skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that “Speadsheet” in the top right of the first screen dump a bug or a typo by whoever made that screen?

Also: interesting choice for a 50% gray pattern, with those vertical lines instead of a checkerboard. Is that purely artistic, or does it hide hardware ugliness on some systems?
I've never found working out to do anything but make me more tired.
From what I've seen those people are leaned on to continue to give management a sense of purpose. They need to organize lots and lots of video meetings with lots of unwanted participants showing up.
> They cannot claim a copyright to exhaustive computer generated corpus.

And why not? For example, a UK law specifically mentions "computer-generated" work:

> If the work is computer-generated, copyright expires fifty years after the work is made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright,_Designs_and_Patents...

Is there any law you based the word "cannot" on?

Is there a limitation on the extent of such copyright claims a person can make? Even though physically one couldn't write it on paper during one's lifetime?
How is getting lucky walking down the street "creative", exactly?
You can just read her Wikipedia site, she has a history of making correlation implies causation claims and has received plenty of criticism from other scientists in different fields.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Seneff

It's not a scientific report.
Population of Berlin has hardly changed in the past 30 years, it grows at an annual a rate of like 0.2%. How is this madness possible?

Edit: There were 3.5 million residents in 1993. It is projected to reach 3.6 million residents in 2029 [1]

It's got to be something to do with financial markets and foreign investment

1 - https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/204296/berlin/population
> Depends how you define cheaper. The visa sponsorship is a one time sunk cost, but if the candidate you sponsor aggress to work for several thousands or even tens of thousands less per year than the local candidates, then the saving for the company are obvious.

What i meant was for the same Embedded Linux/C++ jobs - they were willing to pay me 65k/year in Germany - while similar jobs in Netherlands or even other smaller towns in Germany were offering me 36-40k back then. So my old company could have easily scooped up the people from Netherlands as opposed to jumping through hoops to get me a Visa and still save up on a lot of money. But people were reluctant to move there/in general harder to find apparently. I do know what you mean about the "candidates from low wage places". I have seen that happen a lot too. In fact I am seeing it happen a lot more these days because more companies are getting used to remote work and the competition is driving down the wages quite drastically.

> 44K/year seems pretty low for a so called "shortage job", and even more so if you consider the rampant inflation in the past couple of years. AFAIK 44K is pretty much around or sometimes even far less than a new grad makes in a skilled field at a good company. So, IMHO such low wages for supposedly "shortage jobs" are there for wage suppression and nothing else. If we had something like 70-80k/year as the bar for a shortage wage then we'd be talking sense.

Yeah My German Colleagues coming from smaller cities were making around 45k/year even with 4-5 years of work experience back then. Later on they moved to the big cities and got those 75-85k/year Devops jobs (this was around 2020). The companies which paid the bare minimum to sponsor a work visa were usually the ones like yet to be funded startups in Berlin, hectic jobs in Games industry etc...

And Yep. Too much of a good thing can be bad too. There needs to be infrastructure growth to keep up with the incoming population. Real Estate market - it is crazy. People had to be on waitlist for months to rent an apartment even in little cities. God knows how long they have to work there to be able to buy a house.
Why do you think that is a more accurate description of what is happening? The entire point is that the execution is performed by doctors, for the express purpose of organ procurement. You make it sound incidental.
I would consider that necessary, but not sufficient, to call a particular async system "good", yes.
Those outlets have an internal AC-DC converter in them.

I can't find the link/product, but Matt Reiseinger (youtube superstar home builder) showcased a distribution box where he ran USB-like cables in the bedroom/living areas. There was a main DC distribution box that delivered power to those places. You could plug in a standard Macbook Pro USB-C cable directly into the wall and get DC power. No conversion (except what was done by the distribution box). The AC-DC converter in the distribution box could be directly bypassed if you were running on solar/battery/wind sources.
Shanghai is big enough that being in the same city can still be far away, especially when no metro etc is running.
Nope, still does AC-to-DC conversion
> If the plagiarism was intentional

I doubt that any of the high-profile melodic plagiarism cases has ever arisen from some moustache-twirling evil musician deliberately ripping off a melody. That's suicidal, and not guaranteed to produce a hit anyway. They all start with someone plagiarizing subconsciously.

If in fact the (unintential) plagiarism was real and the video record reinforced that, there would be incentive to withold the video evidence. But manufacturing evidence is extremely dangerous. It's like trying to spoof a journal from years ago — all it takes is one slip-up and you're doomed.
> The early Internet was a toy system, and look how it blossomed into this marvel we call the The (modern) Internet.

