skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a significant number of instances when this isn't the case. A comment is killed by flags, and dang will comment on how it violates HN guidelines. This isn't super-frequent, but does occur at least a few times a year that I see it (both through my own browsing of HN and by following up on dang's moderation comments, the overwhelming majority of which I agree with, just to be clear).

Often what's being criticised in the comment is also being practised either in a parent comment (which generally isn't flagged or admonished by dang), or in the source article itself.

Abuses by the Catholic Church are one somewhat typical case, there are a few others. Climate / resource discussions that I see, though I think that's becoming less the case with time. Virtually always it's a truth-to-power situation, with truth getting emotional, as might be expected in cases of long-standing abuse.

Dang's consistent response is that HN's prime directive is to satisfy intellectual curiosity, and that there are a set of stories (and discussions) that just don't do that. Fluffy floofs, sportsball, celebrity, and horse-race politics are a large fraction of these, and I'm OK with that. I see significant spillover into hard problems as well, though. These are hard to discuss productively, and it's even harder to move that discussion along (new points, new insights, deeper mutual understanding), but my complaint to HN is that it doesn't seem to want to try, or at least, not as hard as I'd like it to.

Sinead is a case where Celebrity intersects with Hard Problems, as it occasionally does.

Also: for all that this is a fairly consistent complaint of mine, HN does far better than any other general online forum of which I'm aware. There may be some less-frequented corners, and I'd like to check out how, say, MetaFilter scores in this regard. But of major social sites --- Birdsite, FB, Reddit, and even the Fediverse (which shares some characteristics of its larger cousin) --- HN is well above mean IMO.

I'd like it to be better. And some latitude in the case of truth-to-power conversations seems one route there.
Also probably doesn’t damage dna like sucralose/Splenda.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10937404.2023.2...
I can't find any detailed information on this outside of this post. What kind of Library Of Congress resources are there? Is there anywhere to discuss things with other people?

GPT means there's lots of opportunity to do more qualitative stuff, similar in spirit to Oregon Trail, than there used to be. There's lots of issues with anything that uses GPT interactively (fun as that can be), but pre-calculating a ton of narrative material (including structured material) opens up a lot of possibilities.
They weren't talking about a smiling addiction (whatever that means) or any other random addiction. Denying that you have a cannabis addiction says nothing at all about any other addictions you may or may not have.

They were talking specifically about cannabis addiction, and suggesting that denial that you have a cannabis addiction is a sign of having a cannabis addiction. (However, this doesn't really make sense because people who are not addicted to cannabis will equally claim to not be addicted to cannabis.)
I absolutely love this channel. I went ahead and ordered the 4.5" prototype. I've wanted to get my hands dirty in this space for a long time now. There are several pieces of turbo machinery scattered about my garage that were never integrated into anything interesting.

Starting with something that mostly already works is probably more healthy for my side-project time budget & attention span.
Google Books was a wildly distinct use, though. There’s plenty of support in copyright law for fair use claims around indexing and excerpting for such purposes.

As for economic damages, that seems easy: One obvious use of the model
is to create derivative works that could economically compete with the original creators’ works.

Simpler examples make this clear: I love Disney animated films. I love them so much I build a model & train it on the complete corpus of Disney animated films. My model is a success, and can produce new films which more or less echo the style, characters, themes of the Disney films.

This is not what Google was doing. The creative work was the well-organized, efficient index,
not new books or a program to write them.
I think that would be very surprising to the fine people of Montenegro.

Check your local DNS configuration and your spelling, something is likely hijacking NXDOMAINs.
How to Get Out of Debt
Nice to see reposted previously viral tweets+videos on Mastodon. Mastodon has finally made it as a social network, I guess.

https://twitter.com/search?q=fridge%2070%20years&src=typed_q...
is user input needed or can it be done without it?
Yes, Santa Clara has their own non-profit power company so their rates are way less than PG&E
Yeah but there are plenty of experts to ask about the single specific claim.
At a conference I met Vernor Vinge and told him my entire career was basically because I read his books in high school. He was very happy.
Reminded of a quote I like, from a 2013 article about NYC's (then new) bike share:

>But even as the bike-sharing stations remain a source of dismay to some residents, they have served to illustrate a well-worn maxim of urban planning: If you build something, New Yorkers will find a way to lean on it.

