skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not turn your commute into a 5 min drive to the station, then a book?

Such a disconnect.

If it was a 5 minute drive, in city, you could just walk there in 10.

Parent effectively said "not close". So you suggest a 1 hour drive, a 2 hour train, instead of a 90 minute drive?

(You also have to wait for the train to leave, wait for its stops along the way, and be there precisely on time (hence the wait at the start)).

I find so many of the comments boil down to "I live deep in a city, never drive, and am in an entirely different geopolitical environment, but I know what makes sense for you!
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I made this extension to watch stuff together with my girlfriend during the pandemic. All the other extensions had a lot of flaws, didn't work with Prime and Disney+ Hotstar, so I decided to build one for my own use. I moved to the same city as my partner, so I don't have any use for it anymore. Few people still use this daily, so I'll probably let it run on my VPS as long as I can.
Meh, Chinese labor is already more expensive than equivalent Mexican labor (at least from an American perspective). They're running on inertia at this point. Might take a decade or two to relocate the industrial plant, but it'll shift on cost alone given enough time.
> what largely transformed Weizenbaum into an outspoken critic of AI ... was his revelation that even once the processes were explained many people still bought into the “illusion.” ... that even many people who understood the inner workings of computers quite well could still get swept away as well. Weizenbaum observed that ... “if nothing else, how easy it is to create and maintain the illusion of understanding, hence perhaps of judgement deserving of credibility... A certain danger lurks there.”

This speaks to my view exactly, and I haven't seen it put better.

The latent (imv) schizophrenic impulse to impart consciousness to any-old-object in the world is here being exploited by peddlers (often charlatans) of technology. This makes the "confirmation bias" here severe and dangerous.

People don't just want to believe, their animal psychology primes them for (over-)imparting consciousness. This is a specific cognitive vulnerability that is highly pernicious.

Even, trivially, consider "deresponsibilization", that process by which people take whatever-the-machine-says to be "The Answer". Why? Well, the machine "must know".

Less trivially, moral bias: "presumably" the machine is "objective" and so is morally superior.

How often do we hear this? Too much.
Interactive music theory lessons & exercises: https://falsetto.app/

I tried to monetize the website a while ago but failed, and I realized it sucked the fun out of the project so I open-sourced it instead:
https://github.com/ColeDeanShepherd/Falsetto
The same as 10y ago: PHP & SQL
I have a very short instagram handle that I've never used. People are constantly trying to take it over. I get the email "we've made it easy to get back on Instagram" sometimes hundreds of times per hour. I don't think they have any kind of rate limiting or account abuse protections. It's also true that you can disable Instagram 2FA without 2FA via various Facebook apps, which is ridiculous.
When I click the header link I get redirected to google?
ChatGPT is sort of the reverse of Grammerly. I know little about proper grammer so I put most everything into Grammerly and it produces a lot of suggestions and I take them because they sound good and I don't really know any better. I assume it is right. ChatGPT produces text that sounds good and you have to update that text with your facts and remove or make updates to bring it to your own standard.
I work in AI research, so if AI eats my profession I guess I'm joining the resistance in the First AI War. Or maybe we'll have a post scarcity AI utopia? TBD.
He died a long, long time ago. Far away.
Agree, would be great with some kind of open POI service synced to OSM, and with reviews tacked on

FYI: You may want to check out Organic Maps, that is developed by the original Maps.me founders: https://organicmaps.app
1947-71 doesn't exist according to him.
Not side projects, but I'm a solo founder with 2 projects not currently generating revenue. So I feel like I'm within range of the request.

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https://github.com/jackbow/lil-hash/

A simple temporary URL shortener that produces easily rememberable and speakable URLs. The links expire after 24 hours so there's always a one word shortening available. Receives approximately 20,000 visits each month.

Useful for sharing a link in a presentation, or between devices when you don't want to login to your email, etc. When its easier to remember or say a link than send it.

Fits in cloudflare workers free tier.
That's exactly what I think. It used to be an unpopular opinion on HN (as of a couple of weeks ago?) but it's changing fast, apparently.
I had this idea myself but never bothered to make anything of it. Thanks for saving me the effort!
As with many tradeoffs in life, awesome for the individual in the present (assuming they can afford it), terrible for the collective and the future.
Funny enough though, the unimaginative, secondary nature that you describe has revived an old desire to make my own games, but I’m no artist.
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> I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, because why believe people are malicious when they could just as well be careless?

