skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One other critical bit of "censorship" and "oppression" that Nostr very much wants to route around is any restrictions on use of Lightning et. al. cryptocurrency payments directly in Nostr clients, without any intermediaries or custodians in the way. (This fear of "economic censorship" seems to be a common boogieman in cryptocurrency circles, from what I can tell. Certainly a bigger fear than state-level actors coming after you for your Nostr notes or toots or whatever.)

Whether you think that's a good or necessary thing probably tracks very closely with your beliefs about whether money and its expenditure is protected speech. Obviously that's something about which the highest courts and legislative bodies in the USA already have complex and sometimes-contradictory views, so I certainly won't claim there's a single correct answer...even if my personal beliefs fall very much on the "money is a modern social fiction in no way connected to fundamental human rights" side of the spectrum.
How does one control their own mind?
I was looking at the arrest video of Keenan Darnell Anderson recently where he was tased several times and died later on that day at the hospital. It reminds me that police are going to use the tools there are given even though they probably don't need to. I have no doubt the amount of officers on scene could have subdued him and cuffed him without the use of a taser. It was just easier to tase him into compliance.
> Stability AI has already announced that it is removing users’ ability to request images in a particular artist’s style and further, that future releases of Stable Diffusion will comply with any artist’s requests to remove their images from the training dataset. With that removal, the most outrage-inducing and troublesome output examples disappear from this case, leaving a much more complex and muddled set of facts for the jury to wade through.

How can this possibly be a valid good faith argument? Either they're in breach of authors' copyright which extends to every piece of art that they included in the dataset without permission, or they're in the clear and aren't obligated to respond to removal requests.

This reads like damage control to me in an effort to temporarily silence the loudest critics.
Not only that, it also gives a popup that states this clearly, as well as a request to not input confidential information when you first start using it.

Do people just not read anymore?
No doubt the correct answer is "it requires research." But I guess the answer is going to be "it depends, on the individual and the circumstances"
As a hobby project, I run Code::Stats[0]. It's a website that tracks what languages you are programming in (via editor plugins) and gives you a profile page with various statistics[1]. It's ad-supported (with EthicalAds) to deal with server costs, or you can buy a support account to remove ads. The site and all the editor plugins are open source, the site is written in Elixir (but I'm looking at integrating Gleam in the future).

Currently it's completely a free time thing; I make negative money on it. My dream would be to have enough paying users to work on it part time (even a little), but that's far away and may never happen. But I like using it myself so I'll keep running it for the foreseeable future.

[0] https://codestats.net/

[1] https://codestats.net/users/Nicd
So if a chat program can pass the bar exam, it's okay? Because I would bet that if a program can represent someone semi-competently in court, passing the bar exam which needs an objective marking criterion would be trivial by comparison.
yeah there is! it's been in the works for a number of years, and they're talking about Q1 2023

but it will still leave all the vscode.* APIs open, so extensions can still do things like read any file in the filesystem, or run programs like they do today

it's a start and an important step, but definitely not a cure-all
But it doesn't have to be run in a runtime; it can compile directly to a platform-native binary. Internally it has limitations, as any sandboxed code would, but it lets you take native code and compile it to a native binary with sandboxing built-in
Ultimately, this is just something that has to be solved with legislation, not a court case. It's too novel a setup for a court case to deal with under existing frameworks.

I think one issue is just that of scale. I personally tend to agree that there's something icky with just slurping up literally everyone's content, then producing a tool that will then proceed to put them out of business en masse. But proving that illegal under current law is certainly going to be a challenge.

I have not read the original complaint but it surprises me that the lawsuit doesn't have a much stronger focus on this aspect. Copyright law is very concerned about not destroying the market for a given work through infringement, but this is a case about destroying the market for entire artists at a stroke.

But that's a hard argument in court. There's no legal basis for claiming damages because the entire market itself is being destroyed.

Though I'm not sure it's any weaker than the other claims trying to be made. The basic problem is, this isn't illegal in any sense. I don't just mean "illegal in that it must be banned" but any level of gradation in between, in the licenses, in requiring compensation, in any sort of regulation whatsoever. Technology has simply outrun law again.
Then the board is breaking their fiduciary duty and the shareholders will sue them into oblivion.
China do have new laws requiring people on the web to indicate with a watermark (or similar) if their stuff was created with the help of AI. See: https://cacm.acm.org/news/267778-china-bans-ai-generated-med...

