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the-printeron Show HN: I built a newsletter platform that lets you write the issues on Notion

So how do services that interface on top of Notion work? Do users have to pay fees to Notion for extra blocks of content (or however Notion charges) on top of what they pay to whichever service? Is there a strategy in case Notion folds? Are these type of services marketed more toward people who already use Notion to begin with?

the-printeron Anxious dogs, like anxious people, need help managing and reducing distress

And health insurance providers package additional coverage for veterinary expenses with certain plans.

the-printeron Vice, Decayed Digital Colossus, Files for Bankruptcy

Vice was/is basically the media equivalent of the outward perplex of when Joaquin Phoenix grew that beard and Sean Penn interviewed El Chapo.

the-printeron Vice, Decayed Digital Colossus, Files for Bankruptcy

The thing is that Vice’s main appeal was always to the cringey NY hipster crowd.

the-printeron Ask HN: Why don't we have a best-of-class open self-learning platform?

Sigh

This is one area where I feel like programs like ChatGPT can be helpful in the future. My first experience with ChatGPT was generating a few mock syllabi (recommended textbooks and week-by-week course outlines) and it turned out to be pretty good. This is just a low-end example, but there are probably a lot of other ways that large language models can be helpful in this field. One of the greatest concerns to self-learning is probably self-management.

Your second paragraph describes a beautiful concept that I think takes a tremendous amount of effort which could probably be offloaded to AI. I can’t speak to the quality of this outcome, but in a best(best,best)-case scenario I think it would be splendid. There would still have to be the right amount of human involvement though.

the-printeron Vice, Decayed Digital Colossus, Files for Bankruptcy

Do you think there are any good cultural retrospects that cover the mid-2010s?

the-printeron Vice, Decayed Digital Colossus, Files for Bankruptcy

Vice to me was always just “high quality” news for people who read Pitchfork and the Fader and listened to Danny Brown and Ariel Pink.

In hindsight its “good content” of the war and drugs sort doesn’t feel too far off from the original angle of low-brow edginess that I feel like evolved and predated things like the “dirtbag left” and “El chapo traphouse” with less of a political bend.

I’m sort of confused as to what carried it into being heralded as a “digital colossus”, whose decline is described as part of the “end of an era” next to Buzzfeed News. Granted, once my own “New York nights at 21 edgy” phase tapered off around 2015-2016, I stopped regularly paying attention to it. At least Buzzfeed News had the accolades to justify its merit.

I suspect that around 2015-2016, right around the time when Supreme got sold to VF Corporation and Kanye and Kim Kardashian were in their prime, and Trump first stopped on (or off?) that escalator…there was a “vibe shift”…and whatever underlying cultural tones that everything that I’m describing can be categorized under sort of seemed “marketable”? But after Trump was elected, the vibe shifted again hard, and I guess Vice couldn’t keep up. Their target demographic is aging and the generation who follows them probably doesn’t have the stomach to tolerate their lack of taste and can probably figure out the “war and drugs” stuff on their own.

I don’t know. So much of this calls to forlorn days and I don’t expect much of the HN crowd to feel where I’m coming from.

If you know you know.

the-printeron Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Good For

Well for one, he’s 94. And I’m going to guess that this interview may have been carried out over email and that allowed him to sort of let it all out without interruption.

the-printeron Ask HN: I am overflowing with ideas but never finish anything

I think that you're on to something.

Sometimes you've just gotta let your food touch.

the-printeron Opera One – Browsing Reinvented

You know it looks really groovy and it even has ChatGTP integrated (woohoooo) but I would to use a browser that is just a box and some tabs.

the-printeron Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter

My assumption is that we shouldn’t underestimate the volume of nonsense that a person can tolerate when their attention span has been reduced to banana skin fiber over the course of their lifetime. Combine that with the addictive qualities of the platforms and a desire to harvest maximum stimulation with minimal effort.

Recently I noticed how overwhelming some posts on HN can appear. 400-500 comments, the top rated comment alone splinters into 78 sub-narratives and criticisms. Contrarily I feel like parsing this takes a lot more effort than Twitter. People put a lot more effort in their HN comments compared to a Tweet, and we are held to a different standard here in terms as what we say and how we say it. Also consider the fact that Twitter offers a variety of content while HN offers one primary form (text; I’m purposely excluding what links that are shared offer and am discussing primarily the core of the HN experience which is the conversation on the actual site).

I say all of this to say, how do people have the time in their day to even scroll here? When you follow nobody (unless you subscribe to some users comments with an RSS reader, an option I’m becoming more fond of) and you actually have to do a lot of reading and thinking as compared to a deluge of Tweets that can be grasped in a matter of seconds.

