skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ergonomics of the fediverse just aren't fleshed out yet. Why do I need to join a server? What advantages/features do I get?

At least with email, I get clear understanding of what I'm signing up for with individual email hosts, like spam filters, privacy, inbox size, attachments, app compatibilities, etc...
Yeah I think the automatic bi-directional linking is the biggest value add at the moment.
> Has a business ever publicly quantified how many ads you get? Does YouTube say, "we expose you to an average of x seconds of commercials and y pixels of static ads"?

Broadcast television and radio have always done this. How could they do anything else?
It's easy really. You start a counter, whenever it's above zero you stop displaying ads until the counter goes back to 0.
The existence of non-competes doesn't surprise me and I'm OK with companies being allowed to require them. But what shocks me is that companies do not offer commensurate severance packages. If you have a 12-month non-compete, then you'd better pay 12 months of total compensation as severance. Over the past year, I did 3 intense long interview loops and declined 2 offers and accepted the third (a FAANG where I work now). The first two places had me jumping through hoops - take home assessments, tricky behavioral interviews, intense live coding, etc., amounting to like 10+ interview rounds spent evaluating me before making an offer. At the offer stage I politely mentioned that the offer letter included an X-month non-compete agreement and I was only able to consider signing if the doc was amended to also include an X-month severance package with clear terms on "just cause" firings (when severance is exempted) and "good reason" quitting (when severance is owed even if I quit, very common in cases where 'just cause' is included), or, I offered, the non-compete can just be removed (one of the two firms already had its main presence in California but I live on the east coast where this role was based ... but still, why a company already complying with laws banning non-competes for 90% of their workforce feels a need to include it for east coast employees is just beyond me).

Of course, they both completely balked at this and we could not move forward so I declined both offers. The third company had a non-compete initially but removed it as soon as I asked - it was completely pedestrian.

It's an indication of crazy entitlement on behalf of employers that they think workers should give away *for free* significant rights (like, uh, getting a new job quickly after a layoff, in your field of expertise). These rights are clearly not compensated as part of your base compensation from a job offer and any employee would be crazy to agree to those terms without severance protection. It just communicates bizarre entitlement and unprofessionalism. I hope more candidates will wise up to this and require severance packages or else decline the offers.
> What is being banned are non-competes that don’t pay someone to not compete.

Employers will just say "the no-compete compensations is built in to your pay".
>Snapchat is losing users

So is Twitter.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-where-did-tweet...
I would like to know my options.

I have been on twitter for a long time and I have a lot of good people that I like to follow. And I imagine a good portion of them are also looking for options. No one wants to be on a platform where the CEO cannot tell the difference between truth and lies.

The fact that he wants to sell the blue check mark is a good indication of how much he does not know about what he bought. It is a horrible plan and will generate so little revenue. He is a rich idiot.
The fact that progress exists does not technically constitute a counter-example.
Maybe in a parallel world, where capitalism does not exist, the progress is 10x faster, or the funding is 10x more important. Maybe the capitalism needs some progress, so needs to invest in it, but has also as effect to cut the roots that would generate more progress.
Or maybe not. My point is just that I don't think that what you point out does not really prove anything.
More mental gymnastics... I'm not even sure what point is being made by this move, other than devaluing the blue check to the point of meaninglessness. It's not even "utilitarian": if leveling the playing field was Musk's interest, he would have eliminated the blue check altogether.

There is no mechanism for anti-impersonation if all it takes to get a blue check is payment. Bot farms can also pay money for blue checks...
How about a URI? whatsapp:5551234567, signal:5551234567, etc.
That's the bet. I'm willing to bet that they'll make good money from it, which is all that matters from twitter's pov.
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Really interesting. For me, this solves some of the data ingest and manual update problem of creating a "second mind".
Installed (on Windows 7, hooray), right clicked inside Explorer, I see a grey menu with grey/totally transparent text...
How could a 2 mile long methane plume in New Mexico have been undetected for any significant amount of time?

