skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're ignoring adaptation. It's not about if we can eat creatures that existed before homo sapiens, or if we can eat them raw and wild; it's about how being able to eat things affects survival and reproduction.

Take mushrooms, for example: they've existed for 700+ million years, way before homo sapiens, and while 1-2% of them are poisonous to us, we can eat others just fine. It's not like the others were healthy, it's that food wasn't available all the time, and individuals being able to eat mushrooms thrived better than those who couldn't. They kept eating mushrooms and getting sick, until someone didn't, because they were hungry.

Same with fire. Fire is like predigesting food, making nutrients more readily available for our relatively fast digestion. It will soften hard fibers, cartilage, hard meat, and coerce nutrients out of hard-to-digest plants. After it there was no need for massive jaws to munch your food for most of the day.

Cooking is likely what made humans what we are today, it was practiced by homo erectus 1.5 million years ago. Homo sapiens emerged just 300,000 years ago, so cooking with fire also existed before us, hence it's part of our natural environment.

And don't get me started on agriculture! While I agree that we're doing it wrong in many aspects, agriculture enabled human civilization. Instead of everyone being a hunter-gatherer, the farmers could produce food, even a surplus, while others could produce other things (or exploit the population :). Rejecting herding, farming, fire, and technology in general is stupid, it's like declaring oneself a "sovereign citizen", but still wanting all the comforts of life paid with taxes, like firefighters, 911 calls, electricity, waste management, clean water, roads, police, weather reports, tornado warnings, etc. You wouldn't exist today without those things you seem to reject.

Seriously, I don't know why I'm bothering to argue with you, I have the impression that you're not interested in facts, history or science, but in personal opinions and feelings.
At the moment I am testing SolidJs and Svelte for a small side project and feel that SolidJs is slightly superior but Svelte will win.
I realized it that the emergency was a gimmick whan they started wanting me to schedule a few extended trips, 11,000 miles flying in coach each way, to train my replacements.
Trying to sign up for lemmy.world for a week without success. But happy on https://lemmy.one. It doesn't have downvotes, which for me is a big plus!
is there a way to host learn.svelte.dev locally ?

like git clone repo and then npm run dev ?
They said the same thing verbatim about iOS
How many people are still unfamiliar with Coca Cola?

Yes, some advertising is like you say. Inform a consumer about a product. Most of it isn't like that. It's often emotionally manipulative, pressing heavily on social engineering. They make you feel smelly, ugly, fat, antisocial, abnormal, unlikeable, and just downright uncool -- unless you buy their product, at which point you will be a high status individual showered with potential mates in your expansive home while living a life of idle leisure.

At least, that's how about half the ads on TV make me feel.
Here's an example that should hopefully be provocative.

Let's say I work in ad-tech, and am hired to do an online advertising campaign for an online casino. Let's say I leverage some generative models as part of my campaign tuning, as well as some pretty sophisticated user tracking. At the end of the day, suppose my algorithms have done a good job of creating and targeting advertisements that result in conversions. Everybody wins, right? I make money, my client makes money, consumers learn about a product they are (evidently) interested in.

Suppose further that the advertisement my algorithms generated does a good job of triggering cravings in gambling addicts (perhaps emulating the sensory experience of slot machines), and that my targeting found online communities focused on addiction. The problems with this should be obvious.

At the core, you're assuming that humans are perfect little rational automata, when the reality is that we're sentient animals with a lot of maladaptive brain behavior that can be exploited in known ways. Advertisements are not simple informational notices, but precisely crafted information packets designed to elicit specific behavior.
Excellent take
We already have Twitter doing that, though. Do we have to have ALL established social media hellholes going full toxic simultaneously? I'd rather we didn't.

And yes, that was the first thing I thought of. I saw a user similarly griping about mods, saying "all the mods are rigging all the polls" and then added, "sure, pretend the users are behind you, the mods, the ones who ban them for very little reason or mute them/ignore them for asking valid questions in mod mail."

