skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find his exploration of dark matters to be uniquely stimulating and useful in a variety of thought experiments.

Take The Road, for example. The notion of assessing the probabilities that you'll have enough ammunition to either kill multiple assailants, or alternatively, need to keep the ammunition to kill yourself and your son seems sickening and pointless to explore to some people. Taken seriously and with an open mind, it can invoke serious contemplation of your values, what life means to you, what compassion can really mean, how you take what you have for granted, and more.

As awful as it is to consider, there are real people who have had to make these decisions. That there can be a state of existence in this world where these are pressing matters is simultaneously bewildering and disgusting, yet eye-opening in ways I consider important to living better even outside of that context.

The relentless and ruthless tunnel of gloom and suffering in that book is a useful tool to remind yourself in a vivid way: It's all still here. I'm alive. The trees are green, the rain is clean, the grains are growing for a fall harvest I can still reasonably expect will arrive — life is pretty good. And yet life can get so much worse. Perhaps I should value this moment so much more than I was prior to these thoughts.

Cormac took the very real, very disgusting parts of humanity and wove horrifying tapestries from it. But they're not purely for the sake of shock and disgust. The contrast of what he depicts — held up to most readers' realities — provides a heightened sense of the inverse of what he describes, allowing you to realize much better how beautiful the good parts of humanity are. Left to our own imaginations, most of us are not only unlikely to wade into that darkness, but we also lack the sheer depth and breath of skill he has in bringing it to life. What he offers is a sort of simulation of something otherwise inaccessible to most of us.

I'd make the case that without this exploration, our perception of life can be duller. I'd never want that dullness to be sharpened by real experience though; I'd much rather brush against that reality in the form of a story.

Human senses are calibrated by relative experience. Whether it be taste, sight, smell, touch, or even emotion: you won't recognize what feels good or what is better without experiencing what's worse in some way or another. The harrowing experience of imagining the vulnerability and suffering of loved ones or yourself might actually be an excellent tool for recalibrating and hardening your desire to see people safe and thriving. It may reestablish how crucial it is not to let the world descend into what Cormac describes. It can open your mind to possibilities you hadn't considered in ways that aren't strictly hypothetical or for the sake of pure masochism.
I recall seeing an Eastern Block manufactured ZX81 clone with a mechanical keyboard back in the day, and a couple of different Soviet era ZX81s with not-mechanical-but-vastly-improved keyboards. Seems like they really liked to clone the ZX81 behind the Iron Curtain.

That said, really isn't new. Lots of people took ZX's and modded them with new keyboards, bigger cases (better thermals & PS), better mechanical connection for expansion ports, etc.
What is rational about being cynical that I want to spend my money on things I think are cool?

Maybe there's merit in asking why I think it's cool to begin with (and in this case I hardly think mcdonalds is responsible for people who like gameboy games), but there doesn't seem to be much to gain in asking myself why I want to spend money on things I like. What else should I spend my money on?
I don’t know why you are downvoted. Reddit did annonce to some moderators that AI moderation was coming this year and I heard that some already have access for testing. I also heard that it works pretty well to automate many actions, though it still requires some humans.
This is what the protest should have been from the start. The biggest mistake that any of the participating subs made was setting an end date. u/spez and the rest of the reddit admin need to be sweating, wondering when their site will return to normal.
I'm sure they have metrics at this point on how often real humans take a particular action. If an account is reporting posts higher than some amount X, then shadow ban that account.
the new formula was cheaper to make. think thats all you really need to know
I "love" it when my vacuum stops working because an online book sellers servers went down. #modernlife

This is a good reminder to avoid cloud-centric products, but they are getting harder and harder to avoid.
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> and they don't want other people ever to see blocked people's replies dangling off the bottom of their posts.

What I'm saying is, "ever" is an impossible criterion, for any typical blocking implementation on any online service. Unless the whole stack is DRM'd all the way down, someone could always write up a browser extension or equivalent that lets blocked people overlay the official messages with their own messages, sourced from a separate host. (I'm picturing something like a third-party version of Twitter's Birdwatch.)

Indeed, if we allow screenshotting, then even going that far would be unnecessary: people could just screenshot (e.g.) Trump's messages on his own social media site where he quotes the original message, and that screenshot could be spread juat as far as a screenshot from a custom Bluesky client.

