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Victorian Hacker News
- bradwood 4y agoRhyming couplets or Klingon next pls
- becquerel 4y agoDarn, I was hoping this would be a parody of HN's fixations transmuted into Victorian equivalents. This is still pretty neat, though.
- x-sp 4y agoI find this much more readable than the genuine article - kudos
- melonrusk 4y agoNext up, New International to King James. Bonus Butlerian Jihad: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=joshua+8%3A28&version=KJV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=joshua+8%3A28&v...
- tuatoru 4y agoNot enough commas.
- Normille 4y agoTo make such an unwarranted accusation, serves only to reveal, Sir, that you, Sir, are no gentleman!
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- tuatoru 4y agoIndeed, Sir, I am not; a mere gadfly on the rump of society, such is yr. humble correspondent. Yet even one unskilled in letters, such as I, may become sensible of a certain terseness, an unaccustomed lack of elegance, a rude brevity, in a communication, when it is flourished in front of his nose. It is an unfortunate habit of mine, the subject of well-intentioned chiding from my friends, that I return like for like: thus, my response. I cravenly pray your indulgence for my peccadillo.
- benj111 4y agoI keenly await the Shakespearian follow up.
- smitty1e 4y agoAlthough brevity Suggests that a series of Haiku might bring joy
- benj111 4y agoThine brevity is bereft of wit. And thy poem rhymes like that of a twit. Loquacious scribings hath wit overflowing like the bacchanalian cup overfloweth with wine. And so brother take my Shakespearian cup of rhyme, and come let us dine. (Sorry couldn't think of anything that rhymed with wit. Except tit which isn't better, or dimwit.)
- permo-w 4y agoShakespearean English in the sense of being written in the style of Shakespeare, rather than of his era, is without doubt beyond GPT-3
- besnn00 4y agoI love it
- susam 4y agoAlong similar lines: If PHP Were British: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ Reddit Proper: https://www.reddit.com/r/proper/ https://www.reddit.com/r/proper/
- prox 4y agoAnnounce “splendid!”; I am going to have a lot of fun with this at work! :)
- TomK32 4y agoWhat a splendid piece of entertainment! Thank you for sharing it with us, my dear fellow.
- Octabrain 4y agoFrom the first link: would_you_mind { // Code here } actually_i_do_mind (Exception £e) { // Politely move on cheerio('Message'); } I've laughed my ass off with that. Thanks for sharing!
- mxuribe 4y agoThis was hilariously brilliant! :-D
- nathell 4y agoI’ll piggyback on this to show something I made: autosummarized HN. https://danieljanus.pl/autosummarized-hn/ https://danieljanus.pl/autosummarized-hn/ I originally intended to run it for a month only, but when OpenAI slashed prices at the beginning of September, I figured another month won’t hurt.
- math-dev 4y agoYou should make a Shown HN for yourself!
- archi42 4y agoGreat idea! Though in several instances it essentially repeats the submission title (which isn't too bad, but maybe you can instruct it to extend from the title?). I laughed at this one, you might want to take a look at it: > The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to use twitter.com
- kroltan 4y ago> I laughed at this one, you might want to take a look at it: It's a feature!
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- Oarch 4y agofr gen-Z HN would be bussin no cap on god
- DonHopkins 4y agoI recognize that sweet distinctive scent! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoqlYGuZGVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoqlYGuZGVM
- graderjs 4y agoHahaha. Oh that's hilarious.
- imgabe 4y agoThis is fabulous. >If you have the temerity to submit a video or pdf, I should be grateful if you would mark it as such, so as not to cause the undoing of my fragile sensibilities. The temerity, the absolute temerity of assaulting my fragile sensibilities with a pdf or video! I will not countenance it. I say good day to you, sir.
- ocimbote 4y ago> I will not countenance it. I say good day to you, sir. I have read that with the voice of an angry John Oliver. Matches brilliantly.
- BoxOfRain 4y agoI say old man, I too should jolly well appreciate a fair warning about bandwidth-hungry formats. Too often these days do the rakes and scoundrels of this establishment assault both the senses and the available kilo-cycles of bandwidth with such extravagant formats that are quite unnecessary to communicate one's point. If 5-bit telegraph coding is enough for Her Britannic Majesty it is certainly good enough for her loyal subjects on VHN!
- justinc8687 4y ago"Starlink is now on all seven continents, enabled by its space laser network" ... "The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to use twitter.com."
- cailie 4y agoAlso, "The article is urging the reader to update their browser to a newer version."
- quickthrower2 4y ago
- ClassyJacket 4y agoAs a person from Victoria, Australia, I can confirm this is exactly how we all speak.
- gumby 4y agoI can confirm: this is why I left.
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- hilbert42 4y agoAs sense prevailed you must have come north and joined us in our brash Emerald City. ;-) _ (Local cut, for the bemused an explanation here: https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/why-sydney-is-also-known-as-the-emerald-city/ https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/why-sy...)
- angrygoat 4y agoAs a West Australian, all I can say as a representative of the rest of the country is: we know.
- bambax 4y agoCool! What's the prompt for this? ("on-topic" doesn't sound very Victorian though).
