skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was taking 200mg a day, about 45 mins before I'd go to sleep, with a piece of brown bread. (200mg is considered a high dose - but I hadn't done a lot of research, I was just looking for 'something' to help, and bought from the first shop I found had them.

On one hand, very little else changed for me, I started taking it in late summer so as the days were getting shorter. As my wife was quite ill we still didn't see a lot of people or socialise much.

But around when I'd finished my first box of tablets (180), my job started returning to the office - that could have helped (though at first I hated going back to the office and dreaded it), the spring time we also became more social again. Which is approx when I moved to taking it more irregularly.

Aware my example is purely anecdotal, but before I started taking these I had tried cbd and melatonin tablets to try and help my sleep - my insomnia was terrible and neither had helped noticeably. I had also tried the 'Calm' and 'Headspace' apps and various meditation and breathing exercises and none seemed to help me.

I didn't actually think I was depressed at the time, but looking back it is clear I was in a place I'd not been before. 5htp might not have helped at all, but I'd recommend trying it for someone in a similar position - as it felt so transformative for me.

I equally didn't realised how long it can take to come out of feeling so down, and how much I can now control my mood through exercise and being outdoors.

---edit---

Also to add - this wasn't a magic cure - but I feel it gave me the boost and reset to my mood that I needed to make the changes in my life.

My wife is still ill to some degree, my job is 'more stressful' in some ways, but I've taken care of myself and know what to look for.
“The most important social media platform for news is still Facebook” - that’s pretty terrifying!
Make digital business cards with standards from the 90s. Better than NameDrop?
This dev-blog article from 2015 pretty-much admits that it's all done manually: https://web.archive.org/web/20151108110741/http://bindingofi...

> now as some of you know, item combos have to be hard coded at this point due to how nutty some of the tears are in rebirth. the most requested update you guys wanted in afterbirth was item combos, so the team has been hard at work the past few weeks mostly focusing on said combos.
Ask HN: Is my collection of mobile devices a fire hazard?
I have a disturbingly large collection of old tablets, phones, & laptops in my basement--probably 50-75 altogether. It's the detritus of a big family and having to test my software on lots of devices. The basement is a constant 55 or so degrees F.

Since we've learned that lithium batteries can apparently just explode spontaneously, should I take some sort of action? Remove the batteries where possible and... store them somewhere? If so where? And what about old iPhones where the battery isn't very accessible?

Or am I just paranoid?
I think this reply needs a longer answer than I can give at the moment; it's morning here and I've got to work, I'll reply in a few hours hopefully with something constructive.
Similarly, measure a cargo bicycle's capacity in units of cases of beer.
They're a case study in how people completely fail to understand MMT.
I agree, the ‘punchline’ is also an anti-climax and doesn’t seem to offer anything novel.
i'm generation lamy vs pelikan. even back in elementary school i already knew that those "chunky" lamy pens with their red knobs aren't on par with my sense for aesthetics. the slick style of a pelikan was where it's at for me.

i recently started writing more with hand and noticed how uncomfortable ball point pens feel after few minutes of writing. i ordered a bunch of pilot v-pens and hope this will work out better for me.
1) Every social network sells ads

2) Building and maintaining an API is as rent seeking as building any kind of subscription service, I don’t see the issue.

3) Why would you pay a volunteer? They’re volunteering. In exchange they wield incredible power over the community, which is the real reason they volunteer.

4) The UX sucks, but there’s still old.reddit.com, so you have options.

5) What additional value can be provided? It’s a giant forum and people post comments, there’s not much more you need, that is the value.

Third party apps can just raise their fees and users will pay a couple more dollars. But it’s not about money, it’s about power. Reddit users are very entitled and care more about optics. They don’t want to surrender a fist full of dollars for a website they use everyday and probably are addicted to.
What do you think alignment means? Because it’s obvious you don’t actually speak the same language as the people looking for alignment. It’s not about censorship or ‘woke ai’
You are confusing the implementation and the syntax. It's a special syntactical construct (an annotation) that gets translated into function calls that amount to doing AOP type things around the call to the original function. That's more or less how annotations work in other languages too. Some do it with reflection, some do it at compile time, etc. The goal is the same: get rid of the drudgery of spelling out the function call in order to introduce the side effect in the form of a thing that gets called before/after/around another thing.

Not against that btw. and I always appreciated how pragmatic python can be with a lot of things.
Agreed. The tools that moderators are losing definitely don't fit into the category I'm describing. Reddit failing to bring the tools up to par in the first party app is notably low hanging fruit and I'm equally confused as to why they wouldn't have pursued it.
Every click is several ad impressions. It’s not the page loads that hurt them, it’s the missing ad revenue.
I mean don’t most of us fall on either side of the divide at different times? Pushing myself through weight lifting to resolve knee pain feels worth it. Finishing a goofy side project I’ve lost interest in doesn’t.
Buy some rental properties. They’re a great investment and as good a status signal as a car.
we should go back and be human spambots

Judging by my HN history I don't think I ever stopped.
Let's not forget Mick and Mac (Global Gladiators?).
> to get reddit back to the site I enjoy

Those "whiny mods" are the reason you "enjoy" your reddit experience.