From what I understand basic environmental monitoring is done in 2022 around all major industrial facilities in the U.S.
Via https://docs.keyoxide.org/understanding-keyoxide/keyoxide/#B...

> Keyoxide allows you to prove "ownership" or rather "hold" of accounts on websites, domain names, instant messaging, etc., regardless of your username.

and tl;dr = uses gpg notations to sign ownership over other identities; I didn't dig into it further to see what happens if user-A claims usera.example and then user-B also claims usera.example
Hardware acceleration can revolutionize robotics enabling faster and more power-efficient robots. However, the diversity of acceleration options makes it difficult for roboticists to easily deploy accelerated systems without expertise in each specific hardware platform, specially when mixing with ROS 2. In our recent talk at ROSCon 2022, we presented the architectural pillars and conventions required to introduce hardware acceleration in ROS 2 in a scalable and technology-agnostic manner: the ROBOTCORE Framework (paper). This article summarizes our speech and experience.
There's all sorts of problems with the academic institution as it stands, but I don't think forcing anyone to retire at an arbitrary age is much of a solution.

But I agree that the problem with science starts there, in academia. The barrier to entry and the ideological loops you're asked to jump through; Well, you're told that's just how it is. Imagine carrying that attitude into your Scientific career because, well that's just how it is, if you want to be funded. Doesn't leave a lot of room for progression, only products.
They have global shutter sensors around the 12 megapixel level. They could split the sensor up into different processing paths. Do these 200 megapixel phone camera sensors have really bad rolling sensor issues? They are using electronic rolling shutters like your R5 when in silent mode or whatever canon calls it now.
yeah, wikidata is one of the sources used. The browser extension I am working on will parse the semantic markup from the page too.
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Oh hey super cool, I think these are what you call small-world networks which show up in a lot of different places.

I’m actually reading a chapter right now on the architecture of the brain that talks a lot about this in the context of our neural connections: Chapter 2 or Cycle 2 “Structure Defines Function”[0].

[0]: https://neurophysics.ucsd.edu/courses/physics_171/Buzsaki%20...
It would be rather short-sighted in my view. While China/India are biggest market in terms of sheer amount of people, those people may not have the same levels of disposable income when compared to EU citizens. I absolutely understand that Apple could level that threat, but it would abandoning a major market for.. what exactly?
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Yes, if everybody would run their own instance, that would make it decentralized. But that is not going to happen. We need a protocol that allows ownership of your social graph without having to host your own server.
if the contract your client signed said net-30 then wouldn't a 90 day payment incur 60 days of late fees and another invoice? i feel like you could rinse/repeat that forever. It would be like a subscription to late fees.
This looks cool. As someone who just keeps this info as tabs in their phone browser that I may stumble upon randomly in the future it really speaks to me.

One issue I have with data dumps like this is keeping them from getting bloated. Say I use this a lot and have gathered 10,000 entries over two years -- how can I be sure that 1 entry I want to recall isn't lost in the sea of the other 9,999?
It's not just a status symbol, it also boosts your posts. If I had to guess, the people likely to pay for this are power users in wealthy countries, aka the highest value users an ad platform has. Seems unlikely that they're monetized at less than $8 a month.
No. It shows I could get any job if I could even get this one
What kind of content is being created on Twitter that warrants being paid? Reddit works flawlessly without that in longer form
Garden leave isn’t a panacea. And in MA it’s minimum 50% of salary. It does make the employer put skin in the game which is no small thing. But it may end up with someone not being able to be in a competitive job for a year for maybe 25% of their prior comp. Not a great situation for a lot of people.
The README for that repo discusses Mastodon/ActivityPub:

>The problem with Mastodon and similar programs

>User identities are attached to domain names controlled by third-parties;

>Server owners can ban you, just like Twitter;

>Migration between servers is an afterthought and can only be accomplished if servers cooperate.

