skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are very few people who make a living doing the kind of "real art" you describe, and I'm not sure it's ever been any different.

It seems like the middle 20th century was different, but it really wasn't. The number of soulful rock musicians or creative writers who got big contracts and made a good living was vanishingly tiny. Your odds of being the next Aerosmith or Stephen King was probably worse than your odds of becoming a pro athlete. Historically artists have always either been very poor or had wealthy patrons.

I'm not sure AI is actually going to change these odds much... as in the odds of making a living off anything even resembling pure "from the heart" art. I've seen tons of AI generated artwork but so far I've seen virtually none that had an emotional or spiritual impact on me. It all feels like filler, like... "content."

That is the profession AI is going to rapidly destroy. In 5-10 years you will no longer have more than a tiny handful of people employed churning out content for marketing and space filler purposes.

The best historical analogy for present-day AI is photography. Photography decimated the old profession of portrait painting, but it had little effect on art for art's sake. Painting for the sake of pure art simply remained the tiny niche of mostly starving artists that it always has been. There's never been much money in it except for a tiny few who managed to get into the high-brow "aaaaaht" circuit.
I also feel like the quality of search engines have gone down, but can we quantify that?

If yes, then how so? Would that be based on bounce-rate, position of the clicked search result, suggestion accuracy... ?
Life is finite. Long or short is all relative and depends on your state of mind.
> It is is unlikely anything you do will “matter”. Out of ~117 billion people to have ever lived over countless millennia, the lives of note throughout history are what? 10k? 100k? Even if it’s 1b meaningful lives that weren’t just an aggregate in the wave of babies, you’ve got a worse than 1% chance of being meaningful. Or, perhaps all lives are significant on a level we are incapable of comprehending. If it defies comprehension, what is the use in crafting a meaningful life?

Forward few million years to the future. It turned nobody mattered, talented or not, recorded in history or not. High chances the whole civilization will disappear without any trace. So, essentially, nothing ever matters except now.
100% Chaotic Neutral predictions. Love it.
https://1000logos.net/sun-microsystems-logo/

The emblem was created in 1982 by Vaughan Pratt, professor of computer science.
There's an old saying that academic disputes are so bitter because the stakes are so low.
I would add to your prediction:

we will see a trend away from React Hooks to something that feels less magical, but is also different from the old way of using class components.
I know, right? I don't loath him though... like, maybe I purposefully have chosen to not judge him, and maybe he is a bad person generally... but there is something human about the contradictions. You can hear in his writing the same things I feel when I am looking at the weights I bough downstairs telling myself I should work out, but then also watching myself walk upstairs to watch TV instead.

It's also hard because, it's like... are his ideas just made up and not possible to follow, then? or, can you learn from someone that failed at reaching their own "ideal," because everyone falls short.

He's an interesting study, for sure.
Do you know what the basis of that opinion was? As an outsider, how do I know that 1Password is managing its own security better than LastPass has?
I assume everything works on a PC and nothing works on a mobile device.
I (not OP) want to see the death of a supermassive black hole, so 10^106 years or so. I'm sure I can figure out what to do in the meantime!
This is a disgrace.

I emailed every member of the Board of Directors / Scientific Committee of RECEPTIO (https://www.receptio.eu/scientificcomitee) whose email address I could find, with a link to this blog post.

Hopefully someone will take some action.
Zinsser's On Writing Well was my game changer, can't recommend highly enough. And it's a fun read too.

The main takeaway is to simplify text as much as possible. That doesn't mean dumbing it down, and it doesn't mean abandoning creativity. It's just the opposite: Once you get rid of all the excess junk, the reader will hear your genuine voice.
Nice Latin; that's something I never learned.
As a rule, we Californias refuse to acknowledge that there are any non-democrats in the state, therefore they can’t move to Florida.
Are you asking why anybody would steal? Or just why people who steal would do so in this manner instead of putting an item under their shirt even though they're on camera, or just running out of the store with it?
The hatred that has been created in this war won't disappear any time soon.

