jordanscales

Anyone here who spends time around their aging parents and their friends sees what shows up on their phones. The image of an 70+ year old man poolside scrolling through IG reels seeing ragebait about democratic cities is burned into my brain. I wouldn't stand a chance against it either.

I truly believe we're here because of Facebook.

> border-color: var(--vb-light) var(--vb-dark) var(--vb-dark) var(--vb-light);

This creates 45 degree corners on the borders which are an uncanny valley to me [1]. Feel free to lift any CSS you need from https://jdan.github.io/98.css/, it's MIT licensed. I used a box-shadow hack to get the "staircase" look.

> box-shadow: inset -1px -1px #0a0a0a,inset 1px 1px #fff,inset -2px -2px grey,inset 2px 2px #dfdfdf;

[1] https://notes.jordanscales.com/98-css-reflections#when-butto...

I did this 4 years ago, it just has a cool font now.

Hetzner

Have you tried OPDS instead? There's a link to it on the Crosspoint homescreen. Connects to your latest access point so no hotspot mode.

I love my Xteink, it's such an intentional way of consuming content. I have a similar setup to OP. Here's my codex automation:

> Find three diverse, substantive Hacker News articles submitted within the previous 24 hours. Prefer readable linked articles rather than discussion-only, video, paywalled, or repository pages. For each selection, extract a clean UTF-8 XHTML-compatible article fragment and use dotepub's API to create an EPUB under public/books/ with a descriptive `Title - Author.epub` filename. Fix any EPUB 2 packaging or markup problems, including an invalid `xml:lang` on the OPF package element, and require every file to pass `epubcheck` with no errors before upload. Avoid duplicates already present locally or in the production OPDS catalog. Upload only the three newly created EPUB files to `hetzner:/opt/opds/public/books/`; never sync or delete the whole directory. Then verify production `/up` returns 200, unauthenticated `/opds.xml` returns 401, authenticated `/opds.xml` returns 200 and includes all three titles, each download returns `Content-Type: application/epub+zip`, and deployed copies pass `epubcheck`. Report the selected article titles and URLs, filenames, and verification results. Follow the repository AGENTS.md instructions and keep production credentials secret.

⌘+F "Germany" no results, curious

Definitely linked to you many times (I ran a blog called ilictronix in high school). Small world! Great posts over the years.

Ed-tech alumni here. You'd have significantly better outcomes if that 100M investment went towards free breakfast and lunch for students.

The tabs on the home page aren't wired up because doing so requires JavaScript

> Tabs should be managed by adding custom javascript code. All you need is to add the [aria-selected=true] attribute to the active tab.

Author here! This was my burnout recovery project and holds a place near and dear to my heart. https://notes.jordanscales.com/98-css-reflections

Models have a goal of accuracy and accuracy is not the median of the left/right spectrum.

You're replying to a thread where it is proven that they're secure.

Picked one up a few weeks ago, I read blog posts on my commute now that an automation downloads at 5:30am every morning and uploads them to my OPDS server. The form factor really shapes how I use it. I put it in the pocket where I used to keep my thin wallet (wallet now stays in my bag if anyone here wants to rob me)

Pretty remarkable both-sidesism in this comment. One side _does not admit the results of the 2020 election_ and the other side says widespread voter fraud is not happening in the United States. Being a fence-setter on this one is intellectually lazy.

Yes I believe Anthropic is selling its tokens to Fireworks and Openrouter at a loss.

The evidence that per-token inference _is_ subsidized is (a) competition is a bloodbath (b) these companies are raising more money than any company has raised ever (c) a maybe-profitable quarter is maybe-coming for Anthropic after maybe-signing a compute deal with SpaceX that legitimizes both companies.

The evidence that per-token inference _is not_ subsidized is... a quote or two from Dario and Sam Altman

Nice work! I'd consider ditching the AI art though, it was distracting.

Nice work! I wish rankings were done with an Elo score. I was worried of regretting my choices sometimes (single elimination?). Would require a lot more comparisons to arrive at stable scores, but the interface is nice I wouldn't mind.

This is awkward? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473

The inspired me to write down some scattered thoughts I have on this [0]. tl;dr I firmly believe we kicked the can down the road and now it's too late.

Things programmers forgot to do before AI started writing a bunch of software:

1. Learn how to review code

Some tools exist, some of them are even quite good! Large organizations have tried to build best practices to balance urgency with correctness, but programmers are still quite bad at this.

2. Compare program A vs program B

In a similar vein, we simply do not know how to measure one program vs another. Or a function against another. Or even one variableName vs another_variable_name.

"It depends" Depends on what? We never sorted this out.

3. Talk to other professions

We are not the first profession forced to coordinate with Automation as a coworker, and we certainly won't be the last. We're not even the first knowledge workers to do so.

How did other laborers deal with this? We don't know because we were busy making websites.

[0]: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wh7bie3ld7bmg3cz76sbjkwj/po...

Was fortunate enough to attend a few guest lectures from him at Stevens when I got my minor degree in science and technology studies. He was so sharp that I was blown away that he was (at the time) 80 years old.

I wonder what his life in Tokyo was like! Did he ever write about it?

https://jordanscales.com thanks for stopping by

Threats like the ones Powell's receiving would be the end of any other presidency. Why tech elites continue to align themselves with this clownshow will be a source of incredible shame that I'll hold onto forever.

Looks absurd. Can't wait to try it.

I did not vote for this. Some of my neighbors voted for this because they were pushed over the edge by inflammatory social media algorithms, some stayed home for similar reasons.

Corporations absolutely have an effect on all of this, you can bet they'd save time and money by focusing their efforts elsewhere if they thought it was pointless.

“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” - John Maynard Keynes

Unfortunately, this [0] cancels out everything ten-fold. The owner of the website is boosting the content of himself and the people he supports. This did not happen in the old twitter - not even close.

[0] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/issues/236

Fantastic work! I briefly explored poking around NDS roms to get the fonts and images out to build something like this.

Hard to imagine that interaction not being an immediate disqualifier for every single tech employee.