- OJFord 4y agoThe out-of-character introduction/explanation links: https://twitter.com/thesephist/status/1551357782510673923 https://twitter.com/thesephist/status/1551357782510673923
- tumetab1 4y agoGreat site but can the author of the site improve its readability for desktop users? I find the text visually hard to read (not the text in itself). In Firefox for example the Reader mode is not available which would also help. (I'm a regular web user, I know it's not great but I have no idea how to improve it) If anyone has good tips/tools/links for the author please reply with them.
- warpech 4y agoA relevant quote from the linked article: > I implore you, dear reader, to set aside your petty grievances; trifling things such as the format of an article or website, the unfortunate repetition of a name, or the vexing loss of information when pressing the back button. They are so common and so lacking in originality that they have no interest whatsoever. But for real, the styling is just copied from the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dang 4y agoThat's so good I'm tempted to replace the existing rule with it.
- alexvoda 4y agoI find it incredible that this was written by an AI and it translated: > back-button breakage into > the vexing loss of information when pressing the back button It's a remarkably good translation. Then again "the unfortunate repetition of a name" does not have quite the same meaning as "name collisions".
- dang 4y ago> Then again "the unfortunate repetition of a name" does not have quite the same meaning as "name collisions". I noticed that too. I wonder what a more precise wording would be.
- ducktective 4y agoAnyone else stressed out how good ML approach is advancing in AI? I feel left behind...
- stareatgoats 4y agoDon't believe everything (anything?) you read on the internet is my adage, good sir/madam ducktective.
- Karawebnetwork 4y agoOne of the perks of technology that move very fast is that everyone is out of touch weekly due to frequent updates and major changes. So you can look at the state of things and you will not be that far behind the main group.
- revskill 4y agoShould be automated moderated by AI.
- chaostheory 4y agoIt’d be more interesting if there were a Victorian HN front page
- nickdothutton 4y agoI imagine the comments of such a site to be filled with people exclaiming “How dare you Sir! How very dare you!”
- neilv 4y agoThis reminded me of the "Victorian Laptop" that Justine Cassell and students worked on at the MIT Media Lab, in the late 1990s. IIRC, in the original idea, the Victorian Laptop hardware was an antique portable wood laptop desk, retrofitted with PC electronics and custom software, and the purpose was to relate/connect the user's thoughts in a particular location to the writings of others who've been in some similar context before. With the time-traveler writing desk adding to the reflective experience. (Physical craft-wise, this was before the steampunk DIY computers that we see today. Cassell collected antique writing desks, had inspiration from those, and some energetic students worked on figuring out and building it.) http://www.justinecassell.com/publications/narr_intell.vlt.99.pdf http://www.justinecassell.com/publications/narr_intell.vlt.9... Seems like modern ML tools should open up more possibilities along these lines. I'd like to see the focus on leveraging information and computation for genuine experiences and accurate understand (not, say, some of the currently more obvious automated content generation applications, for SEO, addictive engagement, demagoguery, etc.)
- derac 4y agoThe temerity of linking a pdf without such marking as would give light to its nature... Quite undignified as the good sir imgabe has duely noted. Respectfully yours, derac
- self_awareness 4y agoVictorian AWS: https://victorianaws.com/ https://victorianaws.com/ S3 is a glorious bastion of uptime in the otherwise storm-tossed sea of the World Wide Web, a shining beacon of safety to which one may entrust one's most valuable data, whether files, or precious objects, or even blobs of the most unique and ephemeral content.
- radarsat1 4y agoHa, 20 years later, AI has finally improved on the old late-90's language filters. Remember the "jive filter", anyone?
- Tangurena2 4y agoWas that real? Or was it just a skit on Airplane? 0 - https://youtu.be/GxQXSfJu8SA?t=34 https://youtu.be/GxQXSfJu8SA?t=34
- radarsat1 4y agoHaha, well, it was definitely a real program someone wrote!
- vogon_laureate 4y agoHear, hear! Wot wot.
- mfcc64 4y ago
- phnofive 4y ago"The time is not ripe for idle banter on the vagaries of the world." has a real "Free Beer Tomorrow" energy to it.
- tinalumfoil 4y agoI had to Google that phrase to see if there was any record of it. It's genuinely astounding to me that a robot came up with that.
- jhbadger 4y agoI wonder if there's an Victorian -> contemporary English filter. While I actually like Victorian prose, I know some people (especially non-native English speakers) are put off from reading Charles Dickens and the like because of the Victorian style which can come across as stilted to to modern ear. Maybe a filter could be made to make Victorian prose seem more modern.
- tempodox 4y agoPlease don't. Half of the fun is the time travel into a different culture, or maybe even most of it.
- wolfgang42 4y agoIt’s not just the phrasing, though; there’s also a lot of cultural context that the modern reader will miss without footnotes to guide them. For example, from Oliver Twist: > It was a meanly furnished apartment, with nothing but the contents of the closet to induce the belief that its occupier was anything but a working man; and with no more suspicious articles displayed to view than two or three heavy bludgeons which stood in a corner, and a “life-preserver”* that hung over the chimney-piece. > * ‘life-preserver’: stick weighted with lead; widely used for self-protection. That footnote rather drastically changes the mental picture for the modern reader!
