skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to poke the bear by saying this, but I wonder if you'd still believe this after speaking to 100 women from different cities, backgrounds, and walks of life.
Women aren't a monoculture.
> The sad thing is that even if you are using an actual keyboard and type well, you look like a weirdo on Reddit today if you type longform text.

I still do this on occasion if I think what I have to type is worth reading. But usually when I do, I include a tl;dr to act as a hook/summary to get my main point across.
Always be prepared for alien invasion
Tobii https://gaming.tobii.com/product/eye-tracker-5/ is standard in consumer eye tracking, they even have integration with some popular video games! There's just no value in it. I tried an older version in a store, and it was basically perfect, tracking my eye's movements exactly, with zero delay.

Nobody wants it for day to day computer interaction. Most people using eye tracking for computer interaction are disabled, because it's a terrible experience.
Damn. I must have exceptionally dark taste in media, because I've definitely got a few "well, that was good, but I kinda wish I hadn't read/watched it" things in my history, and The Road wasn't even close to qualifying. I'd say the film Threads hit me harder, to pick something with similar setting and circumstances, though that's still not quite in that category.

(It Comes at Night is probably my #1 in that category for film, and I guess Watts' Blindsight in books—both messed me up for days after, the former with some depressive nihilism, the latter with days of fairly intense derealization that weren't too fun—and I'm not normally especially prone to either of those, I don't think)
I did the same, read it in one (or maybe two) days.

In retrospect, I'm conflicted. In some way, it seems too straightforward ("The Road" title fits well) dystopia. Distilled, masterfully executed, but somehow ... trivial? Maybe it's the "Seinfeld is unfunny" trope where it can become obvious only after experiencing it.
r/aww is literally just cute animals. Most of the others are just memes/reposts of their respective topic.

There's plenty of mods from subreddits that didn't go dark and have 20m+, reddit can just put them in charge.

I highly doubt the specific mods matter that much on these "fluff" subreddits. Subreddits like r/apple I could see it mattering a lot more, but most of the top ones aren't exactly complex topics.
Not only downtown. I’ve been living in the Castro (Castro & Market) for a decade. 30% of commercial real estate closed / boarded-up, plenty of tents around and see people smoking crack every day. Not even trying to hide. It was not like this 10 years ago.
I think the issue with this is that the bigger third party apps (Apollo) actually host their own backend which talks to reddit on behalf of the apps so they can quickly deploy fixes. I tried to find the reddit thread about it I remember reading to confirm, but uhh... the blackout exists.
Then your practice isn’t worth $15-million.

I’m married to a physician in private practice, who owns their practice.

From the beginning, we’ve always been aware that when she retires in 15-25 years, we have literally no idea what if anything the sale of her practice might bring.

It could be essentially nothing (aka, the used value of the equipment, and it’s shocking how quickly even very expensive medical equipment depreciates on the used market).

It could be sustainability more, but that’d be a nice bonus, not something we can count on, or that any physician should count on for their retirement planning.

No retiring physician is owed anything for the “value” of their practice. And while on a personal level a PE buyout would be a nice bonus at the end of my spouse’s career, not getting it wouldn’t have affected either her decision to go into private practice, or her ability to.

Far and away the biggest factor preventing more privately owned physician practices is the fact that hospital-owned practices are often reimbursed around double for the same procedure as independent practices. This has shifted somewhat with the shift from “pay for service” to “value based care” models, but both put independent physician-owner practices at a tremendous disadvantage to large hospital systems.

And it’s a damn shame because private physician owned practices are a much more efficient way to care for patients.
What does it mean to be progressive w.r.t. dating these days?
I think this is pretty cool too, but um..

> Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make the thing bad

I don't think anyone was saying this. Some airlines plant trees. That doesn't make planting trees bad.

But massive corporations (with maybe ~1% or fewer exceptions) don't base their practices on anything remotely resembling bad or good, and this leads them to profit-seeking behaviours that harm people on an individual level (which I think is a "bad" thing), as well as the planet, the environment, the economy, their competitors.

