skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the planet got destroyed.

What does this even mean? The planet is not destroyed. US Carbon emissions actually went down over that decade. The environment generally is better in many ways than previous decades.

Acid rain is gone:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/acid-rain-environment-earth-day...

Ozone hole is shrinking:

https://www.nasa.gov/esnt/2022/ozone-hole-continues-shrinkin...

In 1981 in LA there were 4 good air quality days for the whole year, 56 moderate days, and 159 stage 5 alert, Very Unhealthy or Hazardous Air Days.

In 2021 there were 41 Good days, 228 Moderate days, and only 1 Very Unhealthy or Hazardous Air Days.

https://www.laalmanac.com/environment/ev01b.php
My understanding is that the danger of SSRI’s is that initially it fixes depression’s side effect of lack of initiative while suicide ideation is still happening.
I am 1.5years in to a new role, on call for 1.4 years so far...

I still get calls about some service or application I have never heard of.

Technical debt is real and I lose a little bit of my life every on-call week.
Eagle has some "features" which will prevent it a loooong time from being industry standard.
Notice that she rarely cites any sources. This is because most of the stuff she writes is counter to standard economic theory. Some parts are heterodox economics, other parts are entirely made up.
Also from experience, I think it's Baumol's cost disease really starting to show. Wages/practice costs for doctors have increased because everything around them is more expensive.

A family doctor in my hometown used to be able to afford a house in the nicest neighbourhood on their earnings. They didn't have to talk about money, and when they sold their practice they were happy to make sure it went into the right hands and sold it for a reasonable amount of money.

These days a family doctor can get a 2 bed condo or a townhouse near their practice, or they can have a long commute with something larger. After paying for office expenses, childcare (which also suffers from Baumol's cost disease) and their more expensive education, there's far less for retirement. You really have to maximize what you get out of your practice when you sell it.

I know there's a long history of it being "a calling" and expecting sacrifice. That's still expected, and yet the same rewards aren't there as in the past. Nobody in the past looked like a greedy asshole because they didn't have to ask for more money or really worry about anything. It was set up your practice and live your life on autopilot.
To extend the lossy compression hypothesis, human generated text is lossy compression of our sensory experience of reality while LLMs are lossy compression of that.
I'm trying to do the transition as well but in the opposite direction. I like embedded far more than web development but depending on where you live it's tough to find good jobs with decent pay in the west.
Putting aside the systemic critiques, I really dig the design of that building and its surroundings. That auditorium even puts Apple's to shame.
My former employee did the former, as did many other news sites.
My favourite Crowley essay is on cocaine. So many funny bits.

http://www.luminist.org/archives/cocaine.htm

However, let us concede the prohibitionist claims. Let us admit the police contention that cocaine and the rest are used by criminals who would otherwise lack the nerve to operate; they also contend that the effects of the drugs are so deadly that the cleverest thieves quickly become inefficient. Then for Heaven’s sake establish depots where they can get free cocaine!
Here's the gwern mirror of the okcupid blog showing the race preference. It seemed true there with the one exception: Asian women preferred White Men in the dataset from 2009 to 2013 though it matched the rest for 2014 https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/okcupid/raceandattraction20...

Interesting result, though at that time the US demographics were not as they are today so Asian is likely not South Asian as GGP comment references self as. Though who am I to guess.
And I stand by my original response: I have no idea what you're talking about.
You can build twice as many solar panels. It is making batteries that is problematic. Not to mention the argument supposes that the storage system must only output electricity, which is not necessarily the case.
The pressure required for a fountain pen is much less than that of a ballpoint pen. Your nib just glides over the paper and ink comes out. That's what makes fountain pens more ergonomic than other pens.
I avoided Sam Harris for the longest time due to some interviews of him that I had heard before, but I started listening to his meditation instruction recently, and it's by far the best I've ever heard for bridging the gap between traditional mysticism and modern secularism.
You should consider donating to it's OSS competitors. Still lots of catching up needed in the cad space.
> Imagine a newsroom where you have to produce a daily newspaper and you suddenly stop getting feeds from the outside world.

https://mwichary.medium.com/one-hundred-and-thirty-seven-sec...
> It doesn’t always apply and shouldn’t be used as an excuse to abandon whatever one feels like without guilt.

Unless you made commitments to others, one should never feel guilt for not finishing a project.

Something I learned in my 20's: Guilt is one of worst long term motivators, and almost never yields anything positive. It's why those who guilt trip others are best avoided.
> that allows our modern world to tick

Private debt is backed by collateral and is not inflationary. Government debt, however, has no collateral and so is inflationary. This debt does not make the world tick.
> any of those other percs

I mean, you’re probably better off without those ;)
There’s a movie called, “Other People’s Money” that describes 1980’s era corporate raiders.