Even if western governments adopt similar laws, however, I'm not sure if they would be that effective. People would start messing with the definition of AI. E.g. 80 years ago a spelling and grammar checker would probably have fit society's definition of AI, and both of those techs arguably have a cultural impact on the web. Spellcheckers lead to less new words or dialectal variations of words coming into existence, for example.
It literally says so in a popup which must be accepted before first use. No need to dig in the T&Cs.
For the database, anything that's managed - I'm partial to SQL server just based on my work history, but Postgres is nice too. Even the expensive ones are like $100/mo for the lowest production tiers, if you're bootstrapping with a W2 job that's reasonable for 6 months while you try to find some level of traction.

For the backend, probably default to JS or maybe TS lambdas/function apps. Quick to write, quick to deploy, slap an API gateway over the top and you're ready to go.

For the front end, for a true POC I have a lifetime/full Creative Tim membership. So I'd just grab a dashboard and landing page template and start plugging in calls to the API gateway.
It’s fancy talk but it really has no value.

Let’s say an investment has a 20% return and your calculation gives a 0% default chance for the first four years. You can structure your investment to compound for the first four years and get back your initial capital after the fourth.

You are essentially now (4 years later) on a risk free 20% return. Your initial capital can be reinvested somewhere else.

If there is something I learned trading the financial markets is that structuring is the only thing that matters and what will bring your returns. The other thing I learned is that real 20% returns with little risk are abundant if you are looking hard enough and comfortable executing exotic trades.
A recession is defined as whatever NBER says it is.

2 quarters is a useful shorthand that frequently is wrong. The 2020 recession lasted all of three months; not anywhere near two quarters. The 2001 recession did not have two consecutive quarters of GDP decline.

They explain why they do not use the two quarter method here: https://www.nber.org/research/business-cycle-dating/business...
Is there no parallax as the Earth moves around the Sun? Are these asteroids in some crazy hyperbolic orbit coming in straight from outside the solar system?
Is there any place to find Public keys to follow?
> Google hasn’t really demonstrated a good track record of revolutionary launches.

I disagree. Search was the original product, and since then, Google has launched the following other products/technologies that I would also describe as revolutionary: Gmail, Maps, Android, Chrome, Ads/AdSense, YouTube (depending on who you give credit to), MapReduce, Kubernetes, TPUs, TensorFlow, and I'm sure I'm missing some.

The trajectory of these revolutionary launches over time does seem to be decelerating though even as the company gets larger. And with these layoffs it'll likely get even worse, not better.
You are trying to time the market. Don't do that. When you are financially capable of buying a house, do it. Don't get take a variable rate mortgage. If you are stable on a 5 year fixed rate, the rest doesn't matter. Up, down, sideways, whatever.
Eh, I think experimental physicists and medical imaging also lean towards newer tech.
It can happen, but after a few hours it’s _extremely_ rare for people to read comments. If you’re an infrequent commentator, you’ll notice this. You’re almost never going to see your points change if you haven’t made a comment that day. On the rare occasion it does happen, it’s going to be one point for a post made in the past week.

Your reply actually made me curious and I logged into an old Hacker News account that I hadn’t used in a few years. Hundreds of comments on that account, many that had a very positive responses (thousands of total points). Yet not a single point was given since I switched accounts, likely because close to no one has read any of those comments since they were made.

On web forums it’s not unusual for me to get replies and reactions for comments that were made a decade ago.
I agree that outsourcing critical thinking is an issue, but I’m not sure that is an automatic outcome of using a tool like this.

The flip side is that some people just struggle with writing. I’ve worked with many of them. Smart/capable people, for whom the process of writing is an impediment to clear thought, with many mental cycles spent on the act of writing itself and remembering the rules of punctuation and spelling to the detriment of the idea they’re trying to convey.

They feel about AI writing tools the way I feel about generative AI image tools: excited that I can get better at visually conveying ideas that I don’t have the artistic ability to draw on my own.

> but allowing your creativity to atrophy sounds like a recipe for a terminally boring society

This is a binary outlook on the impact of these tools and I’d pose these followup questions:

- Is a creative person who is driven to do creative things going to lose that drive, or use AI tools as a force multiplier?

- Is there a reason to believe that the act of writing itself is always a creative endeavor and not just an outward/visual manifestation of thought/and ideas? (Note: I’m not claiming that writing is never creative, or that creativity is never involved in the organization of the words themselves, but this is distinct from the underlying ideas themselves, and not always the most important factor).

- I don’t think anyone would argue that a thesaurus or dictionary, or tools like spell check/autocorrect risk stripping someone of their creativity, but what would it look like to define the line between creative thought and expression of those thoughts?

