skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a path forward. The people with the money to pay for the content are the same people with the money to buy the products that advertisers make money by advertising.

You can’t outrun the incentive alignment. Nobody can. Case in point - Apple is shifting hard into the ad space after laying low and crafting a premium brand.

The money is just too good.
I don’t think the government would let this happen. The tax base would completely dry up. It is most certainly a national security issue.
> But when you recognize that income is the fuel that makes work possible, it’s easier to see that basic income will enable far more work for multiple reasons. For one, having basic income means that people can choose unpaid or paid work. It also means that people are more able to choose self-employment.

I think there is a cognitive bias in play here that the author has not realized: a bias towards believing people will think and act like they will.

I like to use the analogy of a moving walkway or escalator. Some people get on it and use it as an opportunity to go faster- I walk and it moves, so together I move really fast and get where I'm going sooner. Other people step onto it and stop. Usually it's moving even slower than they would be walking otherwise, but their goal isn't to get places faster, it's to do the least amount of work possible.

Those two extreme attitudes can apply to how people react to something like UBI. Some people will use it to accomplish more. Others will use it to put in less effort. And most people will be somewhere in the spectrum between those two.

I still think UBI is a good idea. I just also accept that it probably won't increase overall productivity in our society.
Ask HN: Was there always going to be student loan forgiveness?
Currently 45 million people in the USA have total student loan debts of $1.6 trillion[1]. A moratorium was placed on student loans since 2020. As a result, owners of the debt did not have to pay down their debt every month.

A knock on effect from this is that the debt servicer is not getting the expected rate of return on that debt. Debt servicers provide loans based on the return and risk. They can use that data to make other investments, purchases etc.

A bunch of investments were made thinking that there would be $X coming in each month. Instead, $0 was being coming in each month. The difference is radical. Expected vs actual risk is -Infinite%.

So those investments are now at risk of failing. Which causes knock-on failures on other investments. On and on.

These loans will have to be forgiven anyway, it's just that by getting ahead of it now, we can avoid people losing their jobs (theoretically).

What's everyone's thoughts around this? Are there other areas where debt risk is higher than expected?

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/verify-how-many-people-have-federal-student-loan-debt/ar-AA1114T8
"Diversity Day" has been removed in its entirety per first link.

The distinction between private and government censorship is increasingly irrelevant to consumers, as in heavily consolidated markets the end effect is the same.
No, but I constantly hear right wingers referencing it. It must be very popular in the echo chamber.
You have a good point. I think for small enough workloads self managing instances on-prem is more cost-effective. There is a simplicity gain in being able to scale up and scale down instances in the cloud but may not make sense if you can self-manage without too much work.
The original poster only said they could "see why" the censors took offense, not that they supported it.
I saw Weird Al at a rural county fair outdoor concert and it was amazing. Everyone had so much fun and you could tell that Yankovic was having the time of his life.
I don't remember where I learned this, but what you said is more accurate than what I said -- the concept was definitely known well before Beethoven, but my understanding is it wasn't the standard tuning on keyboard instruments until much later, and came to its fruition with all the atonal music of the early 20th century. I think composers even went so far as to assign emotions/moods to various keys based on each key's sound. E.g. "E-flat major is austere, D-minor is sad," etc.

Might be worth reading:

- https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Effects_of_Unequal_...

- https://www.proquest.com/openview/b22142f819768ae82464aa2679...
China's Growing Water Crisis
> web services like search engines, social media, ad-driven news websites, etc are all things that users place practically zero value on.

I wonder if that’s the truth or if it’s this way because there are free alternatives.

If one search engine starts charging a monthly fee, users will just go to another one that pays for itself with ads and data.

But if the prevalent model for search engines is monthly subscription, then people will start paying for it and the value for the user won’t be 0 anymore.