These companies are just a subtler version of that.
Surely you have noticed that online forums such as this have things they obsess over.

Consider any WFH/RTO thread is filled with wailing and gnashing of teeth referencing "they" trying to make their commercial REIT money; any Google thread has WAGOT referencing the shutting down of products; any Apple thread to contain WAGOT regarding CSAM scanning and so on.

It is the nature of this forum to Wail and Gnash One's Teeth.
Deficit hawks remained deficit hawks under Trump, but Trump was definitely not a hawk.

https://rollcall.com/2017/09/06/trump-sides-with-dems-as-deb...
It has good reverse image search
Data centers in general are NOT a dying breed, and it's more a case of rapidly growing, not dwindling. Perhaps you are referring to individual companies moving to the cloud, and colo type activity (albeit institutions with strict regulation may still require a backup colo) dwindling?

However, the cloud resource providers are definitely growing (https://www.statista.com/outlook/tmo/data-center/worldwide#r...), and there is a huge push for more power and heat efficient architecture, whether on the server/network/supporting infrastructure side.
"We do this not because it's easy, but because we thought it'd be easy" is gold.

Perhaps not his, but I will steal it for my next presentation :)
My guess is that 3rd party apps have reached a user threshold where they pose a potential future risk of pulling the rug out from under Reddit enough to give some non-negligible traction to an alternative. After all, once you've got the app installed, the back end server can be replaced with something else and you can find ways to streamline new user account creation where needed especially if they are paying customers, even offering to reserve existing Reddit usernames on other platforms.

If a Reddit IPO is coming, then this could simply be a form of de-risking. It's a double edged blade, because higher quality 3rd party apps may increase the platform's value while you're on their good side, but rub 3rd party app developers the wrong way and they might start getting clever ideas. A short notification period may reduce the chance of clever ideas reaching manifestation.
It is systemic but it isn't really a flaw. It is the higher order effects of flooding the system with liquidity.

If you look at the richest people in America in 1985 and adjust their wealth for inflation no one even makes the top 100 in 2023.

If the richest person in America only has 5 billion in 2023 USD then systemically there is just not enough liquidity to think about the risk/reward of buying a vet.

We have basically diluted the price of all businesses and all assets. With the amount of liquidity in the system you can either have it pool and do nothing or buy business you would never have previously.

This is the price we pay for avoiding what probably would have been two depressions from the financial crisis and covid.

Everything in economics is a trade off. It is very hard to say if we would be better off or not. If we had spent the last 15 years of life dealing with two depressions who knows what society looks like now. It is a very different answer if you are 20 or 45 too I imagine.
It's so simple, yet brilliant. However, I wouldn't pay more than $2 or $3 for it.
I would have had no issue paying $10/mo for the Reddit API. Wouldn't have even thought about it.

I'll go out on a limb and say that most Apollo/3P users would've done the same thing.

Really sucks that they chose death instead.
Columbia famously requires a swim test from everyone but the engineering students. The legend says "Manhattan is an island. Engineers can build boats."
Shapr3d has been nice in my very limited experience too, much more intuitive than SolidWorks for hobbyists.
I think that right only applies to search engines and "directories," the actual content would not be deleted. I suppose I could ask Google to delist that issue, but not GitHub to delete it.

The more recent GDPR on the other hand should allow me to ask the "owner" (I forgot the exact name) to delete all the data related to me. He however declined to follow my request. An option at that point was to pay something like €50 to file a complaint to the governing body (some EU entity), so I gave up.
Foundational Anxieties, Modern Mathematics, and the Political Imagination
I'm in a cynical mood, but I'll begrudgingly accept "somewhat bound to the underlying business" :)

I guess at the root of my skepticism is that so many "growth" stocks never pay any dividends, so it's unclear to me what the connection between the stock and the company's cashflow is even supposed to be. If a company never returns any of its profits to its investors, isn't it just kind of a gentleman's agreement to pretend that the traditional way of valuing the company's equity still applies? It really does seem to me that the market for many stocks has detached from the company's business, and is instead driven almost entirely by competing memes.
This sounds impressive until you realize that the Hummer actually has a pretty short bed, at 5 feet long.
Chinese hackers used VMware ESXi zero-day to backdoor VMs
No mentions of https://arxiv-sanity-lite.com/ ?
To make this dream come true is far beyond the scope of just dev ops.

It's also silly because if the problems are known this well the runbook will only be this good for a moment while the devs are working on fixing the bugs and the runbook will need to be updated constantly after each release.

This requires more testing than most are willing to do and for dev ops to still always be on call to find the new bugs first and document them this way while waiting for devs to fix them and for management to always reserve time to keep this updated.