Generally, I just don't see how it makes that much of a difference if these overlaid messages are transmitted via Bluesky's network instead of a separate network. Are you saying that Bluesky-hosted blocked messages are so much more compelling a mechanism than third-party-hosted blocked messages that this becomes substantially more problematic? (That does not seem clear at all to me a priori; don't people wanting to transmit and receive blocked messages have to put in active effort either way?) Or are you suggesting that all existing block features are broken in this way, and they're acceptable only if they're private?
what names?
Having held roles with all of the titles you mention, I'd say relax and take the advice of a few here:

* "do you really want to move to Switzerland?"
* "Roles are meaningless"
* "sounds like a signal that they like you as a candidate"

These resonated with me because Switzerland sounds awesome, roles are meaningless, and signal/noise ratio is a great way to think about hiring. Many people have great signal but drag a freight train of noise behind them.

Having held the principal title when I was 27, most gigs beyond that were steps down in terms of title, salary, or benefits. Doesn't really matter as long as the next people hiring you can see your current value given your previous trajectory.

My path is only unusual to the extent that I worked in small R&D labs and pre-VC startups so the value equation of a greenfield prototype hacker is really not what you know or have experienced, but "how fast can you learn because we just made the thing yesterday, QA'ed it today, and would like to ship tomorrow", "how fast can you go from napkin sketch to believable demo" and then "how fast can you ship clean code vs. that mess the CTO dreamed up at 3 AM?"

Your trajectory may be different.
Ah yes, because LLMs are so reliable at understanding nuance and social context.
It's not unheard of. Back when I worked in a place that forced me to use Slack, I deshittified my experience via Ripcord, which could handle 90% of Slack at < 5% of overhead, while being much more ergonomic, and also doing 80% of Discord at the same time. And that client too was, AFAIR, a one-person project.
Ask HN: YouTube's website search isn't useful anymore, is there an alternative?
I can't seem to get good answers -- YouTube just shows mostly suggestions or things "I may like".

I was trying to find videos on specific IKEA furniture, but only got semi-related content. Interestingly enough, tiktok worked perfectly.

Curious if anyone has tried some other video platforms or video search tools.
I just do a venv inside the venv so I can target several Python versions. I also use Jupiter for C#, Clojure, and Julia. I wish the Clojure integration was as good as the others I listed.

I’m to the point now where if anything other than venv/pip is required I won’t use it. Unfortunately there are many things that insist on conda.
> The process to "promote" fragments of a notebook into being reusable functions seemed very high-friction: basically you're rewriting it as a normal Python package and then adding that to Jupyter's environment.

Don't get in that situation to begin with. Pop an `%load_ext` `%autoreload 2` at the top and just write functions in an imported .py file from the get go.
How is a company that is not profitable according to the CEO going to hire 20,000 people to replace the volunteer moderators?
What makes capable actors capable in the first place is not derived from thin air. There's a reason a capable actor came to be where there was none generations prior. That reason did not come about without reaction to some outside vector.

Evolution optimized for language learning abilities before the full capabilities came. Evolution is not thin air.
There's lots of luck involved, which is always missing from these conversations. I've taken a similar route to you, and it's working out spectacularly, but, damn, it took a long while.
48Gb 4090 exists already, just with a different name, branding, and pricing strategy: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/rtx-6000/

48Gb 3090:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/rtx-a6000/
They will need to send them money back or purchase something to send to the scammer.
Could be a computer that needs to be configured at corporate or something purchased from them posing as a vendor.
A common thing is they send an overpayment and request money be sent back immediately.
It can be considered participating in money laundering and I know of 'victims' who are unable to open bank accounts.
And of course the original funds will turn out to be bad.
Left coast? That's a term I've never heard of.
Hey, good for you finding something that you like, but god damn if this doesn't read like ad copy. If you're not getting paid by them, you should be.

You probably already know this, but fast food 5 times a week is basically putting in a request for health problems.
I'd take a step back, apologize for the Apollo stunt, delay the API pricing by a few months to improve the first party app and, since reddit ultimately does want to kill 3rd parties, offer to buy out the tools and popular apps at some reasonable price (or maybe offer to contract them for whatever changes may be needed to make the tools official).

I think being honest about their goal would've reduced a lot of the backlash. The issue is that they're claiming to be working with the community when it's blatantly obvious that they aren't.

