skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it correct to say that on a long enough timescale, self-produced content is cheaper than licensed content? Or is the production cost so high that that basically doesn't matter?

Depends on the production but it definitely isn't rule or trend. For example, look at this page with costs to make each episode:

https://movieweb.com/best-sitcoms-of-the-2000s-ranked/

Many of those are Netflix originals. What it means to be an original is that it was on Netflix first and it's the only place you can find it at first. And back in the day, that only applied to the USA (now Netflix does worldwide rights, but House of Cards for example premiered on other networks in Europe at the same time it was released on Netflix).

But once that contract expires, anyone can license it for the next go around. Generally Netflix does a long license and locks up IP rights to prevent that, but that just makes them have to pay even more for the content.

If you look at the cost per hour streamed, the originals definitely aren't the best -- stuff like a show from the 1960s that they got super cheap that ends up being super popular end up there. But the originals are the prestige items, so they're willing to be less efficient there for the unquantifiable brand boost.
That's just factually wrong. Even a quick read of Wikipedia would tell you that.

> An incel (/ˈɪnsɛl/ IN-sel, an abbreviation of "involuntary celibate"[1]) is a member of an online subculture of people who define themselves as unable to get a romantic or sexual partner despite desiring one.[2][3][4] Discussions in incel forums are often characterized by resentment and hatred, misogyny, misanthropy, self-pity and self-loathing, racism, a sense of entitlement to sex, and the endorsement of violence against women and sexually active people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incel

That's almost like arguing Nazis are a diverse group with diverse opinions because some hate black people, others hate jews.
1. You lie, as many of these startups do. They are just adding a custom prompt to your input.

2. You send OpenAI your corpus and your money, and they merge it with their corpus and run their software.
That's one-sided view. Obviously the sexual market disposition is PROBLEMATIC to some(majority?) of men. Then minority of men will create PROBLEMATIC situation for the rest of society.
I have definitely not fooled myself into thinking that "strong AI" is not a bunch of tricks that mash together into a smorgasbord. That's exactly what I think :-)

Including human intelligence, as you say. I'm reasonably convinced that "intelligence" is an emergent higher-order abstraction that arises from deterministic processes, at the cellular, or digital, level.

I would, however, make a distinction between resilient and brittle intelligence. ChatGPT, for example, seems very human-like for some percentage of responses, but when it goes off the rails, it goes completely wrong. Humans can sometimes be like that, but (I don't think) to the same degree, and certainly they are often capable of a softer landing when they get into unfamiliar territory.
Can we skip the dystopia and do some free-software peer-to-peer or federated solution somehow? Are ActivityPub-like protocols useful for this?
Perhaps we could both give a vague description, and also a precise condition which is to be considered a sufficient but not necessary condition for the vague condition to be true?

Such as “must signal within a reasonable time (signaling at least 300ft beforehand while not speeding is to be considered a sufficient condition for signaling within a reasonable time)”

Downside: that could make laws even longer.

Hm, what if laws had, like, in a separate document, a list of a number of examples of scenarios along with how the law is to be interpreted in those scenarios? Though I guess that’s maybe kind of the sort of thing that precedent is for?
I don't really buy this argument. If clear writing is clear thinking, what is a complete disengagement from the process of writing equivalent to?
I've been running online communities for years and this, as far as I can see, factual.

I've read somewhere, maybe multiple times, that most men are emotionally and sexually deprived. That sounds correct given the data I have.

I'm ok looking and I feel like I can make women like me. I still struggle sometimes. Many of my friends do much worse than me. I have friends that I find intellectually stimulating, average-looking, that have not been touched by a woman in years.

We don't talk too much about this but it's clear to me that it hurts them a lot, because it's not only about feeling desired, self-steem, or they can't fullfill their sexual desires.

It's that they don't have those moments of intimacy that you have with members of the oposite sex, when you're naked or just cuddling.

The only advice I've told them is to get out of any online stuff and hit bars. But they're in their 30s, their self-steem is already pretty low, and when I bring em somewhere it's pretty difficult to get it running. The times we've been around women, they get tired after a while and just want to grab me and go somewhere else.

The've had GFs and hookups from time to time (meaning maybe about 2 years), and from my POV the've been treated pretty badly.

IDK what to say, but I try to not think about it too much because it makes me sad.
That’s usually my take, but I still worry about a few things:

* which stack will still be around in 1/2/5years?

* which stack Will other teammates or future devs be productive in.

I’m still searching for a very light, productive open source stack that is well accepted and if not future proof at least we’ll backed.
My issue with Phoenix (or Elixir..) is that there are like 3 people in the world using it. The community and the third party packages available is minimal compared to other ecosystems.