Why would you pay for ice cream from the ice cream stand if you can get it for free next door for the “cost” of them keeping track of how often you come to the stand and what flavors you like, and selling that info to others?
There's lots of ways that crafting a moral compass around being a "life-loving person" can go wrong too.

It's a hard problem.
I won’t argue for or against UBI. But it is not necessarily true that products on the shelf have already been paid for. The company that produced the toothpaste may have borrowed money to finance the production of toothpaste. The retailer might have net-30 payment terms, which is effectively a loan from the producer to the retailer. So when you are buying the toothpaste, you are helping pay off the debt of the retailer and producer. The lenders see the profitability of the toothpaste and extend credit to make the next tube.
Ballooning memory can be best for real time, if you can afford it: allocation becomes trivial, reclamation is absent.

I remember a story about a rocket which had a range limitation due to the amount if RAM onboard because it never freed any memory. When the engine of the rocket was upgraded, they simply doubled the RAM to let the firmware work for a longer time.
(For those wanting to hear these frequencies:)

aplay -d 2 -r $freq
One of the founders of Comet was a friend of a friend. We chatted about it a bit. They really seemed like earnest folks who stumbled on a way to monetize virality in the early days of the internet. There was absolutely no framework for ethics of data collection and even they seemed kinda shocked at how easy it was to do back then. I think once the money was flowing in, it was too hard to stop.
Possible name collission. “alpaca” is a ycombinator backed startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/alpaca
Yeah, to me, the core of the ‘DevOps’ philosophy is that the dev teams owns the product end to end, meaning they write it and are responsible for it in production.
This depends a lot on what you're doing. If you are ranking 1M qps in a recommender system, then training cost will be tiny compared to inference.
The trick is that 99% of the time I want Markdown. That is, I want hyperlinks, bullets, headers, strong, etc. to stay hyperlinks, bullets, headers, etc.

But all the other styling? The fonts, the colors, stuff like that that isn't in markdown? Nobody wants that.
No, don't you see? They said you can just print more money! That's never had any downside, like the current inflation problem we're dealing with and that is drying up everyone's savings. Money is just paper, dude, and paper you can make as much as you want!

(I feel like it's sad I have to put this disclaimer, but history has shown I need to say it, so here it is: the above is sarcasm).
If you setup Fail2Ban and/or switch SSH from the default port 22 to something in the low 5 digits, then you should get very few attacks.

Someone above talked about using layered/defense-in-depth approach to avoid zero-days and that's also a good idea, but it's more involved / sometimes impractical.
I find the article somewhat ridiculous in that it takes the tone that everyone thinks the idea in question are good.

> They aren’t convinced that some of the scarier ideas (like deploying multiple times per day) will help after all

For some cases, rapid deployment might make sense (purely front end stuff). For a lot of cases, I'm firmly of the opinion that it does _not_ make sense. I've never worked on a project that deployed that often, and I don't feel the need to. I have depended on services that deployed that often and "oh, sorry we broke that, we'll fix it later; you'll just have to live with permanently broken data" gets my knickers in a twist every time.

> I don’t buy into all the ideas behind agile, particularly some of the Scrum-specific ceremonies.

That's because a lot of the Scrum people present it as "the" Agile. And a lot of the non-Scrum people are fairly convince that Scrum is awful. To which the Scrum people present "no true Scotsman" arguments.

I'm all for the underlying "listen to your customer, listen often, and change plans as often as necessary to make them happy" ideas of Agile. But every "methodology and process" for it I've seen completely loses that idea. It's infuriating.
I went this route. At first I tried writing a bunch of Python scripts reading a YAML manifest. However, after ~2 weeks I already got warnings and errors about things which got deprecated/removed/changed by a new Python version and the YAML library I was using. So I dumped it and rewrote the thing in XML and XSLT. It's been working for a couple years with no breakages. Essentially 0 maintenance after the initial work. This design was about generating a tree of directories with Markdown files turned into HTML, PDF files turned into pages linking to them, and some directory renames, GUIDs and dates (for Atom feeds, which I generate for each directory) specified in a manifest file.

