate between Tailwind classes and HTML/CSS, they was thinking that Tailwind is CSS because they directly started learning it first, that's not the right way in my opinion.
I recently emailed a guy that, if you sent him a text-only email (as I normally do), it would go into his spam folder or get vanished. I had to turn on HTML email to send something to him.

They used some version of Outlook. Don't know if it was in-house or the Microsoft hosted service or what. Plus whatever gimcrack spam filters they might use in house. I've seen some nonsense on the Internet, but this was a first for me. Absolutely bonkers.
Microsoft Airband to give internet access to 40M+ in Latin America and Africa
https://www.youtube.com/live/l3pe_qx95E0?feature=share&t=564...
I see on the blog that the site is intended to be used as a native web app via the "add to Home Screen" share option on iOS; however, I've been unable to figure out how to sign in on the "web app" version. The login link delivered via email opens in safari so the "web app" remains signed out.
At least for the last point I use conda with the nb_conda/nb_conda_kernels packages, which makes you able to switch kernels to different environments.
I'm kind of shocked the physical tooling exists to make a Game Boy cartridge and chips more than anything else.
You exaggerate a bit! Machine learning and language models have been around for decades. OpenAI itself has been around since 2015.
I can see why my brain refuses to hold on to that one.
Introduction of Electromagnetic Information Security by Yuichi Hayashi, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

#IEICE_English_Webinar

“Introduction of Electromagnetic Information Security”

Lecturer: Prof. Yuichi Hayashi, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

YouTube Premiere Session: Friday, April 28, 6:30 PM JST (GMT+9)

youtu.be/CXCwWyHUZE0

Comment:

Your CPU has silicon trojans that can exfiltrate data with it's own radio. Terrorists sponsored by Silicon Valley can use these to steal your files and passwords and also to sabotage your system. There is no security while using US designed CPUs.

Contact me for details on BadBIOS, Hardware Trojans, Havana Syndrome and Electromagnetic Surveillance and Sabotage.
That would have been cool if they did a run of physical cartridges, with the box and everything.

Limited Run Games does runs of physical Gameboy cartridges still. They have to restyle things to not have Nintendo branding, but it can be done.
Released without bond according to apnews [1]

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36316308
We also have very effective unions in a lot of sectors, particularly manufacturing. They're usually one of the main factions in a Betriebsrat, so do a lot of negotiating long before problems rise to the level of a strike.

We employees vote for our Betriebsrat members, and in very large firms like mine, the candidates organize themselves into faction lists (kind of like parties), and it works basically like electoral politics do in the national and state parliaments. At my company, our Betriebsrat elections are every four years. You can go to the Betriebsrat, either individual members or the council as a whole, with things Americans would (reluctantly) go to HR for.

The top members of a large company Betriebsrat (but not all - our Betriebsrat is way too large for that) are then part of the board of directors during their elected term.

A former IT colleague of mine is currently serving as a full-time Betriebsrat member after years of being involved, still receiving his full salary; he will go back to working in IT again at the end of the current term. Another colleague is a lower-ranking member (different faction, too) and just gets a certain number of paid hours per month to do Betriebsrat stuff.
Cormac McCarthy was an optimist.
Not really, all you need is a server that does all the scraping using cron jobs/etc and creates a reddit api backend service that pushes up new content when new content is added. In this way all that extra load would be via some server on digital ocean or even serverless functions.
So is Reddit content being (usefully) archived anywhere, and if so, where?

By "useful" I mean in an easily searchable / navigable / quickly rendering form (not via the Wayback Machine).
Federated sites like lemmy and mastodon.
Hard agree, I have no intentions of marrying let alone having children.

I'm perfectly happy living my life going my way and my way alone as I see fit. Most human relations are straight bullshit and just aren't worth my time and energy in an age when there's so much to do, so much to see, and so little time.

The people moaning about marriage and birth rates can go pound sand.
Use containers...
It's because the term itself has changed. Not every PC is a workstation. These days we call it that if it has at least HEDT or server hardware. More PCIe lanes than desktops comes with that. Even Apple's previous Mac Pros have been matching that definition.
I have that right. But I'm not secure in these categories as a direct result of the government's patronage of private companies who make me insecure.

This applies to all US citizens - they are not secure either.

This has been the case, increasingly so, for my entire life and has driven my passion to join this industry to fix this insecurity which can technically be fixed, but the model is off where TPMs instead treat the device owner as the "untrusted" party.