>It doesn't work in an adversarial environment (all followers are lost);

>There are no clear incentives to run servers, therefore they tend to be run by enthusiasts and people who want to have their name attached to a cool domain. Then, users are subject to the despotism of a single person, which is often worse than that of a big company like Twitter, and they can't migrate out;

>Since servers tend to be run amateurishly, they are often abandoned after a while — which is effectively the same as banning everybody;

>It doesn't make sense to have a ton of servers if updates from every server will have to be painfully pushed (and saved!) to a ton of other servers. This point is exacerbated by the fact that servers tend to exist in huge numbers, therefore more data has to be passed to more places more often;
Arguably, neither of the two is a scientist. Their contributions weren't particularly novel from a scientific perspective: most of what they did was commercialize things that had been previously invented - in most cases, several decades ago.

Working VR setups first showed up in the 90's (I think). Electric cars were a 100 year old concept, and had many previous attempts. Vertically-landing rockets happened in the late 80's. Almost all of the rest of the Musk companies (small tunnels, "hyperloops," Twitter) have little novelty. The exception may be neuralink, which may not be making any real scientific progress at all.

You can argue about whether the commercialization or the invention is more important, but "science" is about proof of existence and invention, not commercialization.

The whole "mad genius" idea is alive and well on the commercial side, but scientists today are much more conservative and conformist.
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Your post is a mish-mash of thoughts that might be coherent independently but put together is just indecipherable. Consider re-writing your comment to get the point across.

But let me try to respond anyway even though I am unsure of your point:

>In the states, we can see that the illegal migration dumping is caused by the unskilled labor needed to support archaic GDP numbers.

The native population's costs to maintain those jobs locally would make the underlying business untenable. Perhaps this is the end state of all these businesses taken by illegal immigration. Maybe robotics might save the day. People are not going to pay for 14-20$/hr picked strawberries. Maybe they will but that 20$/hr will eventually become 30$/hr and so on.

>As a technology native, I was too young to work when the H1-B economy started to spring up, but the linear from that is easy to see.

H1-B was a miracle program that allowed numerous non-white people a sliver of a chance to experience the fruits of the western empire. A large portion of the white population came over to the new world without any papers and/or none of the roadblocks that current immigrants face. After they established themselves, they slammed the door on everyone else. At the same time, the third world is recovering at a snails pace from decades of exploitation and wealth extraction by the western nations. Put yourself in the shoes of people who want to experience a kind of life that westerners live. What options do they have? They can't easily just waltz into the western countries like their white counterparts did...meanwhile they were born into an environment that was fundamentally destroyed and stripped bare by those same western powers. They can't fight back to take that wealth back because the western military might will crush them, they can't improve their countries in any reasonable timeframe because there are too many forces working against them. But then comes along H1-B and it gives many ambitious people an opportunity to get exploited by the ownership class in exchange for an economy class seat into the first world. Who are the healthy people in this scenario? The white American working class whose ancestors walked into abundance with much less effort than people today and whose descendants couldn't muster up the effort to fill those in demand tech jobs? From the point of view of the ownership class, they were never in the game to begin with. From my point of view, the healthy people are the H1-B people.

>Businesses that outsourced gave away their whole business model is an easy conclusion, so now they all have lower quality/priced competition (obviously speculation, but plausible remains entertaining).

Maybe the ownership class is smarter than you. China and the rest of the Asian workshops are aging much faster than the US. China is projected to drop to 600 Million by the end of the century. The current state of them taking all the healthy people is a mirage.
What's funny is HN was majority OK with AirBNB "disrupting" hotels and Uber/Lyft "disrupting" taxi services by bending the rules and exploiting legal loopholes, but when AI starts "disrupting" their artwork and code by bending the rules suddenly disruption becomes a personal problem.

Disrupt onward I say. Humans learn and remix from prior copyrighted work all the time using their brains (consciously chosen or not). So long as the new work is distinguishable enough to be unique there's nothing wrong with these new AI creations.
> Actually, that is the correct definition!

Hmmm; no, it isn't?

Your quotation is vague stuff and not a definition at all. The notion of differentiability has nothing to do with deep learning, rendering, nor neural networks. None of these terms should appear on a definition of the concept.