Funny how their "carelessness" always seems to benefit them at our expense.
Yeah, that's my point though. Once a company hits a certain size, those people will exist no matter what you do. It's just a personality that a certain percent of people have. If it's just one or two people you can probably correct that but when you have hundreds or thousands of employees, it's unreasonable to think you can get everyone to see the problems they are causing.

The way to avoid letting those people interfere is to let me direct message the people I need to talk to. Why are you taking that away from me?
This is the #1 problem with google/facebook/other giant companies - zero due process. They build a business around minimal human interaction with our staff and it shows when real problems come up.

I'm frankly sick of hacker news being a facebook/google/whatever ticketing system. And yet, there's no alternative.
Wikipedia problems with political articles are caused by people actively biasing the articles. You cannot just modify the article; it'd get reverted for, at best, going against consensus.

Someone gave an example above where a person calling herself a trained Marxist was not accepted as evidence that she is a Marxist. Do you seriously think that editing the article to include the reference would be allowed?

Furthermore, the point is that Wikipedia has a systematic problem. Individual instances that people point out are examples. It would be impossible to fix the whole problem yourself and saying "that example doesn't count because you can fix it yourself" is just a way of ignoring examples, not dealing with the problem.
I'll try not to rant, but a useful and complete open map system in my mind is one of the biggest things holding up a ton of innovation around mobile devices, search engines and even automotive by being able to divorce from apple/google/microsoft. I try to degoogle my life every so often and generally end up back on google after I try to type in an address for quick directions, orient myself in a foreign city or find an open restaurant near me.

Great news and I hope there's more and more work in this area.

I would love to see a federated way for local business to list themselves to be listed on open maps/search engines/etc instead of being listed on google business.
PDAs and the Nokia phone, mp3 player generation had icons. 90s-2010s
It's not the same. This is something I've observed many times but have never quite been able to put a name to it.

When you lower the friction of an action sufficiently, it causes a qualitative change in the emergent behavior of the whole system. It's like how a little damping means the difference between a bridge you can safely drive over versus a galloping Gertie that resonates until it collapses.

When a human has to choose and put some effort into regurgitating a piece of information, there is a natural decay factor in the system where people will sometimes not bother to repeat something if it doesn't seem valuable enough to them. Sure, things like urban legends and old wive's tales exploit bugs in our information prioritization. But, overall, it has the effect of slowly winnowing out nonsense, misinformation, and other low value stuff. Meanwhile, information that continues to be useful continues to be worth the effort of repeating.

Compared to the print and in-person worlds before, things got much worse just with social media where a human was still in the loop but the effort to rebroadcast was nil. This is exactly why we saw a massive rise in misinformation in the past couple of decades.

With ChatGPT and humans completely out of the loop, we will turn our information systems into galloping Gertie and they will resonate with nonsense and lies until the whole system falls apart.

We are witnessing the first cracks now. Look at George Santos, a candidate who absolutely should have never won a single election but managed to because information pipelines about candidates are so polluted with junk and nonsense that voters didn't even realize he was a con man. Not even a sophisticated one, just a huckster able to hide within the sea of information noise.
I find it funny that I'm getting downvoted for quoting the article. I should have used quotation marks!
I've done very little with AWS for two reasons - haven't had any projects/work where they used it, and personally...

Several years ago I signed up for a free tier account with AWS to play with . But I also didn't know what I was going to do with it - I didn't create any resources. Got distracted, a few weeks went by, they sent me an invoice! It wasn't for much, but it was not $0. I was very confused (and never figured out why I was charged). Fortunately I was able to reach customer service and get the costs dropped, and I promptly closed my account so that I didn't accidentally (through no action of my own) accumulate further charges!

I'd like to see "get charged more than expected" or "think you were on the free tier but somehow you weren't" on this purity test.

EDIT: OK either "free tier" was added just now or I fat-fingered "free" when I searched for it earlier :)
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I just wrote a blog post about my project. The idea is to turn movie subtitles into audio. I will try to keep writing blogs and share my experience with the progress of my project. I welcome all critiques - about the project or on my writing.
It’s like every time they say some big guy in North Korea got executed because South Korean intelligence said so and then reappears a few months later.

Never believe the media.
> Is it a fun language to use?

I don't know about "fun", but it does offer some advantages over REST and others. I built struct-ure/kg on top of Dgraph, which auto-generates a GraphQL API from a schema definition. You should look into that if you decide to offer a GraphQL API.