Not really. The early Internet was a tool for the army and the academia. Web3, so far, is a tool for speculants.
For every happy coder, there's always a bunch of greedy managers and lawyers who control their output.
There are a lot of really hard problems and as big as fixing any such really hard problem would be the question is why this needs to be handled by the browser itself not why this would be a good problem to have solved.
timely coincidence — World Parkinson’s Day is this Monday. We’ve put together some assets and things to help spread awareness, if anyone is interested.

https://worldparkinsonsday.com
It means there's an easy way to "pay" for "premium" content in very small forms. Like "here's 15 cents for letting me read this article." No ads, no subscription and sending all your personal info, no email spam. I think if it works, it will change everything.
What matters is how the public perceives the issue at the time of the election. Ditto the Iranian hostage crisis. Those hostages were not yet free by the time of the 1980 election. You can argue their eventually release in 1981 as a result of Carter's actions and that Reagan doesn't deserve credit for it, but that doesn't change the way the public perceived the situation in 1980.
why did landlords take their units off the market in berlin? because renting out is no longer interesting?
You really didn't read the text, did you?

> It requires too many technical skills to work.

What is about Mastodon that requires technical skills that Facebook or Twitter do not? The fact that they are required to know the name of the instance when setting up a client?

Just like they learned (conditioned could be a better word) into putting all their data into their shiny smartphones, people can learn something like "to use this you need your username and the server name, like email addresses". And if you tell me that some people don't even know that and had someone else setting up their facebook for them, why can't this "someone else" set up an ActivityPub client as well?

> Alternatively, it requires too much money to hire the technical skills to work.

I don't think I charged anything from my friends and family that asked to get access to my matrix server. I also don't charge anything from those that got an account on the Jellyfin box I run. I also didn't send an invoice to my wife or parents for helping them setup Element on their phones.

"Ah, but this doesn't scale!"

Sure, if it's just me doing it won't. But there are already other people that learned once and managed to teach others.

> it's not a viable alternative.

Do us both a favor. Instead of making absolute statements based on incomplete information and your prejudices, find a way to prove me wrong.

Get one of your current vices (Twitter? Instagram? TikTok? WhatsApp? iMessage?), and do your best effort to use the open alternatives that exist. For the social networking stuff, you will quickly see that the only "problem" is that the people you are used to seeing are not there. Instead of shrugging your shoulders and going back to the old ways, see how many people you can bring along with you.

I'm not even asking you to delete your current application. I'm just asking you to try to use the open alternative and help as many people as possible to join you. If you find any reasonable justification that prevents you or your peers to adopt the open alternative, then I will believe you.
> the insane opportunities available in India now [3].

> India’s rising startup and tech wave

> Massive switch from wealth accumulation mode to wealth creation mode.

> And the amount of VC funding in India combined with the startup ecosystem’s energy here is absolute fire

> The collective risk appetite has never been higher.

> The step after the ‘American dream’ is the ‘Indian dream’.

This is great to hear about India. The more developed and economically successful the world’s largest democracy is, the better for the world in general. The US, Europe, and allies should be doing whatever we can to support this.
Some time ago, I've build an MVP around the exact same idea (although without the audio tagging). It's also free to use, and can be found at https://proofing.io

I can tell you up front, nobody seems interested in the 'annotations' part (drawing on the video). Only text notes seem to be used. Of course, this is only a limited view from our side. Maybe you guys see different results.
> approximately true but false

> When the percentage of human generated content approaches 0.0000%, what does that internet look like?

...approximately the same, but less false :)
You would be 100% in the clear on that as long as you apply a reasonable retention policy to your logs. Keeping them forever isn't reasonable. Keeping them for a year almost certainly is.

You would be 99% in the clear if you do nothing. The worst that's likely to happen is that you're forced to adopt a retention policy and delete old logs, and even that is extremely unlikely unless you are Google/Facebook scale or are doing something significantly worse than industry standards.
I've noticed the generic version of Flonase is usually in a thin cardboard box which can be easily opened by sliding a finger under one of the flaps and breaking the glue. The spray itself has a little tamper seal on it which is perforated and can be peeled off pretty easily.

Looking at the packaging between the two I think it's more about branding than saving a cent or two. The name brand Flonase package is colorful and eye catching and very pretty. The generic one is a plain dull box which just says "Allergy Relief Nasal Spray".

Keeping the product looking nice in transit is a factor too. I notice the generic Flonase boxes are sometimes a bit crushed on the shelf because the packaging has zero structural rigidity. The stuff inside is fine but it looks bad. This never seems to happen with the name brand packages due to their more robust design.
So, I happen to be planning a kitchen remodel right now, and I happened to have up a picture of my kitchen while reading and comparing. And while I can agree with the aesthetic argument the author is going for, I think that it misses something too: primarily, what kitchens are for, which is cooking food, and sometimes the eating of it. In my kitchen, if I have to chop something, I have to shove something aside. Sometimes I use my stove top as counter space. What would I give for some of that void the author critiques, just so I could chop the onions, or turn around and not knock something off the counter, or trip over the can. And trust me, "easy to clean" is no bad thing. I'm sure some might think that the aesthetic joys of cleaning food from between cracks and beneath appliances gives the richness to life that the rich cheat themselves out of somehow, but no. Its an awful soul sucking waste of the one life you've got to live.