Matt Flegenheimer, https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/nyregion/bike-sharing-doc...
And the value of good documentation, and actually reading that documentation as well as making sure the documentation is indexed and quick to peruse in a situation where you don't have time to waste.
Disagree. Those 12 beers contain a vast amount of carbs that will not be in the liquor.

Now, sure, if you slam 12 shots of Cuervo back to back you're going to have a bad time - 12 shots is an entire bottle if you're actually getting full pours.

But if you consumed one shot or one beer every hour... no difference in the effects.
I think the first half of the first book is the best. Much less interested in Tine's world
And risks digest.
Restic 0.16.0
Every major urban city has these jobs - population is not the only type of growth. Industrial, commercial, infrastructure projects demand just as much if not more of these jobs than residential.
I totally agree; regardless of Terry Davis' strangeness, there's no doubt a certain level of brilliance to it. Honestly, I think that's kind of why TempleOS has been so compelling to people. It's insane, but also beyond the skills of 99.99% of the population.

So much of the so-bad-its-good stuff required effort, and TempleOS is no exception.
LOL did not proof-read. I wrote Jeans originally, but I think edited it out while I was rephrasing for clarity :D
Leaving aside what "edge" really means, for me personally, this is about connecting a website running on Deno Deploy with a database.

As a hobbyist doing recreational programming, I don't want to pay for a website when it gets no traffic. Everything needs to start up on demand and shut down when idle.

This means that cold start time is what really matters. Since Deno Deploy has no persistent storage yet, both the frontend and the database need to start up on first request. Having a multi-region database doesn't help if needs to be running all the time and doesn't start up very fast.

As for latency when warmed up, I plan to deal with that by avoiding round trips with stored procedures and caching.

Here's my "hello world" website. Any advice on technologies to check out would be welcome.

https://postgres-counter-demo.deno.dev/
In what way is it atomic? “One command” doesn’t have anything to do with being atomic.
This particular work is mostly funded through a set of large restricted donations, not through the general funds.
Whats the theoretical cap? Gen pop likely can live with 30fps if we eventually get there.
I’d say that is up you. I can never remember what tld those other sites used.
I’ve been using icanhazip since many years. I seem to remember it fine.
Agree with the above, fabulous learning tool. A theme that often dominates is small mistakes deep paid for with blood and treasure at usurious interest rates.

I also recommend Admiral Cloudberg. https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/drama-in-the-snow-the-cr...
All the edibles I've seen (at least the professionally made ones) have the active ingredient dispersed very evenly. Just get 10s and cut 'em in half.
It's not viable for a community that wants to maintain quality discourse to allow continued posting by somebody who reliably mixes in slurs and bigotry.

I feel bad for Terry, because by all indications those posts were driven by mental health issues rather than intentional bigotry, but the effect of allowing them in the community is the same.
Absolutely agree 100%.

One other terrible thing about mental illness like that (as if there needed to be another) is that it's really, really hard for people with mental illness to navigate the healthcare system to get proper treatment. Even I've experienced this, with ADHD. I joke that I take medication to remember to take my medication, and that's sometimes kinda true. I can only imagine what it would be like with delusions of persecution and voices in my head telling me to do stuff.

Another thing is that in the US, it's incredibly hard to get someone like Terry on medication if they don't want to be, even if it's in their own best interests. Most of the time, I'm generally in favor of this stance, as I don't think that anyone else, particularly the government, should be able to force medicate people against their wills. (NB: I'm not talking about vaccines here.)