As for PLDB, I'm impressed. That's a lot of data on programming languages! struct-ure/kg is designed to encompass all sorts of IT stuff. If you'd like to contribute to building out the "programming languages" sub-graph, I'd definitely welcome the help.
If US like the rest of the world, make trains popular and brings the costs down for trains and actually has more connectivity. The distance will quickly not become a problem. Like I said all we need is a sleeper coach, and we just have comfortable nap to the destination over night. India is able to transport millions of people in 2500+ KMs routes a day, you are looking at the people who are forced to pay and travel in those forsaken airliner comfort. Trains will only bring more people together when they connect more and make it affordable.
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Link is redirecting to google.com
AWS can easily go into 6 figures/month, so you could get a decent bus for that too, and maybe even a plane in some years of operation :)

I'm not against paid tools in general. My company pays for many - lots of IntelliJ licenses (at least XXk eur/year), jira server (hard to summarize over the years, but probably at least couple of cars worth) and many others, but we prefer "pay once and own it" model, because we updated when we needed. Sometimes we pushed this for later and spent cash for raises and/or additional people, which were more important than minor software updates. That's why I really dislike subscription model - you don't have this choice - either you pay now or you're out. Don't like new prices? Feel free to migrate for couple of months (while still paying).

> don't pay for tailscale, host your own go link system for $0, host your own gitlab so you're not paying for jira or gitlab, wtf is bonusly; VSCode is free...

We actually host ton of stuff on-prem. Isn't nearly as bad as people like to frame it. Of course we have some subscribtions, because it's business not crusade, but in general keeping mandatory recurring costs low, proved to be good strategy.
I feel for this guy and hope he gets his account back.

The idea of unique handles is extremely annoying and an old problem.
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Deciphering My Dead Mother’s Cipher
I find the Quest Pro lenses and screen to be a significant improvement over Quest 2 in terms of clarity. You’ll find many other people saying the same thing. So your 5-year timeline seems off to me.
Keep in mind this is written by an immigrant to France, saying natives opposed to yet more immigration are fascists, and he will exclude them from career opportunities.

I am reminded of Troy - once you let a few in, they will force the gates open for more.
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We built it out of our own need (running https://8bitnews.io/) and target newsletter senders, who prefer data driven decision making.

Instead of building the next SaaS we decided to build a desktop app. Privacy and data protection were the main drivers behind that decision.

Currently in beta, but close to a release and seeking market validation.
Unsolicited feedback: If this were also offered as a web-based application I'd probably use it (sitting at my desk all day I don't want to use my mobile device for music). Maybe sell rotating ads or sponsorships (on screen but not in the audio stream, please!) to make some $.

Very cool.
> Seen it way too many times for it to be a coincidence.

It's definitely not a coincidence. Wikipedia is structured to actively select for it.
its a great point. but then we needn't constrain this problem to computers, there are plenty of human experiences other humans cannot possibly empathize with (what do you really know about ptsd, autism, even different tastes in food or music). i think there must be ways to build something like understanding through analogy and other modalities, accepting that it is different than shared experience
America just moved their slavery elsewhere and got the CCP to administer it. Out of sight, out of mind, get me my iphone while the plebs desperately jump out 5th story factory windows.
The political slant is anything but blatant, because all of the complaints focus on Republican/Democrat wedge issues where both sides are conjuring alternate realities to sell to their bases like soap operas.

The real political slant is put on Wikipedia by governments and companies that are willing to consistently employ people to cultivate and maintain bias (and to provide the technical support to prevent them being easily caught.) They make sure certain things aren't mentioned in particular articles i.e. when they are added they delete them, and when those deletions are controversial, they take advantage of the pseudononymous voting system. They reinsert untruths (and in the worst cases can even commission references for them.) They pay attention to articles that are rarely visited by experts, or rarely visited at all, to make sure that when the article subject is in the news, the first facts that people find are friendly facts (which then shapes the news coverage, and an instant POV for lazy pundits.)

The public really has no chance against this; the only time that bad actors run into serious difficulties is when they encounter their own counterparts, working for their enemies.

Wikipedia's failure mode is the same as Reddit's, or any other forum that allows anonymous control over content or moderation. It's cheap for hugely resourced governments, companies, and individuals to take it over. The price of one tank would keep a thousand distortions on Wikipedia indefinitely.
OsmAnd used to integrate nominatim (a free online geocoder) and it just worked (but it was nearly impossible to figure out how to use the online search instead of the broken local search). Unfortunately, that disappeared a few updates back.

Organic Maps has a search function that works for addresses (and it is FOSS).