A picture emerges… bit of a self-report! I'm curious what was 'very little reason' and then how many 'valid questions' were 'asked'. Some people seem to know who their natural enemies are, and they're really clear on wanting those impediments to be removed.
See this on pushshift and apps that used it like the camas search tool:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776848

and here's a comment excerpt from this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/134tjpe/reddit_dat...

> "You are removing a vital tool with absolutely no replacement ready, and that is absolutely unfair to those of us who are volunteering to moderate the content on your platform. Moderation tools, at this point, should be moving forward, but Reddit is about to throw the moderators *YEARS* backwards, while the scammers, spammers, and bots continue to find new and exciting ways to spam our subreddits- which the moderators take the heat for if we fail to adequately protect the sub."

So, why doesn't Reddit provide this functionality in-house? I think it's because it reduces or eliminates their ability to do things like shadowbanning / reducing visibility / amplifying etc. These tools would expose such activity, and that's part of the product they're selling - control of information.
Yes and: Make it work, then make it correct, then finally make it fast.
Curious to know how this compares to mid journey v5
I believe hot is currently bugged, I use recent comments as sorting and I find that nice.
I'd argue quite the opposite for the most part. Sure, the actual process of typing out software while stoned is basically a non-starter but the context-shifting nature of the substance has been responsible for a number of fascinating personal insights related to programming. If any drugs in particular are responsible for the "abysmal" quality of contemporary code it is the stimulants! (e.g. caffeine, speed.) I would wager that the way these substances allow people to consistently exceed their standard capacity for operating in complexity especially in states of stress and fatigue does not effectively translate to the sober person (then, _especially_, the sedated person as well). Thus a world of sober men is crushed by the designs of a cracked out minority of 10X-ers tasked with integrating the uncertain technology of tomorrow with the half-broken tools of yesterday.
Yes, very possibly! This app is based on Electron, so its web tech underneath. Its currently very optimized for the desktop (it relies on all sorts of desktop APIs), but I think one day it'll make sense to get it working in a web browser as well.
That's fascinating. Could you elaborate on how big the difference is? I'd also be interested in a comparison with Vue's vapor mode.
Visual noise and screen space hogging annoy me alot. Especially when you end up with multiple UUID:s on the same log line.

If one doesn't truly need distributed creation of globally unique identifiers, it is so much nicer with base35-encoded integer sequences. Preferably loosely based on a timestamp.
Many years back (so details are fuzzy), a friend who worked at Atari in the early 80's told that the programmer who did the game part of the work had the basic chess algorithm working in a few months, spent the next year getting it to run in less than 128 bytes of RAM, and was then burnt out and left tech.

IIRC, the game devs used a PDP-11 for much of their work, so that had a bit more RAM to work with to get started.
"Kill the newsletter!" at https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ is one of my favorite tools that does exactly what you're asking for!
I've considered doing something in this vein, and my thought is don't try to learn two things at once. Game design and game implementation are two different things; better to clone a game for your first several implementations, IMHO. OTOH, I'm not motivated enough to do that, either. :D
The videos help a lot if you are already in a structured learning environment.
You may want to give Batari Basic a look.

In the early 00's one enthusiast had the idea to make a simple BASIC compiler for the 2600. I was one of the early testers and the first thing I did was make a functional "BREAKOUT", bounce the ball off the bat to eliminate bricks in a wall game.

It took a couple hours and was, I think, the first (and buggy) playable program authored by someone other than the language author. And it was fun!

What the author did was kind of brilliant in that he packaged up several of the common tricks used to make games and presented them along with a simple BASIC.

Variables, for example, were just bytes and or individual bits, essentially addressing bits in a byte like an array.