And in my opinion, it is already past its best days. I know of several companies in my area that a few years ago chose it for building their services and ended up, or are migrating to other stacks because of their problems hiring.
An AI based lawyer but it's been trained on Darrell Brooks.
That's what levels.fyi does (well, almost) and it's fantastic. I know I can go into an interview and ask for the 75th percentile and still feel like I'm being reasonable, and they'll probably negotiate down to something above average, but not quite 75th percentile and we'll both come away happy.
I'd set up a basic story prompt, describing the roles and personalities of my character and a few NPCs, as well as relationships between all of them. I would then introduce my idea in form of a role-play, usually with my character blurting it out - then let the language model fill in reactions of other characters. From then, I'd just play along with the story.

It wasn't the most efficient way of extracting commentary out of a language model - particularly out of one that was optimized to generate plot twists and setting changes instead - but it was a very fun way.
Which means in order to collect you need to find a counterexample and solve it (a np hard problem) by hand.

So yeah, there are easier ways for me to make $10k.
I thought companies cut jobs, not people.
You say that like she's getting the good end of the deal. But everything I've heard from women on those apps, they'd rather have the "handful of sincere responses" experience than the "bazillion goofs spamming them and sending dick pics at the first hello".
Fossil teeth reveal how brains developed in utero over millions of years
The perceived imbalance in likes is not really the problem, it’s just the difference in social norms across genders. OLD is not terribly easy for men or women, let alone NB folks. Women have to sort through all those men, while men have to swipe on tons of women. There are also more men on the sites. The result is low quality matches all around because men are incentivized to swipe on everyone. Women will have an easier time just obtaining sex, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be any good, and it’s not what most women are looking for, for numerous reasons.
Resolve the economic equality issues that halted wage growth in the 80s, so that the non-executives see pay increases matching inflation; and cap tuitions for all schools to be affordable at local minimum wage rates, to stop the disparity between white-collar and blue-collar workers from driving men to quit paid work.
Yep, it can fact check against authoritative sounding internet articles that were also written by AI.
It's because the earliest RSUs they issued are expiring this year: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/stripes-early-stock-...
Breakthrough Technologies in 2023
For what it’s worth, try bringing the exercise to you. If you like cycling, set up a turbo trainer or exercise bike in your house. If you like weightlifting, get some dumbbells or a sandbag or a squat rack. Reduce the friction and set yourself a goal of doing 1 repetition or 1 minute of exercise a day. It’s such a trivial amount and you’ve reduced the friction of doing the task to such an amount that it makes it much easier to get a consistent habit going.
Take a look at historical prices, if they didn't drop during 08 they're probably not going to drop now.
There are a lot of factors at play here. Porn is ubiquitous which reduces the number of people looking for real-life hookups to satisfy their immediate urges. Awareness of the health risks (STDs, etc) of having many partners has probably never been higher. And the economic stakes of an unwanted pregnancy are higher than they've ever been due to increasing restrictions on abortion.

If porn were outlawed, contraception was free, and abortion was legal everywhere, I think you would see a lot more young people getting out there and having a good time.
Am I the only person who struggles to deploy Rails apps.

It's a super productive framework to develop in, but deploying an actuals Rails apps - after nearly 20 years of existance, still seems way more difficult than it should be.

Maybe it's just me.
Examples would be useful, rather than handwaving.

Taking a look at the home value history for each...

Random home in Southern CA: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1414-N-Center-St-Orange-C...

Random home in Boulder CO: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/175-Gold-Run-Rd-Boulder-C...

Random home in Edmond OK: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7105-Robey-Dr-Edmond-OK-7...

Random home in Jacksonville FL: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7226-Nottinghamshire-Dr-J...

I could go on, but I think the trend mentioned (~10% drop) is consistent across the US.
I don't.

Information comes with many different rights: copy-right is the right to make copies; "moral rights" were mentioned in a few of my UK job contracts and that's "the right to be identified as the author of a work"; database rights are for collections of statements of fact that are not eligible for copyright but which were deemed to be worth protecting anyway for much the same reasons.

Even if copyright is totally eliminated from law by the mere existence of these AI[0], we may well retain the aforementioned "moral rights". And even if it is totally legal, there's also a strong possibility of it being considered gauche to use an AI trained on the works of those that don't like this.

[0] https://kitsunesoftware.wordpress.com/2022/10/09/an-end-to-c...
Would you mind if I tried to convert it into a single line opentype-SVG font for plotters?
> Lol religious conservatives.

This is the solvable part. They don't run the country; they're a minority.

> Encourage men to have sex with men?

Religion is a fig leaf here. The dislike of LGBTQ+ people is retroactively justified by religion, but it just isn't about religion. If it really was about religion, there'd be a lot more weird hills they'd be dying on, since most of the Anti-Gay stuff is in the Old Testament, and there's a lot of stuff in the OT that they seem perfectly comfortable ignoring. (For example: Crustaceans are not allowed as a food, Leviticus 11:9-12)

"They just don't like gay people" is too simplistic as well. My theory is that gay men, as well as trans women are a subversion of traditional gender roles which is why conservatives get worked up about it.