Ideally they'd just go to more reasonable/free API pricing though.
As fantastical as this passage may sound, most of the details McCarthy provides are historically accurate, and based on a particular event: The Great Raid of 1840 [1]. A thousand Comanche warriors conducted an extremely deep raid into Southeast Texas, where they sacked the port of Linnville. An exceptionally large amount of trade goods were present in the port that day, including clothes bound for various settlements across the Texas frontier. The bits about umbrellas, stovepipe hats, and even the wedding veil come directly from eyewitnesses to the raid. The bit about a Comanche warrior wearing the armor of a conquistador is also real [2]. The Comanche were known for being exceptionally flamboyant, prizing extravagant clothing dyed in vibrant colors. It must have had quite a psychological effect on their enemies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Raid_of_1840

[2] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Comanches/Cqh8qSexvU4C?...
Don't leave us hanging, man
That is content for the site. Without that link post reddit would be less attractive.
I would agree with you were this drama not consistently hitting the frontpage on Reddit. If the users who wouldn't turn back aren't a majority, they are still a significant fraction. That's not good news for the IPO Reddit is hoping for.
you can still buy the good stuff from various websites in NA: https://icedteapitcher.myshopify.com/
> Government is no more incompetent than anyone else across the board.

This is a bold assertion that I'll charitably entertain.

> Frequently better.

To further assert the government is frequently better demands evidence.
The last part is really what gets me. How could they possibly get that far along with the plan of "charge for the API" without doing a basic analysis of all the stuff people currently use the API for? That really gives an indicating of where their focus is.
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import the good stuff from the EU: https://icedteapitcher.myshopify.com/
Nobody said he is a champion of generosity or a paragon of virtue, that's your take on strawmanning an easy to win point because you don't want to have an actual conversation here.

The alternative is advertisers spending their money on rap videos glorifying selling drugs to kids and committing felonies. Personally, because I don't see the world in black and white, I see Mr Beast as a massive upgrade from the previous status quo.
Anyone got experience with the real time collaboration and have feedback?
I also listen to the same song on repeat. How do you think Despacito got all those views.
OK. So if the 11 category can go to 99, why can't the top level just go from 00 to 99 as well without being broken into batches of 10 requiring another level.
Yeah, I addressed this and you had to skip this sentence to quote the sentence you did: "The only time it doesn't work is in places like r/AskHistorians or r/science which require high quality comments much like this place."
Not cancelled per se, at least for me, but just the PITA equation of dealing with getting fired, having to find a new job, or having my language policed. Maybe that is being dramatic or pragmatic.

When it comes to my professional work - if apologizes are not accepted I will not work at the company. If there are words that I cannot say - I request a list. Thankfully my current company is great.
> Congress defined securities and gave the SEC the ability to write the rules for securities, with some specific requirements

Right. Like choosing what's important and what's not. (It's also a totally dishonest framing by Coinbase. Their business model, a unified broker, exchange and custodian, is fundamentally in violation of the '34 Act. They're asking the SEC to break the law.)

What makes no sense to me is the stupidity of fighting the case. I understand Coinbase's PR rallying the crypto base before. They were making a lobbying push to change the law. And the base would throw money at them. But now? Either management has reason to believe they can run out the clock on the SEC before Congress changes the rules. Or they're as delusional as the base.
My son delivers part-time for Amazon and all the drivers at his warehouse were sent home. So if your delivery is late or non-existent today....
Actually Stella Maris was published after The Passenger
Their profits pay pensions of the ordinary people. How is that not a good thing?
> the card manufacturer could cease to exist without the success of the enterprise being impacted.

while a promoter, sponsor, or other third party could pop up at any time.

it says nothing about manufacturer or issuer for that prong of the howey test.

and the same is true for all of the tokens listed in the case against Coinbase.

I guess your argument is based on looking for differences to support your worldview instead of looking for similarities, and its not clear if you're aware of the similarities.

The "manufacturer" disappearing from tokens makes them more scarce in many cases. Their functionality remains the same.

another thing you might not be aware of is that the SEC is aware of this. Other commissioners - specifically Hester Pierce - and enforcement division personnel has made this observation, the people calling the shots in the enforcement division and the head commission are avoiding this because it breaks their whole framework if the courts really feel compelled to break this down more holistically. Thats why their approach to unilaterally calling things "evidence" when they haven't even proved they are evidence is a weak evolution of their practice. Prolonging an inevitable challenge to their authority and aspects of their existence.
> I read a book awhile ago called Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, which basically argues that cultures which strongly promote traditional values, having children, etc. will evolutionarily out-compete groups that don’t.

That's happening in Israel, as the haredi out-breed the reform Jews and the seculars.[1] Religious societies that oppress women, breed lots of kids, and are dominated by old men in black with beards are a thing. That exists in Jewish, Islamic, and Christian forms, so it's independent of the brand of religion.