Are there some mods that abuse their power? Yes.
Why is Autodesk allowed to buy and kill off its competitors?
Are there traditional forums/bulletin boards with Fediverse interop? The Fediverse platforms I'm aware of seem to all be focusing on cloning the existing UX of big walled-garden sites, which seems like a dubious approach. We know that forums/BB's can work quite well, so why not bring that UX back with "federation" (i.e. interacting with outside users and service instances) as a pure added feature?
Perhaps, but this comment seems like FUD being so unspecific. Unless you want to point out what parts you deem as "heterdox economics" or "entirely made up"
I wouldn't be surprised if the batteries alone were 10-15k
And yet if you see some AstroTurf you'd still call it grass. In the end there is no "true understanding", there are just predictions we make about the world. Depending on how deeply you look, they are often incorrect, but also generally good enough.

GPT isn't quite at the good-enough point and being limited to only text, makes it impossible to reason about aspects of the world that are difficult to describe in text or simply weren't in the training data.

And more generally speaking, the claim that LLMs don't understand anything really doesn't hold up given how much they are able to hallucinate. If a LLM truly wouldn't understand anything, it wouldn't be able to generate plausible text, it would either generate nonsense or be limited to whatever was in the training data, but that's not the case. The LLMs can predict past their trained knowledge and predict stuff they haven't seen yet. Those predictions will sometimes turn out wrong, but so will the humans prediction that the AstroTurf is grass when taking a closer look.
tbh more and more commenters questioning the mod actions. Just one example
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follow: /r/StarWars is kinda falling apart + the push for Discord is so pointless https://old.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/148xygd/rstarwars...

/r/hockey is the same, total pointlessly came back + missed the championship game too https://old.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/148xsck/rhockey_has...
I call it Zero-knowledge Troubleshooting on my resume. It’s amusing how often, when I still worked in an office, that I would overhear part of a discussion, and some detail would tickle my spider sense, without even being sure what the problem being discussed was, and I’d ask a question or two, and it would help unblock the process.

That sort of thing is literally the only thing I miss about the office.
That’s kinda how it is on Mac unless you want to implement it all via the accessibility api. Even if you go down that route, you’re still limited in window layout and monitoring. A lot of projects end up having to disable sip and hooking the window server in Dock. With these projects, the developer usually ends up abandoning it when they get tired of apple annually pushing out breaking changes. If you really want hyperkey and window management then I’d recommend bettertouchtool.
I am actually not sure. I used to agree, but I've found that the best stories I've read use the good and beautiful moments primarily to make the bad moments hit that much harder. That doesn't mean there aren't good stories focussing on balance, but I'd be surprised if there is as much to explore there as there is in the depths of both good and bad.

My foremost example here would be Berserk.
> reddit is not charity either

People aren’t expecting them to be. If the pricing they had announced was even remotely reasonable this protest would not have happened.
Interesting perspective. But it does beg the obvious question: how effective are comment sections? How many casual redditors in this case actually read the comments and aren't just scrolling through titles?

Either way, the experiment is very cheap and honestly we're dreaming if these were the rates they paid. It's probably more like $2/hour to people in 2nd/3rd world countries.
depends on what you're building, but you could do worse

i've seen a ton of react apps that had no business being react apps
You’re thinking of revenue. Where is your outrage over the government using open source given its revenue?

You’re missing the point of open source if you think it’s quid pro quo.
> it needs a git reset hard back to the days when communities were based around forums

What's stopping anyone today to have a community around a forum? phpBB still exists...
The strange irony there is they seem to be making the mobile site worse over time to drive people to the app, and if that's intentional they must be paying some developer to do it and some manager to tell them the game plan. Imagine being in one of those roles.
seems to me like buffer pushers would be more viable for FANGS. embedded is fun and interesting but for individual contributor / engineer there is not much money in it. might as well open up a shop backing up ssd drives and reinstalling windows for grandmas.
I read more useful, I see taking bad example from archaic units.
Stop that hjkl bs.
I am happy that AOP never really caught on. The idea of modifying the behaviour of a class in a completely different place of the source tree has always horrified me. Makes it pretty much impossible to understand code by just looking at a single file.