McDonalds is not a good or ethical company. The corporate apologism is "so lame".
Reddit stripping moderators of rights and forcing subreddits to go public
That sounds nice. My boss's boss is usually the one storming in, and he usually says "okay let's do it", and then I have to implement it in a week...
The cloud is just somebody else’s computer.
I think its likely to be zero chance that it'll block API access.
The whole point of HN is to read and contribute, its for the community.
Interesting, seems like it's very similar to Modular's runtime portion of their business case
there was a stat "92 of the most 500 popular subreddits are moderated by the same 5 people"; unpaid people at that

i think they can afford to replace the mods. it'll likely be their last resort though
Title is incomplete. It should be "No real advances in Open Source LLMs since 2019's T5". I think that is fairly close to being true. The real advances have come from OpenAI (and to some extent Anthropic and Cohere). I've played around with some of the open source models and as much as I want them to be "almost as good as GPT-3.5", they're simply not. On the flipside, you can do A LOT with T5 and Flan-T5.
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Their Big Macs are also incredibly tasty. The sauce and double patty beats anything at their competitors.
Is your response coming from a kind of guttural, purely emotional place of having your values trampled on? Or is it meant to serve a purpose?

In these situations my default is to just observe as dispassionately as possible. If I'm in a cheeky mood maybe I'll troll a bit or try to find a humorous way to point out how the shoe could be on the other foot. And sometimes, although very rarely, the mood is just right that I feel safe enough to be earnest.

If I got all up in arms every time someone says something misogynistic or misandrist, I think I would end up being a very lonely person. I've seen a lot of these people. They either end up brainwashed on one end of the gender war spectrum (and usually just so angry and spiteful -- this is the polarized archetype), or get cast out of all possible ingroups if they make the mistake of attempting to be too consistent with their criticism (nerdy and socially unaware archetype).
It seems to me a very trivial problem to classify a post as on topic or not with today's AI capabilities.
I love this, but there's one thing I'd point out. With few exceptions, there's little defection from secular society into fundamentalist religious communities. Almost everyone in those communities was born there.
Good, who wants to use Reddit without RIF anyways.
I see. If I faced the same constraint I would try to find whether VSCode can access files remotely, which is very likely.
I'm pretty sure the PS2 is considered retro now too.
This is definitely the coolest marketing gimmick I've seen in a long time. It kind of makes me want to celebrate MY birthday at a McDonalds lol
That page is there making a statement of examples of "bad language". It's an organization shooting it's shot on language change.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11714189/Latest-phr... (DailyMail.. yuck yes)

https://www.fastcompany.com/90865534/its-time-stop-using-vio...

https://elizabethgrim.com/adopting-inclusive-and-non-violent...
> explain to me why this happening isn't a bad thing

because there is now a good change everyone with one of these devices is likely no longer going to get support, warranty, or updates. apps will become outdated and fall off the app store parts to repair will no longer be available etc

devices/a brand people enjoyed using is now gone because PE did what PE does and destroyed the brand for a quick buck
What makes you think that new mods would be any less oppressive than old mods?
It's the same at my company. Teams and Zoom both automatically schedule meetings in every attendees' own time zone. Maybe that person's company still does phone meetings or something.
AZs also don't help with natural disasters at all. I believe AWS is the only one doing geographically distributed AZs, for the others it just means different connections and placed somewhere else in the building.

edit: turns out AWS is the one with geo distribution, not Azure
> re-platforming a large organization like Shopify would take years
I am not sure what re-platforming means here, but "slowly transitioning" to a different stack is not the same as stop and rewrite everything.

> That probably explain your surprise

While i don't write "business logic", i have been involved in a lot of project to babysit, maintain, refactor and/or improve business code bases. Sometime the runtime can only do so much and you have to adjust the user level code. And from experience it's never as bad as some make it to be.

> And you'd spend these years having to support multiple platforms so that would only pay off much later, and in the meantime your competitors continue iterating.

Again i see this very often as well. Software engineering seem to over emphasizes the cost of platform transition while downplaying the operating burden of not modernizing.
PE firms are brutal to journalists because journalism doesn't make any money anymore (which is tragic). Journalists as such hate them
The agency who developed the game has a website that nails the Geocities-era aesthetic – https://krooltoys.com/
Ask a busker
Yeah, that's essentially the right way (I use conda envs, but venvs are probably fine too). Have one env for running the Jupyter Lab/Notebook server (install jupyter, jupyter widgets, nbextensions, etc into this env) and then create other envs for your projects and register that kernel with jupyter [0]. You can also just install all of the jupyter ide cruft in each env if you want, but dependencies can get annoying.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39604271/conda-environme....
The Best Parts of Visual Studio Code Are Proprietary
Well, that's my main strategy for my personal projects.
I'm no expert, but I thought we should prefer farm raised, no? Seems weird to advertise they are wild caught when that's a big concern with over-fishing in the wild.
Where will reddit get enough mods to police the hundreds (thousands?) of subreddits each with tens of thousands of members that are rebelling against the API changes? Blocking/firing the existing mods would make the site descend into chaos.
An AMD Ryzen APU + RAM soldered onto the motherboard is very similar to what Apple's doing.