Pure Maps has search function that works for addresses (and it is FOSS).
University of Texas Will Offer Large-Scale Online Master’s Degree in A.I
If I look up the definition of "open source", it says:

Definitions from Oxford Languages

open-source

denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.

Emphasis on "may be redistributed and modified"
at worst a triggered cascade of pedantry.

and at its best.

There's no easy way to scan the comments to get a sense of the breadth of reaction - it's just a case of wading through all of them.

Friction, I think of as a feature, not a bug. Slowing people down raises the threshold for engagement. Requiring effort reduces drive-by's in the comments.

It's not just that HN has changed, you have changed too. Probably more than HN. Yes, you don't have the time. But also less is new...I mean I heard of Python on HN.

But one of the ways HN has changed is the content and comments are more loosely coupled with the context of YC. Funding rounds are unlikely to make the front page anymore.

And that's because startups are mainstream news...perhaps due in no small measure to YC's activities.

Yet, most likely it is mostly you -- after all, it's your cranky old man post.

Good luck.
The main reason is that airlines and their operations are heavily subsidised, it's not an immutable law of physics
Sure - it's easy to find going through my comments on HN anyway. Poland.
> you can get access to iCloud with a court order once they are deceased

Even for important memories, has anyone heard of anyone else actually doing this? Just curious, lots of deaths in my family lately and i'm positive none of the grieving members would attempt a court order
One of those data breaches we hear about all the time
Jazz vs. Symphony (1990)
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Yeah, sorry. I'm changing prices every 2 days here, and I want to try subscriptions instead of packages as well. I'll put prices on the site in 1-2 weeks!

Currently the prices are:
$8.6 for 20 summaries ($0.43 each)
$19.8 for 60 summaries ($0.33 each)
$48.6 for 180 summaries ($0.27 each)

> Also, does it always give me 8 bullet points from each video? It would make sense for videos that have chapters to give summaries to each chapter instead.

Yes, it's now a fixed number of 8 parts. I tested different numbers, it seemed to me a universally convenient simple solution for videos of any length. But yes, I will take chapters into account when splitting, right now I ignore that information.

At the same time, the product isn't as useful as if when there are no chapters at all.
Might is right. Even if I don’t like the result, I respect the natural order of things. The opposite is anarchy.
Campah: https://www.campah.com/

A linktree clone, but I was annoyed it was so tiny on desktop, so I made one. No customers, but had a ton of scammers use it for free sites. So I locked it down to paid.
Just wanted to chime in with this. Even at $2000/month, most of the time I'm like "why am I wasting my time on this?"
"The data was stolen from a misconfigured cloud database found by the attacker through a search engine"
No, that would be horrendously inefficient.

Once the owner’s put it in Lost Mode, which all of those beeping bags were in, then you just visit the link it gives you when you scan it (it can do NFC, it doesn’t even require an Apple device) and the owner’s contact information is shown.

The airline’s behavior instead resembles: “We couldn’t see any contact information in the outside and maybe we checked a zipper pocket for a piece of paper but ultimately we would rather give up and pay you a lost bag fee, than have to employ a human being to put more than thirty seconds of effort into each bag.”
There might be a case for open-sourcing it.
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Public transit does not make sense outside of super dense areas.

Having a system that takes people only from where they live to where they work is much more inconvenient when individual cars allow people to go from work to the kids’ sports game to Costco to a relatives house and then home.

But that model of public transit is not tenable outside of places with density like Manhattan. Even in New York City, all the public transit is mostly focused on getting people into and out of Manhattan, so people in outer boroughs like to have cars.

This is what a public transit map that would compete with the convenience of individual cars would look like:

https://www.tokyometro.jp/en/subwaymap/

Contrast with the best that the USA can do:

https://new.mta.info/map/5256

Not that Tokyo is perfect, but it still has a far greater radius that link with each other without going to the central district.
I think I have clauses saying I can't work for competitors and that everything I do belongs to the company (not only on company time, company equipment, or on order from the company ). I have pointed out that the contract means that if I write a bestseller novel while employed, my employer owns it, which is obviously nonsense.

In reality, I never bothered arguing about these. I trust they aren't enforceable and I don't even fear having to pay the legal process should the megacorp try to hold the damn thing against me. They are that unenforceable.
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Looks like a good idea! It would be nice to have a video showing the whole process.
gotta free up workers for amazon warehouses.
> why is ... mine [only] around about a year’s worth of salary?

this complaint is almost as tone deaf as the satire. poor you. i was laid off, and only got a month's severance.
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