On one hand, this is what makes HN an exceptional website in a way. On the other hand, what makes Twitter appealing to others is what makes it exceptional compared to other websites and why it’s doubtful that the majority of its user base will leave, unless the layout changes.

Overall, I think topics like literacy, intellectual curiosity, taste…and a lack thereof, contribute to why Twitter is either appealing and unappealing (I don’t tweet).

the-printeron How much is a smidgen?

I’ve decided to entirely disregard the suggested measurements provided in recipes, which means that I guess I’ve decided not to follow recipes at all anymore.

Except for bread, but as soon as I can commit a recipe for bread to memory, I’m through!

the-printeron My Lifetime Reading Plan

This advice is leagues ahead, and almost appears to be opposed to the sentiment that I come across often, "You don't need to read entire books and you can just put a book down if you don't like it," which I cannot relate with at all. I want to read the entire book and mostly every book that I decide to read I am interested in to the point where my interest and want for the material that it provides don't ring against a "like/don't like" sort of spectrum.

“WHAT YOU LEARN IN CLASSROOMS IS IRRELEVANT, AND SOMETIMES EVEN WORTHLESS—YOU MUST TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN EDUCATION.”

This is just a nice phrase, although I don't entirely agree with it. But it is a real ribeye of a hot, declarative take.

the-printeron Teenage Engineering TP–7 field recorder

You know I’ve come across your quiet american website exploring marginalia.nu in the past and never thought to actually see what the content was about, so now I don’t need to ask you to tell me more about what it’s like being a practicing field recordist, because it looks like you’ve done that already.

Fancy seeing you here, thanks for stopping by.

the-printeron Some personal news

Yeah, this is what stood out to me also. It’s likely a lot more than other people in his position could say.

the-printeron Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website

The community at https://ln.ht is low key thriving also... great design and supports RSS.

the-printeron Show HN: Frogmouth – A Markdown browser for the terminal

The Textualize crew appears to be making some cool stuff. I'm looking forward to the Web browser.

the-printeron Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity

Well, aerbil313, I’m with you. And I’m glad that you said this.

the-printeron The Joy of an Empty Brain

Chill, man.

the-printeron The Progress of Reading (2018)

These are some intense pieces. This guy digs deep. I've been looking for these kind of intimate perspectives on reading and writing.

the-printeron Marriage rules in Minoan Crete revealed by ancient DNA analysis

> so you’d think religion would steer culture towards better beliefs and practices concerning that.

If we were to take into account what would influence a family to practice marriage between cousins in excess (which is largely a preoccupation with material wealth and status), then it does.

the-printeron Using paleogenomics to elucidate 10k years of immune system evolution

> There is no "immune system." There is an innate immune system which reacts quickly but only to general threat patterns (kind of like racial profiling, to be crude). It is really easy to explain the evolution of this system.

Could you kindly explain? From the beginning. I’m trying to gain “top-to-bottom” understanding of what we’re discussing.

Also, what was the reason behind placing “immune system” in quotation marks and negating its existence per my reference of it, but delineating it in the format that you did subsequently? I’m trying to figure out where I erred in my choice of words.

the-printeron Climatic and environmental aspects of Mongol withdrawal from Hungary (2016)

No (thereare5lights made a good point, deflating my sneer) and no (this is self-evident).

the-printeron Using paleogenomics to elucidate 10k years of immune system evolution

I don’t necessarily follow everything that the parent comment is covering, but I gather that he may be referring to the sheer existence of the immune system. How can natural selection account for that?

the-printeron Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021)

I don’t know any programming languages…but I feel like I “get” awk…

Also, this blog post helps with the above. For some reason I like how the author cites technical reviews of the article and email correspondence as references.

the-printeron Climatic and environmental aspects of Mongol withdrawal from Hungary (2016)

A-ha.

the-printeron Climatic and environmental aspects of Mongol withdrawal from Hungary (2016)

The locals…of the territory you just conquered?

the-printeron Wakamai Fondue, the tool that answers the question “what can my font do?”

This tool is useful for subsetting a font. In my limited experience, it looks like many typefaces are determined to accommodate every diacritical mark and language-specific glyph there is. I’m not sure how heavily that impacts font file sizes. Is “font bloat” a thing (yet)? If so, I’m curious as to whether more type designers may consider separate “W1G” releases. I may be imagining this problem.

the-printeron Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?

There has to be some sort of “Streisand Effect” phenomenon that can be applied to interpersonal communications, where by mentioning a thing in conversation that you hope not to entertain, it gets entertained as a consequence of it being mentioned.

> It would be curious to examine in a psychological study if this reinforced behavior has developed more due to a subtle social reward system for the “labelers”, or due to a punishment system for the “non-labelers”.

This is intriguing by the way.

the-printeron USC is removing the word “field” from the curriculum

The house remains privileged again, I see.