This means there's a long enough release cycle for this to ever happen which is also unlikely.
I don't think it's that uncommon. When I joined my current org we spent much of my second week going through the apps we are responsible for, etc. But a week wasn't nearly enough to learn everything I needed to know about them. I was soon after added to the on-call rotation and received my first incident shortly after. A few weeks later, repeat. Each time I did what I knew and turned to my team to help with the rest - it has worked out fine so far and I learned so much more by getting hands on with failures compared to passively reading code & looking at diagrams.

But I work in e-commerce, not life-critical systems of any sort..
Yes, in fact several of the doctors I called would have been happy to take her on if she had private insurance. This has everything to do with insurance.
I've known men that blow up in extremely stressful circumstances, like slapping things off the table or the stereotypical punching a hole in the wall, for me it is a sign of emotional immaturity. When you're 20 if you do it you've still got some growing up to do, when you're 30 and you do it honestly I judge you. And I know some circumstances can be extremely taxing emotionally, and in very extreme circumstances I can understand losing composure a little, but generally speaking a man should maintain his composure and only react aggressively to actual aggression.
Caffeine though really is a jackpot for humanity, it has realistically speaking no negative side effects.

Even serious physical symptoms from withdrawal are basically just a week of headaches and other minor things.
Honestly really powerful stuff… makes me think. I’m glad stuff like this gets posted on here, even though it’s not out to prove anything or convince anyone
No thank you. The whole point of my project is that I don't have to finish it!
they were initially going to advertise the size in football fields but that number sounded even worse
new leadership playbook ?

The examples you cite could not be more different if you tried.

a) One is working towards their IPO.
b) One was taken private, and doing nothing would have resulted in Chapter 11
c) The 3rd is a public company, trying to unwind a moonshot project with a budget that dwarfed the cost of the NASA Apollo space program itself.

The common themes in these disparate scenarios is that all 3 leadership "styles" have a strong sense of self-interest (and short term self-preservation), period.

But that's just business.

Its nothing new.
YouTube is lowering the eligibility requirements for creators to make money
The old school version has never made a profit
Also very true in my experience

Me: "this should be easy"

Narrator: It was extremely not easy
I think that has only been proven to work so far on limited game-style problems (such as literal games but also things like protein folding). It remains to be seen whether the techniques work well for more open-ended tasks like "produce text that resembles human writing".
What if they, unknowingly, had an LLM "look at" incompatibly-licensed code they later used?

And if that provided any immunity, what's to stop someone from claiming it happened to avoid issue?
Thank you, that's a lot more clear. I was going to click through to find out how they protect the mail server secrets when sending emails from the react based client.
I mean it absolutely could be. For a lot of these weird TLDs, it's a single company that makes its own rules as to who owns a domain. Not saying the person you're replying to is right or wrong, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
As a grown up I can choose to enjoy a project until I stop enjoying it.

Does every project actually need to be brought to its conclusion? No. Is it nice to take pride in completed projects? Yes. Do the projects I do bring me additional knowledge? Yes, usually.

I think that the ability to complete a project is a desirable skill. I think the desire to take a project to completion is worthy, otherwise why start it? Still, priorities change right along with interests. Much like saying "No" is considered a skill, knowing when to finish, and when to throw in the towel, are both equally valuable skills.

When I signed my daughter up for soccer this summer I had to willingly drop a personal and extremely fun side project because I've committed an extra 4+ hours/week to her development. Am I not a grown up for making this decision?
But do we actually know that it isnt a small group unilaterally deciding to take reddit down? From all of these threads about reddit recently there is a lot speculatively statements pointing to heavy support of this boycott. But there is never proof provided to support these statements when requested.

What percentage of users actually voted in the polls? If its not a significant portion of the sub-reddit population, was the poll even valid? But a sub-reddit may have still taken action: "90% voted yes... but less than 5% voted" hmm?

I personally dont like the official apps or new.reddit, but I think Im part of the minority. It wouldnt surprise me to find out that most users dont actually care about the API price increase, because they use the default homepage and mobile apps. In that case, this boycott would actually be creating a degraded experience for them and negatively impacting their opinions of the moderators that are complaining and making polls to shut it down.
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Curious why concurrent reads would ever be an issue. As long as there are no writes during those reads... everything should be stable, no?
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Snark aside I'd be down to chat with someone of Feynman's likeness; I would probably find myself a bit too predictable.
Here's a nice essay from Harold Bloom on Blood Meridian (FYI: Full of spoilers):

https://lithub.com/harold-bloom-on-cormac-mccarthy-true-heir...
Without seeing the author’s book, I would like to suggest a couple of potential ways to think about this given the short article:

If the customer is the person your trying to sell to, then who is the anti-customer? A: The person you can’t seem to sell to.