Real-estate isn't interested in making things personal, because they are trying to sell something for others to personalize. Go look at real lived in kitchens if you want to make the critique; not real estate ads which are selling a dream.
I don't know about high-profile melodic plagiarism specifically, but a lot of general plagiarism is absolutely intentional. So I wouldn't rule out the possibility for any particular sort of plagarism.
Have you done it multiple times a week for more than 3 weeks?
I worked at a shop where they didn't bother with a partitioning scheme - everything was just one large volume. The amount of times I've had to do emergency cleanup on production servers...
Yes, all that stuff kind of reminds me of some old LessWrong articles about how you should be careful, when thinking of a utopia, of making sure it is not just something that sounds/looks like it would be nice, but that would actually be nice.
> In this website you need to keep scrolling, which is pretty monotonous, it would be equivalent of spamming "next" on an overly complicated late 2000s Windows software installer. Or watching a Youtube video by spamming the frame skip shortcut.

Or scrolling through a long document, as the scroll wheel is designed to do?

You're not supposed to scroll straight through, there's stuff to see and read! If you want to skip around, there's navigation on the right side.
What was the issue with the webcam? I presume it's not a standard USB video device? Are you sure it's really only about making it harder to run other OSes on the hardware, and not because there was some actual feature gain from whatever the customization is? I know they have put effort into locking things down a lot with the newer models with the T2 chip, and while I don't agree with it it's obvious that there are real, actual security reasons for why they've done this, and not just being cheeky and petty-minded.

"Everything else [but the webcam] worked perfectly in every distro I threw at it" really doesn't rhyme with "gone to lengths to make it difficult to run an alternative OS on their hardware" in my ears. Surely they could've done plenty more than just booby trap the webcam.
> For example, at the grocery store, a theoretical eight-pack of bottled water costs $3.00. A theoretical 32-pack of bottled water costs $5.00. But no older person can lift a 32-pack of water. So to get 32 bottles of water, an older person has to pay 140% more just because they made the mistake of not dying young.

The grocery store I go to (large regional brand) has for the last few years been asking people at checkout if they need help carrying their groceries to their car. Some packaging is ridiculous (remember people having to go to the hospital and get stitches over clam-shell packages?), but I can't imagine an elderly person wouldn't get help carrying a heavy item if they asked for help - people want to be good Samaritans.
Government should provide apartments, free, in the center of the city, for anyone who needs one. Housing should be a human right. You can pay extra for a better place, but then landlords would actually have to compete for your business instead of the other way around.
Right, the pragmatic approach is fine as long as the ontological basis of rights is maintained in the culture.
This is great! I have a garage full of old gear that I don’t want to put in the landfill but it is still worth a few dollars. Wish I had heard of this earlier this week to make it.
This is a minor plot-point in Anathem.
I think your comment is pretty spot on. Just three things I'd add to, are that 1) the advisor is not intentionally downgrading your letter to "just good", but it's that they're obligated to write a better than "just good" letter for someone who has been more productive both in terms of research and in being a leader in the community (these two things go hand in hand). Writing the same letter for two students regardless of what they accomplish would be unfair.

And 2) sometimes getting more funding is simply not possible, as in the advisor has basically reached the limit of what they can do. There's a limit to the number of proposals that one can submit and the number of calls that fit their research agenda. So what I think you're missing is that if an advisor has less funding, there's going to be more pressure to finish sooner and less freedom to explore ideas beyond what's written in a previous grant proposal.

3) I've never heard of a tenured professor that concerned about their publication rate. In fact, most of them don't even update their CVs or websites with the last few years of papers. It's always the student who is trying to get more papers.
If I'm understanding the quoted interview correctly, Google is talking about AI generated spam - like when you ask GPT-3 to write you an article about XYZ topic and it spits out 500 words of well-written, plausible sounding gibberish - that you throw up on your website to try to rank in the search engines.

However, they seem to be leaving open the possibility of AI-assisted writing, where a human comes up with the information and guides the AI as it puts that information into words.

> From our recommendation we still see it as automatically generated content. I think over time maybe this is something that will evolve in that it will become more of a tool for people. Kind of like you would use machine translation as a basis for creating a translated version of a website, but you still work through it manually.

> And maybe over time these AI tools will evolve in that direction that you use them to be more efficient in your writing or to make sure that you’re writing in a proper way like the spelling and the grammar checking tools, which are also based on machine learning. But I don’t know what the future brings there.