Afaik, because the memory controller is part of the CPU, the CPU-RAM connection on the consumer chips is entirely passive - just copper traces on the motherboard with no ICs inbetween?
Ah, my bad then.

If it's for student, you could maybe get educational license, that is completely free for all their products, but I imagine it could be quite a hassle
I deleted Apollo and blocked all reddit in general.

It was a nice discovery tool and formula1 subreddit was great (memes and all) but I think spez really screwed it up.
Section 230. Reddit is in the fence
I am unable to understand this bruhaha about reddit as I am an occasional user of this website and mostly in lurking mode.
Was there a promise made to those 3rd party app authors and users that their access would be perpetual, not to be taken away from them, no matter what ? I don't think any for-profit company makes such promises.
If you play in someone's walled garden, you should be ready to see them change the rules as they see fit. I am not sure why reddit decided to nix the 3rd party apps but my gut feeling is, this is a financially motivated move. And if it is so, can you blame them?
I wish someone could explain me why everyone is in an huge uproar today.
Mysterious lack of "AWS is bad for the internet because it is so centralized" dialog up in here.

edit: for those that would downvote:
HN _just_ yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295352
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295305
"Trillions" may be a stretch barring larger recession & wider commercial real-estate collapse.

But it's far from impossible!

A 10% drop would be enough to deliver (2) "trillions" in losses to a ~$20T sector - & broad commercial-real-estate price indexes often show swings of 15% or more within a year. Since then end of 2021, major indexes already show a 15% drop with no hint of slowdown - and from 2007-2009, there was a broad ~40% drop.

If there's a 2008-style crash – and it seems likely much of these losses, whether strategic no-recourse defaults, or simple inability-to-pay defaults, will pass through to banks – there could be $8T in losses.
I feel like it would do better as a limited series ideally on HBO.
So how [well] does MoltenVK work? The prevailing attitude I've seen is basically "just target vulkan for everything because it just works" but I'm not sure how much experience is reflected in such claims.
The musical numbers are notoriously hard to stage
Because the food is delicious.
Nice. In the US, I definitely remember seeing kits (perhaps loosely defined) of surplus keyboards and instructions for adapting them to the ZX81. A friend's dad who had built his ZX81 from a kit added a keyboard that way. Just little later on I think surplus TI/99 keyboards became the go to mod for anyone who was still running a ZX81/TS1000.
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Other thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36315300
Maybe they have something in the oven?

I am skeptical too, but hardware design takes a looong time, and surely Apple sees the writing on the wall and the potential of their own hardware.
“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”

—Cormac McCarthy, The Road
He specifically disavowed (but supported, indirectly) the blackouts at first. He initially didn't want to risk Reddit retaliating at him for calling for a blackout when (at the time) communication was still somewhat positive.

But he did acknowledge the protest, which I'm sure gave it a lot of attention it didn't have before.
Have you been trying the fish sandwich multiple times over the course of time? I didn't think that was allowed.
Paying .kids for the large subreddits won't cost that much.

However doing that makes the company directly liable for all things. Right now they can at least try the legal argument "we just provide infrastructure and oh we didn't know what was uploaded there" as soon as they moderate themselves that blind eye strategy can't work at all. (Right now they can at least try it)
This a Book: The sum of Us - By Heather McGhee [0]

Here is an AI generated summary:

In "The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together", Heather McGhee uses the metaphor of the public swimming pool to explain her thesis.

In the mid-20th century, thousands of public swimming pools were built across the United States for community enjoyment. These pools were often funded by tax dollars and were large, resort-style pools that families could enjoy. However, the vast majority of these public pools were segregated, barring people of color, specifically Black people, from access.

When the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964, ending segregation, many white communities didn't respond by integrating these pools; instead, they drained the pools completely. Some went as far as filling the pool with dirt or concrete, or letting them fall into disrepair. It was a drastic measure ensuring that if they couldn't have the pool to themselves, no one could use it.

McGhee uses this metaphor as a representative example of the zero-sum game mindset, the idea that any gain for the Black community is seen as a loss for the white community. It also highlights the cost of racism: communities chose to lose a valuable public resource (the public swimming pool) rather than share it equitably.