The unfortunate result of these things is that people with really severe mental issues can easily end up homeless, or, at the very least, on disability and unable to work, and there's nothing anybody else can do about it.

Schizophrenia in particular is a real bastard of a disease, as you noted. Apparently, symptoms only go away in 70% of people who get treatment, and 15% of people with schizophrenia end up institutionalized.[0] The symptoms apparently also trend less severe over time, but there can be sudden and severe regressions.

Terry got dealt a bad hand, it's true. But, I don't think it's fair to say that getting banned from a website led to his death. If that was all it took, then just about anything could have caused him to go over the edge.

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[0]: https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-outlook#1
I think an important driver in this is a persistent desire for (and faith in) novelty.

Every engineer has had unpleasant experiences with some giant convoluted messes. And there's a strong tendency to blame for that at the feet of the tools/stack/language of those messes, and believe that if we just choose something different, this time it will be clean and perfect.

Of course, some or all of that blame is undeserved. "Giant convoluted mess" is the state toward which every project will tend over time. But that rarely diminishes the totemic belief that new tools will produce different results, so an impetus toward novelty-for-novelty's-sake remains persistent.
Yeah.
Work for a summer as a manual laborer some time. Grueling, backbreaking work, unless you have the "in" (and five years journeyman experience at no to little pay) to be a plumber/electrician/heavy vehicle operator.
Every time I've tried working in laboring I haven't lasted a month, usually less than two weeks (till paycheck). Carrying sheet rock, digging trenches, general haul this go over there. People come out of manual laboring either built like a professional wrestler, with severe muscle-skeletal problems, or both.
No one wants to work those jobs because they're so terrible.
TIL about #embed. Awesomeness! And in hindsight, why didn't we get this earlier? :D
Not my experience. First time didn't do much of anything.
Nothing below the waist? Do AI vaginas still look like Cthulhu?
Huh? The article link is to a github repo.
One definition of edge I found was '5ms average latency to the customer' , does that seem like a good definition?
You could write a program that listens on port 53, parses the query and returns the correct value?

DNS is hard to implement, but for responding to a very specific type of query, should be easy?
I have an /etc/inittab entry with

stmd:2345:respawn:/bin/systemd
Ring 0 only. Ring 3 is like wearing three condoms. God wants us to be close to the hardware.
I'm surprised at this point that they don't have a "voyager simulator" akin to Kerbal Space Program, that they can try changes like this on before sending it to the real spacecraft...
Please consider integrating SingleFile support as well, perhaps at least in coordination with the planned browser addon. (ArchiveBox supports SingleFile on the server-side running under nodejs.)
Fantastich thread this, thank you fcmam5, I'm bookmarking this for future reference.

My own contribution is to recommend reading risks digest:

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/
What about all of those open pit mines? Surely some of them have access to a lower elevation location where the water could be piped. Or, two adjacent pit mines.
Your comments are stupid and contribute nothing to this thread.
Too many people are still dealing with their own mental illnesses, to be able to see this…
I recently stopped after years of using indica strains primarily for sleep. On one hand, I don't feel noticeably more (or less) rested now that I've stopped, but the dreams I have now.. it's kind of incredible how vivid and memorable they are. I'd forgotten what it's like to wake up and just reflect on whatever series of events my subconscious mind constructs.
Franklin showed what was possible and the market been snowballing ever since.
Interesting.

I kind of feel like we haven't even fully gotten around to figuring out what it meant when we hit "all the porn (made by humans) is available all the time to anyone who wants it," which is universes away from when I was a lad coming of age at the time.

Like, can I attribute at least some of my interest in tech in figuring out how to program the VCR to record HBO at 2am (then sneak down to get the tape out before everyone wakes up?)

Sure!
How does this handle dependencies / relationships?