1) Your persona says everything about the target customer relevant to your product. But which of these aspects of the customer persona make them hard to CLOSE? How does this analysis impact your marketing and sales approach? Your product? Your business?

2) Another option is to see the anti-persona as the “failure” to REACH your customer because of hidden aspects. Identify potential hidden aspects that can result in a failure to sell as your product, business or strategy is currently envisioned.
That's most probably based on member flags, not moderator action.

Note that HN also deprecates stale stories, where "stale" includes "ongoing discussion of some present drama", e.g., bitcoin and NFCs last year, or GPT currently.

dang's discussed this occasionally, see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35463948>

HN specifically doesn't moderate posts critical of YC company down, though Reddit's so long out of the gate I'm not sure that still applies. See: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35463948>

There've been 116 stories mentioning "Reddit" with > 20 votes between 2023-5-13 and 2023-6-14.

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1686720501&dateRange=custom&...>

I'm doing analysis based on HN front page listings and could update that to see what the actual surviving front-page story count is. It's been ... fairly substantial.

Fewer than 3% of submissions make the front page, and that's exclusive of spammed or moderated content.

Update / Edit:

There've been 16 front-page stories on Reddit since 31 May beginning with "Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing" (<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083>).

As compared with prior years, the 2023 mention rate is well above both the 5- and 10-year history (showing year and HN front-page mentions of "Reddit"):

2007 41
2008 31
2009 15
2010 44
2011 41
2012 46
2013 28
2014 27
2015 27
2016 19
2017 15
2018 15
2019 12
2020 24
2021 12
2022 13
2023 21

(Source: own data & analysis based on a crawl of all HN front-pages through 2023-06-13.)
I'm glad you asked, the responses were really interesting. I wasn't sure what it meant either and now I can get even more out of reading it.
I don't think is a good comparison. Native Americans couldn't join the colonists because the colonists were very racist against them, whereas apparently the Natives were more accepting of colonists who wanted to join them.
I've not heard of him - I'll have a look. This may not apply to him, but what I'm wary of is anything that makes the practice a personal improvement exercise - it has to reach for the heavens and encourage empathic love for other people, or it'll end up in the wrong place, IMO.
What made Trump different, and what these other leaders are following, is that he chose to put it out in the open. It wasn't something that just happened with changing tech, he did it on purpose.

With a leader like Steve Jobs you got a lot of rumors about callous behavior in private but got a polished exterior. Trump upended that when he became popular by being publicly crass.
“Can I work with my files locally in Fusion 360? Fusion 360 is a cloud-based 3D mode…” Ok bye, KiCad it is.
The Reddit blackout will continue
It doesn’t have to be a totally new language. Javascript is an example where there are multiple front-end languages. You can go as far as formally prove the implementation is correct, too. Language theory is an abstraction for mathematical logic and proofs, so it touches anything logical at all.
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I suspect not anymore.

The big advantage that Altium had for a while was that they were an available, portable format for parts libraries. Everybody was producing and giving away their symbol libraries in Altium format so you could always take whatever design you were given, extract the parts, fix any bugs or weirdness, and get on with life. Since those libraries accompanied the design, you knew those parts symbols had been proven out on at least one real PCB somewhere.

Then Altium went and closed those library formats so that you couldn't tear the parts out anymore. I dropped Altium right then, 100% for KiCad. I had already been doing about a quarter of my designs in KiCad, but I went all in when Altium did that.
> It was, I'm told, a very good book that I noped out of about ten pages in.

That's strange. The book grabs your attention from the get go. It starts strong. Stays strong. Ends strong.

> I made it that far before becoming incredibly annoyed at the way literature critics were praising his new invention of post-apocalyptic stories which nobody had ever read before ever.

This makes absolutely no sense. Were you reading the book and reading reviews at the same time?

> Also, if I remember correctly, he felt that the rules of punctuation didn't apply to him. Maybe that paid off if I'd read more than ten pages.

His punctuation was fine. The book reads well. His words and sentences flow. I found it easily one of the most accessible.

> it's just not a story I want to hear. If I want to be depressed and angry Hacker News.

Ah there it is. People with petty gripes always have an agenda. So your "gripes" above are just because you want don't like apocalytic stories and want to warn people off it? Why not just say so instead of making up silly criticisms? Also, it's a work of fiction. It isn't real. Really nothing to get depressed or angry about. If anything, it should make you happy since we don't like in such a hopeless world. But really, like all great literature, it should make you think.
I'm probably not in the right state of mind, but my wife died less than a week ago and I've been considering exactly this. I just want to be able to talk to her a little more... I miss her very badly, and it would bring me some comfort to be able to have some final conversations even if they were just echos of past ones.