The classical mathematical definition of differentiability concerns the function itself. For example, the function f(x)=x^2 is differentiable while the function g(x)=abs(x) isn't. On the other hand, the "modern" definition of differentiability concerns the computer implementation of the function. Given the same function f(x)=x^2, you can have a differentiable implementation of it (e.g., using a high level language) and a non-differentiable implementation (e.g., calling a library written in assembler that evaluates this function). At the same time, you can have a differentiable implementation of g(x)=abs(x), which is the sign function, and non-differentiable implementation as well. Thus, both concepts are really independent!

I'm still longing for a formal, canonical, definition of the "modern" notion of differentiability.
I remember how in one grim movie about drug cartels, the main character said that we, the military, support the Medellin cartel, instead of fighting it, because it's an order we can control, unlike a swarm of small cartels popping up here and there. The gov would have difficulties censoring speech if big tech was a thousand smaller firms.
A great artist can take these same prompts, look at the same input images, and produce the same or even better results.

No one would call that stealing. Copying, yes. Stealing, No. A great artist can copy other artist's style's expertly. A large part of being an art student is learning how to do exactly this.

Stable Diffusion is just a truly great artist.
Unfortunately, it still takes crappy concert photos. The combination of low light, crazy lighting, etc., still wreak havoc on the images.

Fortunately, most of the venues I go to for shows generally have a "No detachable lens cameras" rule, which means my Fuji X100 is allowed. Unfortunately, security at the venues often ignores the policy and I don't want to be That Guy holding up the line arguing with them about it.

(I'm also not one of those people that is taking pictures [and I never record video] the whole show, I just want a handful of high quality shots to help me remember the show)
I still don't see how would you make people pay because as it stands most, if not all, big servers are purely run on donations. And as I was looking around the software itself doesn't support ads or promoted posts.

I liked the idea of Mastodon but if it ever gets big (which is also a interesting considering 6 years in the biggest server still doesn't have 1m users [0]) then I can't see people paying for it, just like how most people don't pay for Twitter, Discord, or reddit or for email to give a federated example.

0, https://instances.social/mastodon.social
> On the other hand, I would say that traditional mediums (especially large format paintings) are relatively safe from AI generation/automation - for now.

Why do you think that? I think large format paintings might be in just as much danger.

There’s a large industry of talented artists in China, Vietnam, etc who copy famous artworks by hand for very low prices. They’re easily accessible online: you upload an image and provide some stylistic details and the artist does the hard work of turning the image into brush strokes. It’s not “automated” but I’ve already ordered one 4’x2’ AI generated painting in acrylic relief for less than the cost of a 1’x1’ from a local community gallery. I put in quite a bit of work inpainting the image to get what I want but it would have been completely impossible to get what I want even six months ago.

I’ve only ever purchased half a dozen artworks in my life and they were all under a few hundred bucks but with this new tech, it just doesn’t make sense to buy an artists’ original work unless it’s for charity. The AI can do the creative work the way I want and there are plenty of artists who are excellent at the mechanical translation (which still requires a lot of creativity, mind)
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Book of Mormon - came out in 2011
NCSC is calling it SpookySSL but I think it is just for funsies. https://github.com/NCSC-NL/OpenSSL-2022
Per the article

> Typically, the core stages of similar rockets that reach orbit fire their engines again after releasing their payloads. That allows them to be aimed at unpopulated areas, like the middle of an ocean, when they fall from orbit.

If this is not accurate, my mistake. I took them at their word and don't really know anything more than that about the process.
There's a simple way to make this legible to the user: instead of slashing ad frequency, eliminate half of ad surface. I.e. if there are N places on the page where ads are being served, turn off half of them for the paying users. This will be an obvious difference, and remain so even as the ad intensity/frequency increases.
This comment answers your questions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33425414
It substantially changes the economics of bots - cheap for a person, expensive for a person running 10,000 bots that want to appear legitimate.
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> Everyone who needs one can pay for a blue check.

At $8/month, that's patently not true. Why should verification be anything other than a pay-once deal, if it has to be paid for at all?