In my opinion GPT-3 has already reached the point of being useful for this purpose - there are several GPT-3 based apps that do exactly what he's describing.
My business is based in the UK which is compatible with EU’s GDPR, so it’s fine to be hosted there.
He perhaps asked every person that walked by? That would be more creative than looking at the post popular ad site.
No I am claiming that pani puri vendors I talked to, make around 60-70000 INR a month - which is more than what many of the "IT sweatshops" (Accenture, Deloitte, Infosys, TCS etc..) pay here (for people with < 5 years of work experience)
Every 8-note, 12-beat melody combo is in CC0: https://mashable.com/article/music-melody-algorithm-midi-cop...
As I think about this, there's also something that changes in my mind when I hear the name.

"My son can't stand broccoli."

"My son, Dan, can't stand broccoli."

It definitely adds some kind of "humanity" to the statement to include the name, which makes me feel closer to the speaker (and their son) in a positive way.
It may be that you’re working so hard at work that you’re exhausting yourself for the time you have outside of work. Especially if you’re using caffeine at work to push through when a caffeine free human would’ve been unable to continue.
I don’t see this as an outrage seeking attempt. Seems like mostly a PSA. I’m much less likely to be open about this info with a company that is planning to turn around and sell it to corporations. Feels like misaligned incentives and I’m glad I know about it upfront.
the buyer pays, as the seller adds this to the price
with you it is always about others.. russiagate, Assange, Douma false flag, americans provoking the war in ukraine by encouraging ukraine not to implement Minsk agreements.. but it is always others who spread propaganda.
Why don't you just ask someone if they have an apartment? We rely so much on technology, when we could just ask a friend. Currently living in Belize for $200 a month, beachfront propety.
Plus, theres like only so much you can do with western music, and pop music in particular loves to lean on the same motifs over and over and over again. There is and will be compositional overlap. That anyone thinks they own anything in that space is absurd.
Rents have absolutely skyrocketed over the past 15 years or so (3-4x), despite mild controls, so no not really.
> Seriously, just check out downtown SF if you don't believe me. It feels dead.

Wouldn't we attribute this more to COVID, though? This thread is talking about a hypothetical poor economy due to businesses leaving because of employee-friendly labor laws. In early 2020 downtown was pretty vibrant.

> There are more beggars than tourists.

I get that you're exaggerating for effect, but c'mon. I saw plenty of tourists/shoppers in the Powell/Market area in the middle of a weekday last week, out and about, doing their thing.
Consider that people used to work every day. Farming, hunting, subsisting. When organized religion and cities started to spread, you had one day a week as the day of rest. The industrial age and unionization brought us 5 days, which is now "suffocating." So if 4 days is the norm, that would start to feel suffocating also. Then it would be 3 days. Then, when work is the thing you spend the minority of your time on, you start to ask yourself "why am I doing this at all?"
uhm, to pay for things without using your credit card?
Hm, here in Hungary PhD students can opt to do zero teaching[0], and also the tuition is 4500 EUR/semester (and students from the EU can apply for grants that covers 100% of tuition). And on top of all this it's possible to work for the university, which apart from the salary also results in the elimination of certain costs (eg. if someone is not employed by the university they have to pay to have their thesis examined and pay for the exam committee or something).

https://www.inf.elte.hu/en/content/doctoral-training.t.1616?...

[0] I expect that if someone wants to do a PhD in teaching methodology they might have to still do some teaching
My guess: The latter started with FTP in the past - FTPS is just wrapping that in TLS. The former doesn't, and for them an FTP servers is an "extra thing" that deserves premium charge they only added because some enterprise customer bugged them enough.
Since when did housing become a right?
Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. So the DEA Put Him in Prison(2013)
Skype used to be P2P before the Microsoft acquisition. HN tread when it was switched off https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3915479

It offloaded routing to peers that had better hardware/bandwidth. The downside was that many people were not aware of that at the time, myself included, thus on some computers Skype would seemingly consume more resources than expected.
Link to actual source material:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm2996
Any place I can’t walk on well-traveled sidewalks to a coffee shop, restaurant, grocery store, etc. is a place not fit for human habitation.
As you correctly pointed out in your first sentence, I did not accuse you of making a moral judgment or equivalence; I merely said that when there are multiple possible definitions of a word, the most common of which holding normative connotation, it is important to be precise about which meaning we give or do not give to the word. In other words, my unintentionally oblique answer was that "it depends on the definition we use".

As for the rest, under the definition of propaganda you specified in your earlier comment, I think we're essentially on the same page. (And here I make a very generous interpretation of your usage of "doctrine" and "germ theory of disease", because I don't think "doctrine" was the best word.)