J = %01101101
If J[2] = 0 then X = X +1

Here is a sample program to move a sprite around on the screen:

x=50
y=50

main2

COLUP0=28
COLUBK=02

player0:
%00011100
%00011000
%00011000
%00100000
%01011010
%01111100
%00100100
%00010000
%00011000
%00111100
%00011000
end

player0x=x
player0y=y

drawscreen

if joy0right then x=x+1
if joy0left then x=x-1
if joy0up then y=y-1
if joy0down then y=y+1

goto main2

On the VCS, a game is a loop that renders the display and in-between display frames, during VBLANK, one computes the next game state to be displayed, and it all runs at 50 or 60Hz, locked to the display refresh rate.

The BASIC exposes the little bit of hardware to a programmer in a simple way that I found to be a lot of fun because the really hard parts of assembly language are not necessary, but can be written in-line just as easily as defining a sprite is:

asm
LDA J
ASL
ASL
.
.
.
end

Any hoo, it was fun and surprisingly productive. I found I could knock out simple concepts in an hour or two.
They mention that the legacy system was scaled vertically and expensive. Sometimes a complete re-write makes sense.

Some companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for terrible CMS websites. I've seen this situation 3 times in my career and for all three a re-write was the best long term option when balancing all the pros and cons.
I mean, to state the obvious....no, no they won't.
Users don't care, they just want to keep browsing reddit.

Power-tripping mods are the ones trying to tank the subreddits.

The communities that actually ask the users for feedback on what they want tend to all be back to normal.
I mean, maybe the outward hostility?

- https://gizmodo.com/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-moderators-land...

- https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-protest-blacko...

Or the absolutely abysmal and tonedeaf responses every chance they had?

- https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...

- https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/9/23755640/reddit-api-change...

- https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve...

Or the easily disproven libel?
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/143sho8/admins_c...

That's been doubled and tripled down on?
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/09/reddit-ceo-doubles-down-on...

Or literally changing or removing user's posts and comments?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14fafpp/the_admin...

That all sounds abusive to me. If anything, the API price was the straw and focusing on it and ignoring literally everything that happened since is just being disingenuous.
Does it really make sense to run so much inside a web browser?

Are we perhaps over-utilizing web browsers?
When can I start shoveling my python/pytorch/CUDA spaghetti into WASM?

I would like serverless or at least rapid booting GPU functions...
I've been a librarian for 20 years and have watched the decline of children's literacy firsthand. Here's my random thoughts:

1) No Child Left Behind really siloed the schools: Back in the early 2000s, partnering with schools for literacy was incredibly easy: teachers would walk kids over to the library and we'd work together to promote summer reading. Now talking to administration is like talking to a brick wall. Even if you make contact with a simpatico teacher, they are often forbidden to lose class hours to come over to the library.

2) The public schools in my area are physically crumbling, and there's no feasible method to replace them. I currently live in a very rural area. My small county (15k residents) has 5 school districts that all need new facilities. These facilities cost between $40-65 million dollars. Even if the new buildings get funded/constructed, enrollments are falling and it's impossible to convince new teachers to come out to the boonies. A school district in the next county is importing teachers from the Philippines because there are no local teachers to hire.

3) There has been a change in parental behavior for the worse. Children are a lot less free-range than they were in the early 2000s, so every library visit has a parent tapping their foot waiting for their child to finish. Sports have become ascendant, even though no professional players in anything have ever come from here. When we have literacy events like Summer Reading, the parents want to know what the prizes are and if they're good enough; if the prizes don't meet their standards, the child doesn't get to participate.
Likely not. Even with earlier models performance may be finnicky: https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/optimization/mps

Additionally, for Apple Silicon you likely need 64 GB RAM (since CPU/GPU memory is shared) which is expensive.
> Right now the mods seem to be flexing their muscle, showing that Reddit has allowed them too much power, rather than showing the actual need for an api.

It's ironic because I've always regarded the API as an egalitarian tool against powertripping mods. Viewing deleted comments through Pushshift was the only way to know what mods were actually doing and how honest they were. Pushshift was also the only usable search engine and archive for the platform. With it gone the culture will be very different.
The other social media API is Imgur.

Pricing for Imgur is: $500 for 7.5m requests then $0.01 per request after that. Then $10,000 for 150m requests and $0.01 per request after that.