Isn’t the real power of Timelines, is being able to adjust one task duration and then have it auto cascade down the impact to all the dependent tasks.
I keep seeing AI people shoot themselves in the foot with the risible "animations" that are a static pic with the mouth morphing like a deliberately bad flash cartoon would do. After marvelling at still images that are indistinguishable from reality, how could seeing a 2000s morph of one called a moving image not be pure bathos? Why don't you stop? Know your limits!
One of the many misleading things done by climate scientists is to splice together data derived via different measurement methods.

The CO2 curve 800000 years back is an excellent example.

CO2 in air bubbles in ice will diffuse into the ice during the many millenia the ice have been stored under pressure. You can therefore expect the ice core CO2 to be lower than hypothetical atmospheric measurements at the same time.

The diffusion is expected to progress fastest at the start, and then more slowly.

Still the artifact is absolutely obvious as the CO2 concentration peaks are lower
and lower the further back in time it goes.

Yet of course someone had to splice it all together and not even add error bars.
If you Google for additional information on the ban, there seem to be some less common types of incandescent bulbs that are exempt. One of them is 3-way bulbs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-way_lamp) and lamps / lamp sockets that work with that type of bulb should still be available. Rough service bulbs, commonly used in garage door openers because of their vibration resistance, also seem to be exempt.
No further development on the 7.0 branch. Development is still continuing in the next version.

The headline omitted the most important part.

The full comment:

> There won't be any further M1 packages on the 7.0 branch as we don't backport any significant fixes/enhancements for ARM there, so it doesn't make much sense to invest time on building and releasing a package which will not see any real progress. If you want to run the developer preview for VBox on M1 you can check out the latest testbuilds which has a lot of fixes and enhancements for M1 (just don't expect any performance improvement).
Strange, I am seeing this behaviour for your linked profile of Elon, but if I look at my own profile I do not see it (still login-walled). I can see @dhh but only tweets from 2019 or earlier. I have tried a few profiles and I'm getting mixed results, with no clear pattern except maybe more prominent profiles are visible. It's certainly not tied to verified status.
Since this is on the front page: "There won't be any further M1 packages on the 7.0 branch"

"If you want to run the developer preview for VBox on M1 you can check out the latest testbuilds which has a lot of fixes and enhancements for M1 "

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Testbuilds
Hi! I'm a game developer and software architect building a platform to enable the quick design, iteration and deployment of web games. I would LOVE to build a game with you for this challenge (and we can split the prize money if we win.) DM me if interested, email in my bio. :-]
https://youtu.be/bkIK4Xo1GRM
Which app? We did notice a few visual errors a while back.
Bigger problems than no power in the worst year imaginable. Give me a break.
The the uprights are not even bolted down, they are held down with sandbags. Incredible.
Works for me (heh).
> it's almost second to none

Are you saying None is better for beginners?

https://nonelang.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
I've heard that it wasn't so much a loophole as a couple of lawmakers knowing _exactly_ what they were doing.
> Maybe 3--5x at best.

More like infinity since juniors usually can't independently progress on non trivial tasks (and will probably regres if left to try).

I sort of get what OP is saying, if LLMs get better you can delegate stuff you usually delegate to juniors.

But that's nowhere near reality right now, LLMs are not even a net positive with all the failure modes and poor workflow.

It takes too much compute to get meaningful context. Having to summarize and chunk problems is more work than the benefits.

Copilot is great at speeding up obvious typing, but that's like 10% bump.
They're totally orthogonal, the trolls weren't going to leave Terry alone regardless of his HN status.

HN had nothing to do with assholes "gifting" Terry a drum knowing it would completely disrupt his elderly parent's home he shared, and was subsequently forced to leave for living out of a minivan.

Then they preyed on his internet crushes discovered through his livestreams, watching those same livestreams as he read spoofed emails they sent from said crushes.

Ultimately what really ruined everything for Terry IMHO was live-streaming. You can't have vulnerable people live-streaming like that. It's when everything went off a cliff for him. There was realtime live video feedback for everything the trolls were doing anonymously to him. Instant gratification and optimization for their end.
There’s power in organization, yet the middle class is disorganized.