- Most people don’t “create” today, mostly because it’s hard work. Argument about “boring content that lacks creativity” aside, can we be so sure that lowering the barrier to entry atrophies creativity instead of opening new avenues for it to thrive?
A Google Monopoly that needs to be broken up and opened to the public (mainly, xooglers).
I would seriously love to see what happened to boys' school achievement if all we did was double active, outdoor time scheduled in each school day. And add some for higher grades that often have entire days with none of that at all.
QueryFirst. I'm seething with the injustice. Use SQL as a language in C# projects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkJDccYSw8A
It still has issues.

https://palant.info/2023/01/23/bitwarden-design-flaw-server-...
By creative bits, you are supplying an human-based objective function. I like this book "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective" which argues for the existence of the "objective paradox", a paradox which states that "soon as you create an objective, you ruin your ability to reach it". Maybe we shouldn't have any objective as such and let fun and play will be the norm of discovery. Sort of like know the rules and then break them in creative ways.
There is no need for exaggeration. But.. Well clearly the last couple of years were not great for China compared to 10 or so prior to covid.
Given their existing relationships they can leverage and the romanticism finally bleeding out of FAANG's reputations, if they can put together a stable, fundamentally capable platform they could definitely grab a chunk.

Toyota has made a multi-decade business model around "skating to where the puck has been". Why can't IBM?
Laws are absolutely passed without understanding of what's in them, very frequently in fact
Only an empty platitude if one interprets it as meant for those laid off.
But if you think about it as a message to remaining employees, the board, and to shareholders, it isn't an empty platitude at all.
Poor not in wealth but in quality of life, which is almost everyone.
One interesting phenomenon relates to family structure.

About 50 years ago most kids were raised by their biological parents, today it’s about half. Boys seem to be thrive less effectively without male role models in the home for a number of reasons (many unknowns).

We are starting to see the downstream effects are that are arising due to this relatively new change/experimentation in family structure.
I'm sorry, I didn't hire an independent subcontractor, I bought goods from a national chain with very rich investors and executives.
Slack is an interesting one. Suppose you're a company spending a lot on it, too much. What are your options?

Replacing slack with a comparable like Teams or Gchat is at least a step back in user-friendliness that will be grumbled about by engineers and others, and if you use a lot of integrations there might be significant switching costs.

Moving away from instant messaging as a communication pattern sounds great to me, but good luck convincing folks to change company culture that significantly.
"The reality" is jobs = people. We don't live in a vacuum. It's seriously not that hard either. Between the hundreds of thousands of regular people losing their livelihoods and some investors losing money ("don't invest what you can't afford to lose" something something), doesn't sound too complicated for me.

Humanity is not opaque unless you make it so, like this particular system does. It's just people.
It would still need human to develop enough data to have an AI to come with something meaningful.

If were to ask an AI model how to structure a good e-commerce when no previous data on e-commerce was available probably you'd get nothing meaningful.

Or ask how to do a human centric design when the web was all about animated gifs and flashy buttons. Probably you'd never get minimalist design as an answer.
Not necessarily. If you're the type that's into finance, then sure, that might get you out of bed in the morning. I'm not into finance and kind stand the culture that surround finance. Yes, it's big and touches every single one of us, but doesn't mean I want to embrace it and go to work in it every day.

If I can take that same skill set and apply it to something with a much better culture surrounding it that affects people in a positive way, then I would definitely choose that over finance any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

At the end of the day, if the NYSE did not exist, the world would continue to turn. It's just not that big of a deal to a heck of a lot of people.
Agreed, but it is also easy to see the tension in your second paragraph. You can plan to rewrite everything at least once, but you will never get that actually in the plan.

My only somewhat clear path out of it is to make sure you built it so it will be easy to rewrite. Either do the least that you can, or keep an eye for improvements, but don't necessarily act on them.
They’ve been scamming people for years and hitting them with BS credit card charges. Just another abusive system tacked onto the rest.
Your brain cannot "learn" to be sad. You can, however, learn maladaptive schemata: fundamental ways of viewing the world and oneself that can help a child get through adverse periods (like bullying and ostracization), but which are ultimately maladaptive and inaccurate in adulthood.

You might have come to believe, for instance, that you're fundamentally "different" or "unlovable", and that you can't expect to be socially accepted or loved.

These core beliefs, these schemata, are difficult but possible to change. Schema Therapy has had empirical success at doing so.

The subjective experience of changing a maladaptive schema is like teleporting from a miserable planet to a strange but much happier, more loving planet. You can be (much) happier than you think; you're just stranded on a miserable planet, one that would make anybody sad.