NATO integration of Ukraine and placement of nuclear weapons will be the only thing that deters the new USSR.
If a search engine cannot recognize what content is good and which is bad, it's not a good search engine.

If there was a sea of garbage with some beautiful healthy fish still in it, it doesn't mean I'm going to start catching garbage and passing it off as halibut.

But the model of constant growth required and advertising to cross purposes of your users means that they're selling garbage by the pound and calling it fish!

I have no interest in agreeing that the emperor's new clothes exist.
> If you're a freelancer or a small company, you can do this at the level of individual customers. If you fire or avoid toxic customers, you can decrease the amount of bullshit in your life by more than you decrease your income.

This have been proven true to me so many times!
Reading makes you a better writer.

Writing makes you a better thinker.

Better thinking leads to better everything.

David Mamet's writings on writing are the best.
How interesting is the twitter files "leak"?

Chelsea Manning leaked videos of army killing civilians for the lolz. That's a 10 out of 10 for me.

This garbage is a solid 2/10, just slightly more interesting than the agency's official brochure.
Blockchains do not necessarily run on proof of work mechanism. Why do you think reads from the blockchain is slow ?
Interesting, have your recommendations changed?
Neutrality and impartiality means you're alt-right now.
Don't you get the other one, about logging in with Google?
Frightening how many of the predictions for 2022 actually came true. E.g., Russia invading a country, queen dying ...
https://archive.vn/xLiP3
Haskell would have been a mistake. The Nix language is domain specific and self limiting and can be picked up pretty quickly in comparison. I can look at snippets in various configs and they will usually have a similar structure. If Haskell was used, then you'd find all kinds of custom operators and other more complicated things that make it really hard for beginners to understand. I switched from XMonad to Sway for this reason.
I had to ask it which were the most positive/negative predictions, and of course a short story in the style of William Shakespeare about how one prediction could be improved by linked data. This is what it came up with:

ChatGPT: --- 8<

Pessimistic Prediction: The potential for conflict between humans and artificial intelligence

Short Story:

Upon the rise of artificial intelligence,

A fear did grip the hearts of humankind;

The fear that machines would one day seek to rise

Against their creators, and all order unbind.

But in this dark and troubled time,

A beacon shone forth, a light divine -

The light of Linked Data, pure and bright,

A tool to bring all beings into one design.

For with the power of Linked Data's link,

The humans and the machines did intertwine,

Creating bonds of understanding and trust,

And peace did reign where once there was only mine.

No longer did the humans fear the AI,

No longer did the machines seek to defy;

Together they worked, in harmony and love,

To build a world where all could truly thrive.

--- >8 ChatGPT

… to which I can only say: Right on!
Let's say I just want a single-user instance that's in the style of Hacker News: text only.

1. I want to write text-only posts and have them distributed to whoever is following me on Mastodon.

2. I want to receive all the posts of people I follow, and then just display/store the text and nothing else.

Does something like this exist? Seems like it should be super slim and easy on resources.
They might be conflating urxvt with urxvtd. I have had urxvtd crash before and have never used it again. Urxvt has never crashed in the 5 years I've used it
For sure, I nominate TikTok so we can accelerate the inevitable app based government debacle.
The inflation situation in the UK is getting out of hand. With Brexit and post Covid, companies are struggling for staff and the prices being charged for everything are eye watering.

I’m not sure how that plays out, but hyperinflation can’t be good.
Not coincidentally:

TSMC in talks with suppliers over first European plant: https://www.reuters.com/technology/tsmc-talks-with-suppliers...

TSMC ups its Arizona chipmaking investment to $40 billion: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/06/business/tsmc-arizona-investm...
because 6+ hours is too hard for a 140 char limit generation of people looking to get internet traffic to a blog while the content is still fresh in people's minds posted before anyone else does it.
Does this work in iOS?
I suppose the irony here would be that if “Fun” had not been disabled by the administrator however, the ADHD kids might be playing the dinosaur game and actually able to listen better (rather than wasting class time attempting to bypass it)
> It's easy to sign up for Twitter, it follows all of your expectations of how apps work.