Reddit is at $0.24 per 1,000. Or $0.00024 per request.

Imgur is cheaper for 150m requests but Reddit is cheaper for 500m requests.

So really, what is a reasonable pricing?
maybe instead of adding even more complexity to solve the issues our solutions are creating, we could wait until we have solutions that don't create huge issues. What happens if the thing locks all the doors and manual controls and then drives off a bridge? Or if it's caught fire. Personally I'm barely okay with taking planes, if there was a car that could, at any moment, turn into a prison cell I'm not going near one of those things as long as I live. Even if they say they've disabled the "feature". Do we really trust these corporations with our lives so much that we're willing to get perma-locked into their test vehicles?
I havent received that message and have a personal sub
Twitter CEO starts paying Musk’s overdue bills
I wonder if typical deep sea exploration use relay all along the descent, to ensure comms and raise rescue capabilities.
Knowing people in alcohol recovery has really changed the way I look at alcohol advertisements - they seem truly sick and twisted.
Reddit is pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars and that number has been rapidly increasing.

They would have easily reached profitability without doing this.
> Right now the mods seem to be flexing their muscle, showing that Reddit has allowed them too much power, rather than showing the actual need for an api. In all of these discussions, I haven't seen a single video detailing side by side how necessary the third party apps are. Just claims that everyone needs them and uses them.

I guess, I can chime in, I know some people who are "power mods" if you will, and they have even shared screen. Things like better mod queue capabilities, you can also see moderator actions way better than whatever reddit provided (at least on old reddit). Things like keeping notes on users, which work throughout all of reddit, so if you go through their entire reddit post history, you can save notes to remind yourself about them for later, e.g. if you spot someone trolling and being blatantly bad, you can save such notes, if you spot them on your sub 3 years later, being an awful person, you know how to act. There's also templates for things like messaging, which uses the wiki feature to store some of the data.

Worse yet is Reddit Enhancement Suite and I forget what the other popular one is (Moderator Toolbox?) only properly work on desktop as browser plugins, if you're trying to do mod work on mobile good luck with their awful UI. I'm surprised reddit has not made part of their UI open source to allow people to enhance the mod tools from within reddits own UI. Reddits whole back-end was open source, until they decided to buy into every over hyped approach to modern web development, for whatever reason, instead of just gradually improving on their old and fully capable codebase. New reddit is a confusing mess, and half of the tools that work on old reddit do not on new reddit.

You can also see the types of subs someone posts in and get those kind of metrics and figure out if someone's a troll or hostile to your subreddit based on opposing communities they post a lot in, and then with one click find all their posts within said subs.

None of these things are OOTB on reddit, and a lot of them imho could have been added years ago.
You reach for false dichotomies very easily. You may not like what I'm saying but don't ask me to shut up. Why do you immediately denounced me as being in a quixotesque saga? What are you afraid of thinking?
The biggest pro to choosing the likes of Svelte (or Vue, htmx, long list of newer frameworks that have learned from React/Angular's shortcomings) is how few footguns there are.

That's really the big thing. I know everyone loves to believe they're masterclass programmers and falling for such traps is beneath them, but after seeing some of these masterclass programmer's react repos... it's very clear why the react docs is filled with many disclaimers and notes (which kudos to the react team for phenomenal docs).
Ulid is an ordered UUID canonically rendered in not Base36 but Crockford's Base32 (to make it easier to read then write or read aloud or parse and error correct).
It reminds of the story of the de Havilland Comet, which had a bad habit of breaking up in mid-air. Engineers submerged the fuselage of the plane in and out of deep water to simulate pressure changes and it finally failed. leading to the diagnosis of metal fatigue. I mean that was 70 years ago. You'd think it might have crossed his mind.
That isn't a solution. Any time spent dealing with the car is a failure.

> The fire chief said each robotaxi company offers training to help deal with “bricked” vehicles.
> “We have 160,000 calls a year. We don’t have the time to personally take care of a car that’s in the way when we’re on the way to an emergency,” she said.
IntelliJ has a lot of legacy code, including custom re-implementation of all things UI.