I've since taken up photography, so now I need to automatically read metadata from jpegs, add some tags and organise it on the site in albums. It's a bit outside the reach of XSLT, so first I've tried using Python with Jinja2 and PIL. Same problem as previously. So I've rewritten it in Go with the help of encoding/json (for the manifest), html/template (for the template), image/jpeg, golang.org/x/image/draw (for generating thumbnails of different sizes for different screen sizes) packages and exiftool (reading and removing EXIF tags). Pandoc has been present throughout all the rewrites, because I like its flavour of Markdown and options to shift heading levels by a specified value, so that they fit in with the surrounding template. I'm putting some finishing touches and am going to upload it in the coming days.

I know, you stopped reading at "XSLT". :D
To put a fine point on your point: if there are 10 foods that cost 1 each and 10 people who want 1 food each who also have 1 money each, that system is in balance. However, if you give everyone 2 moneys each, but still only have 10 foods, the person selling the foods is either going to raise the price to 2 moneys, or will run out quickly because now the 10 people want to buy 2 foods instead of one food. More demand on same supply: either price goes up or item is no longer available for all 10 people. It's artificial demand which leads to shortages and to black markets, where people buy and sell secretly and move the items to where they are in demand more quickly than the markets can respond.
It really is shocking as you said. I think every single time I try to use the web on my phone, I think “how did this happen?” … because it truly is unusable. I was trying to read an article about a game my friend and I were playing and it had so many popups/popovers/ads/bullshit/etc and the worse thing ever where the page was jumping all over the place as I was trying to read it (what’s happening here? Other content loading in? It can’t know where my phone screen is though?). So I literally gave up, wrote it off as basically impossible to use. Went to the computer with Firefox and ublock and read the page. Unbelievable.
Are we really looking at some of the most beautiful aspects of humanity through such an ugly lens?
And who pays for it?
I would look for a job at an early-stage startup to get a feel for it. If you don't like working for an early-stage startup, you probably won't like running one. I would also figure out how to lower your cost of living since starting a company will almost definitely mean making less money.
The Communist Party is the reason China is in this mess in the first place, and further control and oppression by them isn't going to magically fix it.
Only Apple?

Lina Khan's name isn't mentioned by the OP, but it's likely that her fingerprints are all over this antitrust lawsuit.

Anyone who's aware of her views and actions must know by now that Amazon, Google, and other dominant tech companies are on her "naughty list" too. (Khan first rose to prominence while at Yale's law school, after writing extensively about Amazon as a new kind of monopoly.)

I'd be shocked if we don't see more antitrust lawsuits initiated in the coming months.
We have different servers for each. But the split is usually 80%/20% for inference/training. As our product grows in usage the 80% number is steadily increasing.

That isn't because we aren't training that often - we are almost always training many new models. It is just that inference is so computationally expensive!
Measuring demand for a feature: An economics approach
No, not at all.

> 4th and 5th being intervals ON a Western scale.

That is where you went wrong. They are not. They naturally arise as small integer frequency multiples/fractions on any string instrument (wave lengths 1, 1/2, 1/3,...). They are hence quite obvious/loud (and humans recognize patterns as pleasant for whatever reason). Once you have 4ths and 5ths you repeat to get the Western system (handwaving away that this does not actually close, but "rounds" to make it fit into twelve. That is a whole other subject).

This is a pretty good example of inductive reasoning. We want a system that for any note also includes its first few harmonics, show that this implies....
Flagged as spam. Nice try OP
Web3 Reading List
Yes, Stable diffusion is an open source AI image generator that runs on your own hardware.
There's a video demo of this Photoshop plugin here: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wyduk1/sho...
> This has notable co sequences: when doing operations on a large span of revisions all takes long as a bunch of diffs have to be applied in sequence. This then leads to reluctance of small commits for the wrong reasons.