Although it's probably too late, and not the place, to fight this particular battle, this kind of resigned circularity frustrates me. The reason the apps from big companies all "follow your expectations of how apps work" is not that they have reached some Platonic ideal of according with user expectations; it is that they have the time, the money, and the muscle (in the sense of being able to force you to use their apps to use their big product, whether you want to or not) to shape your expectations of how apps work. Their apps work as we expect apps to work because their apps defined how we expect apps to work.
I like Mastodon, i use it daily. BUT, i kinda feel it loses that claim already.

I am disincentivized to run my own instance, aka "distribute". It pushes for centralization. On multiple fronts. Why? Well for starters the protocol as i'm aware of does not efficiently federate to smaller instances compared to bigger instances.

I also fear that instances will eventually be plagued by spam / attacks from foreign small instances and will be pushed towards whitelisting federation rather than blacklisting. As the general philosophy of federation seems to match that of Email. Email.. tbh, feels like a failed technology. Yes i know, i love email and we all use it.. but it's incredibly centralized and insanely vulnerable to massive amounts of spam. The protocol almost pushes people to centralize to deal with problems that the Email protocol doesn't manage - spam. I fear Mastodon will eventually follow the same path.

I use it, but i have to ignore the protocol and my desire to decentralize.. because otherwise i just get frustrated.
I have zero problems with how Australia plans to meet its transportation needs. I do not live there.

In the US, I also do not care much about whether cars are EV or not (my only actual hangup about EV as a technology is the raw material sourcing. It is perhaps as immoral as how we obtain oil, and we do not have a story on what to do with the waste). I may even buy one in a couple years (I run all my cars to the point where they need constant repair, and only buy used cars, so the average age of my cars when they are retired is about 12 years). But that is different than the fantasy that EV as a primary form of personal transportation will work for the vast majority of the northern US.

I think the opposite of the intended effect will actually happen. We are forcing a mandate without a means for it to work.
It’s comforting to know that even people who work at AWS will sometimes forget about runaway cloudwatch charges. it's not just me!
...it was news for me.
As a Brave browser user, there are a few social media switches in the setting that i have set to 'off'; combined with this - things should be even better (as well as having another reason to go through the ://flags settings).
I rotate through my available built-in search engine[s] in Brave, I'll go back to ddg to try this out.
Nb - search with all engines this past 18months has been uniformly 'poor'.
If you have to read a blog about how to sign up for it, it's not "easy to sign up".

Signing up for mastodon is a series of hurdles with some extra steps in between. Conceptually it's pretty far from what people are familiar with.

It's a classic trap of tech nerds being way, way off base thinking that others would enjoy jumping through obscure hoops just like they do. Most people really don't.

(This is coming from someone who grew up on dialup / bbs / sweaty underground diskette auctions)
One useful option is PostresML[1]. If it supports what you need it’s an easy solution for ruby users.

1. https://postgresml.org/
Ben Collins, Micah Loewinger, Taylor Lorenz. They're all MSM reporters and they are very much internet people.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/mastodon-p...
Read a lot. Write a lot. Repeat
You can create new account without email or any other verification, so it's not really that big deal if your account was completely banned (worst case you will lose your favorites and upvotes history).

You will just lose downvoting feature until you reach again 500 karma I think, which I don't care about anyway, personally I'd find site better, if there was no downvote feature at all for everyone and all comments were visible and distinguished only by number of upvotes.

Btw I agree there should be very clear information about comment/post time limits, because it feels they are not applied equally to everyone and you can't really respond even to people responding to you. Then it seems like you can't provide arguments, while the reality is you are time limited while other people keep discussing about what you said. It would be better if these time limits didn't apply at least in your own reply thread where you are parent, only in other parents so you can't spam others. But honestly I don't have problem with time limits if they were transparently communicated.