Admittedly, IDEs were pretty rudimentary when AOP was first introduced, and today's IDEs can display aspects right where they are applied. But I still think that annotations/decorators are a far better solution for the problem that AOP tried to solve.
headcycle.com - there are dozens of us, dozens!
Inflation in Hungary has been very high for the past 1-2 years. Apparently, the government is entertaining the thought of raising the inflation target. (Which should be the central bank's mandate, but that's a different story.) I have just heard a local economist likening this to historical examples of some South American countries. His point was that this is the easiest short-term solution to the inflation problem, i.e., stimulating exports through a weaker currency, but it tends to end in a lot of pain on the long term.
Why using a good or better hash table, when you can implement the worst by yourself? OMG
On the one hand I feel exactly like you do, on the other hand I observe that my teenage daughter is making real friends on discord and game servers, just like I did on usenet and forums. So maybe it's you/me getting older rather than (just) the internet changing.

Oh the good old days :(

As do I, but I suspect much of what I miss is simply just being young and free and all that comes with that.
EOL is 2026, so ten years.
> Lots of places in Europe seem to have mostly figured the balance out [...]

> [...] I don't think I'd prefer to live in a world without Intel and Microsoft

Now guess why Intel and Microsoft aren't European companies :)
You have it all backwards.

No, __slots__ isn't an optimization, it came before __dict__.

Old classes allowed multiple inheritance. And they are not so different from the new classes. The difference is superficial. There were and still are many things in Python that were written w/o any thought or cohesive organizing principle, but, over time, they put some effort to make it look more uniform.

For example, old errors didn't inherit from object, but eventually they were made to do so. Similarly, module type didn't inherit from object, but at some point it was made to do so. A lot of Python builtins were half-arsed reimplementation of object with a bunch of slots missing.

> Not at all. @property is just one example of a descriptor.

This is exactly why it's bad design. If one were to design object system with properties, they wouldn't need this patch. It would've been part of the system from the get go. There's no need for descriptors here or in general. The whole idea of decorators is a half-arsed attempt at macros...

> Python is literally one of the only languages that has got rid of its "old garbage".

No, absolutely not. They renamed things, but kept the implementation the same. Sometimes they added things, like in example with module type, to make it look more uniform. Sometimes they hid some functionality from the interpreted part of Python, but it is still accessible to C API etc.

It's the same story with multiprocessing -- it was a failure from the start, but they never admitted it, and kept incrementing to make it an even bigger failure... while deep inside their hearts they knew it was a failure, so they also tried other things... which also failed (like multiple interpreters).

When you read the C source of Python, the feeling that you get is that you are looking at someone who sucks at C, who struggles to make their code to run at least somehow. It's not the code of a person who knows their way around, can consider benefits and downsides of doing the same thing in different ways. It's a code of a person who adds asterisks and ampersands until it compiles, who's never heard of const-correctness, who doesn't try to minimize heap allocations... It's a code that you'd typically expect from a second-third year CS student.
No Country is one of the best books i’ve ever read
Reddit already has an official Android and IOS app, but it has conflicting internal goals that 3rd party clients do not have to prioritize.

Purchasing another 3rd party app won't fix this, and would still necessitate the changes they are taking now (monetizing the API) resulting in the same backlash from the community.

They have stated their goals to close the gap between their official app and the 3rd party apps, but conflicts will always exist which will limit what they are willing to do. Putting some of that financial burden on 3rd parties helps even that playing field to some extent.
It's not only that, even that's the main point.

The syntax is of course also confusing. If you show the above line to a 6. grade child they will tell you that that line makes no sense, obviously.

That's why this example is so good! For someone without exposition to (imperative) programming it's completely nuts. But after some "brainwashing" people don't even recognize how weird the example is actually. My hope is always this makes people think (at least after explanation) a little bit whether they maybe just internalized some actually unintuitive stuff and now think that's the "normal" way to look at things, even it's actually not if you come in just with the knowledge from school.

Not everybody remember that but most people have for example major issues in grasping a loop with a counting variable in the beginning. It's just not so easy to "do the computation" in your head and track the state of your variable. Variables as such are already confusing to most people. Beginners often use them like constants and declare new ones when they actually need to assign a new value. I've see this pattern quite often! If you ask why it was done this way the answer is often "because re-assignment is confusing"…
Neat term. I might steal that for my resume.

Intuition does play a good part of it for me, though I have worked with good troubleshooters who are more methodical and rely less on intuition for these situations. But then again, having these different takes can help the team as a whole to figure things out and fix things.
> Any attractiveness advantage observed during remote classes is more likely due to a productivity-enhancing effect than discrimination.

Suppose the advantage is not that profs descriminate based on beauty but that pretty people get invited to everyone's study group. Wouldn't remote learning lesson that too? Is that the sort of thing they mean by "productivity-enhancing"?
I remember writing a state machine system for a project to replace Windows Workflow Foundation (shudders) using Aspect.Net (IIRC) many years ago and it working but being a faff.