This happens in Git as well though. If you have to rebase your commits across a few thousand upstream commits, you'll be in for some pain. (For example, I've a commit to PostgreSQL to add ALWAYS DEFERRED constraints, and I've had to rebase it across thousands of upstream commits because I've lacked the time to see that contribution across the finish line.)

You seem to be indirectly arguing for merge-based workflows. (At least that's what I'm reading between the lines. Perhaps my reading is wrong, but I'll run with it until you tell me otherwise.) However, a) merging is not always accepted by upstream, and b) merge-based workflows suck.

I grant that merging is very simple with Git's internals: Git does the three-way merge thing, you manually merge conflicts, you create a commit for the conflict-resolved checked out state, recording the two parents in that commit, and you're done. This works because Git simply stores the objects as they are, internally using deltas -not quite diffs- to compress the object store. This is very simple, yes, but it yields a workflow that doesn't work for many projects. Rebasing is much better, and it always works, especially with [0].

So now you might wonder how to deal with the rebase-across-thousands-of-commits problem. Well, I've a script[0] (not originally mine, but I've hacked on it) that does something like bisection to find upstream commits causing conflicts so as to greatly speed up the process.

[0] https://gist.github.com/nicowilliams/ea2fa2b445c2db50d2ee650...
I know Garry as “the fellow who I’ve never interacted with who has me blocked on Twitter”. Seems I’m not alone!
Yes, it does support a right wing point of view, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily wrong. It's just one video, but there are many other videos and essays about the same topic.
We (the HN crowd, often living in less-censored societies) would be very curious.

I’d like to know how curious this would make non-HN people, and those living in more censored places.

My assumption is that they take it for granted and just continue to watch the show. It might be hard for them to even find the uncensored clips.
Yes, because men and women can't possibly be different.
> Ultimately a bunch of people would just rely on UBI from birth to death. I don’t think that is a bad outcome. We live in a society advanced enough to be horrified by just letting people die/starve.

Or they could just work and do all those things that only interest them but can't earn money in their free time like everyone else?
Damn, I didn't even think about that. On the other hand I feel like if your password includes the kind of characters for which normalization rules are changing, you'll just have to reset it if it breaks. Tracking the version of the table is more than I'm willing to do.
> What have you tried doing?

Following the instructions from "blogs", official videos, and what official documentation exists

> Do you have past experience with how to profile and optimize applications?

Yes. About three decades
That's about the time we stopped buying them. Maybe as late as 2018, but I'm not 100% certain on that.
> de facto totalitarian leadership (the workspace)

Can’t relate
Basic idea is to divide the problem into two parts: The Fast and Dumb part and the Slow and Smart part. You can write the F&D part in assembler or C and implement it as a hard real time process. You can write the S&S part as a Lisp process that only has soft real time constraints. The two processes have to communicate somehow, e.g. message passing etc.

As long as the F&D process is simple enough and of bounded length, it can continue to operate even if the Lisp process is delayed by GC.

Not every real time problem can be subdivided in this way, but for those that can, Lisp can work well.
sure, but in the context of opensource embracing makes everyone stronger and hampers their ability to "extinguish" (embrace -> extend -> extinguish).

I'm not saying ms wasn't bad historically, but we need to judge them based on their current (years now) actions within OpenSource and so far, they seem to have really gotten it and been doing the right thing for the community in ways that aren't going to screw us. (setting aside teh very complicated morality of copilot)
May I ask how to configure the sshd to generate logs like yours? I searched for it and could not find much information.
I use Firefox Nightly because I also run Bypass Paywalls Clean (c)
Azure's Reservations are far superior. Whether you pay up front or monthly doesn't change the cost (there's no "interest") and you can cancel the reservation early without this "marketplace" nonsense.

It makes Reservations a no-brainer on Azure. The pitfalls with AWS make it a little more murky.
The disease that can be contracted by breathing California’s air
> Imagine a human-curated web.