I had to create new account since my account was brigaded or destroyed by bots, no matter what I posted pretty much everything receiving (insta)downvotes (sometimes within seconds), no such problems with new account (so much for this being conspiracy in my head).
Brutal! Hopefully it was a good-natured crushing.
* At least one of the next phase of FAANG companies is founded by folks that were part of this layoff cycle.

* GPT4 blows everyone's mind and is a full step above ChatGPT

* A giant leap happens with self-driving cars, making them finally viable.

* Meta continues to implode, Zuck is forced out or brings in someone else to act as CEO.

* Elon gets bored of his new toy (Twitter) and moves on to other things

* Car production finally gets back to 100% and 30% of new cars sold are Electric by Q4.

* Due to Elon's damage to the brand, Hyundai and Ford take the lead from Tesla.

* Apple does not reveal their VR/AR project as they don't see it as having broad appeal.

* There is an open-source version of ChatGPT/GPT3 like there was with DALL-E and StableDiffusion.

* ChatGPT/Transformers become integrated into our daily lives and become invaluable tools. Google/Bing/DDG starts using it (in some form) for search.

* With the implosion of streaming products, Hollywood goes into a recession, making a fraction of the projects they did in the last couple of years.

* At least one big player merges / get bought by another. (i.e. AMC/Paramount)

* There starts to be a return to the office. Especially in urban cores, this is partially spurred by younger singles that want to be more social.

* Californians get fed up with homelessness / crime and implement some draconian measures to get a handle on it. (i.e. much tougher sentencing for car break-ins, making street camping illegal)

* Trump becomes a clear 2nd to DeSantis in the GOP primary, but he continues to sell his brand to his followers, The GOP mostly abandons him.

* While Putin is out of the country there is a Palace Coup.

* People continue to wear masks just like they do today.

* Frustrated by the US lead ban on tech licensing and equipment to China. Xi gets very close to invading Taiwan, but it doesn't happen in 2023
We have actually been continually working on improving our search results. We're working on a new page to detail major updates on a quarterly basis, which should be live in a few weeks.

At the same time, we've been continuously developing our Web Tracking Protections for our browsers and extensions. We also made a page for that here that is already out: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/we...
They are saying all that is more troubling because it isn't like the NFL and teams can't afford it. They are raking in money but still force the people to build their stadiums.
What would be cool is if you could get GPT to break the command up into its components and then explain what each component does and how it works.
Try using Bitwarden, quite good and secure as well.
Technically, sure, but if you remove the slashing penalty then you entirely break the protocol.
I’d agree with you if “platforms” were automated entities that just happen, like rain.

But they’re actually companies with employees, investors, managers, and other stakeholders. I can’t bring myself to say they have an obligation to put time and money and attention into things they want nothing to do with.

It’s easy to sit back and complain about the precedent these people are setting that could be abused by other people at some point in the future. But if it were me, with my company, I would not want to support projects like Unstable Diffusion, for both ethical and PR purposes. Would you? Would you commit to best effort to support them and help them fundraise, for the principle of it?
I use Storj. Its great.

https://www.storj.io/storj-home
It’s exactly 1/8th more.
I don't think there is any consensus protocol that can survive an attack by 90% of nodes.
"Have something to say". Everything else is secondary.
Are there any electric cars on the market that don't require a persistent connection to the cloud?
Heh, you had me in the first half.
I emailed everyone listed on that page with a link to the blog post.

Finding their email addresses is mostly straightforward, it's on their institutional pages most of the time. Note that one of them is deceased since 2021, which does make me wonder how relevant this list is now.
I think we need more than one Hacker News on the web
Sorry but if you want to impress, get stable diffusion running on the 800.... kidding!
> Personally, I would love to pay hundreds for a limited access to books I would like to read.