So.... now what?
They do all of those things plus selling 'coins'.. and generate $500-600m/year from it.
Stripe acquired Indihackers, then recently spun it out again. Indihackers now needs to monetize to pay for servers, bandwidth, salaries (not sure what the timeline is, https://twitter.com/csallen report $8k of $10k MRR reached).

If the same happens to Hackernews, being spun out of YCombinator, I'd say some hard decisions will be taken.

That said YCombinator seens HN as business expense and advertising. So far it looks like they're happy to pay the bills. HN runs on 2-3 servers, staff of 1, relatively little bandwidth (no images), no advertising, no sales team.
That's exactly what Elo controls for: all things, being equal, what is the skill component. Now there could be a second-order effect in which a higher Elo player is even better at winning from an advantageous position, but given large enough samples this should be in the mix.
Hi HN! I was looking for a tokenizer that would accurately(!) count tokens in browser, and I couldn't find one. So I thought "how hard can it be", and here we are 2 weeks later...
I kicked off a Redshift cluster in every region, they've all run and completed, except for `us-east-1`, which is stuck creating the cluster. Been about an hour now.
I read _Stella Maris_ just after reading a bio of Gödel and history of the Vienna Circle. Serendipitous to come across it, and would recommend it.

_The Road_...I was warned, but not prepared.
Women who do this have told me it can sometimes be about 'trying to live life before it is too late'.
Isn't that what happened to Bed Bath & Beyond? Can someone explain to me why this happening isn't a bad thing?
I don't think that's what the parent to your comment was about.

You can't automate away programming, but you can write one program that behaves equivalent to many that accepts configuration from people who don't know how to program.
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If you can automate away programming, there's some people who would like to give you a lot of money.

A lot of the work that programmers do (which is not identical, but somewhat related to "a lot of programming") could be left out (which is not identical, but somewhat related to "automated"). The reason is that a lot of programming is working around the gigantic brokenness of the whole software ecosystem. Here there does exist an insane amount of possible cost savings.

Concerning the "some people who would like to give you a lot of money": I actually talked about my thoughts with a friend who knows a lot both about economy (he works as a business consultant) and programming. He clearly said that my ideas on this topic were really smart and thought through, but getting money is a lot more complicated (it demands both being a good salesman and having connections). So "some people who would like to give you a lot of money" is simply not true. :-(
If we use your metric, then an honest appraisal of brains and computers suggests little to no mathematical ability on the part of the latter either. If we assume that a similar medium or structure is necessary for similar results, then it should be highly improbable that a bunch of semiconductors could ever perform even simple math, since they are very structurally dissimilar to the human brain.
162-Year-Old Law Used to Jail Woman for Taking Abortion Pills Beyond Legal Time
> Consider two people - one, a Papau New Guinea tribesperson who is allowed to handle a powered-down iPhone, and told it is an "iPhone", but is otherwise ignorant of its behavior - the other, a cross-platform mobile software developer who has never actually held a physical iPhone, but is intimately familiar with its build systems, API, cultural context etc. Between the two of them, who better understands what an iPhone "is"?

But then also consider the following: a human being from 2006, and an LLM that has absorbed an enormous corpus of words about iPhones that is also granted access to a capacitive-touchscreen friendly robot arm and continuous feed digital camera (and since I'm feeling generous, also a lot of words about the history and architecture of robot arms and computer vision). There is no doubt the LLM will completely blow the human out of the water if asked trivia questions about the iPhone and its ecosystem.

But my money's on the 2006 human doing a lot better at switching it on and using the Tinder app...
OXO sells borosilicate cookware.

I’m unsure if all their glass cookware is borosilicate but they clearly marked it as such when I last looked.
Many of these kinds of articles are always seem to be slanted in how it negatively affects women. Women desiring more successful partners, yet men aren't keeping up. I'd be interested if there was any good article broaching that subject more, instead of remarkably pithy answers like "it's those damn video games."
What aspects of the West didn't make sense to you?
Growing up in Ohio as well, I was fortunate to encounter in high school Ursula Le Guin's short story "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" which helped me feel like I understood it better. After spending more time in the West and Southwest, those feelings were confirmed.
I gave up on it all when Google released that feature that can call a phone number for you to book a table or cancel a service or whatever else it can all do. And then I realized that in a lot of cases the entity answering the phone on the other end would be a machine as well.

So now you have 2 machines talking to each other in text-to-speech English over audio, then having to do speech-to-text on each others audio streams, and then natural language processing to understand the message etc.