This outcome isn’t by accident
and it’s a huge undertaking to just get past the tribal bullshit just to have a sane conversation.
Broadly, it really does feel like "the industry" is going out of its way to prevent lots of people from getting to "virtual desktops."

They've always been a really good teaching tool for me (I teach a college intro to IT class), and they never seem to improve from a novice standpoint; always little annoying things just getting them going.
I get the feeling they’re saying they regret smoking so much because it’s cognitively damaged them long term, which isn’t good.

(I imagine the friends here are a rough “control” for baseline cognitive potential)
I can't say a thing about efficiency, but for maintainability, I have to disagree. This seems to be a rust library, and for maintaining that, you'd need to write a program, compile it every time some updates come by, rerun the recompiled program, ...

With the parent comment example, all you need is nginx, available as a package on all distros, and a single static config file. With an auto-updating package manager and a service manager, one never needs to write anything else apart from that static config file.

Or did you mean something else with "actually maintainable"?
Designs are mostly open, and plans are for the orbs to be fully open hardware. The iris is hashed into an "iriscode" and the detailed scans are deleted, and never leave the device. Iriscode is then linked via some zero knowledge proof witchcraft to activate a World ID on a new keypair, which is completely dissociated with the iriscode.
I have struggled with weed addiction more than once in my life. Picking up coding helped me out of the first bout. Switching to edibles and tapering the dosage helped me out of the second. If I had to take a trip somewhere where I couldn't hav any it was pretty easy to live without it, but I did not have the mental discipline to stop when it was available
I don’t think it’s remotely the same thing. What comfort are you sacrificing for the disabled in the real world? On the pseudo anonymous internet it’s impossible to tell whether you’re dealing with a very different type of person or just a troll hellbent on sabotaging your community. When the quality of discourse is in the dumps, who caused it or why won’t matter when folks have lost interest in engaging with that community any longer.
Posted a few hours ago and flagged (seemingly correctly) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36948617
AI vaginas look realistic now, people created LoRAs that can be used with stable diffusion to make realistic looking ones. No specific reason that I only included above the waist.
The turning point was when he was kicked out of his house. That's when he became homeless and started living in a van.

That affected him in many ways, and it was noticeable. Before, he was always shaved and clean. After becoming homeless that changed.

Someone sent him a drum set and the noise annoyed his parents. He also annoyed them in other ways. Trolls were entertained by stressing the relationship between Terry and his family.

It was all the work of glowposting trolls. A reminder that we should not hesitate to drive into the glow.
> Is the n word really that disturbing when used by someone without a firm grasp on reality and in the midst of a word salad?

Yes. Absolutely. 100%. While I get what you're saying, it's not on the recipient of an n-bomb to look up the person who just called them the n-word to judge their mental competency.

> “Rule are rules”… well, people in wheelchairs get a different set of rules and I’m perfectly fine sacrificing some of my own personal comfort to make accommodations.

I vehemently disagree. I can't think of any way that making accommodations for wheelchair friendliness inconveniences anyone. The doors and aisles are wider? That's great when I'm carrying a large box! Text is printed largely and in high contrast for people with vision impairments? Yay, now I can read it more easily!

I'm not saying Terry was a bad person. However, his illness caused him to say some outlandishly awful stuff to people. Why should they have to endure having those epithets hurled at them?
Seems like opt out is just a cookie instead of being saved server side
One of my favorite podcast bits is comedian Joey Diaz dosing (with their knowledge) folks on 500mg edibles called "Stars of Death": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC-7uoraunM&pp=ygUYam9leSBka...
"We've hit an iceberg and are sinking, and only 53% of us can fit on the lifeboats. So don't worry, not all of us are going to suffer death by drowning or hypothermia! First class passengers please make your way to the life boats!".

I'm guessing we're both from "first class" nations, where we can have a comfortable life and die at the expected "normal" age of death, despite the world burning up?