The OG Yahoo! was ahead of its time?
De-sal super expensive and has issues - isn't a silver bullet as proponents like to make it out to be.
Most shows that use canned laughter (Friends, Seinfeld etc.) were filmed in front of an audience. It’s not worth the hassle to set up audio recoding for the audience, especially because people aren’t reliable. They might not laugh at the right moment, one or two audience members might have a weird laugh, they might be too soft or loud.

The audience reaction is useful feedback for the actors, but the laughter is canned.
Your comments have been helpful, TYVM. I'll take a look at your website too.
It's basically the reason idealism/utopianism is never practical. Having an ideal and working towards it is a great way to make progress, but setting expectations based on ideals is a recipe for disaster
Streamlit Cloud
https://www.share.streamlit.io
A different form of cursor ghosting would occur when certain GUI programs got stuck. So it might just be that somebody saw that and thought it was neat.
To judge by the current thread, at least, the difference isn't ideological, it's that int_19h is using HN as intended, and your account not so much. We're not trying to dampen curious ideological discussion here; we're trying to dampen internet dreck.

(You've also posted good comments to HN! my criticism here is narrowly scoped.)
I read somewhere that if you're writing humor for kids, you have to strip out a lot of the context: they might not know what an Eiffel Tower is, but they will understand Big Thing. Maybe comedy that can be shown everywhere is comedy a child can understand?
> what does e.g. American censorship go after?

That's the "beauty" of arbitrary censorship: they'll start to self-censor for fear of being butchered like this. I'm sure there's a lot of stuff that they don't put into popular American media for fear that the censor board _might_ object.
Here's an alternative explanation that explains the rise in both education and health care as well as the drop in the price of consumer electronics: the customer doesn't pay.

In both health care and education, the final customer often does not pay. When I go to a doctor and ask them how much something will cost, I get bewildered looks. They rarely hear that question. I don't pay, my insurance pays and I pay some co-pay. Same thing for education. I'm pretty much stuck with my local school district, or if its college, I get subsidized no questions asked student loans.

But compare that to something that's paid out of pocket by the consumer. Consider something like Lasik surgery. It costs about $2-3k per eye an. Pretty incredible considering its relatively new procedure. I can't find a single outpatient surgery covered by insurance that costs that little. Cosmetic surgery is similarly cheap. And the difference is that the Lasik surgery is paid by the consumer and most people would shop around, ask about prices, etc. No subsidized Lasik loans, no insurance coverage, just straight forward pricing.
Garry took the time to meet with me almost a decade ago, when my startup was just a side project and I was still a full-time corporate lawyer. I wish I'd been more ready to take his excellent advice, which I still remember!

I also remember being surprised that he drove a humble old car, perhaps a late-90s Camry? Respect.
openvino is an unsung hero.
Not sure if stupid question or not, but is there any danger if lightning strikes outside while you're grounded indoors? E.g. while wearing a grounding strap to work on some electronics project
Knock on effect they may have standing to sue which would make the whole thing moot and unconstitutional
For me is one of the loveliest series I have seen
I want these on my desktop...
(I'm not the author). Here is the repo that powers the article: https://github.com/the-pudding/censorship , which forks a svelte-kit starter template most new pudding.cool articles start with.

The bit that actually makes the divs for each scene that was cut is here: https://github1s.com/the-pudding/censorship/blob/HEAD/src/co... ,
and the data is here: https://github1s.com/the-pudding/censorship/blob/HEAD/src/da...
Wow, that's insightful.
This AI, in this thread, is human operated. Those images are likely copyrighted.

What case are you using to claim AI images are not copyrighted? The one I cited? Or another? The one I cited, the only one I can find, is not relevant here.

Why are you avoiding citing a case to back up your claim?
Companies & Governments in the US & West censor for political reasons. Why is this any different?