But then I think to something like the bracket function from Haskell: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.18.0.0/docs/Contr...
That's 2 orders of magnitude simpler and doesn't need arbitrary function definitions so a pointcut can be defined against a block of code.
If my favorites subreddits go to Discord, I'll simply not go there. Discord has nothing to do like a forum, it is almost impossible to search for valuable information, and is really hard to use when dozens and dozens of people are talking simultaneously.

I really don't get why so many people want their sub to go to Discord tbh.
The network effect. Everyone is on Facebook/Twitter/Reddit, so nobody will visit the forum.
> Jim doesn’t come out a technical person,

Hhahahahahahahahhaahahaha
In a highly leveraged/indebted economy and energy scarcity (both historical firsts) interest rates are violence = war.

Long term; lies cannot master truth, colonization is over / will reverse.

In practical terms margins are permanently gone, so no more invention / exploration is made.

Either way we are peaking in complexity. Simplify your life or get wrecked.
Crowley inspired Jack Parsons who helped found the Jet Propulsion Lab. He’s the forerunner of the 60s free-love & drugs movement, which informs Steven Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog and Don Buchla.

Crowley’s also the easiest mystic to find in the English speaking world, and maybe “the west”. He cultivated infamy, leaving traces of himself all over the media through the early 20th century.

I think he’s the first “influencer”, the first to take power-for-power’s sake out of church and national leadership and to use it to influence the public at large. And he also pretends to teach others how to do that too, through his writings. He’s the model for all TV evangelists. (Actually, he was rubbish at bringing in money so he’s the model of what not to do if you want to be a TV evangelist)

He’s also a case study in the moral decay of power. Born rich; squandered it all; cares about no-one whilst professing a system of universal love; retired to relative obscurity, heroin addiction, and obsession with prostitutes.

The tarot deck he made with Lady Frida Harris is incredible.
You mean the one where a tanker truck full of gasoline caught fire directly underneath it?
Google Search Uses “Genesis” and “Megadrive” Interchangeably
But not necessarily about the solution they envision. Case in point: I worked with one customer who wanted to add a search box at the top of a list to search through ~50 elements. I showed him the standard browser search with ^F and he was delighted. Saved us a day of work.

They know their problem, you should figure out a solution.
That's not the problem. I suggest looking at the history of Autodesk's attacks on their own customers, and the way they inveigled yet another ignorant judge to rule in their favor against every software PURCHASER. You could buy a shrink-wrapped box of software from Autodesk, never open it, but then be prevented from selling it to someone else to recoup your costs if you ended up not using it.

I know because they pulled this shit on me when I put an unopened copy of Inventor or 3DS Max on eBay. Their lawyers contacted eBay and threatened them, so of course eBay instantly folded and took down the listing. This violated my rights under the Doctrine of First Sale:

"The first sale doctrine, codified at 17 U.S.C. § 109, provides that an individual who knowingly purchases a copy of a copyrighted work from the copyright holder receives the right to sell, display or otherwise dispose of that particular copy, notwithstanding the interests of the copyright owner."

I had the last laugh, however.

Meanwhile, Autodesk also attacked a kid who had put up a 3DS Max fan site, offering tutorials and tips. They seized his domain.

Autodesk was the vanguard of anti-consumer, trash software and media companies that have continued to take advantage of hopelessly ignorant judges and legislators to rip people off.

- former Autodesk employee
There's an in-game credits screen.
No idea, I saw a headline
This is an interesting concept but unfortunately the article seems like an ad instead of an explanation.

I'd love to see some case studies of this being used in production systems
Do you have any idea if that is what will happen? I'm not convinced.
How do you get the cache?
Interesting to see. The article posted is a poor summary with a final link to the original.

The original has more description of the study - as they call it. However, they do not describe what the prompts were or even show examples of the human vs ai pitch. They simply state the number of participants and the final result.

Would have loved to see examples.
The problem is that the moderators and content contributors aren't mainstream users... hence the blackout.
It's included in the Dependencies section which unfortunately is at the end
Similarly, replacement keyboards for the Atari 400 comprise, I estimate, one third of hardware advertised in Atari magazines of the era.
I see the same, I just forgot the word and also confused it with the Turkish cevze. As in, had always confused them, I didn't realise moka pots were Italian. Anyway - I'm pretty confident you won't find Italians in Italy talking about the cup size of their moka pot or using cups to measure coffee grounds/water into it.

I've never heard an espresso machine called a coffee maker either, but I've never heard the latter term at all, hence this whole thread. Sounds like a refusal to call someone (i.e. a person, not machine) a 'barista' to me.
They went from a few dozen people in 2015 to 400 in 2019 to 2000 today, and also started hosting images and videos in 2016-17. The result of all this is that they spend way more money than they did a decade ago and despite now making an estimated $600M/yr and 50M daily active users, they are apparently still losing money.

A company that's 15 years old, never turned a profit really or made much profit if it ever did, and is still losing money is not in a good place to IPO, which existing investors want to recoup some of their investment.