And it offers vastly more features than VS Code.
Somewhat related, the anonymously sourced and unprovenanced document "PROTON, CLEARWATER and Lexis-Nexis"[1] provided to cryptome August 2013 in the wake of the Snowden revelation of "parallel construction" - though not itself from Snowden as far as we know - has the following:

> All members of the Intelligence Community have access to LEXIS-NEXIS. [...] All domestic law enforcement has access to LEXIS-NEXIS, its a fundamental investigative tool. IRS, DOJ, Treasury, Local PD, Sheriffs Office all have a LEXIS-NEXIS access or the means to pull data from them.

> [...] Imagine your a citizen in New York and you get surveilled by one of the numerous surveillance technicians the NYPD has fielded since 9-11 , a quick look-up via mobile device or WiFi and they know who you are now.

> So, a Special Agent or analyst simply runs the selectors in PROTON and CLEARWATER, then runs those names or other biographic/vital information again in LEXIS-NEXIS, all that data related to the TARGET is exported in Analyst Notebook format, those files are imported into the Analyst Notebook application and...viola!...a relatively complete social network and biographics of the TARGET. That could be you of course.

> [...] The DOJ and Intelligence Community access LEXIS-NEXIS through a VPN and a proxy (government). A DOD proxy is registered to the Virginia Contracting Office, but it's a non-logging proxy so, good luck in your discovery. LEXIS-NEXIS has no idea of the individual accessing it's database and, according to the spokesperson, does not maintain logs of government clients. A subpoena cannot discover what is not there.

"PROTON" and "CLEARWATER" are explained as follows:

> PROTON is a storage and analysis system of telecommunications selectors at the TS/SI/FISA/ORCON/NOFORN level of classification and handling. PROTON is the program name as well as the name of the technology. It has been described as "SAP-like", and I suspect that PROTON was once a DEA special program. PROTON is well known in HUMINT and DOJ clandestine law enforcement. It remains the primary, if not fundamental, tool of HUMINT and DOJ law enforcement operations, both of which have considerable overlap in phenomenology and methodology. PROTON carries the FISA caveat because Top Secret FISA collection is contained in PROTON's massive database.

> Through my professional associations within the Intelligence Community, I became aware of a Department of Justice (DOJ) system called CLEARWATER. CLEARWATER is similar to PROTON but at the SECRET/NOFORN level of classification and exclusively a DOJ program, where PROTON is CIA, DOJ and DOD. Most DOJ Special Agents and analysts do not have Top Secret clearance. Every informant is run through CLEARWATER, every witness gets vetted through the system.

Over the last 10 years I've sporadically searched for any sign this document has been investigated or debunked, with no result. I still find it pretty interesting.

1: https://cryptome.org/2013/08/proton-clearwater-lexis-nexis.h...
There's also no safe level of organized crime.
The only problem I have with Svelte is that I can't find a job. Only seen one in the last six months and they bailed after we discussed pay.

I love Vue but I really wanted to work on an actual project with Svelte because the developer experience was fantastic. Guess I'll have to wait a few more years.

Almost every job is react, react, react. It's exhausting dealing with the cultists
The issue is that you tried to use vs code for Java. That plugin doesn't really work well, honestly.

The performance would have been pretty much the same if you used it like sublime text, so no plugins beyond synthax highlighting

And before someone claims that's not fair because sublime text has plugins too: no, it (to my knowledge) doesn't have any that enable the same classpath scanning vs code (and intellij or eclipse) does for java
Discord does have threading and a pseudo-forum view as well.

None of that changes its main societal flaw which is being a walled garden. So much loss of information.
This neatly summarizes why anybody should care. I found Reddit to be very like the glory days of Usenet. There were lots of bad places, but then the niche content was excellent.

It would be a pity to lose Reddit. I don't know if that's what must happen: it's not up to me.