When all we needed instead was a simple API endpoint over the internet for the business where a machine could talk to the other machine with just a few bytes of information to convey the same information and process the same transaction.

Instead we are wasting bandwidth and tons of cpu cycles and electricity making the machines emulate a human analog conversation.
I genuinely can't imagine this working at all for any sort of software development project.
The big subs have figured out an extensive set up of bots and moderation guidelines, while investing their own time, all for free. Reddit’s mod tooling is extremely abysmal, that’s part of the protest. (Only 3P devs have bothered building more advanced tools.) A new mod will not have the expertise or careful set up from the previous mods.

Most of the mods are debatably not power hungry, particularly on a sub like Music or Videos. Finding a replacement mod team without specific agendas is going to be hard. Only the most power tripping or ideologically driven will want the position as paying mods seems out of the question given Reddit’s stance.

Inexperienced mods will also be unable to handle the torrent of spam and low effort posts and comments the big sub attract.

It’s not impossible to punish the dissident mods but having a functional replacement on short notice is impossible.
Wow, The Passenger really was his last. He never compromised, he was true to his creative vision right up until the end. Truly one of the greats
Did Reddit actually make that threat or was that just a fearful suspicion from the userbase?
Fed, because they were not in use anymore after Russia turned them off.
They didn't actually do that, it seems to just be a ROM release.

Though they could have. Limited Run Games does Gameboy cartridges. I'm not sure what kind of tooling they use for it though.
I’ve got my entire neighborhood teed up to go and spread rumors that spez likes to do weird things to porcupines the second the moderation walls go down.
Framer AI – Generate and publish your site with AI in seconds
Why is that better than using CSS to theme the scrollbars as I’m doing now?
How many brains does an octopus have? – Spy in the Ocean
I think you underestimate the value of that free labor.

Reddit isn't even profitable. Hiring mods for thousands of subreddits would cost them a ton of money, not only in wages but in the cost of finding and training those workers.

Beyond that, the minute the mods are official employees of Reddit, Reddit is fully responsible for all the content on all those subs. Social media companies are already under a lot of scrutiny for the kinds of content they allow on their platform. I doubt they'd want to go there.
by way of this tweet

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1668293999403122691
If some people are willing to pay $8 for Twitter,they will happily pay more for Reddit.
It's not 48 hours though. /r/AskHistorians has gone permananently dark, or protected. Existing content/comments will remain, but only as an archive.
> "His history includes stints at Apple, Tesla and AMD."

Kind of a minor point, but it's weird they omitted Intel.
> There aren't good boundaries between Jupyter's own Python environment, and that of your notebooks— if you have a dependency which conflicts with one of Jupyter's dependencies, then good luck.

It's cumbersome, and I'm not totally sure it's the correct way, but I remember getting around this by creating a virtualenv for my projects and then using that virtualenv's python as Jupyter's "kernel".
Yup, they were trying really hard to break into the pod coffee game by making machines (but not pods, lol razor/blade model backwards) the machines were neat, they have a combo Nespresso/Keurig machine we bought but it was kinda bad at both.
> EU and even more so Asia-based employees prefer to first discuss the idea on multiple 1:1s for a long time, to discuss / think / make decision with everyone, come up with some harmony before any formal meetings. And the meeting itself would serve only ceremonial needs -- to let the manager officially declare the idea live.

This is so that the manager doesn't lose face in front of his subordinates. In the US, if the junior employee has a stroke of genius during the meeting and comes up with a better idea than the manager, then the manager just looks good for hiring that guy.
"In addition, there is a problem specific to medical practices - you can't just hand them over to your kid!"

- Doctors partner with the person that will take over their practice for years before retiring. PE is destroying this system and the latest crop of doctors will lose out on mentorship and the opportunity to run a practice. Everything will become big corporate offices and everyone will suffer
And yet it's AWS that's down.
anyone getting Gateway Time-out?
I'm sometimes the one firing off the "inflammatory response", and it's usually in a group of men where someone says something blatantly misogynistic, not just stereotypical.
getting Gateway Time-out
Um but you have the example of English. Modern English was based on Middle English, which in turn is based on Old English, but greatly influenced by Norman on account of the invasion, as well as by Norse
Pressure cooking itself is magical but the InstantPot is like a level one mage casting magical missile. Even the “high pressure” setting is pretty low compared to a real pressure cooker.

Thankfully most meals have low HP.
Players can also swap back and forth between winning a majority of games, so it depends on the amount of games we're talking about.
They're doing the bad things