- jhbadger 4y agoThat reminds me of how, in A Christmas Carol, Dickens describes a ghost glowing like "a bad lobster in a dark cellar". Some modern people think Dickens was just being surreal, but there was a real meaning to this. Before refrigeration, people would keep meat and seafood in the cellar as was cooler than elsewhere. But not cool enough and things would rot after a couple of days. One of the bacteria that rots seafood is Vibrio, which often has genes for luminescence. So you could see if seafood had gone off if it glowed.
- basicallydan 4y agoThis is excellent. Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something? - New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency - Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time - Nikola Tesla on Direct Current - Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down? Any other ideas?
- themanmaran 4y agoNumerous inaccuracies discovered in my analytical machine manual transcript (1882 edt.)
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- zppln 4y agoI'd expect track gauges might be something VHNers could disagree over.
- CapitalistCartr 4y agoBarring isolated systems (mines, logging) all track should be two meter gauge (78-3/4"). Although the measuring system of our neighbors across the Channel is not widely esteemed here, what we choose here in Britain will of course be widely copied throughout the World. Such a gauge would provide for the future, "future-proof", the Global system of track, allowing wider loads, greater stability for passengers, etc., it being readily apparent that rail is the future of all long distance travel.
- bee_rider 4y ago- Label Profusion: a framework to employ a great number of unskilled laborers in the creation of art via the use of simple terms Followed by... - Getting your in-home servants to work with label profusion - Will label profusion cheapen the work of legitimate artists? - I have tricked my butler into producing a great deal of smut via label profusion
- neilwilson 4y agoCan we apply it in reverse so we can finally understand what Keynes actually meant?
- cooneyb 4y agoI've never been implored so much in one sitting. I love it. Great job.
- krapp 4y agoQuite.
- rthomas6 4y agoSome researchers say Victorian era people were more intelligent than people in our present time, and after reading the Victorian guidelines, maybe they're right. https://phys.org/news/2013-05-victorian-era-people-intelligent-modern-day-counterparts.html https://phys.org/news/2013-05-victorian-era-people-intellige...
- bibanez 4y agoThis is sincerely, really stupid. General intelligence being measured by reaction time greatly misses the question. Monkeys have significantly higher reaction times than humans. Never surpassed the stone age, did they?
- jonathanyc 4y agoReminds me of a species of small fish passing the mirror test[0] while dogs fail it. [0]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-self-aware-fish-raises-doubts-about-a-cognitive-test-20181212/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-self-aware-fish-raises-doub...
- bee_rider 4y agoNever seen a monkey get stuck late at work, though.
- rthomas6 4y agoI'm not saying the conclusion is accurate, but there is a correlation between mean reaction time and intelligence in humans. That doesn't mean that you can extrapolate intelligence from reaction time of Victorian era people. Their reaction time could be better for other un-accounted-for reasons. But it's not like the researchers just made up a link between reaction time and intelligence out of thin air because it sounded true. There really is a correlation between the two. I would say this is weak evidence in favor of Victorians having higher intelligence, and insufficient to actually draw that conclusion. But still, evidence.
- lwneal 4y agoMy fellow countrymen, I am grateful for the time you have given to my humble endeavor, and I remain ever hopeful that you will find some small gem of beauty or truth that will illuminate your day. The code, if one wishes to peruse it, may be found upon the GitHub website. [1] [1] https://github.com/lwneal/victorianhackernews https://github.com/lwneal/victorianhackernews
- tinus_hn 4y agoFunny; I was looking for the code or site that does this transform and unfortunately I couldn’t find it.
- andsoitis 4y agoShow VHN: Ada Computer Programming Language … — Lovelace
- chernevik 4y agoWonderful. Two thoughts: - Is the use of the first person entirely correct? Shouldn't there instead be some reference to the convening institution, such as "management" or "proprietors", or the community? (Though I would think that for HN the convening institution would be something less commercial.) - It would seem a different font is in order.
- jdkee 4y ago"Do not complain to me, gentle reader, that a submission is inappropriate. Rather, take it upon yourself to peruse the rules and guidelines, and to use your best judgment in making a decision. If you find a story to be spam or off-topic, you are within your rights as a reader to report it to the moderators, that it might be dealt with swiftly and the site returned to its former glory. Do not attempt to engage those who would fling the most vile and abhorrent comments; instead, report them so that they might be dealt with swiftly and with the utmost severity. It is the custom of many a gentleman to flag, when the arduous journey has become too much for their failing strength, yet they will not deign to offer the lady a word of explanation or apology, but will continue to drive on relentlessly, as if nothing were amiss, leaving the poor lady to wonder what has become of her escort, and whether he has met with foul play." Brilliant.
- marqueewinq 4y agoRadioactive elements twice a day improve productivity: a study
- njacobs5074 4y agoWouldn't the Victorians have used 'enquiry' and not 'inquiry'? (Asked in all honesty and w/o an ounce of snarkiness because to this day I still struggle with the difference)