The public swimming pool narrative is a recurrent theme in the book. It illustrates how racism harms everyone, not just those being discriminated against. It's an example of the societal and communal self-sabotage that occurs when racism drives decision-making, showing that racism doesn't just hurt the targeted group but deprives everyone of shared public resources and opportunities.

[0]: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564989/the-sum-of-u...
Bloom considered McCarthy the best living American author and Blood Meridian one of the best American novels, right up there with Moby Dick in terms of importance.
It saves MS from attempting to reverse the decision in British courts, so probably net saving of human time and effort all things considered.
Idk, I highly value speedy pizza delivery
The business press is in on it. I don't mean in the sense that they get financial kickbacks, but business reporting is a cushy job where 90% of the work is rewriting press releases and boilerplate 'analysis' of stock movements.
December 22, 2021 was the last partial impact we had in us-east-1 for EC2 instances. They had power issues in USE1-AZ4 that took a while to sort out.
Is it merely a coincidence that Judge Holden was described as "face destitute of hair" and the director, John Hillcoat, is also bald and devoid of both eyebrows and facial hair?
Collaborative/multi-player editing protocols seems to be the one technical capability that never quite emerges.
We don't use any automatic scheduling with Zoom or Google Calendar. Management doesn't send invites to those meetings, they just publish the link on Slack and we have to figure out how to get it into our calendars.

Trust me, at least once I missed a meeting because I was late by an hour due to time zone confusion.
I just had someone asking me if I'm available at 5pm EST.

Also, your clock can get confused driving North from PHX to Zion National Park.

In summer you start in Mountain Standard Time, drive into the Navajo Nation which does observe Mountain Daylight Time, containing through the Hopi Reservation, which is Mountain Standard Time. Then you end up back in Navajo Nation with Mountain Daylight Time. You keep on driving towards Page which is in Mountain Standard Time. However, when you cross the state-border of AZ/UT you're back in Mountain Daylight Time.

My clock threw a segmentation fault.
Worth knowing: today and tomorrow is AWS re:Inforce 2023 https://reinforce.awsevents.com/.
I just logged out of my account everywhere, and turned off "remember me".

It's shocking how I'm catching myself just reflexively, almost subconsciously alt-tabbing to Firefox and typing "reddit.com".

Thanks, /u/spez, for helping me break the habit!
I belonged to a small non-profit (part of a much larger international body). We had regularly-scheduled general meetings every month. These meetings were supposed to last under one hour and they were supposed to have a set agenda. Nevertheless, our leadership would frequently neglect to set the agenda, and so any issue could be raised by anyone at any time during the meeting, making for absolute anarchy. Now on top of that, none of us properly understood Robert's Rules or Parliamentary procedure, so every issue raised would just result in endless controversy and back-and-forth debating with little resolution.

When I became the leader, I was informed that we also needed to hold "Officers' Meetings" every month, just prior to the general meeting. The purpose of the Officers Meetings was to come to rough agreements on big issues, before they were put to a vote, and also to set the agenda for the upcoming General Meeting. With a set agenda on paper, we were much less likely to deviate from the action items listed therein.

Unfortunately for me, it proved impossible to schedule Officers' Meetings, because of facilities considerations and nearly nonexistent turnout. I held some at my own home and one person would attend. It was wholly ineffective for the intended purpose.

We also had trouble splitting off into Committees. If a significant event was planned, such as a breakfast, then it was logical to form a committee and then have them form up and communicate. This committee should be in touch via email/phone of course, but also hold planning meetings where details of the event could be hammered out. Unfortunately, due to low participation, these Committees never did their own thing, and instead were folded into the General Meetings, wasting everyone's time discussing things like bacon and napkin counts.

I really tried. I tried to stick to the prescribed structure of the meetings; I tried to set an agenda and stick to it; I tried to redirect endless debate and discussion into more productive action. But as a first-time leader, I found out just how limited my power really was, and the sacrifices we make as servants, when the organization is dysfunctional and we're just trying to stay together as an informal family unit.
unless you are in the EU, pyrex glass from there is still the good stuff
Hard to comment in the abstract, but i think this just showed that the organization did have a defined strategy and things just grew on a had-hoc fashion. Seems like an orthogonal problems.
Pick your poison. Wild caught can deplete wild fish and farmed fish pollutes the environment. I spring for wild caught whenever possible.
Upvoted because being turned off my McCarthy is not an unreasonable reaction.

Do yourself a favor and read Blood Meridian. It's been said many times that you are not the same person when you're done reading it. I fully agree.
Institution Outputs
What is McChicken sauce packets? Mayonnaise?
doesn't every service use IAM?