… Why? I'd assume that this was sarcastic, except that the sarcastic reading seems to support the post with which you seem to be arguing, and the rest of the paragraph:

> But folks aren't inspired too much about writing books today that can make them a living, since there are pirates everywhere. They want free content, because "information should be free". No, it shouldn't. Pay for it.

seems to be sincere.
I disagree. Peak influencer moment was the billionaire status of folks like Kanye, Kardashians, Kylie Jenner, etc. If anything is to be seen from the past year, it's that they're just as vulnerable to the machinations of the mainstream as any one. Moreover, most of their wealth is pure paper - not even publicly traded. With a sure trimming of private valuations, they will definitely be hurt (although their lifestyle won't, but I doubt they are that stupid to showcase their lives during an actual recession year when it happens).

Tldr:- Influencers are correlated to the markets. Market valuations fall, Influencers get hurt.
It's hard to bring something new into the world. If it were easy, it would have already happened.

Nearly all startups fail. They're trying to do something new, and the status quo is one hell of a competitor. Doing nothing is easy and most people's default choice.

Don't jump into entrepreneurship because you're lured in by the potential results; start a company if the process, regardless of the result, is something you enjoy or need.

Back in the early 2000s, after my first failed startup, I tried doing the math.

If only 10% of VC-backed startups succeed (the numbers for bootstrapped startups are even worse) and assuming that I could manage to get VC backing for my idea, and further assuming that each failed attempt to start a company could consume five years of time (you have to account for the time you likely need to spend working for established companies between startups to rebuild your finances after years of below-market pay), and finally assuming that at age 30, I would get four more attempts before I'd be 50 and face increasing ageism that would prevent me from raising money, then the math was simple:

There was a 0.9 X 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9, or 0.66 chance that I'd spend my entire career chasing this dream and never succeed.

I had to get comfortable with this as a default outcome if I wanted to keep going down the entrepreneurship path.

It's a little better if you're starting out at age 20, but even then, 0.9 to the 6th power is still 0.53. In other words, the majority outcome for entrepreneurship, even if you persevere for 30 years, is that you never succeed.

Yet it may still be worth doing because A) I'm sure you think your odds are better than average and B) It's what you really want to do.
This is a ridiculous take.

There were no such restrictions on books after you legitimately purchased them for hundreds of years now.

If you buy the hardcopy of the very same book, no such restriction would apply.

Rip-off schemes, where the publishers uses DRM to cripple the reading experience by providing the content via a proprietary reader with bad UX, is one of the very reasons people resort to pirating in the first place.
"And now for something completely different:"

Picture a group of people attending "Silly Walks" classes to get in better shape.
Watch the recent .net conf videos on you tube to catch up with latest .net 7 tech and also watch the nick chapsas YouTube channel that covers the latest ms stack.
That should get you up to speed and you can go from there.

Also build a project with the the latest ms stack, something like an e-commerce site with microservices and set yourself up as a business and put on your resume that the last two years you were the CTO of your own business developing e-commerce solutions for clients to fill your employment gap

Good luck
What a joy it would be to be a kid in highschool writing book reports with ChatGPT
Pick a generic or regional one. Don't think it's much of a statement if your account is on something like @mstdn.io (which is closed for registration right now; I don't want to mention any specific servers on HN in order to not overwhelm them but you get the idea).
So great to see non-partisanship during the holidays.
Weird flex but ok
China stops publishing Covid data and public testing amid reports of huge spike
- the fed will keep rates higher for longer than people expect, and we’ll enter a “real” recession

- the fed will break something unintentionally in the economy

- stock market will bottom, maybe down another 20% from here

- crypto will bottom, down a lot more

- housing will pull back, good!

- housing in Canada will crash and take the economy with it. The world outside of Canada won’t be affected by that

- the war in the Ukraine won’t end

- Russia won’t use nukes in the Ukraine

- China won’t invade Taiwan