I'd suggest checking out Reinventing Your Life by Jeffrey Young: it provides the tools you need to get to that happier planet, where you can feel safer and loved and accepted.
Nice! Looks really clean. I see you're using tailwind which is my go to for next projects as well. Are you using any packages for animation?
I like using ExpressJS with Typescript and a Postgres database. There are lots of great hosting options, but I'm using Heroku right now.

I do really like the Firebase/Superbase options, but they impose restrictions and I don't like having restrictions like that unless I know for a fact that I'm building something very simple.
Could you expand on how you're doing that, technically? I'm really curious and can't find it in the code, skimming it quickly.
While there hasn't been any actual deep dive into this on my part yet, as the App does all its bit on the user's machine, the code itself also does live on the user machine post-installation. There has been no additional effort made to obfuscate the code that powers the App.

What could possibly be missing at the moment is a written instruction that documents where to locate the code base on the user's machine post-installation
You can supposedly keep the internet alive with just this method of using your stove...

If you want more look up doomsday survival plan using stoves.
I also have to wonder how much the move from a production economy to a services economy has shifted things. Producing real goods for people tends to favor physical prowess, whereas a service dominant economy would tend to favor those who are more agreeable/able to make people feel good.

Can this partially explain the change?
The one in the article is gonna be <5,000km away. Eros is always like at least 15,000,000km+ away, at its closest. Something like that.
I'm more increasingly convinced that ceo are capitalizing on this occasion to lay off people they deem undesirable.
uhm. What you are proposing is compensating the artists. Those 1000 designers are the artist in question then.

> It's cheaper to hire 1000 designers to make 100000 images of artistic styles they are going for

I bet that you are massively underestimating the cost of that.
Until mid 20th century, the definition of a man was very clear. While there were changes to customs and fashions across generations, the foundational precepts of the man as a protector and provider, which had been established since prehistoric times, were always enshrined in all cultures. Society has since dismantled those foundational precepts, but crucially, has not offered up a replacement for them. Without a foundation, the rituals and customs become hollow. They either become a cargo cult for some or lose meaning for others. As such, the identity of what it means to be a man is now fragmenting.

Many approaches have been proposed, none of the wrong in their way, and they all work for the ones proposing them. Yet none of them have been agreed upon as a commonly held definition of what makes a man. This is the crux of the problem.

Please note I've phrased this explicitly around the definition of the male gender. The statements do not imply any qualities about, or imbue any attributes on, any of the other genders. Let's keep the discussion civil and focused on men.
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The quarter over quarter change shows strong and consistent growth since the brief COVID recession, so how exactly do you think that counters the YOY narrative?

Additionally, unemployment, which almost invariably rises starting before a recession is low and flat.

Real (inflation-adjusted) wages have risen the last two quarters, after falling due to inflation. [0]

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
Even a blank round can cause injury or death at short range. At any rate, safe weapons handling means you do, in fact, check every gun you pick up every time you pick it up.
> People in Africa living in villages don’t get depressed.

Any data or studies on this?
Nah. In all honesty I could probably take you on in the ring and make you sit lol. Have done it before, can do it again :)

Vegan doesn't mean you have to weak. Only an idiot would think that.
Depression often develops in adolescence so I think we should be a bit skeptical with the 'correlation is not causation' going on with these examples.
Just wait when they'll be able to create from scratch credible AI video stars and influencers then put them one after another on social media. They will do it, no doubt about that: free advertising with no perks/bribes is just too tempting.
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> it seems a lot of our modern afflictions come down to an gross imbalance of exercise, diet, sleep, and social connection

If you think about it in an evolutionary timescale, the way most of us live in the West these days is horrendously incompatible with the sort of life we evolved to live. Thousands and thousands of years were spent out in nature, in small communities, eating certain types of foods, engaging in physical activities, etc.

The sit-on-a-chair-all-day, look-at-screens-all-day lifestyle is a comparatively new development, and neither our minds nor our bodies are suited for such an existence. That's enough to cause us a fair amount of trouble. Add all the socioeconomic issues you mention into the mix, and it all starts to make perfect sense to me.
I agree with your first paragraph. However, I don't think your 2nd paragraph is a fix that'll help very many people at all.

This idea that just throwing free things at people will give them any amount of deeper happiness is typically proven false. I also don't find therapists all that useful but I guess that's a personal subjective take... maybe for the right people they can be. The healthy food thing is a cultural issue and no amount of subsidizing it to make it cheaper will get people to eat healthier. The percentage of obese people is too high to place all the obesity blame on food pricing.

The issue is simply that modern day life is typically TOO easy for most people and gives back very little deep meaning. We've created a culture that gives zero meaning to anyone and promotes nihilism. You will not fix that with welfare. Some of the most depressed mentally ill people you find will be very well off financially.