Trans men and lesbians of course get some ire too from conservatives, but it feels like an afterthought.
Long Covid is keeping significant numbers of people out of work, study finds
So it is about the money, then? Surely, insurance companies don't object to you paying them directly.
> I would however never ever consider using those services.

Maybe because you don't need or want to?

If you're the type of person that wants to have sex with someone, and you're willing to pay for it, and you have the option - you're probably going to.

If not, you're either expecting too much for too little compensation or regulation is preventing the market from being efficient.
My last SAAS was just raw php on the backend with postgres.
Raw JS on the front end with a little JQuery.
Ran for 9+ years, zero down time, zero issues.
Supported the Marketing and legal department of a Fortune 500 company.
Old school is they way.
It does depend on what you are building though.

Recently really started to like Python so would probably try DJango.
if his wife is pretending to be him this shouldn't be an issue.
The reason why I said, it is a mainly American problem: SAP is a German company. We can assume many people losing their job wont lose their health insurances because they live in Germany.
I was sued back in the Palm Pilot days for writing a game that involved moving blocks. The company that owned Palm Pilot rights to Tetris® claimed I was violating their trademark, which was clearly frivolous and incorrect. But I was just a dumb guy who had coded an original game, and they were a company with lawyers on retainer.

It doesn't matter what the law says or what is "right." It comes down to who has the power and who doesn't.

(The other difference between what humans do and what AIs do is a matter of scale. A human imitates by spending many hours to duplicate a work of art. An AI can churn out millions in a second. That's a separate issue, though.)
It's not exactly the same metric, but whenever I get the idea to replace my ICE car with 100k miles with an EV, I realize how much gas the $30,000 difference will buy.
What's RLS? Row Level Security?
Especially given the strong economic numbers that just came out, yeah I don't buy the "bad macro climate" argument anymore. It's really plain as day: these CEOs make some cuts of 5-15%, their stock price goes up. This is a pattern we'll likely continue to see through this year.

Honestly, the tech industry was due for some churn from an employer perspective, and all this talent circulating is going to up the competition for company's products.
The paradox of tolerance is worth reading about.

The center of American politics have very much moved to the right the past 50 years. As such, a small rightward shift from the mean has the appearance of being moderate. What is considered radical left in the U.S. is left of center in European countries.

By quite a large margin more women lean leftward in the U.S. than rightward. Women are more discriminating when than men when looking for partners so it is expected to see the outcome in the link you posted. Tied to the paradox of tolerance, and the definite rightward shift of the center in American politics, we see that it is expected that left leaning people are less likely to associate with right leaning people than vice versa.

We had an insurrection 3 years ago that most people on the right fail to acknowledge as such. It doesn’t get much more radical than that. Far more people think Biden was illegitimately elected than that Trump was illegitimately elected. I could go on with more examples but I think it won’t be productive. Try reading about the historical political trends in the country dispassionately.
You are not owed sex or intimacy. To men: want to be desired by other people? make yourself more desirable. As for women in this situation, that is largely self imposed because their sex drives are lower and they are often in denial about how their attractiveness declines with age, and are unable to adjust their expectations to match.

In the modern dating / hookup culture young men and older women are the clear losers. Men are figuring this out and largely either going full anti-women "red pill rage" into "$!tches aint shit" using women when they're older or opting out all together. Women party it up when young, and are then shocked only when the "good times" start to end as younger ladies supplant them.

The age old solution throughout the ages, has been to control female sexuality with shame (often enforced by other women). This is now considered unthinkable, despite the surge in single parent homes, massive decline in birth rates, increased loneliness and decreased happiness by all. So instead sex bots, prostitution, more welfare, and artificial wombs are promoted as the only politically tenable out. I think the future shall be inherited by the Amish, Mormons, and other such groups that have managed to find ways to maintain family units in opposition to modern culture. They're certainly the only ones breeding at above replacement levels.

TLDR: in practice based religion beats out free love in providing more sex, without all the messy fatherlessness and STD problems to boot.
> If the scanner can't pick them out, the company will notice in any spot checks that it spits out only garbage

This is giving the companies a huge amount of credit. The problem isn't that the only spit out garbage, just that they are 'unfairly' rejecting strong resumes.
I don't know if that's true. From most data I've seen women's preferences skew towards a small percentage of men. i.e. most women want the same guys, which are the small minority. This leaves (making up numbers) 80% of women wanting 20% of men. Where as men tend to be less discriminating in their choices of women.
Next time check out Avo. It integrates perfectly with Jumpstart (or any Rails app) and helps you create a back-office app in no-time.

https://avohq.io
> identifying a crucial supplement, and undergoing a medical procedure

Would you feel comfortable sharing some specifics on what these were for you?
I don't think this sentiment would go over so well if I expressed it to people here on the West Coast of the US. Not to mention that there are people that will send their kids to bilingual schools for (and this is conjecture) either lefty political points or potential socio-economic reasons (dual language or Chinese immersion).