[1] https://www.jta.org/2021/03/10/israel/how-the-haredi-orthodo...
The point is for any that is like you my guess is there are 2 more like me. Or 20, or 200. Never checked how much people use 3rd party apps vs. total users.

Honest question, what is so bad about the Reddit app that you would give up browsing the content you like?

I experience little ads, and if I would be annoyed by it I would probably find ways to get rid of it (pi-hole style). I'm OK with how the app displays comments, I can fold them etc. Don't need much more.
As Ripley would say, nuking it from orbit is the only way to be sure.

Whatever rules you attempt to come up with, the lawyers will nitpick them to death and find some way to keep junk patents alive. For years, everyone in the legal profession looked forward to the CLS Bank v. Alice case at the Supreme Court as the Final Word on software patents. That was 2014.

My article:

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/lets-vote-on-it

lists some of the patents that have been upheld since CLS Bank.
> 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.

Oh. Wow. I never thought about that. Does anyone know if section 230 of the DMCA shields Reddit from liability as-is?

>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.

And it would be a policy nightmare. Right now, most sub-reddits are flexible in terms of what they'll tolerate. At best I think they could have a single moderation policy applied across all sub-reddits they pay to moderate. Would that work?
The cartridges were mostly just a rom chip on a PCB. Some had RAM and/or a simple bank controller.
> 2990 yen and up for regular price.

That's still only about $20 and up, so right there is a factor of 2x between Japan and the US.
I listened to The Road on audiobook while falling asleep, over a week or so. Amazing book, but not a recommended setting! Don't think I've recovered yet either.
Discord is having trouble mapping push notifications to the correct users
I'm reminded of a 400 leve linguistics class I took in undergrad. We had just read Chomsky's Remarks on Nominalization, and one of my classmates remarked, "I don't think this Chomsky guy understands X-Bar theory". The joke being that Chomsky was the major developer of X-Bar theory. We were just reading an early work of his.

This also reminds me of evolution. Some people looked at discoveries in epigenetics and declared that it disproved Darwinian evolution in favor of Lamarckian evolution.

Sure, Darwin's theory of natural selection combined with random variation at the point of reproduction does not explain 100% of evolution, but it is still covers most of it.
Yeah, I feel like there was a bit of an expectation mismatch around that. `using` makes a lot more semantic sense than `include` or `extend` in a lot of cases but it didn’t play out that way and we’re still living with the unusual convention of making ‘x-able’s and writing ‘concerns’. Not to mention that they were file-scoped and not lexical in their first version so had limited utility for library devs.

As far as I know the teething issues around refinements are ironed out but they remain an obscurity.
This was a great piece to read. Thanks for sharing.
Women don't want a guy that is always broke. And they don't want a miser either.

You want a signal that women will pick up on? Buy nice good quality shoes.
> The only loser here is the corporation side.

I'm not convinced they lose out either. The front page doesn't really feel different than it did before. There are a handful of "Reddit is killing third-party applications (and itself). Read more in the comments" posts, but I'm kinda blind to them the same way I'm blind to ads as I scroll past. Otherwise it just feels like any other day on reddit.
An interesting update of Saudi's mega projects
the latest project will be live by 2023 it says
The two biggest issues I've heard brought up (other than the fact that apps like Apollo just work better than the official app and don't have ads) is that moderation tools are dependent upon third-party apps, and third-party apps are more accessible for people with disabilities than the official reddit app.
This is definitely tidier than the mechanical keyboard I had for my ZX81—build by a friend in the early '80s and purchased by me circa 1994!—which had keycaps which were more or less photocopies of the picture of the keyboard in the manual that had been photocopied and glued onto the keys of some ancient surplus terminal keyboard, with a healthy dose varnish to protect the paper on top and a lot of kludging of the PCB underneath to configure it to scan the same as the ZX81 membrane keyboard.
Show HN: The HN Recap – AI generated podcast opens up its numbers
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Thanks, i just did it too since you made it easier to know how
that sounds like a bad thing tho
if they takeover a few of the higher value subs the majority of moderators will likely fall into line
> futurology(18m),

I had no idea futurology was that big. I remember years ago when it used to be a singularity/life-extension/transhumanist subreddit, and then it got brigaded by climate change activists, to the point that most of the articles on the front page were about clean energy, rising sea levels, and recycling. Also a lot of doomer types actually bemoaning life extension outright, because of the usual nonsense about "where will we put ALL THE PEOPLE" and "Drump will live FOREVER." I stopped checking it out years ago, but it serves as a case study of how entryists co-opt and destroy online communities.