I personally love learning languages and am that person that tries to learn a little bit and communicate wherever I go. I does seem to be a hot button issue here in the US. I think people have different expectations. You hear stories of immigrants from the early 20th century that would force their kids to only speak English so that they would get on well in society. It seems like a difficult topic here around heritage vs managing in a society, especially for kids.
> (IBM) delivered an upbeat annual sales forecast while announcing it would eliminate about 1.5% of its global workforce

> The cuts will focus on workers remaining after spinoffs of the Kyndryl and Watson Health units and will cost the company about $300 million, he said. IBM still expects to hire in the “higher-growth areas,” Kavanaugh said.

> Chief Executive Arvind Krishna has been trying to pivot Big Blue from its traditional business of infrastructure and information technology services to the fast-growing cloud-computing market.

Can't help but see all the layoffs as part of a "great refocusing", even with positive news for the company, you can use the fact that everyone is doing layoffs to reorient things. If everyone wasn't doing layoffs, people would worry about the company, and the news wouldn't be buried. Layoffs are just the tool companies suddenly have available to do this with (seemingly) no consequences to them
I’ve had the pleasure of annual echo cardiograms my whole life, and moved around a lot, and at least my experience has been visible hardware/software/imagine improvements almost annually.

In any event I wasn’t saying all medical imaging is state of the art, I was saying it is another field where people prefer newer tech.
> Encourage men to have sex with men

Not the worst idea, but moreso because men should be comfortable and encouraged to have sex with whatever gender they want. Right now there is a lack of unanimous support for men who have sex with men.
They have 260k employees, for what?

Your answer is here: https://www.ibm.com/
As with many sexually dimorphic behaviors in humans (and mammals in general), this flows from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis

You can have a stable/growing population with only 1 male per n>1 females. So, the evolutionarily optimal strategy is to crank up trait variance in males and have females select only the top 1/n males (hand-wavily speaking). Most modern human cultures suppressed this dynamic via socially enforced pair bonding. When you lose that social adaptation, you revert back to more atavistic matching dynamics.
> RAILS_SERVE_STATIC_FILES - This instructs Rails to not serve static files.

...but... it's set to True....
This only applies to a small group of people and that risk is known up front. If it's that important that they win they can not use this.
I'd say hybrid-ish.

1. Hosting, full on AWS. Because I'm super comfortable with it and I get end to end; from domain registry to data store and everything in between.

2. (mostly old school) Web app stack: React, Java/NodeJS, Postgres. S3 for doc store fronted with Cloudfront. Reason: Battle tested, huge and thriving ecosystem, most of the problems are solved.

3. Lambda for async tasks.
Rep. Nehls Introduces China Lied, People Died Act to Make CCP Repay US $4.6T
It's called malpractice. What you described is prima facie malpractice and a key element of malpractice is that it is a licensed profession with a standard of conduct.
technological advancement enabled dispropotinal wealth accumulation, also enabled disproportional partner accumulation.

So the underlying problem is that industrial revolution and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
I can relate to your comment a lot. I went through many years of isolation during my childhood resulting in poor social skills. After so many years my thoughts are continually negative. Like you, I too don’t have any friends. I am unable to break the cycle of loneliness. When I try my interactions are awkward which makes me self-conscious and I withdraw.
Pocketbase on a very small VPS for the backend and SolidJS + TailwindCSS for the frontend, served using caddy.
F***ing inequity… literally
I'm of a similar philosophy, but also because I'm not beholden to rushing a minimally viable product to the feet of some angel investors (Super allergic to that after a few experiences). I mean it's kind a a premature optimization if you just need to get a working example out there for people who like to see fast results, but if you've got the funding to start your own company just writing it properly for performance from the get go is the obvious thing to do.

I also choose a stack like that because it's what I've been mostly working in for a long while now and it's really productive (For me).
Covid made it dirty cheap but money was cheap before as well, or at least cheaper than it is now [1]. Anyway what I meant was that Confluent is not the kind of company that hired more because it thought that Covid changes in business where going to last forever (a la Shopify or Meta).

[1] https://www.fxempire.com/macro/united-states/interest-rate
I use Go programming and Hugo template is natural for building simple sites, it get harder to maintain complex interactivity and components over time, Astro give you more control on client-side Javascript if performance is your goals.

This video release late but might be useful for introduction to Astro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SICd8tTEqvs